skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link! This thing is hilarious!

About 7:00: "And you think when you're 19, 'cause you're so clueless when you're 19, you don't know a bloody thing, you think, "well, I'm not really sure I want children anyway". Like, oh, yeah, you can tell how well you have been educated. Jesus. Dismal. Dismal. Without fail.

"I've watched women go through their professional careers, many, many of them. It's a very rare woman who at the age of 30 who doesn't consider having a child her primary desire. And the ones that don't consider that, generally, in my observation, there's something that isn't quite right in the way that they're constituted or looking at the world.

"Sometimes you get women who are truly non-maternal, you know, by temperment. They have a masculine temper [-ment?], disagreeable, they're not particularly compassionate, they're not maternal, they're not that interested in kids. Fair enough, man. But there aren't that many of them and there's plenty who will not admit to themselves that that's what they most desperately want."
Ah, thank you for the comment. I'm guessing IKEA don't ship any where in that case and that isn't specific to just Australia.

Paying some one else for the luxury and buying it through an online medium like eBay is a pretty decent alternative to a 2.5 hour drive.
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I'm in Vancouver. I went onto the roof of my apartment building on Halloween and watched all the fireworks going off everywhere. It was awesome!

I never considered the similarities with Guy Fawkes day. Very interesting!
Isn’t your point like saying you can sell to the army because they aren’t the CIA?
How does one determine that two things are different, or similar, without comparing them?

> RT is a Russian propaganda channel, it's not a foreign intelligence service

I wonder if there are National Security Letters and FISA courts (or something comparable) in Russia.
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Taxes don't affect competitiveness much. They only affect profitability, because any money they use to compete and any money they never earn because they compete by lowering prices isn't taxed anyway. They only pay taxes on profits. Taxes are not a business expense.

There is perhaps an indirect link to competitiveness in that a company can retain profits and use them down the road to take over other companies, which may strengthen their position in the market. Another such indirect link is that profitability affects the company's ability to raise capital.

But what I believe is that it's not so much the company itself that cannot afford to pay higher taxes, it's the management team. If a CEO doesn't optimize taxes for the benefit of owners/investors, that CEO could be replaced by someone who does.
Why would you not accept that premise? The fact that RT is a propaganda channel is widely known.
I hadn't heard of Planck (I know it as an ortholinear keyboard!) or Lumo. Thank you for taking the time to mention them both – downloading to play with now…
Technically, the US didn't annex any of those countries, which makes what it did more above-board in terms of international law than Russia's actions. Sure, a lot of those interventions ended a lot more badly than annexation, but that apparently doesn't matter.
It's an interesting thing to plot, but these numbers need more context.

Deaths per person (ok, that number is always exactly 1, but hopefully you know what I mean...) seems like it would be a much more useful number to see, for example.

Another stats comparison that is made quite often in the UK is deaths due to the past two decades of Islamic terrorism versus deaths due to terrorism in Northern Ireland.
Hmm. How hard is it to get superconduction in space? Its not like it has to be room temperature.
Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah
I'm somewhat surprised to see Singapore mentioned as a paragon of social equality. This is a rich country where maids are treated like slaves (locked in apartment and on call 24/7/365, sleep on the kitchen floor etc) and many elderly have no pensions at all, and are forced to work in menial jobs like cleaning bathrooms until they die.

It does show how bad things in the US have gotten though...
Holy Moly, sometimes I forget just how fast computers can be.
Link to resources about V2MOM and other frameworks?
Looks like the output of pprof, so perhaps the slide means all calls to this function (when run 10000 times say during checking dependencies over a very large codebase), take 21 second in total, reduced to 4 seconds by storing the results of comparisons in a map and using that instead. Go strings are immutable so calling ToLower repeateadly would copy them each time.
> The former may want things other than money.

There are plenty of Western businessmen who have political agendas of their own - who do things for reasons besides money. Rupert Murdoch, the Koch Brothers, etc. They are incredibly open about their goals, and none of them are good for the rest of us.
I’m not sure that sweet spot exists, and a lot would depend on composition and entry angle.
Fascinating profile. The newspaper this article talks about is basically an analog, extremely inefficient version of Craigslist.
Audio equipment got hit by this too. I scored a very nice surround receiver and speaker set this way; someone had put it on the curb, so I took it home for examination, and $20 in replacement caps later it was good to go. Lasted me years, until an evil-minded cat threw up in it.
I'm not proposing to take away the joyrides. I'm proposing to take away manipulative ads featuring joyrides and see if happiness improves. It will either improve or not, that's a factual issue, not a matter of opinion.
you want to believe it on the surface?
...or anywhere else you want.
Ok, changed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ASFxKS9sg.
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Due to a deliberate blind spot , mass shootings like the one that just killed 27+ people in Texas aren't counted as terrorism. If they were America would appear much more at risk.
Does this phenomenon have an identified timespan like the capacitor plague? Is it over now?

When Android was a new thing, the swollen battery was one of the many things wrong with my G1 phone. Haven't encountered it on any device since then, fortunately.
Without making any specific accusation I would simply point out that the user with whom you have been conversing is present in [1] and playing the “it’s no big deal” card even then.
Are you suggesting that the uncovered transactions are evidence of money laundering?

The best response to that would be this [1] from that same thread. It's not money laundering if it's just how post-Soviet laissez-faire capitalism does things.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3144520
what you're showing is basically perfect discriminator with awful generator, isn't it?
I have had the opposite experience. Leinengen was trouble on it's own.
Well only if you are a mathematician living in a box but this is the real world you know.
Theoretically they could send the cure but they announce cancer cures every other week.
Pfft international law. The US is in Syria against the wishes of that country. It invaded and destroyed Iraq, bombed Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, and countless other crimes all in contempt of international law.

The US occupation of Guantanamo bay for example, is contested by Cuba, who protests continuously. However the Russian annexation of Crimea was at least supported by the inhabitants. They’re both crimes of imperialism but the former is far worse.
That's the beauty of slamming the other side's behaviour in geo-politics - you can find any distinction without a difference, and play it up to 11. The US didn't annex Iraq - it merely invaded, occupied it, and plunged it into a bloody civil war.

By that logic, the USSR didn't annex Afghanistan either. It just invaded, occupied it, and participated in a bloody civil war. Why did everyone get all worked up about that war, anyways? Why did the Soviets not have a moral high hill to make a stand on in that conflict?
I think you mean this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084
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Last night I ended up, for some weird nostalgic reason, installing a Gopher client, just to see if there was anything still around. Amazingly, there's a bunch of blogs (called phlogs in Gopherspace) that people are updating regularly! Pretty amazing!
Assuming SG is Singapore, that is a really specific example, because it is a tiny Island of 4 million people with a lot of very unique attributes - it is a major shipping and airport hub, as well as a financial hub in a notoriously corrupt region.

The USA has similar areas - often much larger, usually with very similar outcomes. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per... and compare it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)... and you can see that if all the state where their own country, the USA would have the richest by GDP PP per capita (DC), as well as Mississippi, a state that would hover around Slovenian levels of wealth.

That's the thing that as an Australian I never understood. The USA - the United States of America - varies so greatly by state. We don't have that - most countries don't. Even when there is variance, UK with London, north and south of Spain and Italy, it is not quite so dramatic.

Back to the example of Singapore, I expect most everyone in Connecticut (GDP PPP per capita of $64,511, population 3.576 million) to have very similar results to Singapore. I don't expect South Carolinans (GDP PPP per capita $37,063, population 4.961 million) to have anywhere near the same results.

The angst in America is a uniquely MASSIVE country phenomenon - hits somewhere north of 100 million mark would be my guess - maybe even higher. People in Milan don't compare themselves and their outcomes to those in Berlin, even though they share an economic zone, but people in Idaho do compare their lot to Silicon Valley.

I don't have an answer BTW, just a vague notion that large countries have it tough - and that China will likely face similar issues in the very near term, as first world level economies like Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin are compared with the outcomes for Gansu (which has Ghanaian levels of GDP PPP per capita - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative...).
He also says, in the other video mentioned in this thread, that pointless stupid competitiveness is how you end up running things, so there's that.

I wonder if you could actually get him to agree that everything wrong with the world is due it being run by pointlessly stupid, hyper-competitive men.
Always a mistake to expect communicative rather than instrumental use of language!
AFAICT, in many cases (e.g., history) that's just to catch up with the rest of the world's pre-university humanities' level (and that the same applies in reverse for the humanities degrees).
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Yeah ok it's pretty misleading. And if you let it run longer the generator starts getting a little better. It took me a long time to figure out the UI.
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> But your question contains an unstated assumption: that capitalism leads to "the majority of the citizenry [ending] up in the underclass".

No, not capitalism specifically, and that's not a claim I made. (Unless of course you believe that capitalism necessarily leads to the exploitation of the poor.)

> That was the century of the industrial revolution, huge advances in technology and wealth production, and an unprecedented rise in the standard of living.

Even if I agreed with your premise, is it your argument here that those things happened because of libertarianism? Because (a) historians would disagree with you, and (b), you're still stuck with the same problem as every other libertarian: where are all of the 21st century libertarian utopias then? Is it in Galt's Gulch, Chile (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bn53b3/atlas-mugged-922-v...)? Is it somewhere in Antarctica, one of few (barely) habitable places on Earth with no government? Is it Mauritius? Liberia? Colorado Springs (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/30/colorado-...)?
You do. You can choose to not live in society. Go live in the jungle, or buy a raft and jump onto the sea; no one will follow you to tax you.

Of course, you won't do this, cause you like living with people. You like living in cities but cities cannot run without roads, piers, planning, etc. And you like being safe, knowing if people hurt you or take your stuff they'll be punished, if your house catches on fire it'll be turned off, and if you're out late at night the sidewalk will be lit so you can find your way back home.

You have the choice, it just doesn't seem like one because not living in society is just not worth it.
The U.K. regularly jails people for planning terrorism - but it receives very little publicity. I couldn't name any.
IKEA are stepping up their home delivery game in Australia, hope your friend knows about this.

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/industries/retail/ikea-onlin...

Online shopping is already available in Tasmania, the Northern Territory, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.
A victim here. My 2007 MacBook Pro started to swell on the bottom after a couple of years, didn't think much of it, it was a tiny bump at first, but then it almost doubled in thickness so I replaced it with a cheap Chinese knockoff (was broke at the time due to starting a startup), and the same thing happened in about a year. Lesson learned.
I will never get this lucky charm obsession with miniature online success stories.
Because some have been proven to be deceptive, manipulative, and have un-american aspirations. They are playing the extreme liberalism for their own gain.
@postramus - Yes I am. Because it's not.
I did not appreciate that fact. Thanks
Any way to get notice when CI/CD Only mode comes out? My org would definitely be interested in using GitLab for CI while keeping our repos on GitHub
> In that case, I am really confused about what the point that's being made here is.

I think you are being intentionally ignorant. Maybe you have rationalized that it doesn't matter if the money comes from authoritarian regimes because it pays your bills.
I am ok with someone making a profit but not a 40% in a few years.

Yes that is probably irrational "caveman" thinking. Never said it was logical.
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What's the difference of trusting the media, or the data which backs the media?
> to take his name off

You assumed wrong. A moderator changed it because the submitted title ("Yuri Milner's money is from Putin (via Gazprom, oligarchs, et al)") was an obvious violation of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We often put individual names back in HN titles when the audience here can be expected to recognize the name. I've done so above. That's a rather specialized moderation practice, which not everyone who edits HN titles knows about. The basic edit was valid and routine.
Another thing was that there was no dross, because everything had to be written and uploaded by a person.

Some rose-tinted glasses right there!
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Wait, we don't call websites "websites" anymore? What do we call them now?
Ask HN: Looking for a book on organising files on your computer
Someone - I am 99% sure on here - posted a few months back about a book that had a system for organising your files so that, years later, you could find them again in an instant.

My computer crashed that day and I never bought it, but one "can't find it" file too many and I really think I need it. Does that book ring a bell to anyone? I know that's vague, but I've just lost so many things in the mess of my HDs, and I think I really need help.
Not to mention the anti - catholic bigotry that is still evident in some parts of the uk on bonfire night.
same in 2009 model, i'm using it right now, (without OS X of course). there is now a 4-2mm lip on the underside where the battery panel is being pushed out. I still get about 40mins and seems to have stopped swelling so what the heck :P Anyway these days Apple sells those sort of things as "features"... lets call it a "leg gripping lip" allows lap usage at strange angles.
Merely refusing to cooperate with the CIA is "favoring the Russian government"?

That seems like a dangerous idea.
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I tried using leinengen and boot, each had it's own issues. I remember spending many frustrating hours trying to get the live reloading to work.

I feel like a lot of the Clojure ecosystem is quite hacky, and if you can hack around in clojure you can work around many of the problems, but if you're a clojure novice each tiny hiccup is minutes to hours spent trying to figure just what is the problem.
I'm sure there's a millionaire somewhere decrying the injustice of wealth distribution, pointing at the billionaires.
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Let's not forget that childcare and healthcare costs would be removed from the equation. Would these costs be lower in a country with higher taxes? Well pretty much any progressive tax system will ensure that unless you majorly screw up the planning.
> Ask your favorite well-known professor how many proofs of P=NP, the Riemann hypothesis, or whatever they get per week.

My PhD advisor actually works in an area that is related to complexity questions that are related to P=NP. So if he would get spammed a lot with this kind of papers, I am pretty sure that I would know. Similar statements hold for other researchers who work on the same floor.

You might object that even though they might work on questions that are related to complexity theory, they are perhaps simply not the people that an "ordinary crackpot" thinks of as target reader for their texts - in other words one has to know a little bit about mathematics to know that the questions these people work on are actually related to P=NP. I will not disagree with this objection.

You may also object that the respective persons are well-known and well-regarded in their respective community, but the general public is not so much aware of them. I also will not disagree with this objection.

Nevertheless I strongly believe that if your claim were true in general, I would probably know.
I second the advice, and suggest Anki SRS software https://apps.ankiweb.net/ for remembering what you have studied.

I have a different problem, not just it is difficult to study simultaneous subjects, but due to family or professional duties, sometimes I spent sometime without studying it I feel that I forget a lot of stuff. Anki helps me stay sharp and space more my study sessions.
To add to this, if you want something shorter to read, there is this prepared statement by Browder to the Senate Judiciary Committee: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bill-br... Also, being a prepared statement to a senate committee, it has more meat to it than the average news interview.
Another day, another mainstream media publication shilling hysterical articles about Russia. My pet theory is that it's a big collective act of psychological sublimation to compensate for the shock of Hillary losing

I’d like to buy into the “nothingburger” case on Russian interference,but how do you explain the growing weight of released evidence that the Russians actively worked to interfere in the election? Were the Russians wasting their resources trolling? Is all the evidence fabricated?
You know what's really funny? The American political faction with the closest connection to Putin keeps complaining about "globalism".
Maybe but better designed language doesn't mean better language overall. Also anything Erlang based is slower than Go.
"...students consistently found their own hardware ECMP performed significantly better than the original paper’s ECMP results. The students reran the ECMP results with spanning tree enabled and discovered that the resulting, worse performance was identical to the results in the paper."
Yeah, I've been on the web since NCSA Mosaic, and there was a lot of dross.
Do we have a source on the Wall Street Journal articles Cotton references?

More broadly, we would need to know if Dataminr is sharing (a) its full fire hose with RT, or just a subset of it and (b) any data with the subcontractors to the Intelligence Community, in which case we can assume they made a policy decision to not work with state intelligence agencies, misguided as that may be in today's hybrid world.

TL; DR Doesn't strike me as specious solely based on what's provided here.
Sorry about that. Wr,dr: Suicide is a bit of a problem at MIT.

"Over the past decade, the university’s student suicide rate has been 10.2 per 100,000 students, according to a Globe review of public records as well as university and media reports. More recently MIT’s suicide rate has been even higher; over the past five years the campus has reported 12.5 suicides per 100,000 students.

"The increasing rate has been driven by the school’s undergraduate population, whose suicide rate in the past decade has outpaced that of the school’s graduate students — 12.6 to 8.5.

"The national average for college campuses is roughly between 6.5 and 7.5 suicides per 100,000 students, according to three major studies that looked at undergraduate and graduate student suicides from 1980 to 2009."

On the other hand, over across the street at that other school,

"At least one other local school, Harvard University, has an above average rate for its undergraduate population. The rate of suicide at Harvard was 11.8 per 100,000 undergraduates over the past decade. When accounting for both undergraduates and graduates, the rate at Harvard was 5.4 per 100,000."

So maybe it's Boston.

But wait,

"...the university’s undergraduate rate has declined, particularly since the early 2000s. Between 1994 and 2005, the undergraduate suicide rate at MIT was 18.7 per 100,000."

Holy poop.e

Edit: And I just noticed the "Ten Lessons" were written in 1997.
Yes? I hope it's not controversial to say that doing business with a television network is fundamentally different from cooperating with an intelligence agency.
resonnates with my previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15586839
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This is a variation of the "RSS is dead (but everything provides RSS feeds)" thing.
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See also the analysis (from 2015) of an Iranian blogger who got arrested in 2008 and got free in 2015 - he did not recognize the new web. (Ironically also posted on Medium...) According to him, hyperlinks turned into a social media stream.

https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a4...
Wait, wha??? You have the right to it, but you are not entitled to it? I don't know if you are American, but let's assume you are. The Declaration Of Independence enshrines three "unalienable rights" that governments are "created to protect".

Let's take them one at a time.

1. Life - so one has the right to life, yet is not entitled to it? If I take your life and don't get prosecuted for it, then everything is cool?

2. Liberty - if your skin color was black in the Antebellum south, you had the right to libery, you just weren't be entitled to it?

3. Pursuit of Happiness - you have the right to say, be able to read, which I think most would agree is pretty essential to pursuing your happiest self. But you are not entitled to any basic education, and the onus should be on you?

This is one of the most cynical viewpoints I can think of.

Edits: premature eclickulation
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Maybe, but by the way, if you live in a state that provides state services using state taxes, your state-and-local taxes will no longer be deductible.

So the GOP bill comes off as a "fuck you" to a lot of us, since they kinda want to double-tax us for which state we live in.