skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which years were your classmates in school? I recognize that there were quite a few lost decades for the Chinese.

From the figures I see the situation is getting much better now in terms of access but yes the atmosphere is still very competitive and resources and opportunities still need to be expanded.
Humans are capable of deriving and applying new knowledge about a problem while solving it. So when confronted with a specific NP hard problem, a human solver applies intuition and thereby restricts the solution space that must be searched significantly. These intuitive rules can be very specific to the problem. There is no good computer algorithm that can do the same combination of creating and applying rules automatically.
Their account is twice as old as yours.
Cluster bombs are also horrific devices and should not be used by anyone including the United States.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/cluster-munitions-pent...
Well, before the Internet I would never have needed an account in a club race management system; I would probably just have used a bunch of unwieldy papers.

While I don't disagree that there's a lot of useless account creation, I'm still member of at least magnitude more of useful online accounts that I or my parents ever were offline.
Don't bother expanding the Eurostar. The longest routes are already three times as expensive as the plane and take much longer.
Couldn't find the car reference, may be gone already. Here's the group history as of right now though:

https://we.tl/SR1VZcdObr
This getting upvoted and rising toward the top of HN reminds me of Hesse writing about academic/intellectual elites and winning the Nobel prize for it. Magister Ludi wasn’t his best novel, but it was the one that felt most self-gratifying for the voting body.

Humans tend to regard as ‘right’/of-value/impressive that which validates their own perspective, sometimes shamelessly.
The Miami location is $120/night for 7-29 nights, and $79/night for 30+ nights.

The Roam website [1] falls into the standard "travel booking site antipattern" of not giving any sort of pricing overview and instead forcing the user to randomly throw dates into the booking form.

[1] https://www.roam.co/places/miami
Would have loved for this to work, but there might be a few problems.

1. Some people might pass the test and sell it to others who didn't.

2. I'm not sure how education helps here. Everyone who takes heroin/cocaine knows how bad it is. I think people actually think it's much worse than it is.

After taking a "health" class in high school, my friends and I said "wow, I thought drugs are much worse". For example, they showed a recording of a lady taking MDMA and enjoying it in her room. From what I was taught before that, I assumed she must die or commit suicide immediately or must start craving another dose a day later. Same thing with marijuana.

"It's bad, but we can't tell you why except some potential side effects that may or may not occur"
Probably not exactly what you are asking, but "Site Reliability Engineering" from Google is available to read on-line:

https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
How is email non-interrupting but Slack is? You can enable/disable notifications for either of them and respond to either when you like.
Reading through this thread, it seems like Slack is really missing more fine-grained control over channel permissions.

There are largely four types of communication and they need four different permission designs:

* Important and immediate - stuff like production monitoring and incident resolution. These channels should typically be quiet but they should have the power to notify and interrupt people doing normal work when activity happens. If you have support channels, they should be staffed by dedicated support people whose primary job is to be interrupted by support requests, and not engineers trying to buckle down on their work.

* Important but not immediate - ordinary corporate alignment discussions. These channels should be globally administratively enforced as read-only except for predefined, enforced "meeting hours" which are blocked out organization-wide on everybody's calendar, which is when discussion on issues actually happens. If people have an issue they need to bring up on a particular topic, it can wait until tomorrow, and not interrupt engineers trying to get their work done. People no longer mute these channels because they're not interrupting them during get-work-done hours. If it's too difficult to follow the "meeting" in a dozen different channels then it's probably a sign that your organization has you in charge of too many responsibilities and you should stop looking at the tool as a means of fixing your organizational problems.

* Not important (and either immediate or not immediately): there's a time and place for watercooler channels, and it's not interrupting you in your cubicle. Notifications should be globally administratively disabled entirely for these channels, for everyone, including the people who care about following along in those channels, because nobody should be standing around the watercooler all day long.

Slack's product teams should be looking at mute as a sign of failure that says "either this tool or this tool's configuration is preventing me from doing my job" and the product team should respond accordingly (remember: tool misconfigurations are an admin UX failure that harms your product by damaging its reputation, and you should fix the UX failure that lead to the misconfiguration so as to protect your product's reputation). The only mute button in Slack should be a Slack-wide mute button for vacation etc.
Assuming you're talking about the incident in 2005... My wife and I to got stuck at Waterloo station for hours waiting for a train to Paris while the authorities sorted things out... :-)

We were interviewed by a reporter from one of the red tops and they had to re-take our photo several times because we didn't look miserable enough.
As a digital nomad, we decided not to use Roam because of cost. It's basically like paying SF rent, but in countries with a third the cost of living.

Being a digital nomad is definitely stressful. You have to constantly look for a good place to work. It's hard to meet like-minded people. Roam simplifies a lot of that, and I see the value.

It's like the WeWork of co-working / co-living spaces. I'm sure they'll do well as the movement grows.
Cool project! I assume this is based on the SLF's 20 year data: https://www.slf.ch/de/lawinen/unfaelle-und-schadenlawinen/la...
Maybe it's a personal thing. I really appreciate keeping my number of installed packages down, even when I have a lot of space available.
Education will not stop people from getting caught in the death grip of heroin. Just as education does not stop people from smoking cigarettes today.

And once an addict is born, as they say, that person will struggle with addiction for the rest of their lives even if they manage to abstain.

I'm all for legalization of marijuana, but legalization of heroin is a very poor idea. Heroin must be kept out of the hands of the people.
It's not at all for the 1%. The flights can be cheaper than Gatwick or Heathrow when you factor in the transportation to go to the airport.
A new book focused on developer testing, reviewed here:

https://henrikwarne.com/2017/08/20/developer-testing/
or run trusted open source apps, preferably built from official upstream source.

It's a bit crazy but I liked Stallmans analogy that back in the day computers didn't need user passwords, because logically speaking the person who sits in front of the computer owns it - it's extremely empowered idea.
This applies well to this subject as apps should be the same - they should be able to do everything you are able to do on the machine.
You already gave full trust to the app once you installed it, to somehow go back on this trust is nothing but a paradox.
http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ This is pure gold !

> Tesla finally launches a product as advertised. Hackernews, based on Youtube videos, reverse-engineers a spacecraft down to the metallurgical level and then sagely debates the maintenance characteristics of an aircraft that exited service before any of them learned to read and none of them have seen in operation, mostly derived from blog posts by people they're pretty sure knew a guy.
You can always find a worse situation, but that does not invalidate the concerns regarding the original situation.
Oh yes, n gate is pretty awesome! Any clue who runs it?
Or buy after crashes and sell when you see nice gains.

The trouble with that is you can be out of the market for a long time waiting for the crash, all the while missing gains.
March 2017. http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/brondesbury-park-bomb-saf...
Clearly it wasn’t a show stopper for all their existing users, who are now paying two engineers their salaries.
According to this news article, there are over 7+ million[1] college grads last year from China, while the enrollment of primary school is between 15-20 millions[2]. So overall, 30%-50% of students made from primary school to college in China.

[1]http://hubei.eol.cn/hubeinews/201704/t20170425_1510433.shtml

[2]http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_sjzl/s5990/201612/t20161219_292432...
"This site can’t be reached"

ironic...
"But supposedly this: Rates of HIV infection dropped from 8.1 cases per 100 person-years in 1997 to 0.37 cases per 100 person-years by 2011"

I'd like to see a source on that; at minimum, I suspect those numbers would be for new, not total, infections, and I've never seen HIV stats narrowed down to the block level. Plus, sexual transmissions unrelated to the injection site should have accounted for more cases than that.
Yes, it's horrible. I actually do set all notifications off, which is borderline rude and arrogant of me, but otherwise my "working hours" would be pretty much pointless.

For me, actually, the worst part is the shittiest chat app I've ever seen bar none, especially on desktop. There's no decent app for Linux, browser app is slow, buggy and constantly leaks memory, the most basic features that, I'd think are mandatory for any modern chat-app are missing, UI just totally sucks. It's hard to imagine someone could make an IM-app so bad by chance.
> it is not safe

Are you referring to that it makes syscalls slow, or is it about something else?
When Google introduced account names in G+ (separate from gmail account names), they started by doing this. But I suspect it was a fairly big turn-off for people who are used to getting their usernames.
This seems parallel to the discussion about "Let’s talk about usernames" over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16356397
Correctly promise and correctly deliver.
> The real problem is when we move from 1000 archers with light bows, to 1000 archers with heavy medieval bows...

And ancient battles often had more than 1000 archers. Thermopylae probably had 5,000 professional archers. That's 25,000+ arrows in the sky, focused on one area. There's no question that it would block out the sun to some degree, but how much?
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They do and they make sure of it by not having any way to stop notifications.
Shameless PR piece. I wonder how much do you have to pay to get fluff articles in the NY Times? Does anyone know, even if just approximately?
First of all it's not a tweet storm, it's the thread that is now the official twitter feature. Secondly, there is no any good reason to prevent good twitter threads to be posted to HN. Technically you can send anything and if the community appreciates it, it does not matter what form it was presented. Thirdly, what are you HN police?
Worth mentioning Spotify's account hijacking problem when using unicode
https://labs.spotify.com/2013/06/18/creative-usernames/
Not to take away from modern war, but Medieval times must have been really bad. I can't imagine being on the front line knowing I am probably about to be stabbed or hideously maimed at best. The march into a cloud of arrows which you can see coming in volleys would be absolutely miserable.

I find it really hard to picture myself in that type of conflict.

Yet, despite being no more clement, and that death is a constant, the idea of my D-Day craft opening up, and being raked with invisible machine gun fire is almost clinical in nature.

Airstrikes and missles are so far removed from medieval battles, it would be fair to say that you can sit in a destroyer with AC and comfortably press a button while thinking what happens at the end of your book tonight before bed. I can imagine that, but not the guilt one may feel if any.

What a difference distance makes.
Commentary: The Story of Jesus Is an Allegory for Neo from the Matrix
I expect the higher rate tax relief will go soon as well.
I believe Scala can use javascript libraries either dynamically or with type definitions in exactly the same way as TypeScript?

I tried to use TypeScript but the type system just wasn't good enough; when you've been working in a strongly-typed language like Scala for a while, a language without nominal types or HKT just isn't going to cut it.
I'm not sure how you've constructed morality in your mind, but if you choose to belittle people who want to protect innocent people from the ravages of heroin addiction, which is a lifelong sickness, then you are misguided.

The real measure of success is how few people become junkies in the first place.
If you delete the “/_security_check/” part from the URL, you get to the site proper. Maybe it's a reaction to a steep surge in requests.

Edit: Or, as another comment proposes, it could in fact be due to the referrer, and we're being had.
Which of those alternatives are an option if the goal is to inspect and rewrite syscall arguments and return values, and do other things in between?
I think the MO is generally to sweeten up the journalist, not the paper; actual paid adverts need to be marked as such. Roam will have a PR agency with relationships with journalists who they keep sweet, and will occasionally suggest should write articles about their clients.
Does (s)he have to have a point? It's an interesting anecdote related (even if only tangentially) to the discussion at hand.
About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
The death grip of heroin is mostly unrelated to the actual medical properties of heroin (or most opioids). The worst health effects come from the impurities in the substance (Strychnine, a common additive, is generally speaking not a substance beneficial to your health), the conditions under which it's used (shared needles, lack of hygiene) and the treadmill of having to organize funds for the next shot. Medically speaking, heroin is less harmful than alcohol. It's very hard to actually overdose if the purity is constant. It's a preferred drug for pallative care in many countries since it's effective and relatively easy to use (similar tor morphine).

Heroin addicts on a constant regime of pure heroin can be well-functioning members of society. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin-assisted_treatment

So if you truly care about the health of the afflicted persons, legalization with a strict control is the most effective option that is currently on the table.
It purports to be a translation from the French of a hundred years ago, which is necessarily going to be a rather alien style. It's essentially science fiction in the style of Verne.
Having it closed and only replying when I get a notification email for unread messages works quite well for me (if you know how to limit your email checking).
Same as donkeyd's comment I've communicated this to my clients and they've adjusted and it's a non-problem.
I think it's less about paying NYT and more about finding a story that they think their readers want to read. If NYT content were just advertisements / sponsored content, people wouldn't read it, and that'd hurt NYT's brand. I doubt they paid for this.
Most major services offer different package deals, though you seem to want an on-demand service. Amazon offers exactly what you want:
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/set-up-ci-cd...

looking around at other services:
Gitlab won't add it to gitlab.com hosted repositories, nor does bitbucket seem to offer auto-magically rescaling + on-demand.
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/3314
https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing?tab=host-in-the-cloud

However you could run gitlab in an automatically scaling AWS package (or google cloud, azure, any other service that offers elastic packages).
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems https://g.co/kgs/9QF2Kv

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations https://g.co/kgs/1cffqN

The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit https://g.co/kgs/ULqmRc

DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective https://g.co/kgs/trJVDi

Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale https://g.co/kgs/LTMEay
Everywhere I've worked with wiki, I found that people actually read the wiki and that it contained both important guides for new users/developers/maintainers and old documentation that was crucial for old systems.
Secret Unix tip:

$ whois n-gate.com

(where “$” is your shell prompt)
Don't trust google on metadata recommendations, they change it way too often: https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/17/8/owning-my-reviews
Future of space travel : Major events in upcoming century – part I
Well, obviously there has to be some kind of booking system, but it could work on a more ad-hoc basis. You can stay in your current location for as long as you like, or you can login and see which other locations have capacity, then let them know you'll be coming in day or so.

Would this be less convenient in certain situations, where you had definite travel plans in advance? Sure. But it'd also encourage and enable the kind "nomadic" approach they claim to be delivering, and you could always use a regular hotel if you absolutely had to be in a particular city one a particular date.

As it stands, "business hotel with guaranteed decent wifi" might be a useful market niche, but it's a far cry from the kind paradigm-shift this seems to be being spun as. And I think there would be something quite interesting in doing it for real.
MilkDrop
It is certainly impressive.

A market bigger than US governed by a single political entity, that has the ability to control its citizen beyond the imagination of any western governments.

That is enormous power, and it comes in aggregate. US has been the biggest/smartest country to turn its internal market into a weapon. Now that China has it, it will surely use to same, if not greater extent, and that is what makes it intimidating.
I run IdeaCheck.io [0] where we try to validate startup ideas by running a survey within the target audience and develop a report based on the results. We've automated everything that we were able to automate so that we can spend our energy on the 'important' bits that provide the most value to our clients.

Especially in design, I think that there will continue to be a market for both, automation and individualized services. Customers who don't want to spend a lot of money are happy with self-service automated tools like Canva or Logojoy, but I believe that creativity (coming up with a "clever" logo that stands out) will be one of the last areas to be automated away.

[0] https://ideacheck.io
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You are right, yet, I believe there's a lot of wisdom and value in the comments here. Quite often I tend to read the commends before the articles/posts themselves.
sabayon as client: good package manager, up-to-date packages

rhel as server: long lasting projects/software because of long term support

ubuntu/debian as server: for smaller project
The same answer applies here as with your other question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16357653
but with some additions, you can use AWS lambda for that with some hacks or set up your own service, just spin up a docker image and run what you need doing in that (its what you do with pipelines either way). You can use githooks if you want functions to be executed at some self-hosted repository once someone pushes.
It's a been a year since I used slack but I distinctively remember that they didn't have anything to manage notifications / popups.
A quick proof read by an English speaker might have helped.
The Frameworkless Self-Defence Manual
Seems like they let you turn off all notifications:

https://imgur.com/a/nLePu

I'm fairly sure you can set do-not-disturb times as well.
Should I use an IM to coordinate complex work, I would like to not only be away/online, but publish some schedule (if I have one) and create few tags so people could tag their messages as project-related, organisational, question, asap, etc. And their messages will be inactive until tag time, e.g. all org-related goes to lunch and all failures ring until everyone hears it. Also, to mark messages unread/todo/newtag would be helpful, since I always forget about chats that I delayed to answer. If comm system also allows to say “busy; 3 min ETA” in one click, it would be nice.

Simple group-posting is stupid – groups are muted or annoying, or induces a fear to ask questions. But the absense of group/topic alarm can also turn into inconvenience.

/never used slack, know nothing about it
> I really hate this attitude in our circles

Maybe I wasn't clear. My point is that it is Google's attitude right now. If a product is not "a unicorn" they instead rush to something else (Talk->Hangouts->Allo) or kill it (Reader, Wave). Being niche product in Google is just dangerous for that product.
That's how magicians keep the focus away from what is really happening ;-)
> What serious pages are there where you could not just create another account if you start to being ashamed for what you have right now?

Depends what's associated with the account, no?

If it's something like Steam, your username might be tied to hundreds of dollars of purchases.

If it's Slashdot, you'll lose your sweet low user ID.

If it's StackOverflow, you'll lose your various reputation scores.
The most compelling "what's next for the web" proposal I've seen is Douglas Crockford's Seif Project [1]. Though it has it's flaws, I'm willing to give the inventor of JSON the benefit of the doubt.

[1] https://youtu.be/lVezcdfjWis
Very first position I looked at: "CANDIDATES MUST LIVE IN THE UK."

Gotta love these "remote work" sites that allow this. I realise your site is simply aggregating a bunch of others, but if you could find a way to filter these liars you'd actually be adding a significant value.

Also: Please sort the tags (alphabetically? Anything that makes sense.)
I think even though n-gate provides another perspective on HN comments, some of it just a hateful rant that doesn't add any values itself.

I remember chuckled reading n-gate, until I read a rant about Monica[1] on n-gate. Monica, i think, is an awesome app to keep in touch with your best friends and family. N-gate said it's just an app that makes you creepy because you stalk your family and your best friend. Can't find the n-gate link though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295
reminds me of this: http://danluu.com/hn-comments/
You know there are people who don't like the HN hivemind, yes? "Hacker News is an echo chamber focusing on computer posturing and self-aggrandizement." and "Hacker News is the Slashdot for the smug classes".

For the most part I think they are right, though obviously I am still here. I think that says something about me.

Some of these people do things like do a redirect based on the referer.

Try following one of the links at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jwz.org . Done because "Hacker News is a steaming cesspool and I don't have time or desire to deal with their bandwidth demands, so I just block them."