skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>; what about developers who refuse to use the email-based process?

I guess I don't understand your question. In Linux, the email-as-the-workflow[1] has been agreed upon from Linux Torvald and his lieutenants all the way down.

I suppose that if a one refused to use email-based-workflow, they'd have to find a Linux kernel maintainer to be a champion for their proposed changes and submit them on their behalf. (Is this a common scenario? I don't know.)

If a rebel Linux kernel programmer insisted on staging changes for review in Gerritt/JIRA/github/etc, he's going to be isolated in an island because he's not part of the agreed-upon workflow: emails.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
I tried to take the article seriously, but the CSS animations become so distracting that it turned the piece into sublime piece of satire.
> Who is doing the politicizing depends on who you believe.

I'm not sure if the parent comment is sarcastic or bitter, but I think it's important to remember that it's not reality. The idea is false that humans are locked into ideologies and care nothing for truth, reality, and the welfare of their fellow citizens; it's despair. It's capitulation to the few ideologues, who do see the world that way and want to impose it on the rest of us.

It's not Republicans vs Democrats, or conservatives vs liberals, it's ideologues vs good-willed, sensible people, thinking and acting in good faith.
I'm no expert, but I suspect that because Puerto Rico has ties to the US, it probably receives more funding than the other islands in the area.
Can you provide some basis for that? There is a lot of reporting that says otherwise. For example:

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/30/16389640/pu...
> Of course this will be politicized but there is not much we can do except let time run its course.

Huh? The three star general now commanding the military effort says he doesn't have the necessary resources (neither hardware, nor staff). There's just forty or so helicopters ferrying stuff around.

Seriously? That's the best the US is supposed to be able to do?
Politicians gonna politic, and the Pope is still Catholic.

Only one of the "sides", at least in theory, is in control of all the branches of government, and thus should probably be doing something with that power... like, perhaps governing?

Responding adequately to a predictable natural disaster counts as governing, right?
btw "echo chamber" is generally perceived as disparaging, so it's not weird people wouldn't be impressed by that. and feigning victimhood after antagonizing people is pretty gauche.
Racism was a major factor in the public's wariness of the emancipated slaves, so it's part of it. Either way, new laws intended to be selectively enforced against emancipated slaves and other undesirables are a feature of the 1800s (and to a lesser extent, the early to mid 1900s).

That was what I was getting at.

By "late for the region" I meant compared to their neighbours to the North and East (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, The Vermont Republic†) and Pennsylvania.

† Not a state at the time, for the obvious reason of being an unrecognized secession from New York, for the purpose of (among other things) abolishing adult slavery.
No, my argument boils down to he is willfully breaking the law while openly stating his plans and that the judges aren't going to appreciate that, the SEC isn't going to find it funny, and the prosecuting attorney is going to submit it as evidence. He is doing this while he is fully aware that prison is the likely outcome.

That's not rational. That is irrational thinking that is likely to result in harm coming to the actor.

That's pretty much the definition of mental illness.

They aren't even alone. They are just one example. Watch the comments about ICOs and cryptocurrency. You'll see comments that are saying the government can't stop them, them the individual.

No, the government can't necessarily stop an idea. They can't even really prevent cryptocurrency. What they can do, and do very efficiently, is stop the individual.

That is irrational thinking. It is how people end up in prison. I'd like it if, you know, HN visitors didn't end up in prison. I'm kind of fond of some of you. Prison is not a nice place, I've worked at one.

When you start mucking about with things with real-world implications, it's no longer a game. It's no longer something you can talk your way out of. It has real-world penalties. There are negative consequences.

The government can, and will, stop those who draw negative attention. They really, really hate it when you negatively impact the economy, as a general rule.

However, you're right. It is their life to risk. That doesn't actually make it sane.

It's not like they are going to go to prison rich. No, the government is going to issue fines to go along with their prison sentences. Do not taunt the men with guns. Taunting men with guns only works in video games and movies.
Could you give an example? It’s not something I’ve thought about when writing Haskell, but perhaps I just haven’t noticed.
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That is kind of nitpicky (the article makes it clear that they mean 'cash' in the sense of paper money, not non-credit). However, you recovered nicely with a story about mechanical imprinting machines. We'll take ATMs out of the title above.
Is this just FUD? I've been using contacts and doing coding for over a decade now. I get my annual checkup from the eye doctor. They would know if my eyes were getting damaged, wouldn't they?
trashing a community doesn't often get upvotes. perhaps if you were really funny or clever about it.
A good amount of people watch cable news, and to their credit, both CNN and MSNBC have been covering this since it happened, although perhaps neither with the detail nor at the exclusion of any other news that Harvey got while the Houston flooding was at its worst.

Then again, the Harvey coverage faded rapidly in the days after the storm left Texas; the Puerto Rico recovery is still unfolding and gets a fair bit of television and press.

Perhaps there is a perception that this is underreported but I don't think so. The kind, nature, amount, and pervasiveness of the news coverage is simply a reflection that life for everybody else still goes on (or rather, has to go on), and even for the people of Puerto Rico that's bizarrely true in the worst possible ways [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15374084
I think the quality and quantity of reporting coming out of Puerto Rico has suffered from both its political status and the fact that it is an island at a considerable distance from the mainland U.S.

However, I think the situation has been compounded by both the degree of damage caused by the hurricane and by the kind of damage. Something like 90% of the cell towers are offline and the landlines have been heavily damaged as well. So you have this problem where you can't get reporters in and you also can't get firsthand reports from locals out, either.

It seems like a clear case of no news is bad news, but how is the news media supposed to report "no news"?
I switched from Acuvue 2 to Oasys and it was a huge improvement. I only get dryness when I’ve got a consistent breeze on my face. (NB: I never wear them during sleep. That just seems to me like a fantastic way to get an eye infection.)
Read in Mitch Hedberg's voice: “I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".'”
What? There's three million+ people living there. And where are they supposed to live? And how should they be picked up, with a seriously decimated transport network?
> my conclusion is, email threading is mostly a pipe dream

Them why has it been working so well for me since I started using email?

Maybe take a look at this for inspiration: ￼https://fkref.com/?RbC_-NEE
Professional opticians (watch out for jargon) are at Optiboard, e.g. here’s a good post on single vision lens manufscturing:

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/49935-Free-fo...
> The US is doing its best ...

Again, what is this based on? Plenty of reporting indicates otherwise.

> a place that's had 85 years to prepare for a hurricane

That is disingenuous.
Being able to wear contacts is extremely convenient for athletic activity and times when you want to wear standard sunglasses. I personally like a hybrid approach - glasses most of the time but contacts once in awhile. I would guess that wearing contacts occasionally is fine, but feel free to disagree if you do!
I wonder if every machine stores the entire catalog, and periodically syncs.
Adblock Plus, despite being open source, seems to be quite a profitable business. The main point is the inertia of the user base.
Maybe it’s more fair to say that much of the advice is unhelpful for many sufferers, but for those it does help, it’s a good toolkit to have.
This is completely wrong on so many points, I truly doubt that you are even honest about talking to Mr. Villardo. He wouldn't be that stupid to even insinuate something along those lines. Magic the Gathering Trading Cards would be classified as securities by the card printing company with your silly interpretation. After all, they are transferable, the value of the rare cards go up the more popular the game/network becomes, you can't get your money back from the store or the company if you wanted to return your pack of cards, so it's a security? Please. I'd recommend editing your post so you don't come off as clearly clueless.
Depends on what kind of apocalypse you're prepping for; fat lot of good all that stuff will do you without silver when the werewolves come.
There are alot of new studies regarding psychedelic done by groups like MAPS. I read almost all of them. Judging by this research and the benefits it is borderline criminal to have this substances as schedule 1.
>>Actual successful financial marketplaces, like the ones I named, have much more stringent regulations than that. Why? Because waiting for a fraud to blow up and then hoping the police can crack down on it is immensely damaging.

There is no data to support your assertion. We don't have a control to see what the effect of regulation has been. How can you confidently conclude that regulations made the markets more successful, and that a traditional deterrence approach to fraud wouldn't have worked even better? You can't.

>>Think of it like food safety laws. In theory, the marketplace would take care of this, driving unsafe restaurants out of business through the magic of the invisible hand ... In practice, though, everybody supports food inspectors, ... A trusted, regulated marketplace benefits all sincere participants.

You have not provided any evidence for your last assertion. A policy being wildly popular doesn't mean it's socially constructive or ethical.

>>Historically, gatekeeping behavior both from regulators like the CFTC and the SEC and from marketplaces like the NYSE and NASDAQ arose in response to problems. It's not something people just made up.

Of course, and the War on Drug arose in response to the problem of drug abuse. Alcohol Prohibition arose in response to alcohol abuse. The Iraq invasion and Patriot Act arose in response to terrorism. It doesn't mean the response is either ethical or socially constructive.

>>Now that the same problems are happening here, I expect there will be some response. Partly, it is regulators coming along and applying existing financial laws. Partly, it will be investors abandoning the whole asset class.

I suspect neither of these things will happen. The sector will remain effectively unregulated due to the near impossibility of censoring cryptocurrency transactions, and investors will wisen up just as they have for the last six years in cryptocurrency. Online server side wallets use to be a big thing in Bitcoin. After a string of exit scams and hacks, the collective intelligence increased, and cryptocurrency communities began strongly urging people to avoid such wallets. I suspect a similar spontaneous evolution will happen with token sales as the community matures.

All gatekeeper regulations will do is rob the US of business and cause unnecessary human suffering for those caught in the dragnet.

>>But there's also room for the industry to self-regulate. Will the antiregulatory fetish, as typified by your response, win out? Or will, as often happens with other industries, some self-regulation happen?

It is not a fetish to not want to be subservient to a centralized gatekeeper and be forced to get permission from it to interact with other adults. It is belief in the basic value of human freedom.
Things like this are why I'm very excited about things like SpaceX's global satellite internet plans. Having parallel international- and intranational-provided communications infrastructures prevents either type from becoming a malicious gatekeeper.
I think we're fucked as a society if this is what it's come to. Grown adults making checklists to make them selves feel better. Jesus Christ....
"Bandwidth limit exceeded"

Here's the same PDF from the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170930150048/http://data.satir...
And that tells you what exactly? How do you know it's not a trans guy?

You see, you can't tell the age, you can't tell the gender, because they are not real.
She plead for help in the most polarizing way possible. The USA is going above and beyond to assist Puerto Rico right now, and we will continue. The mayor's biting of the charitable hand that is feeding them is appalling.
I would have problem with this if Chrome was total anti-user garbage, but like I said, it was (and still is) a solid product that brought forth a lot of good things for non-technical users, plus Chromium is open source.

Google is not a charity, so they used their sites to advertise their own product. Microsoft is doing the same thing with Edge, even on Windows 10.
> Even if you are Jason Bourne, living in a mad max wasteland you will not live long. Whereas millions of people with zero self defense skills can go through their whole lives never having to defend themselves at all in civilized societies.

This is a false dichotomy. Banning legal gun ownership does not mean a civilized society (i.e. Bordertowns in Mexico) & protecting legal gun ownership does not mean a Mad Max Society.

> It isn't even clear if keeping powerful weapons around in a civilized place is a net win on safety.

The maxim is one of preventing asymmetric power. Legal Gun Ownership is an effective strategy to check the lethal power of the state, cartels, gangs, etc.

Hitler, Stalin, & Mao used gun control to give the state a monopoly on violence. Many societies that have gun control are relatively safe, but many with gun control also devolve into a case where the criminal elements gain power & rule due to a monopoly on violence.

Mexico does not allow legal gun ownership yet Sinaloa, Los Zetas, MS-13, & corrupt Federales own guns. The law abiding population suffers (in horrific ways) as a result.

Chicago has some of the strongest gun control laws in the USA; yet, gang members don't seem to want to follow the law...and the violent crime rates hold testament to the consequences.

Legal gun ownership is one of many strategies to implement. It's a particularly effective safeguard when you have political/demographic/cultural/societal dynamics that are less than ideal to ensure that law abiding citizens have a shooting chance.
Where do you get that from?

There are lots of practical Haskell projects that "do things": From web frameworks over window managers to cryptocurrencies, and also many commercial projects that are all but mundane and where nobody cares about category theory.

You can also check out https://haskell-lang.org/libraries for some pretty practical documentation on libraries that Haskell programmers use to build programs that "do things".
Excellent! Thanks for sharing.
Yes, no redirect can protect the user from that. In fact, not even completely disabling HTTP can - the ISP can respond on port 80 anyway. But it can protect them if they open it on a safe connection and then bookmark the page, or keep the tab open, or send the link to someone else, and then use that link on an unsafe connection.
Disclosure: using JS for UI work, not nuclear reactor controls. Hate reading reams of verbose, flabby, painfully explicit, long, statically typed (often believed to be "self documenting", as well), code. Prefer short, intuitive code (and LESS of it, but with explanations of context and "why") for non safety critical work.
The article is prefaced with: "Epistemic status: wild speculation." It seems like we rather do need more theorizing, because we don't currently have a theoretical description of depression that leads us to solutions. I know I've also seen him write about the possibility that depression is a set of interrelated diseases that look the same, and talked frankly about the inefficacy of treatments.

It's a fairly ungenerous read that would lead you to imply he's failing in some professional obligation. It's like discussing murder - how often do you need to state that you think murder is A Very Bad Thing? Do oncologists need to talk about how bad cancer is every time that they write about it in a public space? Eh.
There are plenty of guys who have been around for only a short time that are better than people who have been there for years. You can't go by title or tenure. You have to look at each individual and see how skilled they are by their work and their attitude. Words like junior or senior don't help.
I see you're on the market for tungsten...
> And satalite internet still works.

Satellite internet is also very expensive too.
Actual title: "The War on General-Purpose Computing Turns on the Streaming Media Box Community"
The end result is that people demands more proof before accepting that your idea is exceptional. I'd guess that this could reduce noise making it easier to focus on relevant startups.
The experiment to bring "Haskell people" into the world of VR has so far gone well (https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula), but I have sometimes wondered if Haskell is too off-putting of a language to bring traditional graphics programmers into this project.
I’ve encountered multiple times that Haskell has forced me understand exactly what I was doing, otherwise the parts wouldn’t fit together, or I’d end up writing huge amounts of duplicate code. I’ve never encountered this in another language.
> Is this actually the case? I think it's vastly more likely that this will do little more than sharply increase the demand for people that actually have the bodies that other individuals were being photoshopped to have.

It's true, companies could no longer photograph some schlub and transform him into an adonis with power of photoshop. But then again, nobody actually attains the a Platonic ideal of flawless skin and impossible proportions that we see in today's ads. The closest we get have are a handful of elite supermodels, and even they get photoshopped. At the end of the day, advertisement models will look more like people.
The Oxford English dictionary provides synonyms for obsolete. While 'fallen into disuse' is one synonym provided, another is 'discontinued'.

Your definition of obsolete, while correct, is not complete.
Since Maria and Irma, I have been thinking about how I can make my house self-suficient. Water storage is becoming cheap, and I hope solar will also become affordable when Tesla solar roof will be sold outside the US.
Please don't steer things into a generic political debate. From the HN guidelines:

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
Because most people have no idea what HTTPS is, let alone that you can manually switch between the two. Nor do they know what a browser addon is, let alone knowing that specific one exists.
Sure they do, at least some of them. People frown upon anyone, including billionaires, who is too full of themselves, and I think you can definitely tell the difference if you compare the 1% in Scandinavia with places such as New York.

An anecdote will illustrate what I mean. My mother was at the pharmacy once, and as the lady at the register was explaining to the man in front of her how the discount system works, with stamps etc he listened politely and patiently. She couldn't have guessed that he was the owner of H&M, the 17th richest man in the world.

The older I get and the more I travel the more I appreciate this aspect of life in Scandinavia and I don't think there is any indication that this has hampered growth or entrepreneurship, quite the opposite.

The point is not that you shouldn't do your best, succeed and make a lot of money, it's about how you should behave if you do succeed.
There is a fascinating data, robotics, manufacturing, supply chain and retail story to be written about the optical industry.

The largest lens maker (Essilor) has merged with the largest frame maker (Luxxotica) and they also own online retailer FramesDirect. A former executive of Essilor runs a Canadian company that is acquring independent opticians. Japanese lens makers (Hoya and Seiko) have merged in response.

Essilor, Zeiss and others are asking opticians to spend thousands of dollars on equipment [1] that measures patient’s eyes for lens personalization. This data (including auto-refraction [2]) then gets aggregated with optometerist prescription data (subjective refraction = which is better, 1 or 2), providing Google captcha-style human input to improve the software algorithms used in measurement. Opticians are funding their robot replacements.

Today, online retailers like FramesDirect use average values for some fitting measurements (e.g. pupil/fitting height in frame for optical center of single vision lens). There are mobile eye measurement apps that take a photo of your face with a credit-card sized object to adjust for scale, but they are not too accurate. At some point, self-service [3] optical measurement devices and lens customization algorithms will enable optical telemedicine globally.

[1] Optical dispensing goes digital, http://visionmonday.com/article/cover-story-dispensing-goes-...

[2] Wavefront aberrometer, https://www.fastcompany.com/3049271/this-iphone-accessory-re...

[3] Vision test with remote opticians, http://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/smart-vision-labs-laun...
If Linus declared that everyone must use, say, Gitlab from now on, some Linux developers might leave. But developers who don't use email may never start working on Linux. That's why it cuts both ways: either option alienates some developers.
Thanks! I will see if I can find some stuff to read about them later. I want to see how hard it was, the process, etc...

I believe they changed some VC funding rules, not that long ago. I'm not sure if the apply in these types of cases, but I think 'regular' people are now allowed to invest, but only a small amount. I seem to recall it was $2000/year.

It's not much, but it is a start? I didn't pay much attention to it, so I don't remember all the details. Sorry, I don't even remember the name of it so that I can dig out some info. I noticed it in passing. I'm not into the VC game and prefer investing elsewhere. So, I didn't pay much attention to it.

Edited to add:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/16/11685832/sec-crowdfunding...

Chances are you know more about it than I do, but there's a link if you don't.