skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While economics teaches us that past performance is not an indicator of future performance it concurrently teaches us that history is the only clue we have as to the future so, what follows is a fictional rewrite of a not so distant history; Maybe it's canals, not tulips...

"For each cryptocoin, a unique software protocol and accompanying network was necessary to enable its implementation, and as people saw the high incomes achieved from sales to fiat currency, mining and transaction fees, coin proposals came to be put forward by investors interested in profiting from coins, at least as much as by developers seeking to facilitate egalitarian movement of financial value and flexible independent storage of wealth.

In a further development, there was often out-and-out speculation, in which people would try to buy coins in a newly created coin simply to sell them on for an immediate profit, regardless of whether the network was ever profitable, or even built. During this period of "coin mania", huge sums were invested in coin infrastructure, and although many schemes came to nothing, the coin system rapidly expanded to nearly 4,000 coins in everyday circulation."

Inspired by the original;

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

For each canal, an Act of Parliament was necessary to authorise construction, and as people saw the high incomes achieved from canal tolls, canal proposals came to be put forward by investors interested in profiting from dividends, at least as much as by people whose businesses would profit from cheaper transport of raw materials and finished goods.

In a further development, there was often out-and-out speculation, in which people would try to buy shares in a newly floated company simply to sell them on for an immediate profit, regardless of whether the canal was ever profitable, or even built. During this period of "canal mania", huge sums were invested in canal building, and although many schemes came to nothing, the canal system rapidly expanded to nearly 4,000 miles (over 6,400 kilometres) in length.[1]
> Doesn't really seem like a sound investment.

You're conflating the economics of currencies with the economics of companies.
Missing `git grep --name-only`
My prediction: not owning a smartphone will one day be seen as a status symbol (like the opposite of the 80s/90s where owning one was a status symbol)
Maybe Motorola needs to bring back their old Razor phones?
If we make it so. I had to duckduckgo it to make sure it was correct, but I like it and am adopting it. Seems more efficient to just say "anecdata" than "anecdotal evidence".

Now back OT, I find little microcosm issues like this that show a gender disparity very interesting given the current cultural climate. It shows that in many ways the inequality doesn't exist unidirectionally between male and female in all areas (though it does in some). Physical labor jobs are a great particular example of this.

The real lesson I've learned over the years is appreciation. Men tend to really not understand just how much women do for them or the family (I tried the househusband thing for a bit and learned much of it the hard way), but the reverse is true also, women often really don't understand how much men do for them or the family either. If we all just worked a bit more on saying "thank you" I think the world would be a better place.
I don't think OP said that it made it OK. (It doesn't). I think OP was saying that people like her had to fight through worse - not to say it doesn't matter, but to place it in perspective and context.

Say 100% discrimination is the KKK lynching people. Say 50% discrimination is redlining and refusal to hire. Then what are white males facing? Maybe 10%? Yes, it matters. And also yes, it's not in the same league as what other groups have had to face.
Oh does it? Does it become emotional?
Quality spot for fixed price projects
So your point is that, even though the reporters neglected to explain (or understand) the term neurotic, they were justified because the ultimately correct explanation is that it's meaningless in context?

In that case, the only proper response is to report that the word neurotic is not scientific.
Easy, 00:00:00 is one second after 23:59:59. You can use 24:00:00 in some circumstances to refer to the midnigt at the end of a day but it would be redundant say on a clock face.
> even add a tip or sign for some purchases?

Why would anyone want to sign on a phone? Why would anyone want to sign for a credit card purchase at all?

Consider this the obligatory comment of "why do Americans want to sign for credit card purchases when PIN is so much better?". I don't even think I have a signature on my card.

I haven't even swiped or inserted my card in months, everything is contactless with my card, I'm concerned I'll forget my PIN.
A lot of those new transistors are caches and memory/IO controllers that were previously off-chip.
Selling Software to Snake Charmers
Your comment intrigued me so I Googled and found this[1] article. Not sure what to think. The sample size in the study was even smaller than that in the original article.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18461099
Friday Midnight is the same as Midnight Saturday Morning.

I mean there is no standards committee for this, but that's what common convention tells us in the Anglophone part of the world.
SolarWinds acquires log-monitoring service Loggly
Ask HN: How to become more effective at email communication?
The meat and dairy industries are doing their best to obscure the truth on this issue. Postprandial cholesterol blood levels are a direct function of dietary cholesterol.

For example: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-do-we-know-that-cholest...

People want to hear they can eat all the eggs and butter and bacon they want but it’s just not true.
He did nothing wrong.
Thank you very much. Sometimes things like this are not obvious to me and this will help me communicate better in the future.
The original source for the article is a bit clearer on what's actually happening, and the blog post for the HN link omits some details:

https://eclecticlight.co/2018/01/06/icloud-drive-can-strip-m...

I recommend read the original (and that the submission be changed to the original source instead), but a more accurate description here is that two Macs running two different versions of macOS will see the file differently once it's copied to iCloud. If a High Sierra Mac sends a file with a custom icon, for example, to iCloud, the High Sierra Mac will see the file as expected in iCloud. If a Mac on Sierra looks at the same file on the same iCloud share, it will see the base file without the custom icon. Other xattr items are removed as well, as documented in the original source.
So basically, 1) is like keeping account related data in LDAP with per-MTA
replicas, 2) is like collecting statistics, and 3) is like forwarding e-mail
messages to another system to handle there? Did I get that correctly? And what
is 4) "A LOT of data"?
That's 1000 cases when we restrict children from taking aspirin, it could be a lot more once we let them
FO4VR is a pretty bad example of how good a VR game can look today. It's very badly optimized and with bad defaults.

Lone Echo is much better, and with controls perfectly tailored for VR. It's an Oculus exclusive but I played with ReVive.
Getting a research grant is not "hitting the lottery", it's being recognized for your previous work and having people believe that your new proposals make sense and that you have what it takes to carry on your new ambitions.
Thats a pretty good idea!
Very interesting insight into what happened on the technical side!

The progression of events certainly does make a lot more sense with that perspective, though understanding the details of what actually happened inside the backend doesn't really change the fact that, from a customer perspective, we really did see public-facing messaging indicating that one app was split into two and then later public-facing messaging indicting that (more than) those two apps where then brought back together again a couple years later.
Flying Domestic May Get Harder Thanks to Driver’s License Law
Police probe sought after India biometric data leak reported
Even if you're right, by the time the words come out of your mouth, it's now PM.

That's how I remember it anyway :)
Twilight of the Winterkeepers
He was fired for going against the "feminist" narrative that dominates Google.
This title sounds like the actual files get modified by iCloud. This is not the case. Only external data ('extended attributes') in the filesystem gets stripped. It is true though that this is called metadata, but so is EXIF in photos, or OCR text in PDF scans, which definitely do not get stripped.

Also note extended attributes do not survive most file transfers.
Drug company employee salaries and overhead also keep pace with inflation, better than academic salaries. I don’t understand your point.

A biologic production line requires extensive upkeep: it is a living product. Costs all around are higher. There are also Phase IV activities to consider.

Bottom line, all else being equal, biologics cost more than small-molecule drugs to make and distribute.
The book cited in this article that so many claim exonerates fats has been thoroughly debunked.

https://thescienceofnutrition.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/the-b...
There are some metrics that are related to fertility like ejaculation volume and sperm motility[0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_motility
It's tough not to scoff. In years past it was a relief to see iCloud Drive/Mobile Me didn't simply strip out an entire directory. It was honestly a relief when Dropbox came along as at least you felt you could recover with their 30 day retention.

There must be mid-tier oldies like me who stopped using iCloud Drive due to those early loss of trust issues?
What was the price tag in? If the price tag was $1, they owe $1. If the price tag was 1 eth, they owe 1 eth.

[edit: I've changed my mind. They bought an asset for $x in USD, they are owed $x in USD]
A difference being that one can easily make a use case for multiple canals, but I find it harder to see a case for multiple digital currencies.
Yes, in paragraphs 174 to 198, but specifically 179 to 181.
AppEngine standard can actually scale down to 0 instances when not in use to save money. Still very different from a serverless architecture though.
Some of it surely has to do with the hype around Adobe and their switch to recurring revenue, SaaS style products.

It has thrown their stock through the roof. Their stock was essentially dead in the water from 2000 to 2012. $30 to $185 since then. Pull back on their chart to the max time frame, and it's hilarious looking in the spike versus the past.

They've been given a ~60 PE ratio, for 15%-20% growth and a rather old-fashion boring product. But it's cloud! Recurring revenue! Throw enough of that together with a stock market bubble and you get a 80% jump in the stock in one year.

That's the most plausible argument in favor of Canva getting their crazy valuation, it matches the insanity of Adobe's valuation. It's obvious what happens on the back side of that insanity too.
You’re Most Likely to Do Something Extreme Right Before You Turn 30
I looked into the hemp based extract a while back and the conclusion I drew was that it was up for debate whether or not it was legal. Proponents cited a bunch of laws regarding industrial hemp while the DEA seemed to have another position entirely. Was this finally settled or is it still a bit gray?
Yet another explanation of Mastodon
LOL. You guys do an excellent job overall but you are in tech in the Bay Area no? An area where gravity is different and the poles are reversed. Where whirlpools spin backwards. An area unlike any other. In an international industry filled with young, intelligent, usually college educated people.

And, if the above is correct it's totally fine. Almost every community will have a majority opinion and the cool part is that the staff at HN doesn't let it get too far out of control. And I have seen posts complaining about large numbers of "fascists" on HN for instance which blew my mind, but apparently it is largely a matter of perspective.

Incidentally, I keep saying this and people don't apparently agree, but not everything fits neatly in boxes of left and right. My belief is that people who are really thinking will find, given time that they don't eternally fit neatly in either category.
Indeed, and submitted[0] right away.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7p2ubq/wp_a...
Sounds like you'd love SwatchBeats[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
What growing body of evidence? The article references no studies. This article does not meet HN's discussion guidelines and should be removed.

> "What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world."

This article teaches us nothing.
Actually you should check out the long history of western capitalist supported right wing death squads that have been sent to break up communist governments.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-timeline-of-cia-atrocities/5...
I was hoping it is clear enough :)

1) Is actually a Web application, but yeah #1 is kind of clear

3) Is only logging as well. So not time critical, emails are handled by the "nodes" themself. Reason i mention them outside of statistics is because statistics are just a few numbers, this is actual data and may need to be threated differently.

4) It should handle up to a few thousand emails per second.
Atlassian is definitely Australian. But if we count them, there are a lot more Australian tech businesses worth more than US$1B: Acconex was just bought by Oracle for US$1.2B, and we have tech businesses from the last web boom like Seek.com (~US$5B), or going even further back, businesses like MYOB (~US$1.7B).
> EDIT: Also reminder some googlers kept politically motivated blacklists, if those blacklists were on company computers, Google will be hammered for it.

Since they were G+ blocklists, they were obviously on company computers. OTOH, it's not clear (despite the lawsuits characterization, which is pretty directly contradicted by the posts and emails offered to support it) that these were motivated by ideology rather than disruptive manner of expressing that in the workplace. Moreover, it's not clear they they were, in fact, used for any problematic purpose.

> Discovery could go wrong for Google in a million ways

Which is why there won't be a settlement; it's clearly a politically motivated suit aimed to hurt Google as badly as possible; if Damore and the other individually named plaintiff were seeking to maximize the probability and magnitude of personal recompense, this would be a direct action. A settlement with no admission of guilt, no discovery, and just a go-away cash payment that’ll mostly be assigned to the attorneys won't achieve the goals for which they are filing the suit.
I guess in that sense, everybody deserves whatever they get.
Meltdown and Spectre information update for DragonflyBSD
Is "midnight 1st January 2017" unambiguous? Would it be in a legal document?

I've often enough seen "1st January 2017, 11:59 pm" or, even worse, "1st January 2017, 12:01 am" for deadlines etc.
No one is asking you to worry about professional athletes in specific. If the effect is demonstrated to be applicable to men in general, it would also affect the people you mentioned.
If the Pro is marked up, it's going to fail hard. I can maybe imagine them introducing it at the Vive's original price point, leaving them free to continue selling the current Vive at a bargain price?

The big question for me is, the Vive Pro will be sold headset-only for upgrading folks. What's that gonna cost, because that will answer a lot of questions about how expensive this hobby is to maintain over time.
I am not a psychiatrist, but if you think it will help I did study nutrition in a formal capacity for four years and obtain a certificate of some sort for doing so.
> If people "on the left" won't allow him to speak, where exactly do you expect him to go?

Damore himself said he wanted to go on friendly media to do interviews, not that other media wouldn't have him.
Lync / Skype for Business?
It's bullshit, of course.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/01/how-mainstream-media-lo...

Fascinating how the same credulous repetition runs though the major press as through the "social media" they deride.
Funny thing, naproxen is much kinder to your stomach than ibuprofen, but it's not generally used (and may be prescription-only?), in Australia at least. It does, however, carry a minutely increased risk of heart attack / stroke. I guess they'd rather give 1000 people ulcers than 1 more person die in a lawsuit-attracting fashion.
I think archive.is do a lot of magic on the backend so that stuff like this just works for users.
That's a really broad question, and my answer is unlikely to be useful to you, as we don't have the same needs. Your normal daily tasks are probably different from mine, except for brushing teeth, and sadly there's no app for that yet.
That would be true for the content of a comment about whether .NET is dead or not. But then for that type of comment, you might judge it differently if the author is a user of Microsoft dev tools vs if she primarily works with open source tools.
That's the real kicker in SF. Ok, housing is expensive and I need a $800K mortgage. If your income is high enough you can swing that.

But then you look at what $1.5M gets you! It's bottom of the barrel housing most other cities. You need to move up to $3M to get something modern that has things like double-paned windows and a decent kitchen.
That's some serious spin. What the fuck is "multitasked on electronic media"? Where they employed at a firm where they switched from data entry to looking up stuff? I worked at a firm where people did that and yea it would look like their brain power reduced, because it was a terrible shit job (debt collection). They'd have to go from data entry, to calls to skip tracking lookups.

Depending on the type of work, that's not at all "a decent proxy." That's the kind of bullshit you read in meta-analysis papers. (Tip: if the introduction says its a meta-analysis, chuck that paper in the bin .. and set the bin on fire. Most meta-analysis papers are just lazy. You cannot control in vastly different experiments).

I agree a lot of this is FUD. Media has always been used to manipulate people. Emotional manipulation grew massively during the Edward Bernays era (the father of smoking advertisements and creating political and/or emotional draw to products). It may have changed form from Print to Radio to TV to phones, but it's still just more of the same manipulation.
> (But, yeah, naproxen seems to be one of the safest ones...)

Kind of.

But it starts to feel a little uneasy taking it all the time once you realize that naproxen's regulatory approval came from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Bio-Test_Laboratori... data.
i no longer carry a wallet in Australia. everywhere i go, everyone accepts apple pay (or android pay or whatever its called now) - from supermarkets to small coffee merchants to thrift stores to even the local markets on a weekend. Having also lived in america for 2 years also, there is a big disparity between american and the rest of the world.

*edit: spelling
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God”
At least in the USSR you were guaranteed housing as opposed to the United States where homelessness is largely criminalized while the homeless are offered little support and in fact regularly have their lives upended because they're considered an eyesore.

https://www.nlchp.org/documents/No_Safe_Place
So long as we're being completely arbitrary without any regard whatsoever natural language sensibility, let's just convert time to a metric/decimal system.

In 1998, the Swiss watch company Swatch introduced the concept of a decimal Internet Time in which the day is divided into 1000 'beats' so that each beat is equal to 1 minute 26.4 seconds. The beats were denoted by the @ symbol, so that, for example, @250 denotes a time period equal to six hours.

So far this system has not caught on

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/11/15/3364432.ht...
It's not confusing for us Europeans since we use 24 hour clocks. Midnight is 00. However I did not understand the reason the 24 hour clock caught on until now. TV schedules use 24 hour clocks to avoid this ambiguity.
It seems to me like the whole value proposition of ICOs is getting people to think of a currency as equity in a company.
The biggest difficulty for people will be forming new habits. The military time convention is familiar but cumbersome. Saying "I'll see you at 17 hundred hours" is not as convenient as "I'll see you at 17 o'clock" or simply "I'll see you at 17". The latter two sound a bit weird (especially the last one), but they're perfectly natural in other languages so it's just a matter of figuring out how to overcome the initial unfamiliarity in a large part of the population. I for one think this would be a great thing to standardise on just like SI.
I think this piece is actually a sculpted version of Mark Pauline's hand: https://cdn-blog.adafruit.com/uploads/2018/01/IMG_0245.jpg

Details and gory photos at http://www.srl.org/yard/misc/injury.html ("In 1982 Mark was working with a rocket motor that exploded in front of him.")
Formal use is different that widespread consistent use, excluding the other system.

My observation, at least where I live, is that both systems are used in practice. Especially at grocery stores, where the aim seems to be intentional confusion. For example you buy oranges listed for 2.34 a pound, but at the register you are charged 5.74 a kilo. Where you charged the correct rate? Maybe? Maybe not?
I wonder if its a security precaution.
CBD?
Same with me, for a pinched nerve. Both for pain and anti-inflammatory.
Offtopic. Did you just coin MMD? I googled but couldn't find other discussions on the term.
The instant it becomes noon, it is no longer ante meridian (before noon). Thus we have to make an arbitrary allocation, and it makes a lot more sense to lump 12:00 with 12:01-12:59, rather than with 11:00-11:59.
It cracks me up because that's what I used to say about solitaire. You mean you built a $4,000 computer and are now playing solitaire on it?

The real problem is see is more about the ecosystem though. The user controlled their pc (to a certain extent), but the user has so little control over mobile devices that they get fed what advertisers and companies want them to see.

It really feels like corporations and governments are sucking everything good about the internet out (anarchistic freedom of though, discovery of free information, etc).

What I see is a future where computer scientists and hackers are extremely powerful because they understand and (can) control their own systems, but the majority of the people are beholden to some combination of orwellian ecosystems seeking to control and profit off them.

Once again, this is why I think RMS was and is right and we need to start pushing more copyleft now.
That's actually not what is being talked about in the article at all. I think anybody would understand that if you make money by selling off your crypto, you would owe taxes on it, that's not what the article is pointing out. The article is pointing out that you may owe taxes on the value of crypto your received at a certain time, or traded for another crypto at a certain valuation, even if you never sold the asset for fiat money at that valuation. Meaning you could owe hundreds of thousands in taxes on an asset that never made you any money at all. That really is worth pointing out to people.
And there is an much larger class of examples.
Damore’s lawsuit describes his memo as a defense of conservative ideology, so unless he was just playing Devil's Advocate with the whole thing...
A regular dose in the United States is 200mg. In other countries, Spain for instance, you may see up to 800mg over the counter.