skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I began working in the late 90’s as a web developer. Then adoption of the “consumer” internet was growing rapidly. I recall there was much excitement, naysaying, thoughtful analysis by very smart people, and pure FUD.

There seemed to be a set of fundamentals or values borrowed from existing phonomena and applied to the internet, internet companies, and their potential (for great or evil). These of course lacked the benefit of hindsight and today much of what was said (although well intentioned) turned out to be frankly ridiculous.

I have a gut feeling that in 10 or 20 years we will look back and realize that this new thing has a set of fundamentals all its own. Once those emerge we will be able to have wonderful arguments. Until then I just try to focus on the technology. It’s the only thing I can make reasonable sense of. Let the talking people talk. Let the builders build and let’s just see where this goes.

Crypto currencies like we see now are a new phonomena. We won’t know who the brilliant minds and the fools are until this all shakes out.
Fallacy fallacy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
I'd be interested to hear more about what's going on that has led to these life changes?
Thanks. Don't you worry about asking for such a favor from your boss and then coming back only to quit?
I guess the elephant is the room is piracy. How do you enforce people paying you if you let the source available so that other can reuse it?

Should you let your app be closed source and share the code only on formal request? So you have a paper trail?

Otherwise I like the idea.
also this: https://www.slideshare.net/RandyShoup/goto-aarhus2014-enterp...
Meh. Social media has always been a dangerous tool, it's only until relatively recently that the contrast has been turned way up and the danger made very obviously clear.
Trump's most recent travel ban was not "upheld" by the Supreme Court--it was allowed to take effect while legal challenges are pending.[1] At the same time, the Supreme Court instructed the Courts of Appeals hearing the cases to "render [their] decision[s] with appropriate dispatch," presumably so that the Supreme Court can consider the case and issue a final ruling quickly (well, "quickly" in legal time).[2]

Also, it is inaccurate to claim there is "overwhelming evidence" that the ban is not a Muslim ban, and it is an unhelpful ad hominim attack to call anyone who thinks it's a Muslim ban dishonest. The US District Court in Hawaii held that "EO-3 plainly discriminates based on nationality in the manner that the Ninth Circuit has found antithetical to ... the founding principles of this Nation."[3] I.e., it's a Muslim ban. And the Ninth Circuit recently upheld this opinion.[4]

The Supreme Court might overturn the Ninth Circuit decision, but you might want to edit your comment so it's less wrong.

[1] read the article you linked to!!

[2] https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/120417zr1_j4... and https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/120417zr_4gd...

[3] http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015f-2bab-d519-a57f-7fabf1...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/us/travel-ban-court.html
You might want to give Unsong a try then, it's the same author: http://unsongbook.com/
Be careful about these observations - they got a guy fired from Google. Apparently even if they are factual observations they aren't allowed. Of course Men and Women are different; but admitting so - perhaps as part of a explanation for non-equal outcomes brings trouble.
The short answer; decentralized, trustless consensus. But I don't think Bitcoin's blockchain will be the winning platform in the future.
Saying women want to fuck men who own gas guzzling cars is the highest rated comment? I hope the sorting is broken.
My thoughts:

Subscription boxes are hard. I sold mine.

It's hard to keep subscribers happy every month, especially with food.

Most profitable subscription boxes are profitable because they are run by savvy internet marketers & capitalize on novelty, trends, & gifting, not because the products deliver incredible value to the customer.

I think Proactiv is the only subscription box service that's stood the test of time without having to drastically change their business model and they have historically been extremely savvy with their marketing.

If you look at the landscape of subscription boxes, it suggests that for longterm growth & profit:

1. Curation doesn't work.

2. You have to make / manufacture / private label your own stuff (Dollar Shave Club & Proactiv)

3. You should raise money, use that money to sell your first million boxes at a loss, grow rapidly and try to race towards an exit.

4. If your product doesn't solve a major problem (acne sucks, razors are too expensive etc), you are probably doomed over long term (10-20 year horizon), so it's best to sell in year 3-5.
This is why I uploaded this as an image: https://i.imgur.com/gSLrqPl.jpg

I hate sites that require JS and are not viewable on archive.is or Wayback Machine.
I've been wondering if adopting an agile framework for my life will help me accomplish my goals. So I have. Starting a little early for resolutions but in this sprint I hope to establish stronger flossing and exercise habits.

Larger goals for the year include establishing a stronger financial base, learning to weld (and perhaps getting my certification), to cook the vast majority of my meals at home, and finally breaking the habit of biting my fingernails, which has plagued me since I could talk.

Oh, and go to Yosemite again. I've wanted to go back for years, ever since I went there as a child on a family vacation.
This has been obvious for a long time, and is probably the exact reason why the green movement has been associated with liberals as well.

Conservatism and masculinity are deeply intertwined (I don't want to say "patriarchy" because I'll offend people) but without a doubt, this past election and the messaging used exposes a deep ideological hang-up in conservatives regarding gender roles and masculinity.

But I've noticed a way to completely and totally side-step this problem.

Sustainability does not challenge a man's masculinity.

The permaculture movement and similar concepts do not challenge masculinity, either.

I've found that the same conservative men in my life (I'm from Georgia here in the South) who scoff at the 'green', sneer at a local restaurant which offers "recycle and compost, but no trash can" as being effeminate millennial nonsense, can see great conservative value in living a sustainable rural lifestyle. Farming, self-sufficiency, the repair not replace movement, permaculture, all of this can be very palatable or even engaging and exciting to a conservative.

Caveat: This does not work on fundamentalist Christians who believe that God has created the planet for them to use and is handling things top down. I've met a number of Christian conservatives who disagree with green/sustainable on purely religious grounds that God simply wouldn't let things get out of hand.

But sustainable, permanent culture jives with prepper-culture rather deeply, so can be made to seem masculine when the end result is the same: reduce, reuse, recycle. When it becomes less "stop liberal global warming" and more "protect your family by preparing them to sustainably survive for as long as possible" it plays to conservative desires very well.
The example that came to mind for me is rolling coal. It's about as flagrantly defiant a rejection of environmentalism as I can think of. I don't doubt that many men view driving hybrid cars or eating less meat as unappealing because they see it as effeminate.
Friendly note that this is an Electron app.
According to article, putting manly logo on eco product made men more likely to be eco.

It does not sounded to be lack of care on the men side, but worry about social stigma and bad feeling from doing something gender inappropriate. Put in dark colors and voila, men care.

It is not about men being bad. We don't need to force that stereotype into every single discussion.
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To go spent the summer vacationing in Europe with the family and meet with some old friends... Usually it's a blast!
Publishing Scala.js [1] version 1.0.0 final, obviously. ;)

[1] https://www.scala-js.org/
What does viable mean? Where can I go out and purchase it? Yes, hypothetically, anything is possible.
Why is it so controversial to have a swastika symbol in unicode? The hammer and sickle had no problems and it is also banned in some countries.
Have you written more on the failed microservices design your startup worked on? Like how the services communicated with one another and the protocols used?
What a greedy ungrateful person you are.
Yes, men are close [sic] minded idiots.

What a joyous, enlightened age we live in, where sexism is dead and there's peace and love for all.

That's the genius of the extreme left. Before, there was a universal principle-based definition of sexism. By re-defining the term {sexism} so that it's only something that one particular gender does to another, they've eliminated by redefinition almost 50% of all {sexism}, converting whole categories of bigotry based on in-born characteristics into virtuousness.
What do you plan to do about it? I am not asking to provoke, but I have some friends who fall into this category as well. How do we change the mindset? I live in a place where it isn't the case, but I grew up in GA and saw it everywhere. What would it take to convince folks that taking care of the place we live isn't ladylike or manly, but rather necessary for our health and survival?
So you invested in the run up to the crash as well? Or only started investing in 2009+ (also known as a sweet summer child :)
Thanks. How long was your vacation, and how burned out were you before it?
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>I can't speak for littering or recycling, but it seems quite obvious to me that men will leave a larger carbon footprint. If nothing else, men are physically larger. They consume more food, they wear larger clothing, etc.

I don't have hard data to back it up, but in my observation, women, on average, consume much more clothing and shoes than men do. Add to that makeup and other personal care products, and I don't think your point is as solid you think it is.
To learn more about my local river, as I plan to do quite a lot of fishing every day in the spring...
The media is the responsible party here. The public are the irresponsible ones. The public's voice should always be silenced in favor of professional media's voice.

Remember, the public doesn't have social media editorial guidelines. Professional media does. Professional media reporters confirm facts with multiple sources, which is why they are more trustworthy. The public is simply allowed to lie on social media.

This is why you should trust professional media over the public, since the public is irresponsible.

Why would anyone trust a social media person that simply lies instead of a professional media organization that confirms facts with multiple sources?
You don't need polygamy to produce an enormous number of offspring. You just have to chose to produce as many children as possible, across more than one generation: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/nyregion/21yitta.html
Has this been abandoned? The MedlyText+S page says it'll be available last month.
Making a money losing investment isn't a "tough spot". You are only damned if you choose to do it. Not only did they know that 747 sales were falling, they knew point to point was becoming more popular.

It was a really easy decision and they blew it. Engineering the world's greatest aircraft is an addictive endeavor, but the numbers have to work and they never did.
Ohh, I see what you're saying.
I realize this is off topic. Hope you don’t mind a couple of questions - I’m always interested in companies which choose to invest in custom-built software for seemingly non-core functions.

What was the justification for building an internal CRM vs customizing an API-rich commercial system like Pipedrive. How was the decision made? Did you review SAAS or installed offerings first? Do you consider CRM to be a core part of the business, or does it offer a competitive advantage to the company?

Cheers!
The article, and the parent comment seek to gain some understanding of consciousness by exploration of subjective perspectives - both our own and that of the bee's. Your statements merely assert that you view consciousness from the outside, 'objective' perspective. How does this contribute to the conversation?

Yes, you do have a good point.

I was mainly just expressing how i thought about the issue, maybe putting some light on other parts of the equation.

Maybe b/c you believe free will does not exist?

For that you need to define free will.
Essentially the free will question comes down to, do you believe in magic, yes or no.

I don't believe in magic and therefore i don't believe in that type of free will.

The only thing that determines how you will react to a certain input is all the pervious input you have had in your life and your genes(aka starting position).

Or that it's useless to study consciousness from a subjective perspective?

No not useless.

Consciousness is not a total illusion, it is simply not what people seam to think what it is.

My Consciousness seam to think it is a human, but in reality it is a neural network located in a humans head.
So one illusion is that consciousness seam to think it is something that it is definitely not.
"ok google" is a dealbreaker to me, but not because of google. who starts a sentence with "ok"? "hey siri" makes a bit more sense since at least you are interacting with it in a normal way. it's still weird but less robotic than 'ok google', and it's also much better than 'hey apple' for that matter
Thanks for expanding in that. I wasn't aware of Peace of Westphalia.

For what it's worth, early Islam is basically game of thrones. Worth checking out what happened in the decades following the death of Muhammad SAW.
Write an article that generalizes male traits to explain a negative like eco-conscious behavior and it's an SA article worthy of front-page HN.

Write an internal letter that generalizes female traits to explain a negative like the lack of female engineers and you get fired from Google.
Absolutely agree. Not sure why your comment is faded/grey when it's kind of observing something unpopular but obvious.
Is there a market for a screenless phone with voice interaction only (which would not obviate at all many usueful apps "texting", maps, note-taking, etc, btw) -- I know for certain that I would replace my iPhone with (a sufficiently designed) one.

Who else would?
I don't understand societies with no bidet, you basically walk around with dirty asses all day long (or use wet wipes).
Upvote this if you were at least 95% confident the markets would crash if Donald Trump became the POTUS.
One small nitpick - because of the rise in real estate costs and nimbyism, new airports are not as easy a solution as they once were. But I take your point that the 3A80 doesn't really give much better slot efficiency.
It's probably a complicated philosophical question as to whether someone who litters is an idiot. I mean they're saving themselves effort at the expense of other people ("That makes me smart" to quote the president). Immoral probably fits better in these cases.
I feel like I’m always seeing studies that assert women are somehow “better” than men. Has anyone else noticed this trend?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-jo-martin/study-companies...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600812/female-coders-are-...

http://amp.timeinc.net/time/money/4430721/compromise-women-m...

https://venturebeat.com/2015/01/27/study-girls-outperform-bo...
I implemented an out-of-process JIT for Chakra (JavaScript), and we make heavy use of inline caches.

Why do you think inline caches would be an issue?
Turned out it wasn't. The 777 is the real profit engine at Boeing, the Dreamliner may never earn back it's cost thought it will never be as bad an investment as the A380.
Does not have much to do with OpenBSD per se.

> [Measuring] Interface Complexity can serve at least two useful purposes. First, it can be used by a developer to get an idea of what libraries might be worth becoming acquainted with. Secondly, it can be used to assist in writing simpler, more maintainable code.

Makes sense, kinda. But here is an example:

> The implementation for float uses four bytes, which yields a complexity of log_2(2^{8∗4} ∗ 2^4).

Looks like this complexity metric combines the "internal" complexity of an object (the number of bits) with the "external" complexity (the number of bytes). Sure, although I do not think that the logarithm plays any useful role here.
> Evidently it's very HN to work things out inaccurately from first principles.

I find this quite common among people that consider themselves technically minded. One of the key indicators I have for truly 'smart' people is an inclination toward curiosity with new things, and perhaps a degree of humility.
What you say about keyboards is true for PC keyboards, but was not always, historically, the case. Terminals always sent the ASCII code of the pressed key(s), and especially in early terminals, all CTRL really did was to mask off the highest bits of the transmitted code leaving a value between 0-31 -- the ASCII control range. That's why ^I is TAB and ^[ is escape.

If we implemented what you proposed, terminal emulators wouldn't be terminal emulators anymore -- they'd be some sort of generic input and output framework. While we're at it, why don't we include another API to take advantage of the high-color framebuffer displays most modern computers enjoy rather than just displaying a grid of fixed-width text characters. Oh look, we've just reinvented X11. Again (see: Wayland).

Or how about no, because it's yet another library dependency in what should be a straightforward terminal program, and the whole solution breaks when the program is talking to a real live terminal (as Linux programs can still actually do) because there is no "underlying key event" from a terminal. And if you are assuming an environment like X11 or Wayland, just write an X11 or Wayland program and be done with it. (Both vim and Emacs have taken this approach, and AFAIK support keybindings of the type you describe while running in graphical mode.)
I've worked for a manager who insisted on weekly one-on-one meetings, and it was terrible. I wasted so much time in those meetings, that could have been better served in group meetings, a specific one-time meeting, or email. We all hated it because of that.

The best thing to do is have weekly group meetings, setup meetings as needed otherwise, and have 3 or 6 month one-on-one meeting just to check in.

This article is so wrong. It sounds like he had bad employees, and instead of firing them, did a terrible job and micromanaged them instead.
What makes you describe rolling coal as masculine, as opposed to just being boorish and stupid?
Swaggering across the crosswalk, in such a way as to inconvenience others is considered manly. I know, because some random stranger in Cincinnati actually tried to give me lessons on that, specifically with regards to manliness. I hate those idiots.
native speaker of english from USA here. starting a conversation or question with 'ok' is incredibly rare and sounds painfully awkward.
Start a side hustle and learn Golang
Or perhaps “only” 200 million years or so

But yah, a one time thing for us.
> There really needs to be an "engineer plot" genre where plot stays consistent to a small set of made up axioms.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicAIsMagicA
Wasn't a realization of this what Craig Federighi worked on at NeXT? It's been decades since I was a NeXT Registered Developer but I think that existed then, built upon mach ports and a name service daemon the name of which escapes me.
Most recycling efforts actually waste resources. Whereas it will always be economically wise to recycle aluminum, it is often unwise to recycle paper and it is always a waste of resources to recycle plastic. So why do it? As a practice, it helps indicate membership in a particular community. In that sense, it is like a secular halal/kosher practice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Islamic_and_Jewi...

Those are religious practices that help establish the legitimacy of one's belonging. Whereas Christianity is based on faith, Judaism is based on practice, and Islam is a bit of a mix.

What if you are secular but you want to indicate the legitimacy of your belonging to a particular sub-culture? Practices such as recycling are useful in that regard. Note that recycling took off during the 1960s, an era that saw both widespread interest in spiritual matters yet also a turning away from traditional religions.

Although halal/kosher behavior is always certified by men, the actual details of implementing it in a house are often left to women. It is up to Jewish women to make sure that all the food they buy is kosher.

So in that sense, recycling follows an ancient pattern, already set by some of the world's biggest world religions.
So many presumptions about governments being good and libertarians bad. In order to label something evil, one should try much harder than that.

I would categorise the article as typical leftist bullshit.
> There's no guarantee of quality other than the author's credential and history.

Actually, a publication like the New York Times purports to have a strict editorial process. If Krugman were to write an op/ed piece claiming Martians understand economics better than Jovians but not as well as Venusians, the NYT probably wouldn't publish it.

So in addition to "credential" and "history" you can add "editorial vetting" or something worded similarly.
As a female, I think this article didn't take into consideration that we buy a lot of shit! Clothes, make up, body care items, etc... I swear we produce more trash than men for the sake of vanity!

So yeah, maybe women do recycle more but I think we produce a lot more trash than your average manly man who wears the same shirt 3x a week and doesn't need to apply hand lotions every half hour.
The Capitalism is the corner stone of the Democracy.

So it is up to you to work hard and be the best in your field...
The disappointing thing is that Boeing discontinued the B-757 while continuing to make B-737 variants. The 737 first flew in 1967. Fifty years later, variants are still in production. It's longer now, has better avionics, and better engines, but it's still the same diameter and still has poor climb performance.

What the airline industry wants to buy is flying buses.
1. Do fun things with my wife and daughter.

2. I switched to from Linux to macOS on the desktop in ~2007. I am now back to Linux on my home machine. I decided to stop complaining about bugs/problems and instead try to report every bug/problem that I encounter, when possible with a minimal test case, and a patch. So far, I have reported a small number of GNOME bugs and I hope to complain less and report/fix more in 2018. I am looking forward to this, because it benefits me and may help other people.

3. I work in a computational linguistics department and have teaching duties. Next semester, I will be teaching a 'low-level natural language processing' course using Rust. I have been using (and like) Rust for NLP-related projects, so the course will be fun. Also, I am looking forward to see to see how much students will like Rust.

4. Meditating more. I used to meditate a lot, including doing retreats. With a young child, it will be difficult to do full retreats, but it would be great to sit 10-15 minutes per day again.

5. Recently, an indoor climbing center opened close to us. My wife is planning to do a course, so that we can climb together as a family. (I used to climb ~twice a week for 5 years.)