skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah so much for the first amendment when you can lose your job and healthcare etc. for speaking your mind.
Grind enough leetcode to be able to get a new job, and to learn about blockchain app development. Ideally, I'd get a job as a blockchain developer.
Those two skyscrapers would have been making you a fortune for decades, would be making you a fortune each year now, and would continue to do so, and when you sold them to some Russian oligarchs, would make you an even more enormous fortune than all of that put together.

In contrast, 'the biggest island in the world' is a worthless superlative as about as meaningful as "biggest ball of twine in the world", and it is useless and expensive to maintain and has not, is not now, and probably never will make you a fortune. Can you eat 'biggest island in the world'? Does mere bigness make it useful? Is the Sahara valuable solely because it is large? Do people prefer to go to Greenland rather than Hawaii because it's so much larger an island?

Even if Greenland does start seeing real economic activity - maybe that much ballyhooed oil will finally start being economically feasible - and it makes you specifically a fortune rather than someone else, it'll do so in some distant unforeseeable future and you will have lost out on everything you could have done with that money now. If you think that's a good deal, I have an offer for you: send me $100m now, and I swear I will return you $100m in 50 years. Good deal, right? Who knows what you can do with $100m 50 years from now!

> And Denmark is not exactly a country with vast tracts of unused land.

"Denmark has a population density of 131 people per square kilometer (339/square mile), which ranks 88th in the world."
> People aren't taught well what it is, how to produce it and how to hang on to it when it's most needed.

I don't know about you but I don't see many signs of unselfish faith anywhere these days, at all. I think where I get hung up on what exactly faith is, is somewhere around when someone says it's some "something" that can be summoned, and when I look it up on wikipedia it's something produced on demand by enlightened individuals who catch on at some point.

There's one problem that's been fairly rampant in America for over a century: no one is enlightened anymore, and no one can give any convincing reason that their vision of faith, or just simply what got them through the hard times, is useful to you. Is today's world anything like what the people who built it intended when they set out a few decades ago? Are their sources of faith still useful, and if they're not, well then who's selling the faith fodder these days?

i.e. if faith is what everyone needs, then you have to look first at why it's fallen out of favor to the point where it needs a sales pitch. Why people give a shit about more things than ever before, and why none of them involve the fundamental component to doing the hard stuff: a good reason why.
You can always leave your phone at home, or put it in airplane mode.
There's no chance of that happening long term. We already live in a world where there is no place where without data coverage if you pay for fancy equipment and service. Global coverage for cell phones is just a matter of time.
No, they just become unhappy retail workers, for example.
I've generally had a lot of trouble with GAE. Debugging is really hard and things seem to fail for weird reasons. The use case I have, with a front end and a static backend, has been surprisingly complicated. I recently shut my app down because it wasn't worth the time to figure out how to change my app for the Dec 15th upgrade.
Insta10K is amazing. Using EDGAR was a huge pain in the ass; this is so much easier. Thank you!
It'd probably be valuable to add settings that consider allergies. Vegetarian and gluten free too. Looks interesting, though!
Yes, NATO dues could be a reasonable justification if that was a counteroffer, but so far no one has provided any hard sources on that understanding even existing, much less coming close to the $100m.
I've been using GAE for a while now starting from when they only supported Java and Python (I think). It's my go to source when I want to create an MVP or proof of concept. I've also used it to run some sites with medium traffic.

Over the years they've introduced a whole bunch of stuff/services, simplified a bunch of things (e.g. datastore pricing is now simpler).

They've also made things more complicated (in my opinion). Years ago, downloading and using GAE was straight forward. Now they have all sorts of versions (standard, flexible, etc) and running a program is no longer as simple as before.

Their documentation is also extremely poor and they sometimes change/remove services without enough notification (switching from modules to services, changing support for openID/Federated login even though it still showed up in GAE).

At the end of the day, I would still recommend it. It just takes more effort for me to explain to new folks how to use it.
If "zero" were really the decision, they wouldn't be involved with made-up crimes like drug possession.

Mining, logging, etc. certainly make trade-offs, but at least the trade-off is between safety and the viability of the business. The trade-offs that cops have made are between safety and indefensible political goals.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15748285
I went to work at a long serving SME that had a lot of staff with very long service and was given the job of moving some things forward.

> It should be safe to be vulnerable

The number one cause of stress for me is that management did not protect me enough. When I changed something, it would have some minor knock on impact that upset someone (sometimes someone very junior), who would go and see a director, who would go and see the MD and then I would get career threatening back room deals going on that I was not party to. If you are going to get someone to come and push the company forward at sub-boardroom level, make sure your directors are 100% committed to the changes.'You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs', make sure you are ready to accept broken eggs. Make sure when petty stuff is brought to senior people they divert it straight back to the project sponsor (or whoever). Make sure individual managers know this change is happening, and it is their job to allow it and make their staff happy with it.

There is nothing worse than when you are in the heart of a technical change, than to find out you are in trouble with the boss because a secretary in another dept is sad that you changed their UI.

Worse still when you are passed over for a promotion because the MD is concerned that you upset a few people, when it wasn't your job to manage the people side in the first place.

Transparency is part of the answer, but in the situation I describe it actually becomes a matter of giving people far too much info, so they can't claim they were not consulted! This is counter-productive too.

Senior managers need to take a very firm line with passive-aggressive behavior that is trying to stop change, or not start the change off to begin with.
The last thing I want to hear when hiking in a park is someone else's phone ringtone, much less the conversation afterwards. But the point about needing communications for rescue is a good one. Perhaps there could be lockers at the park entrance where you swap your phone for a PLB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...
One could argue that turning a blind eye to the most basic of facts is itself, slander.

> Palestinians attacking locals

That attitude, in a nutshell, is a large part of the problem.

The Palestinians ARE the locals.

Once you accept the above, everything else starts to make sense.

Ignore this most obvious of facts, and then you start asking nonsensical questions like "why are they so touchy?" ,"why do they hate us?", "why are they so angry?", and "why aren't they content with living in a large open camp?"
They did feel it. Last year this strategy worked and I didn’t see any ads at all. Until about 3 months ago. I actually think those buttons do nothing now, or your account’s reports are thrown away because I get a ton of ads, and they don’t change.
Citation needed? What subreddits? If you mean the tiny deepfakes subreddit I don't think anything there is involuntary.

In case it isn't clear, this isn't leaked videos or celebrities doing actual porn. It's synthetic renders similar to their faces based on publically available material. The celebrities aren't actually involved in any way. It isn't even really photos of them. It's an abstract model.

But surely you understood that? And in that case I don't get what you're saying.
That too. Lying isn't necessarily evil, and the fact it's possible has averted a lot of tragedies as well as caused others.
> First responders support the plans

Why can't they just put towers that allow emergency calls only?
Yeah just realised that... Last time I checked it seemed alive, now not so much.

Fingers crossed
presumably if you set up camp with a camera in their lava lamp room, somebody is going to raise some eyebrows.
I wonder if we will finally see more than ~13 transactions per second in 2018.
Would you mind explaining this?
A private collection doesn’t mean the outside world isn’t allowed to visit. It just means it’s not owned by a public institution.
Indians and Chinese received 82% of the H-1Bs in 2016. I don't know who's pretending the Trump isn't a racist, you have to be really deeply ignorant and incapable of rudimentary character assessment to dismiss his long history of racism: even if you just keep it to the recent history of birtherism.

It is time to stop incorrectly weighting race as a factor in American politics, as if it's a solved problem, or as if it's a central problem, or as if it's an unsolvable problem. But more importantly it's time to stop pretending most Americans aren't racist, or that the problem is getting better with Xers and Millenials. Ignoring the depth of racism in the country is how people draw the wrong conclusion that Trump is some kind of black swan event. As well as the very specious idea that this gets better with Millennials.

The American National Election Studies, the long-running, extensive poll of American voters, asked voters in 2012 a basic test of prejudice: to rank black and white people on a scale from hardworking to lazy and from intelligent to unintelligent. The researchers found that 62 percent of white people gave black people a lower score in at least one of the attributes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/clinton-wasnt-wrong-...

https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/millennials-are-less-tolerant...
The Great Depression was made so much the worse by the terrible policies that followed (Hoover's first, then Roosevelt's). In particular: the failure to "liquidate, liquidate, liquidate" (as Andrew Mellon wanted in '29), the subsequent insufficient devaluation (Hoover didn't devalue; Roosevelt did but not enough) and the banning of gold (while notionally retaining a gold standard for trade) -- this killed international trade, perhaps more so than Smoot-Hawley. Insufficient devaluation kills imports, but when international trade is settled in a currency not your own (e.g., gold) it also kills exports! You can't neither liquidate nor devalue. Add to all this labor market rigidity (e.g., brow-beating companies into not lowering wages led to inability to hire) and other terrible policies, and the 30s were a mess.

The 2008 crisis too was followed by bad policies everywhere (e.g., competitive currency debasing and reflation attempts, QE, ...), but nowhere near as bad. In particular there was no gold standard, currencies were mostly floating, and no attempt was made to shut down international trade. Not that a gold/whatever settlement system is necessarily bad, but that floating currencies made it impossible to insufficiently devalue, as Roosevelt did.

We seem to have learned some bad lessons from the Great Depression (Keynesian economics good), but also some good lessons as well (trade good). We have also seen Rooseveltian policies applied elsewhere since then, always with terrible results. E.g., insufficient devaluation / trade killing policies have been applied a number of times in Latin America, only there the U.S. dollar plays the role of gold.

Perhaps the best way to think about credit crises is to think that the aftermath lasts as long as it takes to clear bad debts, including the processes of repossession, plus the amount of time it takes new owners to return their acquisitions to profitability. Get debtors' mothballed assets back into production by liquidating them.

Deflation, by the way, is good and unavoidable in a credit crisis. It speeds up the process of identifying and working out marginal and bad debt. It helps the poor. It helps prospective and actual new owners. The worst thing that can happen in a crisis is for assets to become non-productive and under-maintained for so long that they effectively rot/rust away and become unsalvageable, and this is what happens when governments and banks extend-and-pretend.
In the scenario posited, it would depend a lot on a) the character and reputation of the denier and b) the gullibility of the person being lied to.

Of course, people who would both make such a video and also lie to their SO about it tend to seek out gullible easy marks who buy their BS. But sometimes such people get wise to it at some point.
>This is also why it makes absolutely not sense to expect 'health insurance' to cover pre-existing conditions - it's not insurance if you know you already need it when you buy it!

Eh, not really. If I'm in remission from cancer, I'm not actually sick right now, but I've got a pre-existing condition because the cancer might recur. If I've got hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, I don't necessarily need any medical treatment now, but I'm at elevated risk of developing atrial fibrillation or suffering a stroke in the future.

The way health insurers treat "pre-existing conditions" is mostly about improving the profitability of their risk pools rather than protecting themselves from people who buy insurance after the fact. They use a plausible-sounding pretext to avoid having to insure people who might actually claim on their policy. It's one thing to exclude a specific chronic condition from coverage, but it's quite another to refuse to insure people altogether simply because they've had health issues in the past.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09...
In case it does not handle HN traffic well, alternative:

https://hackmd.io/s/Hk6UiFU7z
I think where Serverless wins against managed containers, it's that you can start creating microservices that solve problems very rapidly.
Need a service to manipulate an image or extract data from a file or make some type of rare business logic calculation or simply keep your storage clean... Lambda + API Gateway and 1 hour later you have a fully managed end-point that can do exactly those things in isolation.
I just read the post and there are points where it flat out lies about what a source said.

From the article-

> There are studies that demonstrate that porn viewing desensitizes ones genitals and reduces white matter in the brain. https://www.wired.com/2014/06/is-it-really-true-that-watchin...

Then from the article they linked to in order to justify that claim it says the opposite-

> It's just as likely that men with less grey matter in their striatum are more attracted to porn, as opposed to porn causing that brain profile. The researchers know this. "It's not clear ... whether watching porn leads to brain changes or whether people born with certain brain types watch more porn,” Kühn told The Daily Telegraph
IAC is kind of like a private equity firm for internet properties; they own a lot of random stuff
That is fabulous!
How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server (2016)
Very cool!

Does anyone know why fusion power is not mentioned as a possible application of this method? I thought maintaining a stable torus of plasma is a prerequisite for certain designs.
1) is so great -- thanks for making/sharing. I run into the clunky search process for 10k's once in a while and think your site does a great job improving that experience.

In case you're taking feature requests, these are some things I'd love to see in a 10k site (order in relevancy):

autocomplete in search
see recently released 10k's
browse functionality
10k specific discussions (e.g., annotating similar to RapGenius as well as longform analysis)

Some/all those may not be relevant for your site, just things I've always thought would be cool to see. And again, nice job with the site!
I think you might find An Everyone Culture, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey a worthwhile read. It challenges what you say, on some level, and reinforces it in other ways.

Like you said, it's a balancing act. But one aspect you left out – and one of the things I took away from their research – is that honesty has big benefits if everyone is on the same page about it. If one person is being "honest", and the rest of the team isn't on board, there's going to be the sort of friction you describe. Or if the honesty is only negative, rather than constructive, that's obviously not healthy. On the other hand, if the whole team is on board about honesty – including being critical – and if there are structures in place that make sure the honesty/transparency/criticism is a constructive force, then it can pay big dividends.
Battling mid life crisis this year i suppose, something stirring inside of me lately. Feeling uneasy.. Been in the data analytics industry within corporate America for 20 years.. Never seen such a bifurcation between the statistical analytics practitioners and the compsci crowd with deep nets.

Thinking about the next chapter. A few buddies and I created an outlet for our math and computation hobby. Starting to help traders with stat arb. So we just released a side business site that helps traders who are unfamiliar with all the math - a way to visualize the markets as well as trade pairs or factors in real time. https://raveanalytics.com/
Similar issues with alcohol if you've gotten slated into the algorithmic 'finer things club'. Non stop booze ads. Not all of us appreciate, or are okay with/at drinking.
At work I've got more familiar with Terraform, got started with Kubernetes, and contributed significantly to the infrastructure of a few awesome projects.

In my spare time I've been maintaining my Autospotting pet project, which is maturing nicely, growing a lot and already generated savings in the six-seven digits for its users: https://github.com/cristim/autospotting

I also spent time learning to play guitar, made a habit of practicing and working out on a daily basis and towards the end of the year I became a father.

All in all it was likely my best year so far.
Ask HN: How does HN ranking work?
This question is born out of curiosity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041795 is on the 5th page after 3 hours, 67 points & 85 comments, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16038243 is on the front page after 4 hours, 3 points and no comments. Another front page example is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16037863, 4 hours, 4 points no comments (as of 1:39PM 12/31/2017).

Does it also have something to do with who submits?
He means didn’t tell the family and friends that they were cheap, not the shop. :)
i would advise against meetup.com for most people depending on your city. It's filled with 45+ year year olds. Among the younger meetups, its going to 9 guys - 1 girl ratio. The guys are typically all out-of-shape and awkward nerdy types and the the one girl will be similar to them too.
“Industrial Tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of those urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.”

― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Mutual activities is a single factor in dating someone. Do they like sex? Do they want children? Do they want a house with a picket fence, or do they want to live nomadically? Do their political interests align with yours? Are they messy, or are they neat freaks? Etc ad nauseam

Question-based dating sites match people on these criteria. That’s impossible to do with someone you meet at a bar.
How are you going to sell bras without showing some skin? I'd imagine fit and look, as seen on a real person, are paramount in driving purchases.
I can't believe people get offended over ads on a free product. Don't use the product if the ads upset you so much or just block them.

Why care this much? They are ads, we all know why they are there and what they are suppose to do. So why are we acting like they are some mind manipulating images. I could understand the confusion if the writer was an 8 year old girl.

The reason these ads use skinny people, is the same reason why people dress up nicely for a job interview.
I tried buy my eyeglasses online and because nobody mentioned the little issue of pupillary distance, the frames and lenses I got were useless. Money down a rathole. Costco sorted me out. I'm sure now that I know all the details of not only my Rx but also pupillary distance, I probably could order some glasses online, but once bitten, twice shy for now.
What do you do with it? The article says something about storing energy, I'm curious as to how that might work and what else you could do.
I wasted the last two hours pinpointing what was causing my firefox instance to be stuck with the mouse cursor hand icon. Turns out drag and dropping url shortcut to a nautilus window freezes ff (well, it freezes the mouse cursor. edit: so firefox has to be killed because it doesn't respond to click or keyboard inputs anymore).

That's not a broken mess being someone's great feature.

It is (should be) a showstopper; in 2017, in Ubuntu. I found mention of the bug as early as march 2017 in fedora 2x (I think). I believe it's now lost in triage after not being taken care of then closed because that version of the distro is eol (until someone resubmit). How such a bug is shipped is beyond me. But hey, I could hack a patch.
How to HACK computer
This is awesome, I’m a little too chicken to put my money down though. It’d be fun just to see the random options or maybe other people’s previous randomness.
IIRC there is intentionally a measure of randomness in the algorithm, so that unusual posts can occasionally surface.
> our value as women in this world

Jesus Christ give me a break from this "Western women are oppressed" bullshit already!

This has fucking NOTHING to do with your oppression complex and everything to do with a shitty advert algorithm.
I’ve held off on High Sierra until the issues subside which doesn’t seem to be soon.

The keyboard is second-rate on my 2017 MBP compared to previous models, and had I known what a nightmare USB-C would be I wouldn’t have bought it—full stop. The touch bar has occasionally been unresponsive, or outright crashes forcing a reboot. (I’ve seen learned how to restart it. A sentence I should never have to type.)

The problem is Apple has become so much worse just as the competition has finally started to produce compelling options. They still have the lead (?) but it’s no longer a foregone conclusion that they’ll offer the best OS/hardware combination.