skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree with you that they are doing good things but the bigger question is what harm are they doing? We need to stop having these huge mergers. Think what a different landscape we'd have if Facebook didn't own Instagram and WhatsApp. Those companies had a choice, fight FB with limited money or cash out. (I'm not judging them...) Look at Snap. They've said no and so FB threw all their money at duplicating all their features in all their own properties. This is the downside of the products that just throw off cash. All the money and time in the world they can devote to squashing all competition.

It reminds me of the same things that happened with the banks and Comcast. Most people who have Comcast got there because Comcast bought their provider and the investors wanted to cash out, not because people voted with their dollars. The banks got too big to fail, not because everyone rushed to switch all their money to bank X but because bank X bought up all the smaller players with money bet on the bubble.

I think they do need broken up but I would argue all we really need to do is "unmerge" these acquisitions and spin them back out separate. Absolute power has always corrupted absolutely. To be fair, this isn't new. Gates did a lot of the same things but now their foundation is doing wonderful things. However, it is easy to be a philanthropist with spare billions. What I would love to see from one of these founders is to attack one of the world's biggest problems personally and with the same ruthlessness they did their main companies. Musk is the only one who really seems to be "walking the walk".
What compilers did you have in mind? I suppose you didn't mean compilers for general purpose languages since most of these are FOSS like C#, Haskell, c++, TypeScript etc.
Given how far off from the city centers many of those place names were -- look where they put Саннивейл, Маунтин-Вью, and good lord, Сан-Хосе, for example - it's good to know that when the Red Dawn[1]-style invasion finally came, their paratroopers would have been horribly confused at where they landed. Thinking they were about to land on the roof of the Blue Cube, but getting ambushed in a parking of some Fry's or Denny's instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn
> But at the same time, at least from the POV of North Korea, they think they're pretty close to a win-by-stalemate situation (multiple mobile ICBMs that can retaliate against the continental USA, ensuring they will never be attacked.) so it stands to 'reason' that the USA would attack right now, because it's their last chance to stop North Korea from winning.

It's likely the US cannot accomplish a preemptive attack without a loss of thousands if not millions of lives with their ally, South Korea[0][1]. This would be a major defeat for the US before any greater war effort even began, which may eventually draw other nations like China. Given that North Korea wouldn't be the first US enemy to have ICBMs that can carry nuclear payloads to the US, it seems very implausible for the US to do anything about it vis a vis the immense consequences and even larger unknowns.

0. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/oplan-5027-1.htm

1. http://thebulletin.org/sea-sarin-north-korea%E2%80%99s-chemi...
The Three Lies That Shot Down the World's Greatest Israeli Fighter Aircraft
Sure, but if really want to avoid trusting trust (and you're of the mind to build your own hardware), FPGAs and µcs offer a lot of room for snooping.

Given the GPs suggested use, it seemed trusting trust was not on the table.

Certainly even a tiny FPGA can fit pretty naïve versions of common crypto primitives, as can any modern micro-controller. Assuming you only need to do a handful of ops for whatever you're looking to assert/verify, that is by far simpler than building a gate-level representation :)
I don't want to see war. But I am surprised it hasn't already started. NK will soon have nukes that can reliably reach the USA on mobile launchers. If NK was like the Soviet Union or China, this wouldn't necessarily be a problem as those countries do not want to start WW3. But NK does not act rationally and NK is literally threatening to use these missiles against the USA. So the USA faces a choice:

Either act now, take out NKs nuclear threat before they have the potential for launching multiple strikes. Or wait, and and hope they are bluffing about attacking the USA and that the political situation doesn't worsen there.

The USA has a good chance, provided it plans well, of taking out NKs nuclear threat before it can launch using coordinated strikes with a lot of redundancy. The cost would be the artillery bombardment of Seoul, which could take anywhere up to 100k lives depending on how long it takes to knock out NK artillery, so the USA and SK would need to quickly dispense with that. After which NK would pose no threat to SK, and USA/SK can decapitate the leadership while keeping the power structures and NK military in place, then hopefully have a plan for rebuilding NK as an independent nation.
With you until the last sentence. Klansmen and/or Nazis do not make up nearly the demographic to move even a single electoral vote, certainly not in any state that wouldn't have voted Republican in any case.

I found the SSC article 'You Are Still Crying Wolf' particularly good reading on this topic [1].

[1] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo...
Got an error :( Going to assume it's the HN effect. Look forward to trying it out later!
I like this much better than "Puppet", "Chef" and similar systems that require you to be a bash expert plus an expert in the tool.
No, USA pays much more than any other developed country, see: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?year_hig... (below graph is sortable table)
Thats right, but one additional level of depth in fetching repositories increases the API latency by so much that almost becomes unusable for a web app at least for a hobby web app :P Hence the shortcuts. Open to ideas and suggestions.
Thanks. That's in fact my third symptom. Really bad issues with my left shoulder in rare cases causing ocular migraines.

Doctors claim it bears no relation, but I am sure it does.

How did you fix yours?
I don't really understand why they don't add a blue or green or purple option that's clearly not meant to resemble anyone's actual skin tone in any way whatsoever.
I agree. It's not how things get done.
Catalan referendum: preliminary results show 90% in favour of independence
> Git Flow also encourages humans to think about and make up version numbers, like 15.0.5. This is a pointless waste of brain power, web apps don't need version numbers.

Version numbers are used to represent specific states of the project in order to have fixed testable and auditable versions. It's what the user sees when he needs to check which software version he's using when talking about the software he's using, and what programmers need to know when they need to work on bugs/features present in previous versions of the software but not on others. If your app needs to be debugged and there are peopleother than yourself using, testing or working on the software, it needs version numbers. Otherwise, everyone will needlessly waste their time.

Version numbers waste as much brain power as knowing the name of someone you need to contact on a daily basis. You don't need to make up version numbers because plenty of people already did that. For instance, Semantic Versioning is a thing.

http://semver.org/
My suggestion: since you have money, use some of that money to help correct long term structural issues. Control of land is often at the core of these issues (and limits the need to make complicated value judgements around what is helpful or not), so I would suggest looking for ways to help increase land ownership in maginalized groups. One example of the type of organization I am thinking of is Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives[0], which has a focus on correcting injustices towards African-Americans in Portland. Another would be donating money or land to a First Nation, many of which have ongoing campaigns to recover land.

[0] http://pcrihome.org/about/history
That Blackmagic stuff is really awesome. Expensive as ..., but worth every penny.
At least it will be accurate where normal people usually drive--otherwise those normal people would complain.
drop!in (http://idrop.in) is good (imho)
My experience says...depends. It did not make a difference in the current job, but it did on the next (a 5% bump to be exact.) As I've heard from others too, you'll likely need to change positions to recognize the value.
That's ridiculous.

There is no way that a crack Russian/Ukranian team understand or have better info on the American public than American "pundits" and campaign professionals.

Why couldn't Bernie buy 200k of highly targeted ads and beat Hillary or why couldn't a very well connected Hillary (who has good connections to Russia as well) not buy highly targeted and effective ads?

I don't buy that narrative. There is no way a rag-tag team with $100k beats a political machine with real connections in DC, Wall Street, etc. which happened to also spend over $1billion. It's a ridiculous assertion.

Why don't we, the US, buy these highly targeted ads in a place like Venezuela and get people to vote against Maduro (or any other gov't we don't like).

It just does not work that way. Or, if it were to, the likes of FB and Google are doomed. Whoever this band of propagandists are they can undercut Madison ave and rake in the money for pennies on the dollar from corporate America.
Eating native plant species in the U.S. may have been stigmatized due to racism. I submitted an article about this a while back, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11931250
Modern humans emerged more than 300,000 years ago new study suggests
Their UI is a mess. You'll enter the pass code, the screen will wipe out of view, revealing... Another pass code screen. Contacts that use Revolut will never be cached, and will instead always be looked up every time without any indication (I guess that's what the GP refers to).

For all the funding they have, I'd assume they could fix these, but no, they don't.
They used stairs for a 747 and disembarked from the lower deck doors only. The main reason for keeping pax on the plane was that it is not a commercial airport, and cannot handle customs/immigration for an A380 sized (anything > 15 pax, actually) aircraft. Only when the two new planes were available did they moved pax to them.
As I said, your approach is a clever way to use the GitHub API. I think you need to change the title and readme to indicate that this isn't an LDA index of GitHub descriptions. To ML practitioners, that's what you are implying with a title of "Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based on what you have starred".
The Negro Motorist Green Book
Interesting question. Biography:

Jia Qingguo is Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. He has taught in University of Vermont, Cornell University, University of California at San Diego, University of Sydney in Australia as well as Peking University. He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution between 1985 and 1986, a visiting professor at the University of Vienna in 1997 and a fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in 2001 and 2002. He is Vice President of the Chinese American Studies Association. He is also a member of Standing Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. He is serving on the editorial board of several international academic journals. He has published extensively on U.S.-China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, Chinese foreign policy and Chinese politics.

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/jia-qingguo

The CPPCC seems to fill a border role between quasi-goverenmental and the Real Deal:

The role that CPPCC plays in the Chinese government is stated in the preamble of the PRC Constitution. In practice, its role and powers are somewhat analogous to an advisory legislative upper house and there have been occasional proposals to formalise this role in the PRC Constitution.

The Communist Party of China and the aligned "democratic parties" participate in the CPPCC. Besides political parties, CPPCC also invites of representatives from various sectors of society.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_People's_Political_C...
Hmm, I see. Thanks for this info, and particularly the bit about the pricing.
Interesting.

For what it's worth: Google Earth (and Google Maps) have 3d buildings and vegetation etc now, too.

(But I wonder whether it's based on new data, or they just use machine learning to guess the 3d shapes from the 2d data they already had.)
I wonder how much cash is being withdrawn per day.
This was a very powerful clipping from the book, and made me want to share it: https://i.imgur.com/fo8vKHO.png

I'm not sure it's a good fit for HN, since there's not much to say about it. We'll see.

You can read the full book here: https://archive.org/stream/history_green_book/87_135_1736_Gr...

And there's an article here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/read-these-chillin...
Have you considered increasing the price?

I'm serious. I'm not a mobile app publisher, I don't know anything about app discovery through the Play store, but I have experienced the paradox of increasing sales by increasing prices in other channels.

I'm not super up on the psychology at play, but I've read it's because people use price as a proxy for quality/utility in uncertain markets.
> Why does this transparency not include meaningful details of what actually went wrong?

Because the people who can provide that are busy. This is customer communication, not post mortem from engineering. They had engineers spending whole day with extra hours on Friday to resolve the issue, then there was the weekend. I expect they'll take a day or more to dissect it internally, plan follow up, start working on it, etc. Publishing the plan can come later. (If they plan to do that)

What would you prefer them to do first: work on the follow up plan, or spend time writing a blog post about the follow up plan?
Hacker News Clone Using GraphQL and React
Yes, I agree. I tried multiple CRMs in the past like SugarCRM and Vtiger and the main issue was not the lack of features but the time you should spend to integrate with your company flow (e.g. adding customers from your inquiry managing systems).

This issue happens mainly in small companies with tiny sales and marketing teams.
> You think waiting it out a couple more years while they perfect their ICBMs is a good plan?

Who said anything about waiting? I certainly didn't.

> Trump knows better than anyone, you negotiate from a position of strength

Find me any book anywhere that lists name calling as a legitimate negotiating tactic. Or profoundly hollow threats.

You understand that the DPRK is dug into their country like a tick and the military options are almost universally horrible? They have artillery positions spread all across the DMZ, many of which are capable of reaching Seoul. If the US were to attack the DPRK, and the war stayed conventional, there would be over 300,000 South Korean civilian casualties in the first 24 hours. Even if we devoted all of our air power in the Pacific to reducing those artillery positions it would take over a week to neutralize them all. Loss projections show millions of civilians dead inside a week. And all of this ignores the fact that China would enter the war on the side of the DPRK if we invaded without casus belli.

Kim Jung Un is a bank robber who's taken hostages and rigged the whole building up with explosives on a dead man's switch. And the SWAT team thinks it's a good idea to taunt him. Sure, they could take him out without any SWAT casualties, but you wind up with a bunch of dead hostages and some new real estate opening up on Main.

To negotiate from a position of power, you would need to be able to take some sort of unilateral action that didn't have such profound consequences for yourself and your allies.
https://getsynap.com, awesome email sharing and pipeline building tools.
Glowing concentration camps, in NK, and elsewhere.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[friend]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks
Ah, but you can be a researcher (doing work at least as good as most PhDs) without a PhD.

Therein lies the rub.
If you think about it like a high ticket networking event or a business conference then it can be.

If you show up and expect to get rich and famous by standing next to a table, then you'll be disappointed.
This makes no sense.

1. You shouldn't expect that it would "always hold true". I really don't know why you would, because I did not write that it would always hold true. In fact, what I did write is the opposite: a tacit acknowledgement that it's not a hard and fast guarantee. I mean, I specifically made comments like, "Like so many other things, this only works if you enforce it". It's right there. You can go back and read it. Thing is, I even edited my comment (before you read it and responded) from the original; I edited in the words "can help" so that it says "the unthreaded approach can help keep the discussion focused". You want to know something perverse? While doing this, I stopped and asked myself whether I was hedging too much—writing too defensively. Apparently the answer to that is a big nope; I was still not defensive enough.

2. Regardless of everything above, the page you linked to is supposed to prove what? It's a misdirected pull request, and the very first comment is a message to the requestor telling them so. I don't know what you expect past that; even after the message explaining that GitHub is not the correct place to make a pull request and that it will not be moving forward, you seem to be trying to score the discussion against a rubric of how effective the discussion was at staying focused. Do you not see what's wrong with that?

3. I made an a priori remark about how lousy the GitHub community is in my very first comment. I mean, my exact words were calling out what's found on GitHub as "pretty horrifying". If there's some way to be clearer regarding how I feel about GitHub, I don't know what it is. GitHub is terrible. And yet, despite this, despite everything above, your choice example is to link to a GitHub thread where this exact thing is on display, in an attempt to prove me wrong. Or something. I don't get it.

This'll be my last comment here. I think I'm gonna go away for a while.
One problem is that American Indian is about as useful as saying African for a cultural perspective. The tribes are not of one piece and many really, really didn't get along. Sure, there is a bit of commonality, but it does not extend to the food. The second problem is many of the tribes weren't city dwellers and I've noticed hunter / gathers don't complicate their food enough to get to cuisine that has a place in a restaurant. Plus, much of the way the tribes cooked ended when they were thrown on reservations. The "Indian Taco" is a product of reservations, not of the open plains for example. Also, some of the food ingredients are unacceptable in the modern age.
There are a couple of Native-owned food trucks in my area serving frybread[1] and other foods.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frybread
Knew this would be about Russia.

I've often heard it said that the Slavic soul is one of constant malaise. Who knows if it's true, but living up in an inhospitable climate and 1000 years of war and strife can certainly shape a culture.

My Ukrainian family also never smiles, even at the happiest of times it was barely more than a smirk, and laughter was never really a thing. No smiles in photos, ever. Yet all were stoic and content, probably happier than most.
What makes you think the leadership in North Korea is any less rational than the leadership in the other 8 countries that are known to have nuclear weapons? Has the leadership in North Korea shown a history of irrationality with their nuclear weapons (e.g. using it against others)?
> There is no major news agency supported directly by US Federal Funds

Voice of America is a major global news agency directly funded by the federal government, which, because of concerns of the government propagandizing it's own electorate, was prohibited from broadcasting directly to American citizens until 2013. (Radio Free Europe, etc., used to part of a separate federal government office, too.)
IPFS lets users contribute to the hosting too. I've had a lot of favorite sites go down in the past that I wish I and others could easily help host in a way that all the old links still worked.
Look at yourself:

https://i.imgur.com/kLUVcdp.png
What is your sales process going to look like? Figure out your requirements and it will make your search easier.

I really like Close.io for cold outbound sales. If you're doing social media then maybe look at Nimble. As someone else said you can get started for free with Hubspot. Intercom might be something to look at as well if your going for a more automated process.

You can obviously use Zapier to tie your software together so you can use best in class software for whatever processes you end up putting in place.
Office365 comes with a complementary Outlooks Contacts Manager that lives straight in outlook (well, exchange). It's a great tool for a 1 man shop with a few simple products and leads.

You need a business premium license though. (10eur/MO)
I love ING (or at least they Australian version). I just hope they would update their security to something saner than a four digit pin.

(And bad as it is, that's already better than British retail banks, though.)
It's not a non-issue just because people boosting a technology say it is. Ever heard of timing attacks?
> Gentrification sucks, but why blame yuppies just looking for a decent home

Because they're gladly paying a higher rent because they personally can afford it. That's what makes raising rents (to an unreasonable degree) possible. I think it's fine for rich people to want to move into "cool" neighborhoods, just have some solidarity and tact. There's plenty of ways to spend money, and the richer you are the better you'll be able to cope to have an okay flat for a normal rent, instead of accepting something that was half-heartedly modernized just to raise rent a lot.

> rather than the landlords who are actually raising the rent?

You can can only blame the party paying the rent for paying the rent, and only the party trying to raise the rent for trying to raise the rent. Can you show me anyone holding greedy landlords blameless while blaming the yuppies for enabling them? You said you "see" this thing, after all. Where?
This is fascinating stuff. Ta to whomever put it here for broadening my horizons a bit.

I've been aware that my general cultural norms are not transferable worldwide but I'd always considered smiling a universal human thing that worked everywhere as a sign of friendliness.

Many cultures nod their head for yes and shake for no. Some do the reverse. This I get (eventually) but smiling - really? Well, yes ... why not?

I think that there is a more fundamental thing to smiling/frowning/scowling as opposed to nodding and shaking the head as expressions.

It's complicated.
Dunno about that. If you work each day in any random coffee shop in SV -- well, maybe not random, but one of the popular ones -- you'll run into people working on some exciting tech. I don't think most of the country is like that.
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