skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think if environmentalism were rebranded as Patriotic or Nationalist that men previously averse to environmentalism would become environmentalists and vice versa, current environmentalists who may lean left might rebel and become eco-careless?

Let's take a nationalistic country like Brazil. Do you think macho Brazilians would become more receptive to environmentalism if it were associated more vigorously with manliness, for example? I'm curious what you think the result would be.
As capitalism matures, it's clear to anyone with a thread of financial literacy that most wealth is created through capital gains rather than salary. We're approaching a state (at least in developed countries) where productivity is so high, that you can literally park your money in 500 of the biggest businesses and you're almost guaranteed a 7% annual return (if you hold stocks for the long term).

Using the commonly accepted safe withdraw rate of 4%, if you inherit $3 million (which is not even that much), you can safely collect $120,000 of capital gains/dividend income every year without doing anything. This also frees you up to work on other things that will acquire you even more wealth. People whose parents didn't leave them a large inheritance have to rely on salary, which is taxed at a higher rate and more difficult to earn.

In effect, late stage capitalism becomes the anti-thesis of the spirit of capitalism - devoid of competition, free innovation, and upward mobility. In an ideal capitalism society, the most talented should earn the most, but the compounding effect of capital makes it so that whoever holds wealth the longest earns the most.
Interesting how many comments and articles I've seen like this. I haven't seen a comment or article saying they took the leap and regretted it. Does that mean no one ever regrets it, or those comments/articles just don't get upvoted? :P
Fishing. Lots of it. With Tenkara rods recommended by Chris at TenkaraBum.com
This article is now flagged? Is it normal to flag items from Scientific American?
In fact, OnePlus 2 and onwards!
I immediately pictured him making this statement from the bridge of the death star
You didn't write the "automatic buy-out" clause is that intentional?
I find it interesting because it allows big business to use your small project with an upper price tag, versus the current situation where they are afraid of mistakenly infringing IP because that opens to lawsuit with unbounded fines.
except for short on cme, which requires 100%. http://www.cmegroup.com/education/cme-bitcoin-futures-freque...
> Can’t you see that your happiness is dependent on none other than yourself?

I agree with that but differ from your conclusion. I think it is our responsibility to keep looking until we find what makes us happy.
Crypto “watch” of the week – ICX
You can't patent an S-box transform. You can patent using a specific S-box transform to encrypt / decrypt data. That's the justification at least.
Thanks. Were you worried you'd come back and quit after making such a big ask of 3 months off?
> The implementation of float is not explicitly defined in the c99 specification

I do not like to be a smartass, but it is defined very explicitly in the C language standard - floating point types match the types defined in IEC 60559, which is equivalent to IEEE 754.
I know the exact exercise you are talking about and about 4 years ago it inspired me to try arbitrage on bitcoin across the exchanges. My hopes were soon dashed when I found out how slow everything in bitcoin processes.

Although I did recently see a more sophisticated example of arbitrage where you have money on all the exchanges at once and then you don't actually do a transfer, but you long on one and short on the other. However, I don't think it would work w/ bitcoin b/c I don't think shorting is much of a thing yet.
The 747 was a problem that was disappearing on it's own. When the A380 was approved, the 747 was no longer obscenely profitable, it was already facing lower demand and the requirements for an expensive update.

Airbus crippled itself trying to eliminate it with the A380, they blew a huge amount of capital they'll never get back.

The hub and spoke model is dead and won't be coming back. New slots can be easily created by adding runways or building new airports. Flying point to point isn't just more convenient and faster, it is cheaper and more fuel efficient.
I think there's definitely something in your comment.

Similarly, I wonder whether there would be so much activism directed towards fake news, had the "right" candidate won.
[Ask HN] SAAS startup ideas for side income
If you had free time in hand and exertise to pursue a side project, with specific purpose of generating some side income, what would you work on? I'm always looking for ideas to work on, to reduce my dependency on my full time job and one day quit with some cushion earned from side projects, but always feel I do not have enough knowledge of practical problems faced by people, for solutions people would be willing to pay.
So, I am asking HN for myself and people like me, what are some apps/tools that you would pay a one-time or small subscription fee? Something that you need but do not have expertise or time to build and maintain yourself?
On the contrary I take it as an example of bad case scenario. Texts and annotations can be very small, a tad of blurriness and it's unreadable. The blurriness might not be apparent on the phone screen but it's very noticeable on a computer or TV.

I speak from experience with a cheap phone, having to take 6 photos not moving by a iota hoping one will be good enough. Same shit next month when I will have to take a newer proof of address.
I think it also has to do with a certain masculine energy, or exuberance, or desire to act. It's feminine to worry about consequences. It's masculine to damn the torpedoes. There's a real need for action – any action – and that usually means giving little consideration to anything outside the actor himself.
I didn't flag it, but I'm not bothered that others did. It's producing some very low-quality discussion from people who very clearly did not read the article.
That's not necessarily true. You can have well executed group meeting without an agenda. In fact I used to distribute agendas before our weekly meeting, and then stopped because it wasn't helpful. The meetings were quite productive with and without the agenda- but I saved my time and my teams time by not preparing an agenda.

That's not to say that agenda's should never be used, just that they are necessary for well execution.
Exactly, there's a difference between a document for browser implementers and a document for end users/document authors.

No end users are going to read EITHER spec.
I'm not aware of any hypervisors that can emulate a 82599 (ixgbe) NIC.

I've a student who will start to work on a virtio driver soon to get a VM setup running.
Thanks, I enjoyed the episode.
I can recommend and own a SBC/router made by https://www.gl-inet.com/

I have the GL-MT300-A and it's actually an upgrade over my older router. It runs OpenWRT, and has enough power to run a couple extra services. At the time of purchase, it seemed like the best deal (~$30) for the feature set it had.

They have a few different models with different options depending on what you need. They also seem responsive to questions on their support forums, and have their products available via Amazon if you want it faster.
> Did you read the article

Asking 'did you read the article' is just about the oldest troll on HN, so pot, meet kettle.

It also seems that that is a favorite pastime of yours, to ask if people read the article, such as here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16016803

Only an hour ago.
yeah just send bitcoin to 1111111111111111111114oLvT2
Simple. Have a society that values things working correctly. The nicer parts of Stuttgart used to be like this. Jaywalk? People look at you like you're scum. See trash? You didn't ever see a single scrap of trash, other than around those stalk-like cigarette butt receptacles. In fact, when I visited in 2000, every outdoor trash receptacle in Stuttgart was completely airtight by law. I had the strange (for me) experience of walking through a major urban area without once smelling trash.

Here in SF, in some parts of the city, you have to keep an eye out to avoid human feces.
> It culminated with me mindlessly clicking article links, reading the title, scrolling through it (not reading), just familiarizing myself with single words passing through my hyper short attention-span, and getting a "feel" for what the article looked like. It was quite a scary when I did this one time for 30 minutes not remembering anything I have "read" whatsoever.

Why does this sound so familiar?
You execute them and follow up.
If they're at all technical take them to Fry's. I think the one in Sunnyvale is the best one. (This is Hacker News, after all...)

https://www.frys.com/ac/storeinfo/sunnyvale-location-frys-el...

Also a visit to Hawk Hill on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge offers a spectacular view of the city.
Launching a few very small software products to begin replacing my consulting income so I can quit being an agile coach which I have grown to dislike greatly.
It would be great if someone can point to previous threads/discussions on HN in similar lines. Thanks!
Doing more recreational math.
Out of curiosity, why was this article flagged? It was #3 on the front page, and now it's gone. I get that it's not the most HN-type article in the world, but neither is the current #3 (Airbus discontinuing a plane if it doesn't land a deal).

Startups that care about marketing of green products, or about marketing in general, might find this discussion to be interesting.
What is the current state of empirical evidence about echo chambers and filter bubbles?

The last time I read about it, the 3rd hand reports I was getting said that they were less of a problem than you might imagine, because political junkie types actually did read stuff from the other side. Perhaps becaue, they were so into politics that they did some kind of "opposition research".
I'm surprised the "identified 11 priority areas in science" did not include antibiotic research, given that we are rapidly running out of antibiotics as resistance develops, all while virtually nobody is researching or developing new antibiotics.
Bitcoin’s price isn’t a bubble, it’s an adoption curve
Maybe. But people have to want to receive the message, too.

Protecting the environment is liberal and unmanly, unless you're a Republican in a Rocky Mountain state.

Magically, over there environmentalism is a Republican value, too. Funny how Republicans don't worry about liberal and unmanly when an issue hits them, personally.

The problem with so many Republicans is that they can't conceive of being on the other side of the coin until it smacks them over the head.
Here is a weather station powered by a ESP8266 using solar power: http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Powered-WiFi-Weather-S...
that is remarkable! this is the type of teachers i wish i had growing up!
Right so then it's the NYT's credential that's on the line. The point is, questioning an author's history or the author's editorial company's history is completely within reason.
> Why would anyone trust a social media person that simply lies instead of a professional media organization that confirms facts with multiple sources?

Because they are "local" or because they confirm their biases. The other day on FB a friend shared a photoshopped Nancy Pelosi tweet (For international folks, she's a US Congress Person). Their comment on the shared photo "Did she really say that?".

We live in the age of primary sources, we can easily go to their twitter to confirm. (Wasn't there)

We also have great tools that help keep our American Politicians accountable: https://projects.propublica.org/politwoops/ (Wasn't deleted either)

In the time it took me to confirm that (~15 minutes) 3 people commented agreeing that she was insane for saying it.
Yes, but that's the reason I don't have a smartphone. I totally recognize the addictive element in my personality and I stay as far away as I can from things that can take me down. HN on a PC is bad enough, on a smartphone it would be a disaster.
Yes, the general observation about Bitcoin exchanges is that getting USD or EUR out is difficult and slow. Sometimes impossible. It makes one doubt they have the cash they should. Many exchanges in the past haven't survived a downturn and cashout.
>It's about society... Men seem less concerned with improvements/collateral damage and more concerned with success/creating/succeeding.

Men are the ones who are inventing and implementing all of the big society level improvements in carbon footprint. Who invented the LED light bulb? Who are the ones on the cranes installing energy efficient bulbs in streetlights all across the country? Who is installing all those solar panels on roofs? What's the gender ratio of engineers at Tesla inventing the next generation of low carbon vehicles?

Men are doing a great job of reducing the population's carbon footprint. They just aren't doing it in the way women are.
It wasn't the highest rated. I'm pretty sure HN randomly shows a new comment at the top of the page to mitigate first-mover advantage among comments.

It's appropriately gray now :)
Generally speaking, the public are uninformed or misinformed. Rarely does the average person bother to fact-check, investigate sources, or otherwise test and validate information. Even rarer still does someone actually offer up proof that they did in fact do their due diligence. Ergo, the public (vis a vis social media) cannot be trusted.

Professional media, on the other hand, is crucified whenever it fails to fact-check, investigate sources, or otherwise test and validate information. This is because their entire reason for existing is to provide those services.

Just because sometimes professional media sources fail in their mission doesn't mean that their mission is flawed, or that they should give up and let the public handle dissemination of information.
It's not failing though, it's selling more than its stable brethren combined: https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/26/iphone-x-outperformed-by-8-an...
I forgot one thing. I would definitely be in favor of no regulation what-so-ever on the internet, but only in the context of a healthy ISP ecosystem. I get where you're coming from with your opinion, I really do.

What I'm not in favor is giving an existing oligopoly (which came to power mainly due to point 1. in my previous post) an unbalanced ratio of power over its relationship with the consumer (I include here end-users such as us and small/large companies which leverage internet access to sell their services) on the premise of the 'free market' and the promise that corporations won't do any harm. I don't trust that at all.

Historically, Verizon and AT&T haven't lived up even to their commitments which were made when corporate mergers were approved. Why should I trust that they will not do unethical market practices with the nuclear bomb that the republicans put in their hands? Why won't the legislature eliminate FBAR reporting for individuals making less than $1M/yr on the promise that I won't move all my money out of the country to avoid taxes? I promise I won't do it but if you catch me, there will be no legal repercussions, right? I would call this the 'Financial freedom bill, reverting the draconian fiscal regulations for the common man'

Me, particularly, I was stuck with Comcast as my only option for about 5 years (couple years ago, now I have 2 ISP to choose from). They jacked up my prices for no reason and there was nothing I could do. Absolutely nothing. Why should I trust them now to NOT throttle my content or make me pay extra now that they legally can do whatever they want? Doing so will be cataloged as a 'free market' practice now and if I don't agree, I should change carriers, right? Change it to the other member of the same lobbying group which made this deregulation possible which will in turn throttle content.
Native desktop development is dead.
" to help overcome the biases of the establishment mainstream media "

Trump won BECAUSE of the biases of the establishment media. https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/11/04/study-top-n...

Can find tons of studies on this, it's an interesting topic.

"I find his statements somewhat hypocritical given that the media, and government, has had the monopoly on irresponsibility, bias, putting forth alternative realities, and the Balkanisation of society, until just recently now that people are able to combat it and freely spread information among tens of millions of people instantly and so easily, instead of only getting their information from approved sources without citizens being able to freely discuss, disprove, etc. - e.g., directly from the White House, and a couple of privileged mainstream media organizations that are very in-bed with the government."

Look no further than the President on what social media is doing for understanding issues. Somewhere around 90% of his tweets are straight-up lies that people take as truth because he's the President.
Because Hackernews users are fond of shooting the messenger. If someone posts a truth that Hackernews wishes were not true, they'll be downmodded to oblivion.
Tarantino knew people would look it up and go "what the heck is this?"

This guy did a movie where a Jew kills Hitler. He has shown he has no interest in the question of "What really happened." Re-writing a small bit of the Bible is trivial compared to re-writing the most important event of the 20th Century. His focus is on being interesting and entertaining and he clearly feels that it is fine to put distance between himself and reality to achieve his goals.
It is not a topic that can be discussed either rationally or decently most places on the internet.

You bear some responsibility for this too. Coming out charging with flamebait, then blaming others when you get a flamewar, is incongruent. That's independent, by the way, of whether your underlying views are right or wrong, or even whether your indignation is justified.

We ban accounts that use HN primarily for political battle, regardless of which politics. So if you'd like to keep commenting here, please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site, i.e. intellectual curiosity, to heart.
When Google, Amazon, etc. did it, it was called Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). There's a good reason for that: doing it on a "micro" basis is ridiculous.

I've got pretty extensive experience with the Google stack. At Google's scale, there's really no other way to solve the problem. However, there are very real costs to all those process boundaries that make you move much slower. When I started there (2009), the common wisdom was that if you were trying to launch a new product, you absolutely did not want to pay those costs unless you absolutely had to; go start with a single binary that interfaces with BigTable/AppEngine/SSTables and see where it grows from there. When I finished there (2014), the common wisdom was "don't launch a new product".

Google can afford to not launch new products (or see all their new products fail) because when adding a new feature to an existing product can make $100M+, that's a lot more economically sound than taking a risk on something new. Your startup cannot afford to not launch a new product. Don't follow Google.
I've heard variations on your arguments a few times, and while they seem reasonable on their face, it's frankly just a variation of "concern trolling."

1.) It's a huge reach to say that having foreign women participate in this tournament will have any impact whatsoever on Saudi Arabian women. Saudi Arabians have TV, they have twitter, they know what chess is. Frankly, the only people who actually care enough to watch a chess tournament are people who already understand chess. Also, "challenge the regime"? Come on, refusing to comply as a women in KSA just gets you arrested or killed.

2.)> "One player said that such pitiful prize compensation as in the past is no less oppressive than having to wear a hijab.". That's a terrible analogy. It's not just wearing a hijab that's the cost. It's actually putting yourself at the mercy of a nation which has encoded sexism into it's national laws and identity. It's knowing that if something bad happens, your word is worth less than a man's in a court of law. It's knowing that your movements are at someone elses mercy because of your chromosomes. It's about knowing that by going there and spending money, you are legitimizing the archaic, systematic oppression that treats half of all people as less human than others.

3. It would be great if more people spoke up for human rights that don't affect them, but you have to pick your battles sometimes. Women have the right to advocate for themselves before everyone else. It's hypocritical to fault a woman for calling out sexism but not other human rights abuses, if you wont fault men who call out neither. And sexism in China is hardly comparable to that of the KSA.

In short, I think she made the right call. As a woman, I would never willingly put myself at the mercy of a state that doesn't even pretend that I'm a full human being of equal worth to men. KSA is way out of the norm on this matter and need to change their laws if they expect western women to travel there.
For anyone else who was confused by the headline: it's "high-risk" research in the sense of "speculative" or likely to have null results, not in the sense of e.g. the lethal virus research that was on here a few days ago.
> People can actually be motivated by racism - regardless of whether Israel's actions are human rights violations.

I agree that people can be motivated by racism. I also think it is pretty clear that unfortunately Israel is pretty backwards with regards to human rights like a lot of the other Middle East countries.

You do not have to read BDS material to see that, just check Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch or any number of other international human rights organizations.
Although I am sure you can play, if you wanted to, ad hominem bingo with those groups as well.
It's OK to note differences between groups; you just have to make sure you're saying positive things about the lower-status group, not the higher-status group. It's a part of victimhood culture.
I agree, and I have multiple through a wired back end, but due to very congested spectrum usage in my neighborhood, I I have less than stellar reception at certain times in my home office (a walk in closet with no physical network hookups) which is about 30 feet over and up a floor from the closest AP. A little coaxing of the waves might go a long way for me.
Elon Musk talks upcoming Tesla updates and features in latest Tweetstorm
Yes. IME, once a service is dialed in, it should need little maintenance. That's how my team was able to handle responsibility for 5+ services on top of our slowly carved up monolith.

If your microservice code is significantly harder to manage than your monolith, you've factored it wrong. Which means you shouldn't find yourself constantly working on 6 or 7 different services at once. If so, try a different decomposition.

Saying one team per service is like saying "a team should only handle one or two classes".
Honestly, I had a hard time telling whether or not you were being sarcastic.

I find the notion that the media can be trusted as being responsible to be inconsistent with my observations. The media is made up of people. They fall along a spectrum of responsible and irresponsible.
"Professional media, on the other hand, is crucified whenever it fails to fact-check"

Not in my experience.
Flashback to 2008:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.html