skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still a EU citizen, I just live in the US :)

Health insurance is definitely the most mind-blowing thing to me as a non-American. Even after more than 10 years I just don't get how people can put up with this crazyness. I've been lucky to never be unemployed, and I always had good coverage so it's never really been a concern.

I miss a few things from Europe, and there are things I have troubles getting use to in America. The omnipresence of consumerism is a little difficult to deal with. But otherwise, a lot of great things. And professionally, I wouldn't have achieved half what I did had I stayed in Europe.
I kinda figured when left-pad happened this wasn't going to be the end of NodeJS's troubles.

It goes without saying, far older technologies seem more interesting, and have none of the drama Node has at this point.
The best tool for downloading music / videos from YouTube?
When Wall St buys farm land to bet on food prices.. This is more likely to happen. Wall st.. continuing to ruin everything and its only 2017.
And that would be an incorrect way to compute burn rate. Should include all outgoing cash regardless of the purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker
> I have met more people who aren't like myself outside college.

And this supposedly implies "That's like the one thing that [college] doesn't teach you"?
Jumpstart should have put the /reconfigure in place so you wouldn't need to. But that only adds new devices, it doesn't deal with old devices that have gone away. This can lead to things like a root disk being on c0 on one system and c1 on another, and similar confusing numbering for NICs. Experience tells me that this is less problematic than many inside the Solaris org have suggested.
It bothers me more if somebody claims to be all-knowing and owner of universal truths.
FYI, you can remove the "amp" from the path:

https://erikbern.com/2017/08/29/the-software-engineering-rul...

to get site that's a little easier to read in a desktop browser.
Right, absolutely. 16 bit samples give 100db+ of perceived dynamic range, more than would ever be needed.

The other poster is not saying otherwise, though. They're just saying that "hi-def" formats, while technically unnecessary for end-user listening, are often the only way to obtain a decently-mastered recording.

There's no technical reason for things to be that way. But that's how things are.

It's sort of like buying a new car. You want the more powerful engine? Well then you also have to buy the package with heated seats, the moonroof, and the fog lights. There's no technical reason for it, but that's the only way they'll sell it to you.
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Ask HN expansion: It would be good to know as well the degree of KYC enforced by each of them (KYC = know your customer)
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Being sick is it's own deterrent. However, people like living near water and it's often cheaper in the short term.
When you go for brunch, would you order the organic chicken like his Gandpa would raise, or do you want the agri-corp frankenchicken, antibiotic laden, chlorine washed etc? Which would you prefer to give to your family over brunch?

Now tell me is his grandpas methods are bad again?
This article pivoted from talking about pivoting to bashing Trump
Homeowner's lawsuit says Wells Fargo charged improper mortgage fees
This topic tends to show up every now and then here in HN.

If we ignore all the obvious benefits (learn the trade, self-discipline, etc...) that you may or may not obtain from your studies, one of the most relevant arguments i've seen discussed in here is the connections and friendships.

College is a great place to make critical connections that can get you into nice jobs or lifelong friendships that will last as long as you foster them.

Sure, working a job can also open those doors of oportunity, but if you are working as a waitress like the author suggested, i just can't see how that can help you direct your career or give you meaningful CV experience.

I have been very fortunate for having parents which pushed me into college and ensured i finished it (i didn't make it easy, sadly ) but the payout has been worth it. It also deppends on your country (some value the diploma more than others, mine does) but at least it should help you get an interview, which is good enough.

Ultimately, i believe the person should make the choice. And he, as the father, should explain both courses of action to his daughter, instead of pushing her into one direction just because going to college didn't work out for him as great as he wanted to.
We don't keep those buildings because we value their architecture, we keep them because we are using them.
> Now that we've discovered EM, have we exhausted the basic knowledge about the world?

I don't know whether there is more basic science to be discovered, but even if there isn't, there is plenty of technology to be invented within the scope of existing science. Atomically precise manufacturing, for example: we know about atoms, but our ability to work with them is still crude in the extreme.
I agree. Or how about one step away from just the installation? Once you load a gem it can do whatever the hell it wants to your system. This vulnerability feels very security-theater-ish. At the end of the day, someone needs to audit the gem or have deep trust in the supplying party (i.e. Rails) to protect against arbitrary file manipulation.
A permutation like that reduces biases in the output
How to Secure Your MariaDB Database Server
The problem is not so much infinities in mathematics (after all mathematics is just a game with any rules you care to create), but if mathematics with infinities should be used when modelling the real world.

I am certainly happy to be corrected, but I don’t think we have found any event in nature that requires infinities to explain it.
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Whether or not something is a predator is a lot more important to us than to biology. The distinction between eating small krill and eating large fish, even less so.

Lots of mammals seem to evolve back and forward between various food sources. Look at our branch. Most/many primates have a mixed diet, in many of the families. There are some specialists like gorillas and bleeding heart baboons, and they’re not necessarily related.

So, our ancestors were probably all over the predator-prey spectrum.
Yeah bittrex is the best exchange you're going to find right now. Doesn't have a ton of smaller coins but all the main ones are there.
> we may see a viable laser rifle soon

We won't. It's been a while since I compared the muzzle energy of a rifle bullet and that of a relatively powerful laser, and I don't have the time to dig up the comparison again right now, but the tl;dr: is that we won't see an even theoretically man-portable laser that can put a hole through someone for a very long time, if ever. Setting things on fire and damaging light sensors, sure - but those tasks are absurdly easy by comparison with rearranging bulk matter.
tl;dr: The author didn't enjoy his college experience, so he believes no one else will or can or should even try.

For me, college was an important stepping stone to personal responsibility and a real career. The cliched (if not actually all that typical) four-year away-from-home college degree can serve as a transitional period from complete dependence to independence. That's not how the political sphere talks about higher education, and the author denigrates that idea as "extended childhood", but I think it serves a valuable purpose for those lucky enough to experience it. Yes, it's outrageously expensive, yes student loans are a growing drag on the economy, and yes far too many people are excluded, and yes it's not for everyone. But it's a core part of our society, and it can't just be dismissed as unimportant because you had a bad personal experience.
Is this what you mean by "airport mall scam"?

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g293916-i3687-k6457766...

TL;DR -

Get accused of shoplifting and police give you the option of paying a $5k - $10k fine to avoid waiting in Thai jail for months awaiting trial.

Some accounts say it wasn't a scam and the people were actually caught on CCTV and that they were given the option of a paying a bribe to avoid waiting months in jail.
'I Detest America': 148 Lost Documents by Alan Turing Found in Old Storage
Four Scalability and Performance Wins After Etcd3 Migration
So you're looking at a http request/response pair, from a service that you did not design, and somewhere in one of the headers you spot a string that looks like this:

YmFzZTY0IGFsd2F5cyB0ZW5kcyB0byBsb29rIGtpbmQgb2YgbGlrZSB0aGlz

Some people will immediately know what to do with that string in the blink of an eye, and the reason why they can spot that with a single glance has very much to do with basic knowledge about bit manipulations.

> I don't see why knowledge of bit operations are necessary to do a good programming job.

The programmer that can't do the above will be stuck. Probably they can still do a good programming job regardless, but the programmer that can is a better programmer.

Knowledge that is related to your practical work but not technically part of it, yet it is part of the field of your work. That is very useful because it makes you better and more well-rounded, meaning you have more mental tools to tackle unforeseen problems. It makes you more well-rounded and better at your job.

If you only know the things you strictly need to know for your job, you're going to get stuck as soon as you encounter a problem that requires novel thinking. And I dunno, I also consider that ability to be part of a "real job".
Ah, interesting. I actually rather liked the AMP version on my desktop browser, with the full width and the giant pictures. Found it strangely compelling and I assumed is was a neat design touch.
Maybe college isn't for you _right now_.

I wish this would get more traction. The number of 17-18 year olds who know what they want to get out of college is probably tiny. Ideally going to college straight after high school should really be the exception rather then the rule.
I agree, but don't you think you are contradicting yourself by jumping in to defend all blind people?
I am not sure it has actually been announced on the relevant mailing list - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ruby-security-ann
Semantic data lake architecture in healthcare and beyond
The loudness war is a matter of degree. Sure, steps have been taken so that we maybe won't see another Death Magnetic where the compression has resulted in outright ear-bleeding distortion. But when most music today is listened to from portable devices in loud environments, it’s hard to believe that we are ever again going back to the level of dynamic range common before the loudness war. As I said, even some classical music (and jazz) labels are now issuing their music with considerably limited dynamic range, and a dynamic range as ample as it traditionally was is available only to those who buy the SACD (and listen to the SACD layer of a hybrid SACD, not the CD layer) or the high-resolution download.
So what's the third, ideal pattern to use here?
It was meant to represent creativity.
Cummins, racing against Tesla, unveils all-electric truck
Here's the paper link (kudos to the journalists for at least giving us the title of the paper, if not a link we could follow; sometimes the article in the popular press looks nothing like what the scientists published). http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiolett/13...

If I read this correctly, the discovery is not that the early whales were predators, but that filter-feeding evolved separately from their teeth; that is, the baleen - which is not homologous to teeth - is the first filter mechanism that the whales acquired, while previously, some people thought that the whales developed filter-feeding with their teeth before developing the baleen.

This is an exciting discovery, I suppose, for scientists studying whale evolution, but probably for nobody else. The popular press treatment turned it into "they discovered that whales were predators", which makes little sense, since a) everybody knew the whales did not have baleen when they were land-dwelling, I mean, how would that work; and b) all whales obviously had teeth at some point in their evolution, before the baleen whales lost them.
Ask HN: Is there a weekly newsletter of most upvoted PH products?
I'm looking for something like hndigest.com but for Product Hunt. I know they have a daily newsletter, but I really need a weekly one. Do you know if it exists?
Yeah definitely, I can't help but think the power source needed would be very heavy too.
hipb dataset is rather lacking.
If there ever existed a project where all the requirements were defined exhaustively and accurately up front, then I haven't heard of it.
Since no one has stated it, this looks like a rip-off of https://blog.codinghorror.com/rule-of-three/ (which comes from https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321117425 ).

Of course there are many other places such as the mentioned C2: http://wiki.c2.com/?RuleOfThree , my point is just that the Erik authoritatively says he is postulating it, but it's already all around the internet.
What sort of level would you say you were at with regards to your js knowledge, and how long have you been working with it?

I'm still pretty green and living up north, but looking to the future, I could see me having to move to get a decent salary, just wondering how feasible it may be.
Most of them (?) let you trade without verifying identity, as long as you only withdraw cryptocurrencies.

The largest one in Europe seems to be Kraken. Bitfinex was one of the first to let people use leverage, but nowadays you can get it on most of them.

If you want to withdraw fiat, you'll need to have a verified account (think sending them a photo of your ID/passport and some invoices to verify your location).
I'm looking for recommendations for those in New York State. Everything seems to be blocked here.
Kraken is one of the safest choices IMHO. I automated my trading via a script:

https://github.com/elsesiy/crypto-trader
> Topical

Sorry, I misread that word.

> Excellent, so you've finally come around to Damore's point of view. So where did all the opposition and vitriol come from?

Huh? Like virtually everyone (including feminists!), I've never doubted that there are biological cognitive differences between the sexes (why would I?). But that is not Damore's point of view, though; that is virtually everyone's point of view. Damore, using a kind of reasoning clear only to him, somehow uses that irrelevant premise to conclude that diversity programs at Google are useless. That is his point of view. Also, his point of view is that women are inherently inferior and/or less interested when it comes to technology, which is also not the conclusion of the sources he cites. Rather he takes some flights of fancy to deduce that.

To the best of my knowledge, not a single expert claims to know the relative strengths of biological differences compared to social dynamics, and the overwhelming consensus is that this is simply not known. Therefore, to get from his premise to his conclusion, he either needs to manufacture knowledge we don't have (the relative strength of causes; some definite results about the fitness of women to technology), contradict evidence we do have (the prevalence of sexism), or use some strange logic (to reach his conclusion from an irrelevant premise).

> No, that is not the hypothesis here.

What is the hypothesis?
I couldn't find which degree she wants. For some areas a degree is essential. In other areas is a waste of time an money.
There are also benefits from living in certain locations that don't factor into living expenses but just affect quality of life.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/quality-of-life-f...
"Same path" as in... "K-12, then college"? By that standard, when you start working, everyone has had the same path as you, too -- "education, then work".

And how can you even say "more similar" without specifying more similar than what?
So this is the second system syndrome x2? ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
My smartphone as a shortcut helper
I don't know about you, but I'd rather be blinded than die.
I've already tried everything else I possibly can. This is a lot of money of mine that he has and when I ask him he says "what money?!"
...only maybe half of people actually use much of what they learned in college in their job...

And that's part of the problem with the current anti-college movement (for lack of a better descriptor). Adherents tend to think college is an expensive 4-year job training program. But, it's not about job training. It's about broadening your horizons, learning things you might not otherwise learn, challenging your core beliefs about life and society.

If you enter college with the sole goal of exiting with a high-paying job, I would argue you are doing it wrong. Instead, take some time to study things you find interesting. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
Installation and running are not necessarily done with the same account. Often, apps run with lower privileges than they're installed with, so the damage may be somewhat mitigated. I'd really treat that as a separate, albeit related problem.
A Floating Mass of Fire Ants in Texas
I just read an article about George R.R. Martin's writing process, and apparently he's done some extreme rewrites to some of his books, and submitted all his intermediary manuscripts to some archive.

As for Tolkien, I'm quite happy that the Silmarillion got published.
If you have suffered TBI I highly suggest getting neurofeedback training to try and repair any possible damage caused to the brain by the injury. It is a very powerful tool to change the structure of your brain. Just make sure you find a specialist that can accurately create a profile for your particular set of circumstances and creating a special training program for that. I almost signed up for a borderline scam, but luckily found the leading expert in the field (She essentially pioneered Neurofeedback training).
I don't think you get a choice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventi...
I use a mix of Gemini and Kraken.
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Well could be worse
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/16/world/meast/mideast-israel...
I have no doubt that college can be a great learning experience, but is it really worth the cost to the average person? Is getting into debt that most likely won't be payed off until their mid-thirties worth what they're getting in return?

Like any investment, you have to see a return that justifies the cost, and I don't think the higher education system in the US is providing that right now for most career paths.
"Gentlemen, meet your ears"
Shame about the sexism
We are working on a platform for exchanging Ethereum (ERC20 tokens) at Ethdex. Exchange happens atomically and on chain. No counter party risk, unlike exchanges such as Bittrex. We aren't rent-seeking or forcing you to use a token.

http://ethdex.io

https://github.com/Ethdex/contracts
Well if either can be used by either party, either independently or together to secure power then...

I'm struggling to see how that makes them not orthogonal. Isn't that pretty much the definition?
They claim to be operating out of the US, and the address listed is a half empty strip mall in the Las Vegas suburbs. They post no licensing details. Seems legit?
Susan Fowler’s Uber post was the first shot in war against Silicon Valley sexism
Full Indian here. You're right, but it is exponentially harder to do that and conduct a successful business. Businesses have to pay bribes at literally every step otherwise they simply won't be able to function.
I have Hobbs, and it's a great general book. But it may fall into that fine literary genre of "explanations for people who already understand things." Hobbs assumes a fairly advanced understanding of physics and electronics.

You might be able to learn how to make gadgets that work at the prototype level, but designing a potentially dangerous product is engineering. I don't know how you do that without working as an engineer for a long time.

Disclosure: I'm a scientist who works in laser product development, among other things, but not a licensed engineer.
Almost all exchanges have tiered KYC. Almost all allow you to deposit any amount but limit withdrawal. Thus, this is largely dependent on how much information you're willing to share and how much money you want to be able to move within 1 day. Basic KYC is typically name and address, while highest tiers require passports.
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Anything that makes a good propulsion system for a space ship is a bit dangerous.
Thanks–it was indeed harsher than anything I would usually write. Mostly because I didn't actually expect anybody to ever read it, and because I thought I could bring some balance to the cosmos by giving them the sort of comment that their comment seemed to address :)

I think I'm actually quite compassionate, and borderline aggressive in many of my comments. Uber always gets that treatment because they somehow managed to position themselves at exactly the confluence of number of seemingly disparate trends I find worrisome. Among them the loss of trust in institutions that are for the most part functioning better than they ever did in the past (media/government/science/etc.), the Ayn Rand-style glorification of individualism to the point of denying any legitimacy to the role of society ("I never voted for the constitution"), and this rather strange backlash against the empowerment of previously disadvantaged groups.

I'm trying to argue these points with the lightest touch possible, especially that last one. But I'm actually quite scared by the changes I've seen in this community, and I'm both at a loss for how it happened and what to do about it, as well as fundamentally convinced that HN is among the places where the next generation finds their ideological bearings, and that it is among the few remaining rays of light that the current leadership in technology has a humanist bend. I'm pretty sure, for example, that Bill Gates' humanitarianism is the result of the culture he experienced in the tech community (because there's really no sign of it in his earlier writings etc).

To think that the next generation could follow not in his footsteps, but in Kalanick's and Thiel's is scary, especially considering the growing power of technology...

Anyway... On HN you'll never find anyone saying black skin makes you immoral, or that jews are secretly plotting...something. It just so happens that this community always finds extremely good reasons to defend this or that fundamental right (free speech, due process, investor protection, whatever) when these powers are used for the betterment of white male cis-STEM-dom. It's definitely not obvious, and I may have a somewhat myopic view. But I'd love to find some statistical method to surface these trends.
I like your honesty.

It sounds like MJ was right to listen to Curtis. Smart people listen to even smarter people.
This person gets it. This is why Facebook wants you to donate through Facebook. Not because they "care".