skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another theory:

Your comments are filled with opinionated arrogance.

That aren't backed up with any facts. Basically, the unwritten rules is the more opinionated your comment(especially if it isn't in the norm) the more you need to back it up with facts or even links to sources.

Also, I've gotten my share of down votes. But, usually it gets re-upvoted once enough people see it down voted. if it's not a "worthless comment" or extreme opinion without some kind of argument to back it up.
> In that context, it sounds like you're saying we don't need liability regulation, we need data science to help consumers make better decisions, so that the economic downsides to antisocial action are higher.

I'm not sure why you make it sound like an decision. We're already seeing that improved computing power and statistical methods, coupled with the falling costs of these, are giving us transparency which can guide both consumers and regulators.

Its one of the reasons I'm a fan of "legible" societies once the asymmetry if power and information is overcome. We can all hold each other accountable.

If you check my comment history you'll see I'm a big fan of the CFPB and generally want the government to make bad behavior more expensive, so I appreciate the rest if your post but you're preaching to the choir. I'm furious at what the Executive has done putting a scam artist at the wheel to dismantle it.
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The real potential problems with a deficit are inflation (which isn't high) and bad allocation of real resources. Financing it isn't a problem.

The US government spends X amount. That means X amount enters the economy. Then they ask for Y amount back. Y amount are taxes. X-Y is the deficit. The deficit ends up in our bank accounts as savings. Reducing the deficit means fewer dollars enter the economy which means less money in people's savings accounts. Smaller deficit means a slowdown in the economy.

Where does the federal government get X amount? Same place a score keeper gets the points they give out in a football match. It comes out of nothing. Its literally a computer key stroke. The treasury and the IRS don't even talk to each other. There is no problem financing the deficit.
Submission text is always grey, and headlines that are grey are grey because you visited the link target. Downvotes for stories do not exist.

(there are several signals which affect ranking, but for a 2-point submission they don't really qualify since it hasn't got any ranking power anyways)
in some places cafes are practically empty at certain times of the day. probably not in NY though.
Do you have any experience with InteractiveBrokers?
I mean you've thought about it for ten minutes

Sorry, did I say something to offend you?
The big problem with barriers is that you need standardised tickets. If you want to allow a mix of local tickets and rail tickets (to allow one fare for the whole journey) it'll be close to impossible to build a barrier that works for all of those. The cities that do have barriers (e.g. London) only accept specific tickets on those lines and are large enough to run their own system.
Here's a revolution that actually starts at home. Government policy aside, Americans are free to follow much of the German advice if they choose. Treat your kids as if their lives are primarily theirs, not yours. Let them take risks (for themselves, not others) and bear consequences. Exult with them when those risks are successful. Above all be a role model. This is all really easy to contemplate, but very hard to do because it is isolating. In my suburban parenting experience, we are a competitively paranoid nation. So many people raise their kids as if they're in the twin towers and they are totally going to know when to press that elevator button to get out safely. We do not have to be that way.
Evolutionary analysis of the GNU/Linux universe
Delta of Venus. Great place.
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
You're right, but in the specific example it's not much different than hopping in your car and realizing that you need gas.
Sure why not, i’ll drop you an e-mail
The table of times notes:

> The shortest path query was not tested for MongoDB or PostgreSQL since those queries would have had to be implemented completely on the client side for those database systems.

I can't speak for Mongo, but I imagine the shortest path query could be implemented as a recursive CTE or a sproc in Postgres, which would execute server side. It might be a bear to write, and it might be slow, but it should be possible.
How to Get the Most Out of Predictive Analytics Tools [Infographic]
Your sociological explanations may be accurate, but it’s probably worth noting that very low police:population ratios in the US combined with a gargantuan supply of unrestricted handgun possession in the hands of the populous is also a strong contributor to bunker mentality from the police.

[Edit: I see that Norway has a similarly low police:population ratio, so that observation isn’t really relevant for comparisons with Norway or the rest of Scandinavia. My error!]

Also, Norwegian border patrol agents seemed pretty damned authoritarian in my experience, so my personal contact with law enforcement doesn’t match yours for the respective countries. /end anecdote
If you take some of the advice given freely in this thread you might have a better chance at improving their lives.

Also, based on your performance in this thread I'm not sure the Texans should take all the blame in this particular case.
Ask yourself this->Is my comment actually useful to other people? or just me spouting off my greatness...

Most of my down-votes are from the later. or my dark sense of sarcasm, but that's a personal issue of mine.
Buses are heated and air-conditioned... so nice of Germany to plan to provide mobile homes and rolling pubs for the lower 20%. That could motivate the marginal user from the upper 50% to use their own cars exclusively, missing the pollution point entirely.
Thank you! I will take required actions this night to be a volunteer.
The 3dfx timeline gives you an idea of how much the computer field has slowed down and consolidated. Voodoo was released in 1996, into a market with half a dozen competitors. Voodoo 2 in 1998, the same year as the first viable NVIDIA card (Riva TNT). NVIDIA released the GeForce 256 in 1999, cementing its dominance. 3dfx released its last card in 2000, just four years after its first. NVIDIA is now still dominant, 18 years after establishing dominance with the GeForce.

Think back on how much consumer computing changed from 1996 to 2000. Four years back from the present, in contrast, is the Haswell-based Macbook Pro and iPhone 5s (a perfectly fine setup today).
Buying something every 2 hours seems excessive and expensive. I agree about the tipping well part.
>Their first and foremost responsibility is to their brand and reputation

Right. People with no skin in the game often want companies to do the right/heroic/etc. thing. Even leaving aside what the appropriate action in this particular case is, the reality is that when there's a mob or the likelihood of one that wants your head, your employer is probably going to think about it for about 10 seconds and then toss you off the deck. "It's just business" as Bill Belichick would put it. We can all think of plenty other examples over the past few years.
Hehe, all my friends had Voodoo GPUs back in the days.

A friend of mine even got a Voodoo 5500 and we tried to get Quake 3 Arena so tuned that we couldn't see any pixels anymore.

I was the first one with a GeForce 2MX, which worked quite well and long considering it was the budget version of the gf2.

If I look at the performance indexes, the Voodoo 5500 wasn't very much better than the GF2MX.
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There are not many facts that can be used to back up an anecdotal story other than, you know, the facts of the anecdote. Furthermore, how arrogant can I be when I come out and admit right off the bat i failed two interviews?
* Find a short term sublet so you can look for a more permanent place once you're on the ground, or take a week(end) to fly up and look at places. Taking a place remotely is a gamble.

* Long-distance moving companies don't expect repeat business so scams abound. In my case they loaded the truck then demanded almost double the payment as they'd "underestimated" the weight by 100%. Heard a lot of other similar stories. Word of mouth or a corporate rec (repeat business) seems to be the best way to go.

* I moved too much stuff, sell as many large items as possible and re-purchase at the other end. Moving couches, wardrobes, etc. costs a ton, risks damage, and such items are easily replaceable commodities.

* Negotiate relocation expenses as part of a job offer. Take what you expect it to cost and double it. Moving fees, broker fees, trips back and forth add up really quickly.

* If you have a partner/family, make sure they are on board and have a clear plan once they get there to get established, find work, make friends, etc. Moving to a new place changes you, so be prepared for that growth and change - and make a conscious effort to grow in alignment with your partner. You have a job in place and a built in way to make social connections, if your partner does not then it can be an isolating experience that can put a lot of strain on your relationship.
Red Hat acquires CoreOS for $250M in Kubernetes expansion
"and what they
believe Google still delivers."
- I think this is huge issue, and one that is going to take a lot of re-educating people. I constantly tell people DO NOT TRUST THE FIRST RESULTS IN GOOGLE - it's often a paid ad for malware for example with some searches.

But people use google to get to facebook, and walmart, and so many other frequent places that it's in their mind that is how the computer / internet works. Open browser, google place, click first result.

Even after explaining to doctors how adwords works and showing them ad placement, it still did not sink in that if they, their staff, or friends and family clicked on their shiny new #1 result for blah blah, it was going to cost them $10 each time.

The way google works is hidden, it's deceptive on purpose in many ways (ads are not clearly marked as such with their slightly different white background) - especially on smaller devices like 14" laptops.

People assume and trust with google, and it's misplaced - but educating them, and getting a different default on their devices is not easy, and they buy out defaults from places when it's not set that way.

Having no way to contact people via phone with this google and facebook is a real issue. The stores down the street could not get away with some of the stuff these companies do, and there is no way to hold anyone accountable or talk to someone about it.

By the time facebook changes this I don't think they will matter anymore.

Eventually people will realize that google is useful like the yellow pages, and only to be trusted as such. Pay to play gets the big placement, and don't expect to find everything you may want there.
This piece reminded me of my days in the restaurant business as a teenager. Was common for everyone to do a tour there, but now the jobs are mostly done by the “undocumented.” Don’t care to discuss the politics of that but it feels similar.
[part 2]

> On the other end of the extreme, someone could be tapping a cable far away from my computer and figure out what connections I make regardless of encrypted data. Somewhere in between the two extremes, close to the likely, the party that I establish a secure connection too could be sharing our communication with other parties.

Which is in no way in conflict with saying "this is insecure". That is in conflict with saying "this is secure", because that implies "... against this specific set of threats", which is not understood by the average user. So, yes, I agree, browsers should generally avoid telling users that something "is secure", but it is perfectly fine to say "this is insecure".

> We've already established that the browser can't know it, so is the browser a fundamentally flawed concept?

No, it's just a subjective entity as all entities in the world are, and so it has to determine risks based on incomplete information, as all entities in the world have to. Also, it's not strictly true that it cannot know that, but it cannot know that without you telling it. It might well be possible to have an option where you could tell your browser "this set of addresses is safe to talk to unencrypted and unauthenticated".

> Yes? The only part you seem to disagree with is the possibility of having a router in a local network (and yes, local networks exist) facilitate and streamline the exchange.

No, I disagree primarily with overloading the semantics of "private addresses", and with mechanisms that only allow communication in a local network. "private addresses" is neither reliably indicative of nor a required property of "within the same local network".

But also, a mechanism that does not depend on being on the same local network for pairing would be preferable.

> So again, a perfect application for a router? The router is in a perfect position to verify that I am on its network.

OK ... how?

> Yes, as evident from the absolute lack of overlapping authentication and encryption standards...

... implemented in the same product, where one of them would always have been enough to meet the requirements of 99% of potential users, and the others would have taken considerably more effort to implement?
Yes.

I even remember the need of two cards. A GPU and a 3D accelerator.
Rusty’s work is an amazing legacy. Very happy he’s working on developing Lightning Network on bitcoin for a few years now.
A benchmark made by a database vendor that shows that the database vendor performs well, if not the best, overall. Whether it is actually true or not, the result being published is entirely unsurprising.
> Anyone who graduates from a reputable school with a Comp. Sci. or InfoSys type of major is also fully capable of entry-level employment.

No, they're really not, for at least a year. It takes at least that long for most new graduates to get over the hump and learn enough of the practical skills and industry practices that their university left them woefully ignorant of, so that they can start being marginally useful. Once in a while you find somebody who has been doing real work on the side for years during or before college, and thus has a clue how things work, but that's a diamond in the rough, usually.

And unfortunately, many of them just can't hack being a professional programmer, and they never get to the point where they become a net positive, in which case you just hope they leave of their own volition or you can silo them off in some area of little importance that won't cause you problems down the road.
But the larger issue -- that they have direct financial incentive to unconsciously bias the results -- still exists. This isn't anything against Arango's team, I'm sure they're lovely people, but even physics experimental results have been shown to be biased when the experimenter knew the testing hypothesis.

"I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it. Never a year passes that I don't get some surprise that pushes my limit a little farther."
-- Charlie Munger
Understanding Children’s Mental Models of Privacy and Security Online [pdf]
Brautigamseiche.com is still free, just think of the monetization potential. /s
Still remember enjoying Descent. And how I argued with Commodore staff at conferences on why Amigas didn't move into hardware 3d as it was the clear future to see.
Indeed, but I think it's a moot point, anyone dissuaded by the friction of using such a payment system would probably have been unable to contemplate getting out of bed in the morning due to the immense friction of preparing and eating breakfast, or the hideous friction of "getting dressed".
Let me add that listening to his story helped me understand that white nationalism, or any form of bigotry really, is mostly about identity and belonging to a group, often their own family who subscribe to the same ideals. By offering your friendship to such a person, you also offer an alternative. By declaring your friendship over because of your differences, you not only lose a friend, you also validate that other person in his/her views and help him paint a picture of you and people who think like you as the enemy.

It saddens me that so many people think that it is unforgivable to have a history of friendship with a person like that, and I am genuinely scared that the fear of backlash from the internet means that public figures will be forced to reinforce a stereotypical good/evil picture of society. Then we will truly all lose in the end.
Think it's also a question of effort involved for testing even more stores
Hey, it isn't clear that there is a Jobs/Careers page on your website?
In such cases, I like to assist in making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. I understand a degree of criticism forestalling, but when I read it, it distracts from the commenter’s point.
For (practically) any given interest, there's a way to find someone else with the same interest somewhere else that you can ask to Skype with.
> I'm talking about completed, tested, accepted features, as defined by our project teams.

Still rather strange metrics for productivity in a senior engineer. This is more what I'm taking about: https://zef.me/the-100x-engineer-6d50a690a866

If you're really senior, you shouldn't be working on the kind of features that get delivered at a rate of "5 per sprint". More like on stuff that gets delivered once every year. The junior SHOULD outperform you in "code produced" - they just shouldn't outperform you in dollars produced (or saved).
For people who failed their first interviews, it gives them hope they can be a CTO in 5 years. Hows that for being helpful? Again, it seems like you are just projecting insecurities at me and what I have accomplished by calling me arrogant instead of successful.
You shouldn't remove it because it was a retweet, you should have removed it because it clearly meant the opposite of what you were implying it meant. Plenty often people get lampooned for statements that are later divorced from content but you are taking a single word and divorcing it from the content of the sentence it's in.
Because Apple owns its ecosystem. It owns iOS and the API apps use. It owns the app store.

Google doesn't own the email ecosystem. It's a decentralized system where thousands of actors exchange messages using standardized protocols. The last people who did what Google is doing were Microsoft. Remember winmail.dat? Remember the various hacks and options that litter open source mail clients and POP/IMAP servers to work around quirks and bugs in Outlook?

Just looking at my muttrc I find:

# MS Outlook seems to like sending emails using cp1252 but setting the
# charset to iso-8859-1
charset-hook ^iso-8859-1$ cp1252

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Dovecot has a bunch of custom options as well. That's what happens when a major actor starts disrespecting the standards, out of ignorance, out of hubris or out of spite.

Between that and how Google seems to want to force Chrome down everybody's throat at all costs it really seems that somebody at Alphabet found an old Microsoft "howto" from the late 90's and decided that was a good plan.

>Apple could easily be the big email provider in that sentence

I don't understand, are you saying I shouldn't criticize Google for doing something because I don't criticize Apple for not doing it? Trust me if Apple ever pushes some custom "iMail" format I'll say the same thing.
And these villages have a pretty nice industry.

There are many so called "Hidden Champions", which are often located in these areas. Farming and so on is not very typical for German villages. A village with 3,000 people has perhaps one to three farms employing at most 10 - 20 people.
Ah, I knew I could count on Hacker News to defend the Nazi lover. Repulsive.
The hipster café across the street from me does this to discourage people from sitting all day. They have no outlets. Still, there's people there working all day long.

To me, when the battery gets low it means time to go. So I don't mind.
Show HN: We made a website to show APIs from around the globe that devs can use
Could also be titled: when not to pivot
Foreign born Muslims probably.
How to Setup Full Disk Encryption on a Secondary HDD in Linux
Usually when the economy is soaring, it's time to pay back your debts.

To do that, you have to at least rein in your deficits.

When the private sector is doing great, the public sector doesn't have to stimulate it anymore.

However, infrastructure projects tend to have high multipliers - think the interstate highway system and the internet.

I would cut overseas spending. That accounted for trillions of dollars. Why should we pay more for the army's unspecified expenses around the world, when there is this: https://www.rt.com/usa/356562-pentagon-account-trillion-audi...

Why should we help Saudi Arabia with billions in weapons to bomb Yemen in their proxy war against Iran?
If you find AMSAT interesting, you'll probably also enjoy the high altitude ballooning (HAB) projects. This guy [0] built an 11-gram transponder payload and floated it up on what was, essentially, a mylar party balloon. It circled the globe at least once and came ashore over the northwestern U.S. near Tacoma, WA and I was lucky enough to pick it up on a handheld radio while standing in my backyard [1].

[0] https://amsat-uk.org/2014/07/31/434-mhz-balloon-b-64-complet...

[1] https://imgur.com/a/2qEC0
Why do white people like what I write?
Their chant of "Be less evil" was dead and buried 10+ years ago. They were the underdog in the beginning but absolute power corrupts absolutely. It was only a matter of time before they began to abuse their position as the world's leading search engine and positioned themselves as the internet gatekeepers.
Hey guys,

We made a website to showcase APIs from all around the world that devs can use. Instead of dumping every API into our db we try to curate as much as possible to filter what can be useful for devs building other products.

We only recently started so we are asking for feedback, features you would use and share with us APIs that you find useful.

Thank you!
I would like to do this but I don't have several million dollars lying around to get in on the futures market. And I'm sure as hell not going to keep a margin account at any cryptocurrency exchange.
Those people aren't using RSS feeds in a way that would make something like Google Reader social for me.
I had the Wicked3D H3D voodoo glasses, 3D on 20 inch monitor gave me > 100 FOV when I put my nose near the screen.
Isn’t history-based trading a myth? I mean, technical analysis of markets in general.
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I like to work at coffee shops. Its true. But I don't blame coffee shop owners, especially in high-rent areas, for complaining about coffee shop workers. First, when they start a business, they likely have an idea of what they'd like to see it become. Running a place like a cafe isn't likely just a business proposition for them; its a cultural one. Maybe they like the idea of their cafe being a hub of social and cultural activity, full of quirky personalities, artists, and political theorists; rather than remote white collar work spaces. Also, they've got to pay the bills, and their margins are pretty thin.
I have a related question (or maybe two):

- Are you really using boilerplate when you start working on a new project?
- Will you use a cli app that can create boilerplates for web (react, angular, vue, etc.), desktop (electron, nw, etc.) and cli?

I'm asking this because I had a project that I started to build for myself, then I abandoned it because I thought it'll be really hard to manage.