skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i shouldn't need to justify my constraints.

If you're asking people for free help and to spend their time understanding how their relevant but not identical experiences may adapt to your different-but-related problem, then yeah, you might.

If someone, even someone I respect, know personally, and work alongside, comes up to me and says "I need to install a nearly-20-year-old version of MySQL next to a modern software stack; help!" [0], I'm going to ask "why?" and maybe "are you sure there's no other way to approach your goal?" first. Not presumptuously or because I'm sure I know better, but because a) the answer will help me better understand the problem and goal, and b) because sometimes extremely competent, rational people really do overlook the obvious solutions, sometimes for days/weeks spent beating their head against the wrong problem.

Sometimes the justification is as simple as "it's a business constraint imposed from above". Sometimes it's a more complex story. Either way, wanting to know that isn't asking too much.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47350382
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> She's actually fine with it? Or just not complaining?

There's no way for me to know for sure which ;)

She seems to like it a lot, but I don't know how much of that is the work I put in before hand. I spent a good week customizing everything from font size to mouse sensitivity to shortcuts and browser plugins before I gave it to her. It was pretty much "what do you want your computer to do", then I built her something that did exactly that.

But that pays off because I don't have to spend a bunch of time on tech support now, and she doesn't have to spend time learning new paradigms. The only time I ever touch it is if she explicitly asks for it to do something new, which is rare. I think better file/photo tagging is the only big thing on my todo list atm.
All dating should be like gay apps/dating... theres always someone wanting to talk to you, trade pics and try to hook up with you. At least if you have a nice body, decent face and are 20 to 40... unfortunately being white might help too.

Str8 dating app scams barely exist on gay/bi apps. There's no need for it due to how men are. Horny and looking 24/7.
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If I create a dating app I'd use the VC money to contract some sex professionals to create a great atmosphere.
I used to work at Dropbox (as a PM, not a dev so I can't speak to that specific experience).

It was made pretty clear during orientation that there was some monitoring software installed on your computer that needed to be installed so we could keep our various compliances (HIPAA, PCI, etc). I think they were pretty clear that humans were not actively reviewing these logs (i.e. a computer would flag activity based on a heuristic) which definitely made me feel better. I was friends with people on the internal security team, and it was very obvious that they took employee privacy very seriously, at least from a philosophical perspective.

Obviously, people used their work computers for personal things. People installed Steam, Skype, whatever. I never heard of anyone getting in trouble for using that kind of software.

Security actually contacted me about my usage once. I was doing some Wikipedia browsing about password cracking cracking software and I noticed that there was one program in particular (Cain and Abel) that was exclusively for Windows. That struck me as weird, because I expected most security software to be run on *nix systems. Anyway, I went to the Cain and Abel homepage, browsed around a bit and then went on my merry way.

The next day, I get a somewhat alarming email from the security team alerting me that my computer had been compromised and removed from the network. I reached out to the guy who sent the email over Slack, and I go to his desk for a quick meeting. I ask him what the deal is, and he checks my Macbook's S/N against the list of flagged machines. He asked me if I had gone to "www.oxid.it" and at that point I freaked out a bit because I didn't recognize the domain. We searched the domain, and it was at that point I realized it was the same software I was looking up the previous day, and told him the site visit had been intentional. He explained that visiting the site is behavior consistent with a compromised machine and that would explain why I had gotten flagged.

I pointed out that C&A is Windows only software and I was running OSX, and he gave me the (somewhat unsatisfying) answer that you can't be too careful. After that, he told me to be careful and sent me on my way.

Overall, I had a pretty positive perception of the internal security team. They had a strong reputation and seemed to execute competently without being obstructionist.

I hope this answer gives you a bit of insight. I'd be interested to see how other shops do it.
Are you saying that "people in general" == "people whose native alphabet is Latin-based"?
And I’ve made more friends than dates with Her, so I guess the stereotypes hold true for lesbian apps as well.
> Why does the world need two very similar planes, such as the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320? If there was only one plane manufacturer

traditional economist answer: without competing market forces, there would be no pressure for innovation? the high efficiency engines that customers have pressed for from the engine manufacturers, and other improvements which resulted in the 737MAX and a320NEO would not exist if there was a single monopoly small airplane. If there was a single monopoly small airplane people would probably be still flying around in a level of technology/fuel efficiency similar to a legacy 737-400.
What kind of verification are you looking for? Everything in the paste is true. And it's not like it's a surprise or anything, it's been going on for many years.
And I also wish more people realized that drug companies are sitting flush either. Lilly posted about a billion in profit this quarter. Gilead posted $4B in losses. Novartis posted about $2B in profit.

That sounds like a lot. It is, to a degree. Do you think they should fund this treatment for free for 2000 people? Because 600,000 people die from cancer every year. Just in the US.

Insurance companies? Anthem made about a billion. State Farm lost $71M. The list goes on.

Hospitals are doing far worse.

You can cut researcher salaries; great, you just impacted the people who are literally doing the research to save peoples' lives. You can cut executive salaries; they mostly get paid in stock anyway, and its not like their job isn't important. You can rely on public research; uh oh, the public just elected Mr. Donald, who called the NHS "broken". #Defunded.

I hate the expediency of some people. Let's look for an easy answer to this problem: Drug companies are greedy! Or... How about this: drug research is fucking difficult, which makes it very expensive. And also: humans are designed to die. There are a billion things on this planet that can kill us, and quite often when drug companies fix one of them, those little asshole bacteria get three times stronger and fight back, or humans discover a new thing to smoke or drink that gives them cancer.

And then the same people who just finished a large milkshake from McDonalds hop online or go to a protest and yell that drugs are too expensive.
Considering there was a foreign state agent involved in the hack, we should consider the possibility that Yahoo could not disclose the hack even if they wanted to.
Is the startup getting them to work for free? If so the engineer is a sucker unless they’re a cofounder.
Even?

If there's one crime against UI and design that stands far above the others, it's Java's GUI framework.
Right, he started by pointing out the tax haircut of equity. But he moved the goalposts when he compared the nominal dollar cost of foregone salary to the after-tax value of the options.

It's a nitpick. The underlying point stands.
It is run by humans after all. Some of these humans, even in their high ranking are just that, humans. I usually avoid those types as they sometimes have an axe to grind and want to take it out on "underlings". My rep is high enough anyway there that those types are just pathetic.
Amazon is raising the price of Prime to $119
I don't have a subscription so I'm not going to read the article, but maybe someone can tell me how this is different, in a "creating superbugs" sense, from giving antibiotics to livestock when they're not sick.
Well, competition isn't the only incentive that can drive innovation though. In the case of public research, it can do quite the opposite.
Tim Armstrong is not associated with Altaba in any form, so the fine did not happen under him.
However, things get more complicated when you look at the other factors: fuel efficiency, cabin air pressure & humidity (related to jet lag symptoms), fuel price swings, etc.

Innovations and new discoveries somehow bring down the cost despite an increase of competitors. Having multiple competitors provide an alternative when one company chooses a design that has unforeseen problems: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rolls-royce-hldg-engines/...

The "second-to-market" might also learn from the mistakes of the "first-to-market". This happened when IBM entered the PC industry in the early-80s. Compaq and DELL later when on to find ways to sell PCs cheaper than IBM.

Boeing is having trouble with some of the engines of the 787 (Dreamliner). It might have something to do with the bleedless air system they chose. While Airbus went a different direction with their A350. Boeing chose to use composite materials to save on weight and allow for more air pressure and humidity. Airbus followed up with the A350 because of the Dreamliner popularity, but chose a more conservative design in some areas.

Either way, the airlines that buy (ie finance) either one will save on fuel costs compared to previous models. With the "increased cost" of more than one competitor, airlines have a choice to help them deal with risks of a new design... and adapt to changing market conditions.

(Disclaimer: I am not an engineer or economist.)

Soviet Union bureaucrats also thought like this: Too many competitors is inefficient. We will save resources if we just have one shoe provider. Cut to the future: Russians notice how tiny Japan can build a better television than the might of the entire Soviet Union: http://articles.latimes.com/1987-02-01/local/me-580_1_televi...
Prime Music is worthless because it's not comprehensive enough to replace a better service like Spotify. Same goes for Prime Video - I haven't seen anything worthwhile that isn't available on Netflix, unless you include titles that you have to pay for separately anyway.

And I've never found anything worth buying on Prime Day - it seems like a marketing gimmick crossed with an opportunity for Amazon to clear out the junk at the back of their warehouses.

I like the convenience of Prime shipping, so I've tried to justify keeping it, but I just can't. It might be worth it if PrimeNow had a better selection in my area, or if Fresh were (1) available in my area and (2) not ludicrously expensive. As it stands, I don't get my money's worth from Prime shipping, and none of the other benefits seem to be worth using.
Making friends or long term friends with benefits on Grindr or Scruff is a joke. We are all distracted by something new and shinier. So it's a joke for building anymore then a sex buddy relationship where you see each other every month or so for a release.

Though that might be different for the really good looking to hot guys.
traditional fraudsters, however, know no sexual orientation boundaries: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/grindr-frauds...
Who is the current CEO of Altaba ?
Stanford CoreNLP: Training your own custom NER tagger
Can you expand on this? This sounds very intriguing.
I started out with around 1% of a company that's now valued at a few 100 million dollars. I just don't see it going public and if we do get acquired I'm not sure I'll see much of it after the investors get paid.
> Antitrust laws, of course, are meant to prevent mergers that substantially reduce competition, particularly in industries such as this one where there are already only a few competitors and high barriers for any new players to enter. What's missing in this case, as so many others, are regulators or judges willing to aggressively enforce those laws and adapt them to a globalized high-tech economy where winner-take-all competition is now more the rule than the exception.

What is the reason for it, corruption or incompetence?
What is the 'Make my logo bigger cream' video satirising? Is it a common reaction from clients of design agencies to ask for the logo to be bigger?
For what it’s worth, your Who’s Hiring post is always my favorite.
Honest question here, why is there ageism in hiring in IT? What does it buy any employer to shoot for younger, less experienced workers?

I'm probably naive but I don't get the logic.
This is one of the reasons why the web is so successful.

(0-click install, instant app download, deep links, and 100% device compatibility are the others)
Indeed, its a risky choice for that.
> Boeing is having trouble with some of the engines of the 787 (Dreamliner).

if you really want to see "new engine trouble", compare the following engines' sales and recalls:

shitty engine, skip down to the engine removals section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_PW1000G

non shitty engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFM_International_LEAP

the CFM1000 has been a nearly unmitigated disaster for PW. Massive defects and removals from aircraft/recalls. It's reflected in its sales numbers compared to the LEAP as well.
I wonder if searx.me could be used instead. You can get it to return more or less the same results as Google.
The unfortunate bit is you lose out on so much of the ecosystem going hard on asyncio right now though (like sqlalchemy orm).
I think that's more because Flask is a micro web framework whereas Rails is a macro web framework. Sinatra, Express, and Compojure are micro frameworks in the same vein as Flask, and they encourage simplicity of mental model over batteries-included comprehensiveness of features that you find in Rails, Sails, and Django. In general I prefer some kind of a middle ground but I don't think there's middle-ground frameworks actually out there, I think you have to kind of build on top of Flask/Sinatra/Express by throwing some-batteries-included libraries on top of them to get there. But yeah I also find it easier to reason about than having a whole lot of convention-over-configuration rules memorized.
But they are. That's what this is about.
> • "Add-on items" — items that don't ship alone because they're too small/cheap.

This is the only thing Amazon has done annoying enough to get me to buy elsewhere (other than, occasionally, price comparisons).
The resemblance to the career of the lead character from Her is undeniable.
I found a couple Hacker News threads related to this breach [1,2]. Did anyone end up reporting it to the FTC? I just filed a tip with the SEC. Curious to see if they follow up.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10841385

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9881674
Does it interface with sqlalchemy, onboarding, email, etc?
Lol what a coward you are
Ownership/leasing costs are apparently only ~20% of airline costs¹. A big chunk of that will be the cost of manufacturing the plane. So the actual fixed costs aren't that bad.

1. about 40% of direct flight costs, which are 50% of overall costs: https://www.icao.int/MID/Documents/2017/Aviation%20Data%20an...
Even if it is legal is definitely not moral.
> As we grow accustomed to foisting more and more complicated emotional tasks onto digital butlers, we lose our ability to tolerate inelegance or find value in social failure. Moments of awkwardness and heartbreak are an inevitable part of the dating experience, and they are essential in our evolution into mature adults.

That is a very recent, Western view of finding a partner. For much of history, and even now in large parts of the world, a person's family had/has the job of finding a suitable match often with the aid of "professional" matchmakers. I wonder what percentage of people who grew up in this current Western model of individuals dating and finding partners would trade it for the other model if they could?
I think that will result in 10000 questions asking how do I add an entry to a vector. There are a lot of dear internet do my thinking for me, and no way those people are thinking or researching before posting
I don't think bottom-up is a good way to describe the capabilities Lisp gives you.

You can go totally top-down in your design, which is the pattern I was encouraged to use by SICP ("wishful thinking" = top down). But Lisp doesn't make you stop when you reach the language level. "I wish my language would give me a concise way of saying whether variable x has the same value it had in the last iteration of this loop" is not a wish you can fulfill in a language without macros, for example.
Because human infants are not livestock, and this is a huge win for humanity instead of just slightly cheaper beef.
"The GDP per capita (PPP) was $37,800 in 2015,[4] compared to $57,084 in the US."

Definitely not quadruple, but taking into account a number of other things - like online spending - ecommerce etc, it's not hard to see. I also believe (no proof, gut feeling) the metrics are similar for appstore purchases.
It is (in my experience), although that's not the point.

They are satirising how clients tend to destroy good designs with bad feedback.
How would you treat a white male differently from any other demographic on a technical forum?

This identity politics bullshit is an anti-intellectual cancer. Truth is universal, race, gender, etc have nothing at all to do with it.
http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/23054

https://www.hackerrank.com/calendar

I think topcoder (https://www.topcoder.com) covers a wide spectrum, but i have never tried them.
> In principle if you gave the average person the equivalent amount of money it should be enough to buy health insurance with.

So the working scenario is UBI followed by health insurance mandate? What happens if the remainder is $0, or worse, healthcare prices (and consequently health insurance prices) outpace UBI growth?
Hey, I just read through all your replies and I just wanted to say that I sincerely hope you find a way to overcome your obstacles and realize your full potential some time.
If markets would have developed the developing world, a resource rich paradise, they would have done so by now. Instead, they imperially marched in and stole everything they could for the benefit of their masters back home. Markets don't sell to poor people, they sell to middle-income and rich people. They steal from the poor to give to the rich. That's the whole idea.
This paper does some interesting work to try and unpack why that is the case: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.01952.pdf
I thought it was interesting that the article mentioned Weebly competes with Medium. Wouldn't they be competing more so with someone like Squarespace than a blogging platform? Or am I missing something?
The article says that these antibiotics are given as single does months apart for a few years. Any resistance that develops quickly reverts. Livestock on the other hand, get much more regular antibiotics.
Those are mostly solved, unevolving problems, meaning their R&D spend is a small fraction of the total budget.

For example: in 2016, of the total FY2016 federal budget of $4T, only $145B is committed to R&D (3%) [1]. Compare that to the pharmaceutical industry average of 18% [2].

[1] https://www.aaas.org/fy16budget/federal-rd-fy-2016-budget-ov...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060115/how-much-dru...
I don't mean to be disrespectful. The first time I heard of Matrix/Riot was at OSCOn 2015. What has happened since then,and why has it taken so long to stabilize?
They say that a photo is worth a thousand words. This is certainly the case with the the last few photos of the landscape how it looked before and after.

Likewise Black Adder series concluded with a similar visual contrast: https://youtu.be/vH3-Gt7mgyM?t=176
I can't quite figure out what I'm paying for anymore either. I would assume it's mostly for 2 days shipping but Amazon 2 days shipping so frequently 5 days shipping these days and it's not like any other merchants don't deliver it 3-ish days anyway.
I've started this exact process a couple days ago while moving all my life to the bay this past week; I don't feel nearly as worn out at the end of the day because of it.
Exactly, every stage of the boot is supposed to validate the next stage before continuing.

The recently discovered bootrom exploits break that chain of trust, allowing unsigned code to execute.
I've had very negative experiences on Stack Overflow, especially when the "answers" are blatantly wrong. There's little one can do to correct it.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16935488
Yeah, we're using Shopify for our online store. Recently started using their PoS system because we were already set up on their platform. I suspect this is a driving force for other customers as well.

Shopify, Square and Stripe are poised to become direct competitors if you follow this inertia.
Major advancement for Proof of Stake
It's ugly. Looks like a brand of sport shoes for 12 year olds.

I think the brand for a programming language like Go should not look like a toy.
The goal of automation is to reduce the costs of goods and services, with the cost savings getting passed on to consumers of those goods and services. Whether we need more goods and services is a better question.
Black Garlic Fermenter Machine
The normal chip "fuses" aren't fuses anymore. They're just a section of EEPROM or flash with control circuitry altered to make them write-once only. Real fuse programming required generating high voltages and subjecting the die to high currents and localized thermal stress that modern ICs don't tolerate well.
There are a lot of different types of software being made in python.

I've managed to do python for 10 years only working on one codebase that size, and I'm not sure it counts - it was made by low skilled devs (we were encouraged not to do anything "clever", like use the language features) mostly cutting and pasting existing code.
That article cites the very same person the submission does!

Popularity on the Internet is a subtle thing, especially in the realm of leftist memes. There's certainly a "haha only serious" flippancy to it.
Like openam? or what do you suggest.
Maybe the clients know more than the designers about what their requirements are?
By your logic any procedure that prevents death is cost adjusted by how many years the patient lives. It 'proves too much'. If I'm 30 and I suffer a knife wound then you could charge any amount to prevent my death, justifying by averaging over 40 years. All kinds of medical intervention may be necessary to prevent death, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be affordable.
CenturyLink acquired AppFog in 2013; it didn't quite make it to 5 years under their control.

So, opinions, please. What killed AppFog? Did CL not know how to assimilate it? (A problem you see over and over with acquisitions.) Or is the AppFog approach to PaaS out of fashion? Or...?
Well it's the Internet where half to more of what we read and experience is made up crap to make someone else and their buddies rich.