skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fortunately I live in a state where suicide is legal and available by pill

for Alzheimer's?

http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/01/10/can-an-alzheimers-...

'There is nowhere in the U.S. someone with Alzheimer’s disease can legally commit suicide with the help of a physician or friend. (Suicide itself is not a crime.) People with Alzheimer’s are not considered competent, and the disease is generally not considered terminal because a person often does not die within six months of a diagnosis.'
That would be the copyright date of the book, combined with medical licensing requirements that doctors stay up-to-date in their field.
It's always the vocal fringe that's covered and published by the media. When I was at college during the nineties, the college paper and the news coverage of the school was usually about some political fracas involving one to ten people.

The other 15k+ people were trying to pass their classes, partying, or both.
There are bots, humans and what not exchanging code words and encrypted data in the comments on many of the involved channels. There are thousands "confirmed" channels with many of them having hundreds of videos each, there are hundreds of comments on each video.

The content is clearly managed by a "small" number of individuals. It's dark. I usually don't catch on to conspiracy theories, but there's a lot of data to go on when it comes to this one.
Negative Zero
The delicious irony of seeing the losers not accept the results of the election was icing on a big stats cake. It was so obvious he was going to win if you looked at the raw polling data.

Edit: I love how I still get downvoted a year later for stating the obvious. It’s funny how upset people get at those who tell the truth.
This is such an underappreciated aspect of code stewardship. There are powerful tools for source control and archiving. But ensuring that state of code could actually be built at an arbitrary date in the future is so much less assured.
Righteous vengeance? He seems like the kind of guy who enjoys that kind of thing. He took a ton of flak for supporting Trump, and I'll bet a lot of people burned bridges, certain of a Clinton victory. But then against all odds Trump won and all of a sudden Thiel has a lot of friends in high places, and it's payback time.
Due to a bug in our system we inadvertently provided some of our users with results from other patients.

Point being, watch the weather and plan, fine, but don't become certain until you see rain falling from the sky.
If you have a a 50% tax rate and can cut 10% off your tax bill with fancy accounting, your after tax income rises 10% to 55% of earnings. If you have a 10% tax rate and can cut 10% off your tax bill with fancy accounting, your after tax bill rises just over 1% to 91% of earnings. Decisions are made at the margin -- How much effort does it take to keep the extra cash and how much do you get to keep? high rates make tax evasion, legal or not, more worthwhile.
I don't know what amish eat, but I'd bet a dollar or two that it's not crude industrial premade recipes, nor hamburger or pizzas and soda. If it is.. then I am wrong, but I'd be surprised considering the conservatism mentioned in articles about them; they seem to only accept things that have clear benefits and not cheap ideas that look shiny (like any new technology).
Comments are a lot easier to create on a lark as part of a trolling campaign, or intentionally as part of a smear campaign to get these videos taken down, than the videos themselves are. If the videos showed evidence of being a product of the Russian mafia or whoever else spends a lot of money producing CP, I’d be alarmed; as it is, it’s just pseudonymous people tacking their weird two cents onto something.

Whatever you think of the videos, I wouldn’t judge them by their comments—any more than I’d judge an image macro from elsewhere on the Internet by what 4chan does with it.
I am your 1960 born example (my bday was yesterday!). I'm 57. I've been a professional programmer (read, I've been getting paid for it) for 30 years. I live in a small town in Northern Ontario. I'd like to be paid more, but I'm in the hunt on the payscale. My resume says I'm a full stack dev. You'd believe it if you saw it.

That being said, if you've been in the occupation long enough, you figured out that its a continuous learning occupation. The thing is, the fundamentals I learned in the 80's and 90's still do me in good stead to this day. I don't write in assembler or even C anymore, but concepts they taught are still deeply ingrained.

I've got another few years in me before I can retire, and when I do, I'll continue writing code for fun. Simply because I like it.

(Oh ya, first computer was 3.5Kb (3583 bytes!) VIC 20. The first computer I ever SAW was a neighbours PET 4040 he brought home from school over the weekend. I bought the VIC-20 the next day.
In the future just avoid anything on buzzfeed, it’s all clickbait
A couple of thoughts as the implementation downloads mainly placeholders:

that mechanism can also be combined with permissions on the server side so contractor X who is fixing a driver need only have access to the driver and some supporting code while still checking into the monorepo.

It also means that every developer’s laptop won’t have a full copy of the repo (so if said laptop is lost, the risk is more contained)

And it’s similar to Part of LFS, bigfiles and other “blob” add-o s to git...could see in future a way to put .doc files and the like into repos.
wow. I'm surprised that I didn't hear about this before.
Article is from 2014. Please include that in the headline.

The actual study is [1]. Its a study conducted by Medical University of Graz, Austria.

Quotes from actual study:

[A] "The sample used for this cross-sectional study was taken from the Austrian Health Interview Survey AT-HIS 2006/07."

[B] "Overall, 76.4% of all subjects were female."

Quotes from news article:

[C] "Study coordinator and epidemiologist Nathalie Burkert told The Austrian Times: “We have already distanced ourselves from this claim as it is an incorrect interpretation of our data."

[D] "We did find that vegetarians suffer more from certain conditions like asthma, cancer and mental illnesses than people that eat meat as well, but we cannot say what is the cause and what is the effect."

[E] "“There needs to be further study done before this question can be answered.”"

With regards to [E], recent studies were conducted on eating red meat. See e.g. "Q&A on the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat" [2] as published by WHO.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jou...

[2] http://who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
There is another much more sinister reason:

The program he was involved in got terminated
TL; DR: "we cannot say what is the cause and what is the effect"
That this post is flagged is a shame. It's a shame that speaking about sexism is still being treated as a political stance by many.
So Y Combinator now has a party affiliation. Good to know.
As a contrived example: it's easy to geotarget digital ads. So focus them on just Chicago and see if sales originating in Chicago go up or down vs other cities.
The market cap isn't the right benchmark, there are too many friction points in trading bitcoin for any holder to respond to any buy offer.

Ideally you'd measure the liquidity of individual markets and between them.
apt point
"Campaigner explains why she is vegan as Swiss town denies her a passport 'for being annoying'"

Some serious reporting there.
Apparently an AG that Thiel gave money to is investigating google for antitrust stuff in Missouri:

“But it’s not the first time Thiel has handed cash to an AG who went after Google over monopoly concerns.

Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced Nov. 13 that his office was investigating Google to see if the Mountain View tech giant had violated the state’s antitrust and consumer-protection laws. The Missouri attorney general said he had issued an investigative subpoena to Google. He’s looking at the firm’s handling of users’ personal data, along with claims that it misappropriated content from rivals and pushed down competitors’ websites in search results.”

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/15/is-billionaire-vc-pete...
You know, it's nice to be someone benefiting from all the growth and stuff in that I guess I can complain in comfort, but...

I fucking hate it here. The wealth disparity is palpable, and people understandably resent it. Nobody treats you like a human being if you're in tech. They treat you like a wallet; how do you think it feels to never be smiled at or even acknowledged unless you're about to pay for something? Ever been a pariah? It's awful, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

At least you'll make enough money in a few years - not having any people-y things to spend it on - to move somewhere else and really try to contribute to something. Seattle resents contribution.

If you're reading this and considering a move out here, I swear I'm not doing some kind of NIMBY thing, this is straight from the slowly-but-surely-broken heart - please, spend a week or two here first and think very hard before making the decision.
v8 plays well with others. I usually read JS documentation from Mozilla's Developer Network and works as documented in v8.

On the other hand we all know what happened with Microsoft had the majority of the JS market share. No need to go back to that.

Microsoft had a chance and they wasted it. They got the keys of the car for a night and they got drunk in it and crashed it.
> Postgres supports different modes of replication, including synchronous replication to avoid losing any data on node failure.

I would like to understand this better, for my edification. The best source on the exact semantics of pg replication that I've found were in this talk by Andres Freund: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkzNL-uzBvA

What I understand is that "synchronous replication" means that the master commits locally, then waits for a slave (or k of them with quorum replication) to receive (and possibly also to apply) a commit before acknowledging the commit to the client. So what does that mean for "avoiding losing any data on node failure"? Commits acked to their client are indeed durable. But what about commits that are not acked? For example, is it possible for the master to apply a commit which is then seen by another query (from another client), then crash before the commit is sent to the slave? And so, if we then failover to the slave, the commit is gone (even though it had previously been observed)? This would qualify as "losing data".

Similarly, in that talk, Andres mentions that there is a window during which "split brain" is possible between an old master and a new master: when doing a failover, there's nothing preventing the old master from still accepting writes; so you need to tell all the clients to failover at the same time - which may be a tall order for the network partition scenarios when these things become interesting. If the old master is still accepting writes, then these writes diverge from the new master (so, again, lost data). With sync replication, I guess the window for these writes is limited since none of them will be acked to its client (but still, they're visible to other clients) - the window would be one write per connection.

I'm also curious to understand better how people in the Postgres world generally think about failoverd, both in vanilla pg and in Citus). I generally am able to find little information on best practices and the correctness of failovers, even though they're really half the story when talking about replication. For example, when replicating to multiple slaves (even with quorum replication), how does one choose what slave to failover to when a failover is needed? What kind of tool or system decides which one of the slaves has the full log?
My intuition says that this is a pretty fundamental different compared to a consensus-driven architecture like CockroachDB: in Cockroach the "failovers" are properly serialized with all the other writes, so this kind of question about whether one particular node has all the writes or not at failover time is moot.
Twitter says it will judge verified users’ offline behavior
YC stopped working with VC Peter Thiel a year after defending its partnership
The Swimming Pool That Gives You Instant Vertigo
"Just form another group, then don't invite Thiel to the new group" didn't even occur to me. That's smart.

It is also a plot point from The Simpsons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7R3hzpfnmw
Hatchful is a digital designer in the palm of your hands
All US medical insurance covers vasectomies.
Ok? A wikipedia link is not a rebuttal. Not that you're obligated to make one, I'm just pointing out you haven't made an argument.
Ok yeah, that makes sense.
what's more Brave cuts off the monetization the channels are getting in USD from YT ads. Not good for YT channels, and unclear how it is good for the user other than "hey we figured out a way to cheat the system so you don't have to watch ads!"
Haven't figured it out yet. Everything you listed is completely saturated to the point where no one is really listening to any of it. Giving free talks is not making money, it is navel gazing and pie in the sky. It might lead to interesting work, it might not.

I get a kick out of all these sites like http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ because it is quite obvious that the "meta" startup is the money-maker and none of the actual companies that represent the content gross dollar one. It's bullshit.

I also very much appreciate the comment about stem being held up by the software development field--they feed the lie that getting a developer job is a ticket to riches while it is merely a ticket to being middle class and mostly frustrated while everything else is burning down around you--they encourage boys to be programmers and girls to be nurses and call it good work without ever questioning what has happened to our economy.

And for those of you who say "management" I say: The funnel isn't even 1 in 10 and they only take yes men (and often yes women are preferred), not people who think outside of the box or who would actually bring real diversity of thought to the process because that would be icky and dangerous. There is rampant conformity everywhere.

So you see, in many ways, it's worse than a dead end--it's a promise of salvation that ends up being a kick in the teeth, which is worse because it builds hope in people only to beat them with it later on.
I think tptacek was trying to discourage the thread from devolving into analysis of YCombinator’s politics (which we don’t really have any useful information on either way), rather than from devolving into political discourse in general. Of course it’s going to revolve into political discourse generally; you may as well lock the thread if you don’t want that.
> I hire sociopaths

Good luck with that strategy.
>A part of me wishes I had been around at a time when assembly was an acceptable "language"...

Probably not as glamorous as you're imagining. It took a long time to get anything done, and most of that time was spent finding bugs. All the time a lot of people thought the real cool people where the ones before who had to program using wires and vacuum tubes.

Best advice is, don't try to mimic those of the past, become a master of your own domain and change with the times.
Probably not, it was in Thai I believe, and was discovered to decode into strange messages when passed through certain translators and keyboards.

(Maybe there are different types of comments though)
While I know most of these things never get a truly transparent answer, and often for valid reasons. I am very curious for some response from YC.

It may have been politically motivated, and it may not have been. I'm also not aware how much Thiel was involved vs. other partners. Additional insight into much of this could shed good light to those that appreciate much of what YC has done and aims to continue to do.

Some response from YC would be a big win, but also just may not be an option.
Ask HN: Carta (eShares) for equity compensation, any experience with them?
I have a self funded, profitable business and my first hire, who is also a key hire asked for a co-founder title and equity. The advice I've received on how much equity ranges from 3% to 30%.

A VC friend suggested I create a 409a to come up with a valuation and then I can back into a number for equity. Carta seems to offer this as well as many other useful features for a company that does plan to raise capital.

Any experience with them or any suggestions for a competitor? Bonus for your opinion on how much equity I should give and should I give that title.
I think neither can a smartwatch be considered disguised as a device that doesn't capture sound. At least no-one who has ever seen an ad or something where smartwatches are able to detect "ok google" without any kind of user action beforehand could reasonably expect that it doesn't capture sound at all times.
Assertive people tell jerks to stop crap openly and jerks then feel like someone is getting in their way. Either you stopped the jerk, made him feel bad or just made his/her act public. And they dislike it. Most jerks think that what they do is their god given right, therefore logically, assertive person must be the one who is jerk. Logic.

Meanwhile, non jerks are fully aware that cutting line or being aggressive to dog is not polite or fair. So, even when non-jerk cuts that line because some reason, non-jerks is aware that others have right not to like it and dont assume objection makes you a jerk.
Ask HN: How can I use my web development skills for space exploration/tech?
I'd like to work as part of the space exploration industry, at least in some way to contribute however I can. I don't have a scientific or engineering background in the professional sense, but I have programming experience, mostly in web development. I'm more interested in getting a job in it, than participate in open source projects. How can I apply these skills to join a company that is doing work related to space exploration and its related technology?

Edit: I want to add that web development is not the only kind of programming that I do. But this is what I've done for 90% of my work.
I am still really puzzled over exactly why Peter Thiel so so hated. I believe the level of hatred is completely unwarranted. From my understanding, it boils down to this:

- He is remotely associated with Trump
- He helped take down Gawker
- ....something something something...but he backed Trump!

For the Gawker part:

Gawker outed him without his permission.

Outing a gay man is something the tabloids used to do in the darkest time period of the United States. Finding someone was gay and making that known publicly was a tool used by very, very unpleasant people to destroy careers and lives for years.

Given how Liberal the tech industry is, it is genuinely puzzling that people would rise to the defense of "Freedom of the Press" to use someone's sexual identity to try to discredit or embarrass them and destroy their career.

This is not freedom of the press, its bullying. If a media outlet did something to you personally and you had a few million dollars to spare to shut them down, you would do it too. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

So Peter Thiel helped shut down an abusive tabloid that outs gay men against their will and regresses the tech sector back to the 1970's and 80's. That doesn't seem sufficient to warrant the hatred.

Then he was associated with Trump. He dared so say things like: "Our middle class has been gutted by globalization and we are being eaten alive by China."

Bernie Sanders ran on this exact platform. Almost word-for-word, Bernie Sander's political platform economically had many things in common with what Thiel was promoting.

So that leaves one final option: The reason that people hate Thiel is because he made enemies in the Liberal press, they smeared him relentlessly and people internalized this without doing their own independent thinking or research.

I don't like that Y Combinator was expected to "Apologize" for not firing someone for holding political beliefs that align them with 42% of the United States population. I feel the tech industry is now a worse, less free place when demonization of this type has become so endemic.
So you're saying that society as a whole would be better off simply using banks? Given that the external costs of banks have already been paid, and we can save a ton of energy by not flooding the etulip market with speculation.
Brunswick does have a lot of cheap land - at least by urban standards, and it's a stone's throw from Portland. I haven't been following the news back home, but I've got to imagine that this involved the old Brunswick Naval Air Station location. They've been trying to follow the model Portsmouth is charting with the now-closed Pease Air Force Base, but with less success.
1. Nothing like this is ever safe; the server can surreptitiously feed you JS that will fatally compromise your encryption.

2. This one is even worse, because it loads scripts from CDNs, all of which can compromise the encryption on the page.

3. If you're going to put Google Analytics on a page that purports to encrypt data clientside, you might as well just build a front-end to Google Docs, because you've given Google access to the content of the pages anyways. (I think a simplified Google Docs front-end is a fine thing to build, more useful for security than "clientside" encryption).

4. You're encrypting with unauthenticated CBC mode, which is obviously insecure.

5. It's unsafe to compress before encrypting; doing so creates traffic-analytic side channels. There's a whole thread of TLS vulnerabilities stemming from compression occurring at various points of the web stack.

If you really want to build something like this, my recommendation is:

1. Switch from a web page to a web extension, which will obvious most of the serverside dependency problem.

2. Stop using CryptoJS, which is extraordinarily difficult to use "properly", and use a Javascript NaCL implementation instead.
I built https://github.com/zimbatm/h to satisfy the same need but it's a command-line tool, not a FUSE filesystem. In some way I prefer it because transparent network access doesn't work really well with failure modes.

Usage: `h <owner>/<repo>` clones the repo, if it doesn't exist, and takes you there.

This and hub are integral to my developer workflow:

$ h some/repo
$ git checkout -b some-branch
[hack and commit]
$ hub fork
$ git push -u zimbatm
$ hub pull-request
Done
Pretty sure most of the lower paid folks in Seattle dislike how their rent doubled because these tech folks throw money at rentals close to downtown.
The argument about anglicized names usually works because there are lots of shared names by way of shared religion. Иван can be anglicized as John because it's an important name in the foundation of both western and eastern european religion, not because someone just decided they seem similar.

> I met dozens of Sorens and none of them pronounced it differently.

And none of them were named the same as Søren Kierkegaard, being named Soren and all.

Being from MN, by the way, you would think actually naming your kid the same as the person you're naming them after wasn't such a big deal, considering there's lots of scandinavian heritage there.

I think the big takeaway here is that americans, for all their talk of heritage and mixed culture are still super resistant to actually embracing and getting things from other cultures right. In general I'd say native English speakers are extremely lazy when it comes to other languages.

This assumption that you can remove umlauts and diacritics from letters and everything will be fine is everywhere in US media and it's pretty ridiculous. Both umlauts and diacritics specifically mark a difference in pronunciation. That's their entire purpose.