skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, everyone should be allowed to criticise and counter each other's comments and what not, and those who get offended by that while shouting about freedom of speech are hypocrites.

But at the same time, it feels there's a tendency for these things to go between criticism and into harassment, with the latter being outright encouraged by certain groups on all sides of the political spectrum.

For instance, quite a few people have seen themselves doxxed for things said on social media sites, with people going as far as to contact their employers to get them fired or attempting to get their families to disown them by tracking them down and yelling at them about their associates words. That can be for anything from attacking others online to merely saying something uncomfortable (like a joke someone disliked at a conference) to hobbies or interests that simply aren't safe for work.

Is that a fair response? Should freedom of speech have 'expose someone and attempt to destroy their career' as an allowed reaction to a comment online?

How about (in some extreme cases) trying to have them blacklisted from an industry? I've seen that before, and it's just as chilling to see it happen with someone for being politically incorrect as it was for someone being a 'communist sympathiser' back in the Cold War.

Criticism is fine, but there has to be some line between criticism and calling out and basically exiling someone from society and destroying their future chances of making a living.
You gave up Maths because you felt you couldn't win the Fields medal?

Do you also not cook, since you won't be Ramsay? Or not swim since you won't be Phelps? You must do nothing but contemplate the void, then.
For me the highlights of C# 1.0 vs Java at that time was

multiple classes per file or partial classes in C# vs Java's one file=one class

Easy default way to build, debug and run apps

Familiar way to create GUIs

ASP.net (it wasn't perfect but hey) compared to JSP

No properties boilerplate

Enums

Visual Studio 2003 vs Eclipse or Netbeans at that time on the hardware at that time was no competition
Optimization is not the issue. It is not possible in a strongly typed language to return multiple heterogeneous values in an array. That is why we have tuples.
The saying is true in the context it was initially meant for.

Most people you encounter throughout the day/week that somehow "wronged" you didn't do it out of malice, but stupidity, carelessness or plain disinterest.
IQ and wealth positively correlated.

I don't think that's been studied correctly.

Or, take family wealthy out of the usual equation then run the numbers.

Family money that pays for the best schools. Family money that pays for tutors. Family money that pays for health insurance. Family money that takes care of that one felony that would devistate a poor kid. Family money that seeds that first, second, third business. Get the drift?

Family money produces the Trump boys, the Bush boys, etc. All shinning examples of what a caring wealthy father can do.

(I really wish they would do one of these studies without family help littered along the development of the child/adult, and then make the bold claims about who will be successful. I know it's a dirty secret, or frowned upon, but an enabling/caring, financially steady family is probally the best indicator of success. There're very few Horatio Algier's out there anymore. And yes--my anus puckers up when ever I hear wealth, and IQ intermingled.)
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The price of an IKEA closet around the world, in euros
If you are going to the board as an employee the company better be falling apart.
Reminds me of coinbase using mongodb with silent fail and no ACID transactions a few years back. And of course the mtgox fiasco. The amount of amateurishness in the cryptocurrency ecosystem is disappointing.
Jeez I’m starting to feel old now, yes the name sounded familiar to me
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HELP: Join as cofounder or first employee?
I have the possibility of joining a startup (still working on prototype, no sales or funding yet)

Im being offered to join as first employee, which would mean some equity but probably nothing comparable to the founders.

I feel I can add a lot of value to the startup, but it seems like theyre not open to having another cofounder, as they say that it is their project and have already refused others to join

On one hand, I know I have the skills to be a cofounder and get more equity, and Id feel like im selling myself short if I bring so much value but getting only a fraction of the future returns, also, id feel like im building and working for someone else to profit from, instead of building something that I can also be a real part of

On the other hand, I believe in the project and I dont want to lose out on the opportunity. It could also be a good learning experience for me for the future.

What would you do if you were in my position?
I don't disagree with the article but let me give a more positive anecdote. I'm Black and live in Forsyth County GA.

Yeah this Forsyth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0

We were looking for a house and were welcomed with opened arms by the builder, I can still go to pick up my son from a teen group where no one knows me and ask any random person have they seen my son and they know exactly who I'm talking about. But I've never felt the least bit of hostility and my son made friends quickly. He's dating a White girl - if he wants to date anyone in his school he doesn't have too much of a choice - and I've met her parents and they are perfectly supportive of it.

I've never experienced anything that I could perceive as racist here and neither has my family. There is probably still some of the old guard around but the county has bern growing fast, and probably is drowning out the old guard.
Thanks for the respectful response. I know it can be really annoying when people nitpick these things.

It sounds like the original message is Family Guy's, though, so perhaps I shouldn't have brought it up here.
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Class is profoundly salient in the United States. Unless you've been on the outside it's very difficult to see, because the gradations are more subtle, but they run no less deep.
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The A16Z utopia proposes strong public policies based conclusions drawn from Denmark (about the size of Rhode Island) and the Netherlands (smaller than Delaware). Anywhere a car can go, a bus can go.

To put it another way, a premise that autonomous cars will work in places like Southern California is that an autonomous car will be at your doorstep whenever you need to leave. The ideal fleet to achieve this is one car dedicated to only serving your schedule. Anything else has all the drawbacks of party line telephone service.
I've only founded one startup that made a chip, and patents didn't help (or hinder) us at all.

Another example would be Intel: you're saying that Intel would stop designing chips if there were no more patents?
A fairly large component of common law marriage is that the couple in question must present themselves to the world as a married couple. There is no scenario where an unmarried cohabitating couple is forced into a common law marriage by the government, unless they're lying about wanting to be a married couple, but you can do that with statutory marriage too, and it'd be their fault.
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It’s worse when you want to store the coins yourself, so you withdraw from an exchange only to realise that the wallets available are either broken or have horrible UX.

I just don’t see how an altcoin without a functioning wallet can have billions of dollars of market cap.
It's not that Apple is unsound. It's that you picked ONE company. If you had said 100 years ago that you would trust not the long term viability of stock in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (it paid out annual dividends for over 100 years unbroken), people at that time would have called you certifiably insane. Then history unfolded. Will Apple be around in 50 years? 10 years? It's an unfolding probability. Will you correctly get out and find the next such company in a manner that beats low cost passive diversified indexing? Doubtful.
always good to know different 'news' organizations agendas and to skim widely across viewpoints to decide one's own point of view and perspective IMO
Shakespeare was no plagiarist, but genius isn’t born in a vacuum
If they had a 10% stake then yes.
> 400 bar

Say what now? Unless it's a misprint, that restrictive a cooling system sounds like it flows basically no air?
I pay for ProPublica because it's not-for-profit, thorough, aggressive, and impactful. By "impactful," I mean that many of their stories result in big changes, including resignations of corrupt politicians, new bills to prevent corruption, and (in the case of the financial crises) millions in fines against corrupt financial firms.

I pay for NYT, WaPo, The Guardian, and my local paper of record because I respect their editorial integrity and believe they still maintain the firewall between advertising and journalism.
If by "recently" you mean 1946, then yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_conjugation

Unless you mean across species, in which case there are new and interesting ways that bacteria can swap genetic elements across species boundaries being discovered all the time. The first example was the original Griffith experiment in 1928, but the wiki article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_competence has a nice timeline of some of the more recent examples as well.
But if you aren't aware of a problem, you have no way to know there is something you need to learn. If only everyone knew what they didn't know. I guess that's why we need more articles like this.
It is posted as "Show HN" so I would assume so.
That gap also exists in the middle-school and high-school levels [0] (at least in the US), so it fully reduces to the simpler question of why that's true. We should be able to agree that by the time we're discussing professional mathematics there's no expectation that it would be randomly distributed among genders.

[0] https://economics.mit.edu/files/7598 (admittedly a bit old; maybe a lot has changed in ~10 years?)
Just so. Rather a few legal cases have hinged on this in the US anyway.

The article seems like a strawman.
It’s not off-base, just outside of your personal experience. This shows in your first comment about updating when you deploy: think about a large and not especially functional environment where there’s stuff written by vendors, contractors, acquisitions which have been folded into various areas, etc. They might not be deployed very frequently at all, and nobody in ops is sure which can handle a rebuild, whether the upstream images for all of those containers are still getting updates or whether upgrades will break something else, etc. They track Red Hat CVEs but not Alpine, etc. The corporate security scanner looks at the base OS but doesn’t know how to introspect containers – or it’s Red Hat’s and doesn’t know how to handle anything which doesn’t use rpm, etc. Performance is similar: containers add a layer of complexity which requires a lot of tools and practice to change – arguably for the better but many places weren’t doing so well even before the problem got harder.

I still think containers are the best answer to a ton of operational needs but it’s absolutely true that better tooling is needed for a bunch of problems, and this is repeating the classic hype cycle where it’s being billed as a cure-all when in fact it’s still going to require time, staffing, and a commitment to do the job well.

As an example, start with the easiest problem: say you want to prove that you’ve installed the latest OpenSSL patch. On traditional servers, this is a well solved problem. If you’re using Docker, your options are to buy a commercial offering with a support contract or, if your purchasing process is dysfunctional, build something around Clair, which has a bunch of usable but not great tools. If you’re the ops person looking at that, you’re probably thinking this just made your life worse even if there’s the promise that in some indefinite future it could get better. I’m hoping that the OSS community starts rounding out rough edges like that because it’s definitely an enterprise adoption barrier.
Something malicious being easily technically possible with no risk and significant economic upside will statisically occur due to simple distribution of motives at large.

+1, only you can decide to install a program. However its total functional scope, "what it does", is never fully known, unless it is open source. "Doing research" about the developer will not solve the lack of transparency in the tool you're installing. It is the consumer OS's responsibility to make sure third parties don't get access to data consumers would deem sensitive, without proper authorization.
Personally, kind of.

I’ve moved further and further from google for my personal email and communications, for all the reasons elucidated above. However, for my commercial presence, I opened a gsuite account because it seamlessly brought together - and kept together - disparate components that I wanted to be able to use in a device-agnostic manner for myself and my team. I could have brought things together from a half dozen different, possibly better, services but gsuite was basically one-stop-shopping. I didn’t want to spend time getting the tools together, I wanted to spend it on the job at hand. The communications tools are good enough.

That said, I may change my mind about that. For getting work done I still find Outlook kicks the shit out of gmail, and Microsoft Live or 365 or whatever they call it has a very very solid online office suite (and their offline tools remain best in class, IMO). Todoist integrates with both. I’m just lazy about non-mission-critical upgrades. I don’t have a good replacement for google hangouts, though. Skype is a festering tire-fire, and I don’t ever want to use a webex unless I’m being held at gunpoint by the Cisco CTO.
You're not wrong, but I think the parent commenter touched a good point, just not in the most masterful way: using open source software from Facebook or Google increases their soft power over the web and Open Source in general.

In the same way Google pretty much decides web standards these days (unless most other implementors refuse to back a proposed standard; even then, Chrome can keep supporting something), Facebook could end up deciding standards. The former with the browser, the latter with code that runs in the browser.

Though Vue has more contributors now, that a single person could start and grow an open source project, with his own goals an opinions, shaping a community around certain principles, is something that appeals to me on philosophical and political grounds.

By the way, until recently, the recommended way to get started with React (unless you were using a bundler, hosting it yourself or using another CDN) was to load it from fb.me, a Facebook-owned domain.
It's not impossible (or even unusual) to do both competently. Helps that frontend is a smaller surface area.
You could possibly reinforce your biases and prejudices by "preprocessing" on the fly value judgements. On the other hand, you will never confront your biases and prejudices if you never attempt to reflect on then and what you should do in various situations. They will only become apparent to you after you have already made the biased or prejudiced decision, in the heat of the moment, without the luxury of time consuming introspection.
Who's to say the charges would stop at $35k? Others may try to extort them too if they appear willing to pay.

Signaling to the market that you won't settle may prevent future problems.
> No, there is no guarantee. But you can develop an edge that is statistically distinguishable from random outcomes, and less formally, that distinguishes your activity from gambling.

Sure, it isn't gambling, but there are lies, damn lies and statistics. The effect of survivorship bias in this field is massive.

Consider that the random element isn't necessarily the stock performance over 12 months. The indicators the traders use are, in a sense, randomly determined by the trader's personality and knowledge. If the stock market operates in a deterministic fashion for, say, 10 year stretches (which I think is about the time between major recessions) then the rules get changed in a major way, this "statistically distinguishable" edge may well disappear taking a hypothetical small-time saver's retirement fund with it.

We see this every time there is a crash, where a bunch of firms with a clear statistical edge go bankrupt because the statistical edge relied on some specific market condition.

A lot of people make more money than me with clever deals, but at the end of the day the only strategy that everyone can follow simultaneously is creating more than they consume and stockpiling the excess. Maybe stockpile a little on the low side if they have faith in continuing benefits from technology growth outpacing population growth.
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It only works because everyone does it. Usually not a good idea to follow the herd when investing. DYOR don't expect an easy dogmatic formula.
They had multiple other „problems“, too. See for example https://www.reddit.com/r/RaiTrade/comments/7n0ou8/an_explana...

The chat log from Exchange-Owner + Nano-team also speaks volumes https://www.dropbox.com/s/3g38y67luolfvqs/Colin_ZS_Bitgrail_...
I noticed that the stocks that ETFs and stock screening algorithms like moved had much higher correlation with the indexes during last week’s correction.

This is just based on a quick spot check, but I’m worried the passive investment craze has weakened the link between business fundamentals and pricing for the stocks in the most popular indexes.

If so, that increases correlations in the pricing of assets that were explicitly chosen because their prices have no or negative correlation with each other.
Entirely true, but not sure how distanced you have to get from regular day to day society that it isn't obvious.

It is a major problem if entire groups of people can live such abstracted lives that they aren't aware this is going on. I struggle to believe that people really aren't aware of this and instead it requires constant discussion on well to do websites yet it never changes. Sometimes it comes off as tragedy porn.
For the last 30 years over 40% of graduating math majors where where women. That drops to 15% of tenure track mathematicians being women, but again that's a long way to sub 2%.
> a penchant for math is randomly distributed among all people

As politically difficult as it is to say, intelligence is NOT distributed randomly among all people.

Not by sex, not by race.
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It lets you ease into it insofar as you don’t use libraries that heavily rely on more advanced features. Trying to understand how Circe is actually serialiazing your case classes (Or why it is failing) can be quite difficult without understanding Shapeless.
Show HN: (Android) Bit Cast, a torrent streaming Chromecast ready app!
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At its core, Bit Cast is an Android application that allows users to stream and play torrent video media before it finishes downloading. The media can be casted directly to Chromecast devices, or played locally on the user's phone. Bit Cast also supports sharing video streams over HTTP with devices on the same network.

Features:

- Download torrents and play supported media before it finishes downloading.

- Play supported media on Google Chromecast devices.

- Play media using other devices on the same network over HTTP using a shareable URL.

- SRT and VTT subtitles are also downloaded along with the torrent and can be used while casting or playing media locally.

- Media is played locally using VLC if it’s installed on the device, or played using a fallback media player.

- Configurable shortcut button that opens the user’s default browser to some URL.

- Tapping a magnet or torrent URL will open the app and automatically start the stream.

Limitations:

- Only supported media types that support streaming can be played before the download completes.

- Only the largest video file within a torrent will be downloaded.

- The type of media that can played on a Chromecast device is limited to what media types are supported by the Chromecast device.
I exit when I either no longer love the product or see a replacement product I like better. I have my accounts at Fidelity and my 10 year RoR is 33% vs 9.78% for the S&P 500 (31% going back to 2003 when I consolidated accounts there).

What I like about the approach is that product is a leading indicator and can be judged by anyone. The financials and stock price seem to trail the product by 1-3 years on both the upside and downside.

BTW I fully agree with the original premise of the thread and think if you try actively trade on financials, timing etc. as a part timer you will get smoked by the pros, sooner or later.
Reality = Relevance?
I have only skimmed the article but I'm confident it's riddled with catches.

I bet it's not actually driving itself through traffic on public roads and it isn't actually managed by AI.
It's not overblown to characterize something about a system you are told not to do "abuse". If it is misuse, it is abuse. Words mean things.
Which is where a backdoor Roth comes into view (I'm assuming you're speaking about workers at American companies making over the tax limits)
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How is that possibly true? You even named the junk:

Babel, postcss and yarn.

And then you stated a 3rd person saying:

"It’s not junk, these are the most important tools"

Disrespectful AND lying, nice combo you got going...
This is just embarrassing, especially for the United States as a whole. The Trump administration should be ashamed for cutting important research and nominating a climate change denier as the head honcho.

Although building a moon base would be cool. It could increase our reach for manned missions. Sort of a first/last pit stop before a long journey.