skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still think that if openness is a good thing then the legal system should be one of the first places

And I would tend to agree with you. But make that argument, not something about the laws of the land being locked away. The “free law” pitch comes across as dishonest to anyone remotely familiar with the system.
Encourage discomfort in travelling. It's a hard sell, especially for those who are "obligated" to travel.

Unfortunately most people want to go somewhere "exotic" and still have all the familiar comforts of home, but with a different backdrop.
Smoking cigarettes maybe, but I went to a HS football game since my alma mater made states and the vaping was rampant. As soon as the game let out and everyone was walking back to their cars, my brother and I saw a significant number of them smoking.
It would be interesting if someone started a HN News discussion forum where people could continue the conversations that start here. That would at least help alleviate the problem of feeling pressure to respond to stories and comments rapidly, even if the other issues involved in online discussions (like the "Person A/Person B" one) remain.

In general I wish there was more attention paid to the way different platforms shape our conversations, and more interest in exploring alternative platforms.
Must be the USS Indianapolis (I'm from Indy, so we hear about it a bit more often). Incredible series of utter failures by the Navy, and just two weeks of fighting left. Tragic story all around.
Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
There have been a few of these threads over the years, and now that we are moving into the YC-2018 application cycle, it's time for matchmaking.

Please indicate what you are building and what you are looking for.

Maybe someone should build a Tinder for finding cofounders
The breakdown of the per recipient spending is useful:

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-spendi...

Much of the spending is on the elderly and disabled (which both group tend to have above average medical needs).
According to the British Goverment Somalia is not a successful nation:

> The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland except for the cities of Hargeisa and Berbera to which the FCO advise against all but essential travel. Any British nationals in areas of Somalia to which the FCO advise against all travel should leave. Any British nationals in Hargeisa or Berbera who are not on essential travel should leave.

> Crime
There is a dangerous level of criminal activity by armed militia throughout Somalia. There have been murders, armed robbery and a number of incidents of kidnapping. There are regular outbreaks of inter-clan violence throughout Somalia.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/somalia
“Almost”? It absolutely is designed to abuse workers.
Yeah, to underscore some differences more completely, timescale has:

- Full indexing and secondary index support.

- Support for transactional semantics

- Support for living along side relational data - including foreign keys to the relational data.

- Full trigger and constraint support

- Support for all of Postgres's native data types including JSON(B) and GIS location data.
This post is helpful. I personally look a lot on stackoverflow jobs with remote tag and a salary displayed. I check also those without salary but with a good tech stack, but it's harder to filter there
I know, not all immigrants are low skill. But nearly 25% of Swiss residents do not have a Swiss passport. (Even if you account for the difficulty of the naturalization process, that is a lot)
As the sibling comment notes, there's incredible variation. But look at, say, large flightless birds like an ostrich and a therapod dinosaur (three-toed limbs, hollow bones, etc.) and--with the benefit of hindsight--you're left shaking your head and asking why it took so long for someone to draw the connection.
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that the U.S. immigration policy (or lack thereof) bears a signification part of the blame here.

Why in the face of globalization (and now increased automation) the U.S. continues to have an effectively open-door policy to low-skill workers makes no sense at all.

As a U.S. citizen, I'd like to see a return to the temporary moratorium that existed until the mid 1960s (say 10 to 15 years) on most immigration beyond high-skill (however that is defined) and an end to "chain migration" in which entire families are allowed to immigrate regardless of most other factors.
You say this sarcastically, but I would seriously 100% support the government creating public cafeterias / "Automats" with prepared food served cheaply and without profit, to help increase the availability of nutrition for both poor and working class people.

A "public food utility" in the US is actually a really great idea that should happen, similar to how public drinking water utilities in the US exist.
I was in Israel last year and they just love Waze. Everything is Waze this and Waze that. They have an absolute belief in Waze as a brand. Most have no idea it is owned by Google, nor seemed very interested when I mentioned it.

So I'd say if they can get this working anywhere, it will be in a traffic-riddled country full of people who obsess over journey times and who absolutely love this brand.
Would love your input on this. We believe team chat can be way better for developers. Moving team chat inside your IDE is the starting point. Let us know what you think.
For a libertarian, they're not worried about that because they think they'll have enough guns to protect their.. uh, their bitcoin miner i guess? i'm not sure how they think they'll earn money.
I worked for a state sponsored carpool app for nearly 5 years in the late aughts/early 10s. This is exactly what I had wanted to build, but the state didn't want to take a risk on mobile and ended up hiring a contractor to develop a web app. The contractor went out of business one year into a five year contract.

I still have an interest in Transportation Demand Management, but can't stand the industry because it's almost always state sponsored and several steps behind in terms of innovation. This is really cool and I hope that it catches on.
You don't need to be faster than the predator, you need to be faster than other members of the herd.
Most people don't want these bullshit consumer funfairs though. It's just that the people with the money are somehow convinced to want them and that's why we get them.
Found the study - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477708/

It wasn't Japan, but Taiwan.
This sort of comparison is terrible because it trivializes the miserable existence of our impoverished and implies they should be thankful they aren't "beggars in Dehli."
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No we will just devalue the currency. There is no reason to default if you can just print more.
What a bogus , Switzerland has 40% foreigners which have immigrated , 30% of those have nowadays a citizenship and passport , read Swiss history before posting such crap!!!
Okay, but what's the endgame?

The writing has been in the wall for anyone to see for decades in most of these industries. An American factory shuttering is a disappointment, but I doubt it's a surprise to anyone, including it's workers. We can make some long term sacrifices to slow the process, but to what end?

How slow is slow enough?
>> None of your criticisms from wikipedia pertain to this publication. The paragraph is essentially making the argument that a randomized, double blind (DB), placebo controlled (PC) clinical trial (RCT) is unlikely to show that curcurmin is effective. yet, the published article is exactly that, and shows a statistically measurable impact on a clinically meaningful endpoint: a direct refutation of the paragraph.

I think, if there are solid reasons to believe that studies on curcumin will not turn up any useful results and then a study finds results it calls significant, the chances are that either that study is not designed very well, or its results are not significant, despite the claims of the authors.

Apologies in advance for the controversial example, but this reminds me of the controversy about Daryl Bem's parapsychology research a few years ago- the author claimed his study was methodologically unassailable, but of course he was making an absurd claim (essentially, that people can receive information from the future via ESP).

Edit: removed cruft.
I hope so. Most large metro areas sponsor carpool matching programs, though they're usually administered/marketed through the worksite. A lot areas also sponsor a guaranteed ride home program too so that if you carpool to work and for some reason can't carpool home, your cab/transit fare will be reimbursed.
> “In general, when people spend a lot of time passively consuming information – reading, but not interacting with people – they report feeling worse afterward,” two Facebook researchers said in a review of the existing literature. On the other hand, “actively interacting with people – especially sharing messages, posts and comments with close friends and reminiscing about past interactions – is linked to improvements in wellbeing”.

Its rather unsettling how easy it is to replace some of these words with 'mdma' and make it sound like a drug dealer encouraging you to go to raves with other people on mdma and not do mdma by yourself at home because you won't enjoy it as much.
And Mercedes another billion, and Phillips more than $400 million

And there is the whole lot of small fine to other companies.

The OP was the one claiming, he has to back with numbers.

[0} Is only fines for cartels, look at the companies

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/competition/cartels/statistics/statistic...
Ever met a poor libertarian? They expect they'll be living in their walled compound surrounded by their private police force.
I had problems with my google home mini controlling my android tv and went to the help page for it. A chatbox appeared and for about an hour a support agent talked me through various things to try (the only thing that worked was factory data reset on the TV). Pretty sure it was not a bot, unless they've gotten really good.
A major reason it is very popular in Israel is because Waze was founded in Israel. They also got started with VC from Israeli companies.
Thank you, that is an explanation that I can actually apply to this result.
> Give me your tired, your poor,

> Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

> The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

> Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me

I think it would be hypocritical at best, given America's history and current position to take such a stance. Surely the right thing to do is not to be scared of the immigration bogeyman and take some concrete steps towards the future, rather than closing the door and pretending things will get better by itself. It won't.

If you want to comfort yourself in a nice blanket of blame, go ahead and blame the immigrants rather than the people in power who have actually caused this.
There is a difference between the formerly British controlled Somaliland and the former Italian colony of Somalia. The latter fell apart but the former retained a semblance of civil society. Without having read the article (it is blocked from my work account) I suspect the article is actually discussing Somaliland rather than Somalia.
It's only a fraction of the people that are homeless in CA, but a great result none the less. Here is an article of just LA. Seems quite out of control compared with Utah. :(

1. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-2...
Could we not exaggerate? It doesn't help the discussion.

plus all the violence committed by Nazis (e.g. the Heather Heyer murder and the other actions counted as right-wing domestic terrorism)

"all of the violence", you listed one death. One death is a tragedy, but it's not a massively systematic problem unless we act like it is and turn it into one. You also act like there isn't such a thing as left-wing domestic terrorism. That terrorism killed more people in a single event, 7/7/16, than that nutjob running someone over did. What about the mob of nazis and anti-facists getting into fights in Berkeley? If you're not committed to one of those groups, it's just as bad. It's mob violence either way.

Nazis suck, but please try to be objective. When you frame the argument as you are, you are setting up flamebait. Some nazi will use your exaggerations against you.
I struggle to see what is inherently bestowed upon a new born child beyond life itself? The child may eventually be given things, but that's not the same thing as what we are talking about. Some examples of how it is clearly wrong would be useful, because there is nothing clear about it to me.
And clans... are states.
People often get sick of being wrong.
As others have pointed out. Its about money. If the compound is expected to be very profitable, then it make sense to invest a lot money to do a large scale study. On the other hand, if it is a natural compound that you can't really patent, the profitability will be much lower. It doesn't make sense for a commercial entity to do a large scale study. If the compound is important enough, a government entity will sometimes invest the money to study it.
I agree with the other commenter, and Gelman's blog is a good place to start. There are very clear, concrete statistical arguments, but they are difficult to summarize in the comments section of HN.

The gist is like this. Imagine that someone had people play 20 different slot machines. Then they went into a private room and looked at the results for each machine. After, they come out with the results of 5 of the machines and say, "look, our slot machines pay out at a higher than chance level!".

Do you believe them? I hope not. If only 4 machines had done well, maybe they would have shown only 4, or 3, etc.. They've effectively stacked the deck.

On the other hand, suppose someone said they were running an honest experiment with 20 slot machines. How many machines would you expect them to report on?
Davos Economic Forum – Swiss President Doris Leuthard Against High Hotel Rates
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I broke down recently and bought a subscription. They are the only news outlet I actually pay for. Their content is simply ubiquitous. I never thought it would happen, but there it is.

What's ironic about all this is that what I want is cable-like bundling of content. But while with news content I can be content with channel surfing, with television content I want to consume individual shows.

Curious as to why this is.
Yeah that won't help one bit. What jobs in particular are you talking about?
The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010): http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html
Why Italian football does not make sense in the English language
Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing for Business
You don't know much about Germany eh?
Far from Boring: Meet the Most Interesting Tunnel Boring Machines
A Shortage of Trucks Is Forcing Companies to Cut Shipments or Pay Up
Berkeley has a tent community dead in the middle of downtown on some government property. Berkeley's homeless problem is really front-and-center. The otherwise nice parks in the area are pretty unusable.
I think that's the opposite of true. I think most of these consumer things succeed because people actually enjoy them, but articles like this pretend to hate anything popular/mainstream because that's the socially respectable thing to do.
When you put it that way, I start to think Amazon should get into this business. I'm sure everyone has one bad customer experience incident with them, yes, but overall they're one of the highest rated for customer experience.

Then Amazon would say "Hey, while you're on your way there, mind taking a few packages with you?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_series_database
This one I don't get. Isn't "a few milliseconds" more than enough time to gather a guess on integer factorization (and most of the useful problems)? Wouldn't it suffice to run your program again and again over the same short-lived qubits?
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tampermonkey's good
Why should Bubba live a better life then Liu Chu just because he was born in one country and Liu Chu another? Globalization has reduced extreme poverty worldwide, to the point where it will not exist in a few years.

Globalization has very little to do with the plights of blacks in the Mississippi Delta. Old fashioned racism and a lack of jobs in sectors which aren't agriculture have a lot more to do with it.
The Doomsday Clock just moved: It’s now 2 minutes to ‘midnight’
I view their decision to focus on conflict as a mistake. But counteracting that might require conflict.
Stanford Business School Seeks Review of Financial-Aid Policies
I didn't say it was bad (though the tone of my post definitely hinted at it). I agree with you. Following the trail of necessity can easily lead to locally optimal points, away from the global maximum.
According to the World Bank, 769 million people lived on less than $1.90 a day in 2013; they are the world’s very poorest. Of these, 3.2 million live in the United States, and 3.3 million in other high-income countries (most in Italy, Japan and Spain).

I tried to track down this factoid. First I went to the world bank: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY?locations=U...

which does show 1% for the US. In the notes it says " Data for high-income economies are from the Luxembourg Income Study database." My next stop was there. From http://www.lisdatacenter.org/frontend#/home I found that the source of their data was Current Population Survey (CPS) - Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) (United States). The Current Population survey has a table creator here: https://www.census.gov/cps/data/cpstablecreator.html

Although there is nothing that quite matches the 3.2 million figure cited, the LIS did some harmonization so the most likely ultimate source is the 3.446 million people living in households that were categorized as having "no income" in 2013. This is separate from the 2.775 million people that were categorized as living in households that have "$1 to $2,499 or loss" in income.

I'm very skeptical that this is an appropriate use of this data. The world bank poverty number is supposed to be about consumption--it has to do with people consuming very little in the way of goods and services. But no one at all can live on no goods and services. They'd die of hunger and thirst in far less than a year. It could in theory be the case that millions of Americans were living on less than $1.90/day in consumption but it cannot possibly be the case that millions of Americans are living on $0/day.

To the extent that the figure cited for "no income" means anything (and isn't just noise in the data), it doesn't mean what the world bank means when it says living on $1.90/day.
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Why isn't there a service that says:

1. Hey this is my route every morning.

2. Lets you see people's routes and "join".

This doesn't need to be a centralized service. People could organize things among themselves. There are carpooling sites, but it requires a critical mass to be useful.
This will probably be very cheap just to cover gas. They probably wont do customer support and tell driver/rider they are on their own. Since the rider pays up front they have their Identity and cash up front.

I don't see Uber and Lyft competing against this service since the driver isn't going to make a living. On the other hand this will take a lot of rides from other ride share services.
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Haha it was definitely better than what I was expecting.
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As More Companies Demand Arbitration Agreements, Sexual Harassment Claims Fizzle
Same here. Also use tampermonkey where ublock origin's picker is not enough.
It looks like you can configure it to pick one monitor or the other. It would be better for it to record all monitors, since the whole point of this app is to enable retroactive screen recording, and so I would like to choose the monitor after the recording is done.
>With each side's policies alien to the other

This is just an symptom of economic inequality. If you do not belong to the same economic class anymore, then what might make the country better for you, might make the country worst for the other person. There is no way to avoid this.
East Village Bar Boldly Bans Customers Who Say ‘Literally’
There are tons of justifications you can come up with for not using something you don't want to use. The down side is that you aren't going to be getting the upsides you'd get if you used a new technology, possibly to the extent of being no longer competitive with people who do use that technology.

The important thing is balancing chasing the new hotness vs. always using the tried and true.

Last year I ran into a similar sort of situation at work, the funds to buy Ansible Tower required a battle I wasn't willing to fight. The argument was "We've spent so much money on tools that then get abandoned." We spent nearly a year with me being the only one in the company that could run Ansible playbooks because of this, until I finally found RunDeck. Now, we aren't paying for Rundeck, does that make it more likely to be abandoned? Was the risk in our operations if I suddenly became unavailable worth the saved licensing fees? Well, in this case it worked out ok, but it could have gone very badly.

As far as timeseries goes, there are huge advantages here. We used to use collectd/graphite/carbon, but a year or more ago I switched us over to InfluxDB/telegraf/grafana. It was a little rocky a start, the first version of Influx I used had plenty of problems. At the time Prometheus was probably a better choice, but I couldn't come up with a way to make it's pull-centric design fit into our environment. Then InfluxDB settled down and things have been great since.

We have way better metrics, with a way more usable dashboard, and significantly lower load. Literally, disabling collectd ended the complaints about performance on our dev/stg environments.
A relevant thought experiment:

How would you set up a social system, knowing that you would be reborn into it as a completely random member? That is, your chance of getting an education, having family stability, finding work and otherwise surviving being exactly in line with the way you set that system up from the beginning?

Secondarily relevant question: which existing system offers you the best probability of a satisfactory life given that random start? What features of that system make it better?
Of course you should be able to respond on security incidents. If you have a security incidents it's often too late and security boundaries are already borken. In the long term we want to have secure systems which are secure by design and by default.
We have to invest heavily in incident response because we have have all of these shitty and broken systems. We should already have started heavily on building secure systems and secure languages and should call on everybody to invest time to build these instead of building reactive technologies like AV.
They are not likely armed. Fewer than half of all households have even a single gun. Most of those aren't households where the gun owners carry in public: they're the kind of household where the "responsible gun owner" leaves his kit where the two year old can get it and accidentally shoot his 6 month old sister to death.
That seems to be more the mistake theory again; the conflict theorist would say the powerful would turn any rule change to their advantage.