skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more a meta-answer, but it is a pity that more companies (and employees) can’t be professional about this. Every employee should feel comfortable having a new potential employers talk to their current employer. If everyone was upfront and honest the workplace would be a lot more productive.

One thing I do with my employees is have a chat to them about making sure they let me know in advance if they are thinking of leaving and in return I promise to provide them with a fantastic reference.

We all work in a open office so every employee gets to hear my references of past employees so they know how this system works. This approach stops me being sideswiped by employees leaving at short notice and my ex-employees get great references. A great reference from your last (or current) employer is worth its weight in gold.
Well it depends but most granola has more fibre than fruit loops which means it is healthier because it has a lower glycemic load. Even so—not a huge fan of sweetened granola.
Is that $4B worth of USD/CNY, or BTC?

If it’s BTC then a) the real figure is much lower because they can’t sell $4B of BTC without drastically moving the market, b) what portion of that is due to their BTC holdings increasing in value by more than 1000% in the past year?

Either way it’s still a lot of money, though.
Really brilliant and well-written article. The analysis of the uniqueness of American society is really well-done as well. American hyper-individualism, work ethic, and atomic self-oriented lifestyle leads people to seek their own meanings, which leads to tremendous suffering when community network is destroyed and when there's no available work to do.
Your high school PE class helped you get to know the limits of your body?! What did you do in PE class? We did things like roller skating, go bowling, etc. It was all about having fun.
The people who did the best in the gold rush were the ones who sold supplies...
Modern democracies don't look that much like Athenian democracy did.
Really, really off the point but is your 85% $3? Ours is 2, I only recognize it because of the absurd amount we eat.
That's a few blocks from a Metro stop, but really a terrible place for any kind of real foot traffic. That's near a high-traffic intersection [1] that can be difficult to navigate by car and very slow to navigate by foot.

It's also near a lot of new construction (like most of DC) geared mostly towards young, rich professionals (like most of new DC).

[1] The intersection was changed a few years ago from insanely dangerous to safe but very indirect when trying to make certain transitions.
As I've gotten older I've come to appreciate pro surfer Laird Hamilton's perspective on making friends with pain. That doesn't mean you should be a masochist, just stop seeing pain as something to always avoid.

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/page/bodyreecehamilton/just...
For me, there's three reasons:

1) they seem much more accessible to people with @outlook.com, @comcast.net, @yahoo.com, etc. email addresses

2) On a Mac, I've found their syncing to be quicker, more reliable and more efficient than Google Drive. Google Drive does not like network glitches at all, often having to be killed and restarted. I've tried changing ownership of things in Google Drive. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. This is a problem when working with things I want to hand over to someone else (for me that's the soccer club, PTA, etc.)

3) I had separate apps for Google Drive and Google Photo backup. Which I liked. Now I have Backup and Sync or whatever they're calling it. Dropbox has been easy to set up and forget.

I have more stored in Google Drive because I buy Chromebooks for me or the kids every couple of years.
Anybody who's read anything about US history would have a chuckle at the idea that a democracy cannot build canals.

I'm also a little puzzled that your post-democracy solution, apparently, is the House of Commons and the House of Lords, more or less.
>" we could dedicate a small fraction of that to engineering better consensus algorithms."

Can you elaborate on what the shortcomings of the current consensus algorithms are?
In the old days, we used #define macros to do that.
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Being overweight has a plethora of scientific evidence as being bad for you. I'm not going to re-cite the last 50 years of medical publications if that's what you're expecting.

Extrapolating it to society means that healthy people have to subsidize the unhealthy, so it's extremely unfair to those who chose to invest in their health. So being 'contrarian' in this context is just being wrong, ignoring evidence and contributing nothing to the discussion.
Well thought out. I have a similar disposition, which highlights the culture surrounding our smart-phones -- largely social networks such as Instagram & Snapchat. In one mode, they help people stay connected, and yet in another mode, they create create an ego-obsession (both of oneself and of others). This is the first part in feeling separated, alienated, or just generally inferior in a quasi social-network.

The second part is the ease of getting pleasure on demand. At any part of the day, most are free to look at the internet of anything ranging from funny pictures to pornographic pictures. They can turn on netflix, play video games, and do just about anything from the convenience of their smart phones. You can see this on just about any subway; a room full of people each engulfed in their own personal world driving their pleasure centers.

When you bring these two together (feelings of inferiority / detachment to those around you AND pleasure on demand), you get a person whose general approach to life is like that of a drug addict. They crave simple pleasures and justify it because they feel like shit. They also feel as if they're alone in this world, and so who cares? Of course this is all subconscious and part of a habitual perspective, but this is the kind of world we're growing up in America. Pharmaceuticals have significant power here and want to convince you they can fix you with a pill. Maybe they can. But what I'm trying to highlight is that we now have a mentality of always looking around for a "fix". I find very few people who can last a whole subway train just looking at the window pondering or who can strike up a conversation with a stranger for the hell of it. We're becoming way too engulfed in a pseudo personal world, and smart-phones are driving it.

No, I'm not trying to start a crusade against smart phones or even taking any stance at all. This is just how I see the problem currently. I want to believe technology can help fight it by bringing more people together for social events, but where's the advertising money in that? And who cares if you're not profiting? This pursuit of profits above all else has created a very shallow society and I would argue the drug epidemic is a reflection of it.
Or you don't want to hose your system python, or you don't want to shit all over any other work you may be doing, or you want to ever test on anything other than a single (probably polluted if you're screwing around using your system python for everything) environment, or you're a professional using python, or if you want to be taken at all seriously....the list goes on! And yeah, using your system python means you're either not doing any professional/serious work or you're a hack who needs to stop doing anything professionally/seriously.
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My guess here is that we need to learn more about adding noise to datasets before they go into a neural network. Lots of existing work do alterations like transposing, rotating, flipping and so on. Adding noise, including known attacks, would be part of this.
Ace Parking says Uber, Lyft have cut parking business up to 50% in some venues
PoS is not going to be very popular as it removes the literal "money out of thin air" that was happening with GPUs in the past few years (coming to end in medium term). PoS strongly favors already well capitalized owners, instead of allowing new ones.
File under "good news:" https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193... . Even Ace Parking is likely implicitly subsidized by zoning codes.
When you're finding a roommate you have no obligation to be "fair" the way you do when hiring someone for a job--nor should you be. A roommate's compatibility with you isn't solely determined by their resume or any other traits that can be represented on paper, and it's a situation where personal safety is a legitimate concern. If you interview a potential roommate you have every right to trust your gut over their word or the word of their references.
It's likely people such as that don't even realize they are creating a paper trail.

"Paper trail? There was no paper! How could there be a trail!?"
Thank you for the explanation.

I'm curious though; what happens if someone takes over your phone number? Eg. If the operator re-assigns a prepaid number?
I often wonder about these dynamics. I've been genuinely befuddled to learn that some people believe political arguments that I perceived to be so stupid that they had to be part of a cynical political narrative. But lo and behold, some people who I otherwise knew to be reasonable still believed them.

My suspicion is that it only takes a very small minority of a political group to understand the landscape of an issue, initiate a narrative around a power play and have it spread like wildfire within the group.

In short, I think both of your explanations can be correct at the same time. A small subset initiates, the rest of the group genuinely adopts.
> If you haven't encountered it, you're just lucky or, more likely, haven't yet noticed. ;)

3rd option, I don't use that feature :)

I create all my passwords before registration when I need them. So that's the weak point it seems. Hell, I don't even have the browser plugin installed.
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I would have to agree with /u/danimal88's analysis that it's probably more about market than difficulty. For humans, spoken fluency in Chinese is not nearly as difficult as it's made out to be until you add written Chinese. Voice to text in Chinese is very close to perfect. I suspect that it's actually easier for machines to interpret than English, considering the fact that English is so damned inconsistent in pronunciation, grammar, and phonemes.
Do you have a 5-second summary of what you mean by "Growth specifics and positioning of algorithms in the StitchFix S-1"? Just the fact that they use algorithms to tailor individual boxes, or do you mean something more specific?
Just smelt some silicon, yadda, yadda, yadda. Trivial.
Firefox could certainly have more market share, but Mozilla is certainly not short on money right now either.
It sounds like you are not 100% committed to the startup. Personally if I was your co-founder I would be unhappy and an unhappy co-founder is not something that I would want to have.

I think you need to decide if you are 100% committed or not and let your co-founder know. If you are not 100% in then find a way to ease yourself out so that you can be replaced with someone who is - it is better that you do this rather than wait for your co-founder to do it for you.
Not sure about others but I have noticed increase in the number of articles published on nytimes.com on the front page on HN. And because I am not a paid user for them, I hardly get to read these articles(it seems they have limit of free articles/month).

Just curious, as these articles are on the front page(one nytimes article almost every day), most of the HN community pay for their subscription? Or there is something else going on e.g. voting ring with paid subscription to promote and increase their sign up rates?
The point of crashcart is to be able to side load a filesystem with utilities into a running container. It is very important that the location we pick doesn't conflict with any path already in the container. If we used /nix as the mount path it would conflict with any container that uses nix. In order to prevent this (probably rare) conflict, we build our utilities in /dev/crashcart/ instead.
Growing a company that sells wooden sunglasses to $1M per year
Dropbox Business supports nested shared folders now. Source: I evangelized it and worked on it.
Normally I would jump on this, but I like dropbox, I like the people there, and I like Drew, so I'm willing to spend an extra $30 a year to increase their revenue and keep them in business longer.
If you believe the profits of our industry should be captured by more than just a few uber-wealthy, well-connected individuals, you applaud.

Buying a stock on the NYSE is doable with a bit of extra cash and the touch of a button in a trading app these days. Some would argue that even this is too high a barrier for the poor and marginalized, but it makes it possible for at least a portion of the professional class to participate.
apart from the bigger companies (like Fb), have there been any major SaaS companies (esp. B2B but I guess that's trying to be too narrow so B2B & B2C) that have moved from Cloud to their own Data Center? (I know Etsy comes to mind...but apart from them?).
It's not like it's a secret that Mozilla Corp. makes their money from search. It's been that way for a very long time and they spell it out right in the State of Mozilla link:

"The majority of Mozilla Corporation’s revenue is from royalties earned through Firefox web browser search partnerships and distribution deals around the world."

Their revenue is up more than $100 million from last year so they're not exactly dying.

How do you figure they're barely surviving? How does that make them a Google puppet? What exactly is your point through this thread?

If you think it's news that they take Google's money I'm not sure you're qualified to be making these sorts of claims.
(in healthy, male mice)
Containers won the battle, but will lose the war to serverless
I didn't suggest that trusting your gut means you're not aware you can be biased.
There's a great deal of assumptions in that comment.
Did you miss the part where he took the cats of one of his former victims to a kill shelter?
> 'first' and 'rest' for 'car' and 'cdr' are obviously better, because they say what's going on

I sometimes use cons cells for binary trees - first and rest are misleading in that case. I very often use cons cells to define things - the car is some object and the cdr is some property or definition that applies to the object. first and rest are misleading for that use case.

What you are proposing is to use domain-specific names for operations on an abstract data structure. Any names with pre-existing meaning will become misleading as soon as the data structure is applied to a different application. Coming up with new terminology to unambiguously refer to new technical concepts is not a "problem," it is a means of effective communication.
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Does word have save as PDF option if you haven't bought acrobat?
People will laugh, but I used QuickBASIC and 486's to build and launch an auto auction in Las Vegas in the early 90's... Built a file-based system ( a database really ) to hold car data and allow searching ( index files... ), printing of invoices... you name it... it really was a full featured, easy to use "language" and much more.
> offset by some decimal fraction so that about half the bits were right of decimal point.

Seems weird not to use binary fixpoints. Can't really see the point of using a decimal point instead of a binary point/radix.
Fentanyl is an extremely common ingredient in a surgical cocktail.
Those two on Sunday are interesting. I wonder if they are data errors and were really Monday but in another time zone.
Well, not public, but eventually accessible by those holding the guns and running the prisons. Which is still not great.
You might be right. I was just looking at some listings to see if I could find any disclaimer but didn't see any. I did find some various suppliers, all similar names but not exact.

If you search for Van Houtte coffees, you get products supplied by "Van Houtte Coffees", "Van Houtte" and "VAN HOUTTE". Clicking on the supplier link two bring you to the same page, the 3rd to a different supplier page. They all look legitimate but there's no way to tell. I'd actually like to see a "Verified" listing by Amazon. I'd much rather buy from a verified supplier to make sure I'm not getting some "off the back of the truck" coffee pods or whatever.
Yes, agreed. From your previous comment:

> Apple does not provide a way to do these remappings on OS X

Run Emacs (or XEmacs) under XQuartz and you can do whatever remapping you want. This is how I deal with it.

Another choice is a fully programmable keyboard, though these also tend to have nonstandard layouts that require some retraining.
While not exactly what you're asking for, they do mention in the article Multilingual support. So you'll be able to use it in both French and English.

This may solve some problems you're speaking of.
I hope they add it soon. Google Assistant would be perfect for my wife's grandparents, who speak barely any English.
A bunch of that is probably going to be in BCH, since they were requiring that for mining hardware purchases for a while, and that's an even shallower market.
Is this the first company to go public that (almost) started/took-off as a "Show HN"? In a way, this is a big moment for YC, PG and this community. Is there a list of "Show HNs" that have become "big"? It would be very interesting to see.
Splunk?
That is incredibly naive. How would someone know with any certainty that the "surgeon" had any actual training if not for the regulation of the industry. Would there even be insurance? Your argument is based on a system that has benefited greatly from regulation. Without the regulation the system would fall apart.
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Assuming the IPO goes well they should get applause because YC and employees will get liquidity. That said, if the IPO is priced low, employees and some investors may not get a large windfall and may not celebrating too much (kind of like how you do not always celebrate a large down round).
I've just watched a presentation [0] linked by someone else in this thread and am quite impressed by the architecture and UX shown.

But it seems to me that Cockpit is more about monitoring and doing ad-hoc changes and not permanent configuration. I base that assumption on the fact that for example there are multiple places where one can configure network interfaces in debian and there is no cli tool or api to persist network configuration created with ip (at least to my knowledge). I can imagine parsing and editing fstab automatically and 100% correctly to be tricky too.

On the other hand enabling or disabling systemd services is permanent by default and there are probably more cli tools that automatically persist changes done through them.

Can anybody more familiar to Cockpit shed some light on the persistence of most of the configuration options?

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2017-99-cockpit_a_linux_sysadmin_s...
It's funny to note that the reason he couldn't be presented with his rifle at the event is because the Conservative Political Action Conference is a gun-free zone.
> Chinese is just brutal for literally everything.

I've heard Chinese ex-colleagues how characters are so much better instead of icons on smartphones... Maybe they just wanted the messy system where most of population can't write a grammatically correct sentence (oh, you can read Chinese, but I can write!) to be useful somewhere...
"Your honor, if I was asleep when my car ran off the road, can it truly be said that 'I' ran over the deceased?"
I thought Dropbox's revenue mainly comes from it's business clients - B2B is more $ compared to B2C although B2C might be more profitable as customers might pay the $10/1TB and not really use that much anyways)

Their paying users have increased, but the revenue per user has decreased (based on the S1...which I assume is because of enterprise deals).
I've moved to coins that are asic-tough
https://examine.com is a great resource for supplements and nutrition backed by research studies.
As for diet, the best, simplest advice, imo, is a wide variety of whole natural foods:
Leafy greens (spinach, arugula, kale, etc)
Nuts (almonds, walnuts, cashews, etc)
Protein (salmon, fish, chicken, no processed red meats like pepperoni/ham/bacon)
Other veggies like sweet potatoes, avocados, carrots
Fruits (apples, bananas, berries)
Mushrooms, onions, garlic, olives
dark chocolate
beans/hummus
No, I'm not a trusting fool. I don't know how you came to that conclusion.

I think you're arguing for the opposite of what you're saying. Con artists rely completely on our subconscious judgement, rather than rational thinking, and second guessing it is often the key to realizing you're a mark.

Not trusting your gut instincts, but rather taking the time to think things through rationally and come up with a basis for your judgements is what I am arguing for.
Walking + audiobooks have done wonders for me. I find myself taking hour long walks all the time just to read the next few chapters.
That's precisely why Algol used ':=' for assignment ;-}
Like everything it is a factor of supply and demand. On the demand side there is not as great a demand from employers for software engineers in Canada, on the supply side immigration is considerably easier into Canada for software engineers. Less demand and greater supply = lower wages.

We have the same issue here in Australia.
This is great for quick jobs but if you have a good dataset that is in your domain you should retrain using fasttext, doc2vecC, word2vec or starspace to name but a few tools that are excellent. The window size is important as well, depending on your downstream task - one size doesn't fit all. It only takes a few hours on a beefy CPU with enough RAM for a corpus with a size of billions of words.

Word vectors are fascinating representations. There is a huge amount of information and nuance captured in them. You can use them directly for topic retrieval (using annoy or another optimised vector index), or feed them into a classifier such as those in the Sklearn library. All types of neural nets: fully connected, recurrent and convolutional can be applied on word vectors.
The top of the normal BMI range for someone 6'5" tall is actually 210 lbs. That's not incredibly skinny nor would it be impractical for most people to maintain.
There's nothing shocking and I think that bodes very very well for Dropbox. It looks like a solid foundation with great growth.

The standouts to me were -

* They cut costs on an absolute and relative basis for the last two years. This is fantastic and I hope the trend continues.

* I don't understand how the $112 ARPU number foots with their pricing. They are telling a story that "teams" is driving growth but on the surface that's not reflected in the ARPU number. There's some sort of promotional discounting that's happening that isn't exposed here. I hope that they are aggressively managing their promo strategy internally because unchecked it can tank a whole company (see GAP).

* No idea where they expect new users to come from given they have 500M accounts. Presumably people have 2+ dropbox accounts (personal + work). I'm interested to know how many unique active users dropbox has.
How big?
For 1PW it might be ideal to push updates and not charge for them. As a security/tool provider out of date software could be compromised or have issues which might damage their public image.
Way back when, there used to be home economics but that was really oriented toward the women who were clearly going to get married and cook for their husbands/families. As gender roles changed, home economics pretty much went away.
Wasn't Dropbox also one of their solo founders? I wonder if YC ever rethought that filter given their success.
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