skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, technology has always been around. If you look at the history of cryptography, same. Cryptography is very old as well.

However it has become increasingly dominant over our lives with the invention of things like the Internet, computer, car, smartphone, magnetron, and a whole plethora of inventions which I cannot even fathom.

Take for example a very obvious example: electronic voting. It has to do with technology and politics. Should we avoid discussing that? Should we avoid discussing the privacy topics of Facebook? Google? Should we avoid all the topics brought up by a series such as Black Mirror? [1]

And why is it that with non-political topics (as for as these exist) we should be allowed to vote on them, whereas as soon as politics get somehow involved it should be avoided on HN? And, since politics isn't a clear proposition, where do we draw the line?

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/
> Both and Google have similar products already on the market

Both WHAT and Google? Amazon?
Hairer's DOP853 is a differential equations solver that a lot of people seem to be enamored with:

http://www.unige.ch/~hairer/prog/nonstiff/dop853.f

In this case someone took the old fortran code and modernized it a bit, yet again in fortran:

https://github.com/jacobwilliams/dop853
That struck me as odd as well. 57 citations none of them where they actually ran the experiment and created electron / positron pairs. This was fun though (from 2013) "A table-top laser-based source of femtosecond, collimated,
ultra-relativistic positron beams" -- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.5379.pdf
For those that missed it "Bless your heart" is a very typical "southern" (US) insult; it's a condescending statement of pity and yet mild enough for polite company.
Comments such as this one make me always check comments before reading the submission. Thanks!
We've only received one ticket related to this today, are you able to reach out to help@datadog.com so we can investigate further?

Can you let us know which endpoint you're hitting 500's with? Screenshots, logs, etc. will help us dig in.
git-lfs supports locking, beginning in 2.0.
See also the English cottage loaf, make by stacking a smaller ball of dough on top of a larger one and pressing them together:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_loaf
Twitter either needs to use verified status for its intended purpose, or get rid of it. I am not aware of anyone who thought that verified status was an endorsement from Twitter.
>YC is not going to fire someone for supporting a major party nominee.

This is awesome. I had no idea this had been said. I have a lot of respect for anyone bringing that sentiment.
They already discovered how 80 years ago. This is them theorizing that they can do it with modern technology.

TL;DR: They still cannot do it.
Is entertainment an objective term, and entertaining a subjective term?
Up here, we still consider Brunswick to be Northern Massachusetts.

Why does that matter? Nowhere in what my neighbors consider Maine actually wants Amazon. But, BNAS might be a brilliant location for it.
He is a hypocrite.

Libertarian, on the Committee for Protection of Journalists, but hey I don't like what you said about me. I'm going to lie in wait for 8-9 years and then secretly fund a lawsuit against you with a possibly winnable case. (PS: I don't want to see a Hulk Hogan sextape anymore than Hulk Hogan wanted it released)

Gay, but will willingly support candidates who are against gay people: Ted Cruz, Donald Trump. Whomever will push his agenda.

Also, Thiel didn't hide that he was gay, he was only "in the closet" when it affected him financially. Despite what you wrote, the tech industry is not very liberal. SF is liberal, and a lot of tech companies are in SF but a lot of VC money is not in SF, and most VCs I don't think most people would consider very liberal.

And his hedge was Trump wasn't as bad as he was going to be during the campaign, that it was all theater. But he's rich so none of that matters to him if he's wrong. Worst case scenario is he flies to New Zealand to survive any fallout.
I think your statement is overbroad in the sense that adblocking is also replacing ads, in that case with empty whitespace but replacing nonetheless. Brave allows users to put something else in the whitespace.

Brave is putting the ads shown (and more importantly reigning in the out of control user tracking and privacy invading bullshit) in the hands of the user.

A side bonus is $ collected and available to content producers and website owners.

If Brave weren't crystal clear about all -- if they marketed themselves as purely an adblocker, for example -- then I think you'd have a point. As it is, it's simply adblocking with a twist.
If you haven't signed up, you owe about as much taxes as you would if I put your name on an envelope with $5 inside it and placed in my desk drawer.
You're demanding that I defend claims I never made / claims you've accused me of making. I'm not going to do it and I'm not going to respond to your messages.
This is incredibly good and valuable advice. I hope everyone heeds it (if what they want is to increase earning potential, of course).

I'm not sure every programmer should start with trying to specialize in a domain. But definitely, at some point, you're reaching diminishing returns for getting better at programming.

Put another way: Getting better at the craft of programming allows you to write programs faster and better. Specializing in new domains allows you to do things you couldn't otherwise. This is the realization that made me decide to stop learning new programming languages, and instead spend my time learning new domains - I realized that learning Haskell, while incredibly fun and rewarding to my abilities as a programmer, will not let me make fundamentally different things than with Python. Learning e.g. Deep Learning, however, would.

Btw - even learning totally other skills - e.g. learning 3d modeling helps me a lot in gaining deeper knowledge of 3d than I would otherwise have - even if it's not 3d programming per se, it's still relevant. And learning new Maths is not as directly applicable or as valuable as learning new software domains, but can open up new avenues you wouldn't otherwise have, that learning "yet more programming languages" or similar won't. (It's still more valuable to work directly on relevant things, of course, but sometimes it's fun to broaden your scope in relevant ways.)
The term "missing stair" comes to mind
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I also found it interesting and checked the cited source, it also says

Using very much higher doses than Nandy or Hochschild, Harman reported a decrease in lifespans of treated animals (he may have given an overdose long term)
Scaling Postgres with Read Replicas and Using WAL to Counter Stale Reads
Where do lulz fit into this?

Is Eric Andre a jerk?

Samy Kamkar?

Andy Kaufmann?
For me, its always the point when an article like this declares someone smart because they could memorize this or that at age X. Young children (~3 years old if I remember correclty) are the best in short term memory, slightly older is on average unbeatable in fact learning and so on. Nothing special about that, you are not the new Einstein just because you know 200 connected facts at age 7.
They did a lot of things right. It seems like they just couldn't compete with copycats. Maybe they overestimated demand at that price point?
From what I understand the Amish diet and lifestyle doesn't map well to mainstream America. To attribute their success (so to speak) to genes strikes me as flawed.

If nothing else, this is a case for epigenetics. But to promote that you are your genes, nothing more and nothing less, feels irresponsible, at best.
The S and the original Roadster had highly publicized pre-orders too... nothing new for them. ;)
Does that warrant hate? I hate monopolies, but only disagree with people that would support them. I think we need to learn to agree to disagree more.
Wow. Accidentally deleting bash I can understand but this guy should not be managing systems.
I can't figure out if the person who down-voted me got it or missed it.
Are we sure people aren't just shifting to buying more used guitars on Craigslist or something?
> He's of the opinion that university is a waste of time

What I understood was more like it's a waste of money, considering the outrageous price you pay for it and it's ROI.

Of course university is good for everyone, but if it comes along with a huge debt? He blamed the education system for bubbling up the prices and not providing enough value, to the point alternatives should be considered.

I really liked his point that people should stop believing university is all you need to be successful in life and blindly throw money at them because they have no better idea.
True, but it seems almost sure to me that the rim groove is connected to the transverse ones on the burnt bread[0] which completely rules out the (already unlikely in my opinion) scoring with a knife.

Then look at this picture[1], there the loaves have a lot more sections, and that seems completely impossible to tie by hand for each piece of bread. However, they could be ready-made and with just one opening on the rim, to tie before laying on the loaf (which would be easy, and could be done during off-time when waiting for the dough to rise or other loaves to bake, for example) and to untie after baking to allow removing the net.

Maybe.

[0] http://tavolamediterranea.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG...

[1] http://tavolamediterranea.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rom...
He also wrote a libertarian pamphlet where he called women's right to vote a blocker of a truly capitalist democracy.

Never backed down that claim.

Here is the pamphlet, from 2009:
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

Quote:
"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

If that is ok for you - ok.

Personally, I find this a very immature and troubling world view. Should tell the CEO of StitchFix that she is preventing capitalism with her IPO.
> We don't want to encourage people to sit around and do nothing just because they happened to decide to buy a few Apple or Amazon shares 20 years ago.

That’s an inaccurate summary of the current consensus about capital gains tax policy. The logic for a lower capital gains rate is:

* people with capital should be incentivized to do something with it (other than put it in a mattress, ie, in cash/money markets)

* the person with capital probably has relatively limited ways to deploy it themselves. Someone with a retirement account probably can’t, and usually shouldn’t, take that $50,000 and start a business with it (even though that income would generate compensation for them, which you’d propose taxing at a lower rate). At the other extreme, someone with a huge business would have reinvested the profits into the huge business (instead of taking a distribution and trying to invest it) if they thought that was the most productive use of the capital

* given that not all holders of capital can deploy it productively themselves, and that we don’t want them to sit on it (or deploy it poorly because they’d pay higher taxes if they didn’t), the next best thing is to encourage them to provide that capital to others.

Experts argue how much lower the capital gains rate should be, or even that capital gains and income should be taxed equally, but basically no experts[1] argue for a higher rate, nor that a lower or equal rate encourages “people to sit around.” Of course, there’s a chance that you and, say, 1% of mainstream economists are on to something.

[1]: Don’t trust me; form your own opinion: https://www.google.com/search?q=does+anyone+argue+that+capit...
Its a little disappointing to see that half of the comments are people defending their actions to no one in particular, justifying why they act like a jerk but aren't necessarily a jerk.

Its not like being a jerk/sweetheart is some binary or mutually exclusive relation, but it seems like this article struck a chord with a lot of users.
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There's more and more science about gut bacteria and general health - both body and brain.

The gut...it matters ;)
I liked the 1st part of the book, the point that making something happens is more valuable to society than incremental update. To me that's the only definition of innovation and disruption. However, the rest is where is narcissism shines.

But that seems to be a common pattern for narcissist writing self-help books: the first conceptual part can be useful, insightful and reasonable; the rest just shows how their general lack of creativity, of knowing how to actually do something, self gratification, and 'the end justifies the means', irresistibly and invariably takes over their mind... sad...
How is anyone but Twitter the judge of the “intended purpose” of a Twitter-created and -assigned label?
It's essentially pointless because people get too emotionally involved in ideological arguments on the internet, causing themselves to feel attacked when people disagree with them. When this happens, people shut down, stop thinking critically, only acknowledging what they already agree with. The debate then either devolves as people dig their heels in and begin name-calling, or abruptly stops as one side simply refuses to cede a point. When there is a ratings system attached to the thread, the side which agrees with the majority ideology will inevitably "win" as other debaters come out of the woodwork to downvote and post 50 variations of the same well-tread rebuttal. I've seen the pattern so much that I'm not sure I can consider even half those sorts of discussions as productive. It mostly doesn't matter what ideology is the "generally accepted" side, and which one is the "outsider"; the wooden debate pattern will be present. I think some people are just tired of seeing two people talking past each other just to puff chests.
That's a good and valid point, which deserves a conversation undoubtedly - however, there are a lot of businesses out there who have a large monolith, legacy application gigabytes in size where the cost of slicing and dicing into smaller repositories has to be driven by requirements and not technology.

My current client has a 17-year-old multi Gb TFS monolith. New components go into git and as features evolve it's common for the respective team to hive them off into they're own git repos as stand-alone components. Nevertheless TFS is painful and if I could have an effective git repo with the monolith too, then life would be far easier.
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Which IDE’s and Server’s Support Java EE 8 and Java9?
Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets
Maybe, but isolating particular trends from overall changes in search interests is challenging.

Here's the trend for "music": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=music

which is also decreasing. Is music dying?
Intel set to face a big challenge from new Qualcomm server CPUs
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Thanks - I appreciate the benefit of your experience and it's always nice to have people slap you with some perspective...you might be surprised how often that doesn't happen, when you don't talk to people much.
Trying to get a handle on which servers and IDE's support Java 9 and Java EE 8 is harder than it looks, so I posted a blog post to see other peoples experiences
I'm of the opinion that university is good for everyone

At what cost?

Thiel never says "university is a waste of time", his position is that it's often not a sound investment of time and money, which is uncontroversial, given the number of graduates who incur 6-figure debts and find themselves to be unemployable.

In your judgement, what is the threshold (in hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of inescapable debt) at which university ceases to be "good for everybody"?
Is there a VCS that does?

When I was at Amazon, Perforce couldn't scale (it had already been partitioned into a few depots, but those had reached their reasonable capacity). Amazon moved to a per "module" git-repo system. It was convenient to push across multiple repos simultaneously, but it wasn't a deal breaker when we lost it (I never heard of any workflows being completely unworkable following the transition).
> yet seems accepted in general by the recording industry

YouTube (Google) pays the recording royalties out of their own pocket for those videos to keep user engagement on the site. If YouTube actually banned this sort of content, everyone would have left the site a long time ago. (IIRC, some gamers moved to Twitch after ContentID flagged their channels on YouTube.)
I mean, that's the model git was designed for, and it's a model that was designed for a large number of people (by using gatekeepers doing bulk updates to mitigate the flood of small ones).

So I don't think raising the way linux uses git by its original intended users really contradicts the idea that it was designed for a large number of developers?
Bitcoin breaks $8,000 barrier amid speculation over spin-off
So here's the ultimate, highly scientific jerkness test proposed by the article:
Think about this article sometime later today, sometime when you are surrounded by other people—maybe in the lunch line, or at a department meeting, or at a party, or in a crowded plaza. Notice the people around you. Are they fools and tools, or do they sparkle with interesting individuality?

Exactly what kind of individuality sparkles do most people
in a crowded plaza emit? Their clothes, face expression at that moment, pace of walk?

The danger in this kind of whooshy-mooshy is that some people might start to believe that these things do constitute an individuality. To the benefit of the fashion industry, and probably to our loss as a society.
Excellent points, thanks! That looks like a really useful tool for getting a better look at what's going on.
On just about every observable measure ... including cruise ships[1], guitar is dying in popularity. You might get a few minor bumps of new interest because of recent artists like Taylor Swift but overall, guitar is way down.

I learned guitar and never imagined that the instrument would fade but that's exactly what has happened. Electronic music and laptops are this generation's instrument of choice.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbyowsinski/2013/10/08/the-de...
> "not because it's unspecialized, but because it's hard to fashion a value proposition for it relative to your competition in the market."

I agree with this entirely. But it makes me realize that perhaps I haven't explained my position well.

I would agree that being a mobile expert is likely going to be LESS lucrative than being, say, an expert in recombinant DNA technology with a fluent C++ background and a PHD in machine learning.

The only issue I see with advising people to invest tons of time and money into niche fields, is exactly what others have pointed out in this thread - You can't really predict what's going to be valuable in 10 years.

So take your pick - Go the safe route and become an expert in a more general field like, for example, mobile. Or pick something incredibly niche, which will shrink your competitor pool and increase your relative value proposition. A classic risk/reward scenario if I've ever seen one.
Ideally, if OP doesn’t spend a load of $$$ on a self-driving car, OP wouldn’t have to work more (to pay it off) and could retire sooner. But this world seems to be rather spendthrifty than thrifty.
They might eat the candy, but what about soda, fruit juice, processsed foods in general, etc.

Yeah, sugar is the work of the devil. But it's the amount Americans ingest in many other forms that create obesity, type 2 diabetes, etc.
IIRC, consumer wifi routers supposedly support a protocol that allows a computer to request a temporary port forward and release it when its finished using it.

Anyone remember what that protocol is called?
you might be surprised how often that doesn't happen, when you don't talk to people much

The irony is not lost on me. :-) Best wishes to you for where ever you end up.
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Man, had to really dig to find that. Ctrl-F "lock" didn't hit anything on the landing page or main docs page.

Even then it looks like an implementation that misses the mark. Both Perforce and SVN mark "lockable" files as Read-Only on a sync of the local copy. It looks like all this does is prevent a push of the file which will be the same result as if someone merged it ahead of you.

Without that guard in place it makes it really easy to make a mistake and then have changes to a binary file that will collide. Having a checkout process as part of locking workflow is pretty much mandatory.

[edit]

Nevermind, I finally found this[1] that explains Git LFS does it correctly, kudos! Could do with some more detailed documentation since it looks partially implemented from the man pages.

[1] https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/File-Locking
Can I ask which are those families?
Yeah I guess that's another way of achieving the same result. I'd think I would've preferred regular Customer Support to working in a factory!
Google has one internally, and Facebook has done a ton of work on Mercurial to build something similar, doing things like replacing files on disk with memcache servers running close to the dev machines. But I don't think there's anything that works "out of the box" at that scale.
It's all the problems where you get a nice clear market if you solve it.
> IMHO it is a major failure that git doesn’t scale for org-wide mono repos.

git was (initially) written by Torvalds to serve his own purpose -- he needed a new VCS for Linux. Let's say that it "doesn't scale for org-wide mono repos". Unless that was a design goal (and I'm pretty sure it wasn't), how is that a "failure"? It apparently works just fine for the kernel developers.

Yet because it didn't work well for Microsoft's 300 GB worth of tens millions of lines of code it is somehow a "failure"?

Apparently Microsoft's own TFS is a failure too, then, because it seems that it wasn't up to the task either.
That doesn't make any sense. Right now, I'm going to start putting money into this jar to my left. I'm going to put a sticker on it that says your name. You can come retrieve this jar if you like. Therefore, I have done something wrong?
Regarding long term care, I have a relative who ended up on disability in their 40s and I pushed them hard to get an appropriate supplemental plan with Medicare to be sure they'd have coverage - eligibility to purchase that coverage is only for 6 months when you first get on disability, then wait until 65.

It basically came down to "with your issues, what are the odds you'll need to spend a few weeks in rehab after a bad fall within the next 20-25 years?"
In case it wasn't clear, swang means this literally. Peter Thiel used his billions to get New Zealand citizenship after spending only twelve days there so he has a backup plan after our healthcare, schools, transportation networks, etc. are gutted
Given the rate of overweight + obesity in the general pop 8.3% sounds too low.
Gawker lost against Hulk Hogan on hubbis alone.

Hogan got an injunction to take down the sex tape and Gawkers response was an article titled "A Judge Told Us to Take Down Our Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Post. We Won't."

They sealed their own fates with their muckraking tabloidism.

[1] http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hoga...