skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a risk we care about. But most people who make such claims turn out, when you look at the specific examples they come up with, mostly to want HN to be moderated to support their own side and penalize the other. Not intentionally, of course, but when you unpack what most people call fair vs. biased, that's what it amounts to. There are exceptions, but disappointingly few.

Most people have a tendency to see commenters we disagree with as disingenuous, the more so the more we disagree. This distorts perceptions. In my experience moderating HN, disingenuous trolls exist, but are less common than users misclassifying each other as such.

So while we're quite willing to moderate and ban accounts that abuse HN in the way you describe—and indeed have done so—we need specific links to evaluate. Otherwise the null hypothesis has to win.
Just on your last paragraph- if I choose between apples and oranges, and am indifferent at 2 apples or one orange i see that an orange is worth two apples to me?

is that your meaning?
There’s a difference between being willing to die for certain ideals (i.e. like the Gauls during Julius Caesar’s campaigns) and loving wanton bloodshed. That’s the point I was trying to make. If you can’t understand the difference between fighting a defensive war and an aggressive war, you need a reality check. Also, I’m not sure why both my replies were flagged - I believe I was acting extremely civil.
You don’t actually need a co-founder (2016)
World War Z the book is more or less this, on a global scale.

The movie has nothing to do with the book, except wasting the license.
You're right.

The fact that it's only one hop should have told me the same.
I still subscribe daily to print newspapers. Today they had a half page ad for an amazon sale. No clickbaity content, no jarring colors, looks good, is designed to integrate with the content, and contains useful information.

How does it work? You want to publish an ad, you go directly to the publisher. You design the ad for the paper or the magazine. It looks good and works for everyone involved.

Web ads, however, are a complete anti-pattern. I imagine that the advertisers and the publishers can save themselves a lot of money and goodwill if they directly work together like they do in print.
Not sure why they build go SDL, when the exact same thing already exists, and is light years ahead: SD Elements.
It already has attach-to-process and just-my-code.
It's a different riddle, not a different solution to the riddle.

It's asked differently: given the same setup, except you have one extra person who's the leader, and he's allowed to go in and look at all the boxes, then make one change.
Both. If I am talented and I’m confident that money is available I’ll start a business. If money is scarce I’ll work at BigCo or move to SV and start a company. That leaves you with less than stellar talent. I’ve seen the same thing happen in the agrifood tech space. As more money has come into the sector we’ve seen more high quality entrepreneurs.
This hits pretty close to home. I've been seeing therapists for my anxiety but they haven't really helped much, and occasionally there are times when I just have a pretty bad day.

I have a lot of fear, but there is no physical manifestation of it - it is fear of lack of worth, lack of success, lack of love, lack of acknowledgement. I overanalyze everything that I do and everything others say or do to me.

I could probably point to many things in my past to blame but I'm done trying to retro-analyze myself and just want to fix things.

I'm afraid of trying anti-depressants but I've been seriously thinking about getting a dog (I liked that Wil mentioned that his dogs help him :). I've always wanted one and I feel like at the least doggo would give me some comfort and put things in perspective.

I really appreciate Wil writing his thoughts down and giving suggestions. It definitely helps a lot. I actually keep a running list of tiny things that I've found that help me - things to think about and do, in a moment of anxiety or sadness. One day I hope to share that with others too.
Why is it unclear that he uses term badly? His statement was clear. It sounds more like you just don't want to believe that someone would brag to him specifically about murder.
Because freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

There are tons of people who think like the poster above, that we need to control people by not letting them have enough earnings or whatever to be free and making choices for themselves. That belief is what is really scary to me.
The part where he described saying goodbye and playing out that being the last time he'd see someone got me. I've found that health anxiety and irrational fears are by far the worst rabbit holes to start falling into. I've had periods of years where my mind is entirely consumed by these things. I feel like fears rooted in reality are at least tangible enough to not be horrifying.

The things that make me talented feel like mind diseases. Pattern recognition is so easily polluted with ruminations and cyclical thinking.

The only way I've been able to cope is by becoming numb. The more uncertainty I acknowledge as existing, the worse I feel. I don't feel particularly good though. Nothing in the world feels like "enough" to occupy my mind anywhere near as much as the negative things.

SSRIs can aid in that numbing. For me it has somewhat. I haven't found that they have given me any sort of increase in motivation or excitement for life, though.
I found the "trick" solution to Unwanted Expansion to be unsatisfying: unless I am mistaken, it assumes that all of the values must be positive integers, which was not stated as being the case.
> Visual Studio was always paid software. But in 2014 MS introduced the Community Edition.

Visual Studio has had a free Express edition since 2005. The only difference I ever noticed between it and the Pro version was the lack of plugin support. They modified the license slightly and called their new free version the Community edition, but not much has changed.
Dr. Jean Twenge from UC San Diego and CDC Mortality Statistics.

BTW the 250% number is for boys only. For girls 10-14, it’s about 325%.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the...
Shut up, Wesley
No joke. I'd like to see those people, who paid $1.7B for a promise of a better messenger, and a PoS cryptocurrency, that is not decentralized (e.g. like Ripple).
That was a pretty narrow viewpoint. It seemed to lack any consideration of Vietnam as a country or the Vietnamese people affected by his love of war. Do those fighting for their countries and lives share that love?

So I guess my takeaway of his point is: War is some special experience that Western Men have (and not women, Vietnamese, or anyone else), where they get to fulfil some kind of murderous power fantasy over people who don't matter?

Maybe this is the sort of story he has to tell himself to ignore the woman he betrayed, the desecrated bodies he laughed at, the utter disregard he held for everything outside himself and his band of brothers.
I have a few comments about ux. This website take a second to respond to clicking a menu item. The dropdown nav menus are only usable by hovering and clicking on the titles dismisses them.
Angular 2 came out in 2016. Why use angular 1 in 2017?
Not OP, but I think the point being made is that his prior judgement on financial matters doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

That said, I have some sympathy for any policy maker giving public statements in an overheated economy: the seeds of the crisis have already been laid and the statements one makes may actually precipitate the crisis rather than avoid it...
Fair point, though we did get GCHQ's data.

Room 641A was part of the WINDSTOP programs run by SSO, comprised of MUSCULAR, INCENSER and DS-300. According to [1], the NSA mass-collects VoIP partly through XKEYSCORE, FALLOUT and TURMOIL (harvested from INCENSER/DS-300/others), and PSTN through LOPERS (though it's unclear if LOPERS ingests domestic (INCENSER) data or just Europe<->Asia (DANCINGOASIS) data.)

Incidentally, it's pretty impressive how much scale they handle. The DANCINGOASIS cable transfers 25Pb per day, while 3-6Pb were analyzed. And that's on a totally black op (no corporate knowledge) tap! Seriously cool.

1. https://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/05/nsas-largest-cabl...
Was a firm believer in Angular when it was version 2, made the switch to React before Angular version 4. Best choice I've done for productivity.
> I am glad that Mr Wheaton is in a better condition and hopefully this essay will help others, but it seemed unnecessarily cruel in places.

You're confusing the description of the subject with the subject that is being described:

It's not the essay that is cruel. Cruel is what the essay reflects: the western live in a society where the last dollar is squeezed out of many people in that society.

> He is doing the best he can, and if you all could stop seeing him as a way to put money into your pockets, maybe you could see that he’s suffering and needs help.

This is cruel.
The equation of power is shifting from “Money and willingness to do Evil” to “Persuasiveness and reach,” according to Scott Adams. So while previously cries for help like this meant nothing and were an invitation to private torment, now they can work for this author with this audience. I’m extensively documenting my plight into what looks like a homeless end game, going on for 5mo now, and I am pretty sure most depression symptoms/feelings are actually disappointment/shock/dejection inflicted by those who help was sought from. Where are those friends and mentors? Theirs probably taught them to be heartless by example, people pass on their injuries. I’m not MRM but I can’t say there aren’t valid points like male disposability. Thankfully I am able to detach from my emotions and go about my days in joyful solitude but I’d rather just move on and not be put into boxes based on the past; interesting how many comedians are child abuse survivors. My view of humans as savage with a capacity for empathy emerged, as opposed to the opposite I’d felt in my years as a beloved winner/good friend/etc with an envied life. “Comedy is truth and pain,” indeed. I am now ostracized for looking conservative in SF, ex-BF even questioned if I am racist while wearing a shiny Fuck Trump shirt to my house. Silver lining is I am now much more able to feel the ostracization my younger brother felt in his short life, a tearful “nobody believes me” is burned into my memory from one conversation with him as kids. Kudos to OP for finding a platform, but this level of emoting still sends most people straight into “needs help not associating whisper whisper” mode. Even guys you feel are sensitive and who you have helped aren’t there, in fact they are the first to start picking up social capital you’re losing. As an outside observer of my own plight I can laugh along with the people who’ve received my communications asking for help, and predict their power moves, knowing one day perhaps our roles will be reversed and I can bend their minds with kindnesss. Hope things keep going for OP but we’re nowhere near acceptance of men without a platform having feelings and tears not made out of money. We create our own reality and too many people are scared to step out of the box and try stuff like this, in any case, and I hope it’s beneficial.
investing and speculation are different things.
you are right sir, what could I possibly know about debuggers. I only created this after all..
http://chrononsystems.com/products/chronon-time-travelling-d...
> "The key will always be the same regardless of the password."
The keypair is different for each userid and password. Everything else is correct.
Bank of Korea to Launch Blockchain Based Cash-Free Society Pilot Project
I would say this is a rather limited, technical understanding of a blockchain. The three most interesting aspects of a blockchain are (1) the state of blockchain is visible to all participants (2) the rules (the code) for changing the state is visible to all participants and (3) there is some mechanism to detect and punish rule breakers and aggressors who try to deform the state. Look at it this way and indeed a blockchain is really a very sophisticated collaboration model.

You don't need the distributed consensus or the decentralization or the trustlessness. There are blockchains with central coordinators and without trustlessness that may still prove very useful especially in global finance. People think Bitcoin or Ethereum are complicated but really, they are nothing compared to the global financial system. Distributed blockchain databases are much more elegant than what we have today in terms of achieving consensus on a very large (global) scale.

FedCoin is a crazy idea but it's not stupid. A national public ledger would open a lot of very interesting doors. (Though the republic would likely collapse, see my other comment.) Even if the Fed required only trusted nodes (ie bank-like entities) it still would provide everything from a true national ID system to real, binding peer-2-peer lending between citizens to a system where everybody has perfect, real-time visibility into the national economy (unlike the primitive system we have today where the Fed collects a bunch a data, massages it, and then announces it each month.) Lots of other problems -- everything from medical records to real-estate -- become a lot more tractable.
... while minimizing the wasteful environmental impact of blockchains due to the power requirements of each transaction.

This is probably the one "feature" of blockchains that will kill it, since they're based on proof-of-lots=of-work, and work needs power.
Until VSCode is as easy to use GUIlike paint your own forms etc, I remain skeptical.

Visual Basic when it first came out, made it easy to program and create forms and controls.
He was doing his best to self medicate. That’s him trying to convince himself the medicine is good.

Nothing comes close to combat. Nothing. There’s such an ocean between the sickening frantic chaotic competition with Death and “oh shit if this rock slips I’m going to end up a paragraph on page two of the morning paper”.

Plenty of us combat vets climb, and for the same reasons. Don’t be confused. Climbing can kill you like cigarettes, combat is like smoking crack while trying to land a jet on a carrier deck at night in a storm.
It's really bad to have booster accounts upvote your post and even worse to have them comment in the thread. Whether they're sockpuppets or just friends and fans, it's against the rules (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and not in your interest because we ban accounts and sites that do it. Also, HN users are good at picking up on it and eagerly flag such submissions. So, not a good idea all around.
I've been citing a lot of sources here. Can you clearly cite your assertion?

Over the past few weeks and several threads, you've consistently asserted that NSA/CIA don't bulk-collect Americans' data, with no citing proof. Did you fill out an SF-86 or something?
I personally didn't mind it, but I saw a lot of dislike of Chime internally compared to something like Slack. Anecdotal of course. Worked great for large chat groups though.
It’s not about the fragility of liberal white males, it’s the fragility of government as a religion. It’s like asking Catholics to admit the atrocities in their history. Ever wonder why every crypto related article is met with disdain? It’s because their faith cannot tolerate questioning. The line between nationalism and religion is blurred intentionally.
Looks quite close to the way the Basis people (http://www.basis.io/) talk about a central-bank-run version of their currency, where the bank can target a level of inflation and let the system do the rest.
the problem is if you introduce new things, then you can solve it like

1. Bolt Cutters
2. Break the box
3. Send the key design via the internet and a link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-HYptOMJI
The connection is that this is the same person making both predictions.
Personal attacks aren't ok here, regardless of how wrong another comment is. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this again.

Edit: your previous comment also broke the guidelines badly. We ban accounts that do that, so if you'd read the rules and use this site as intended from now on, we'd appreciate it.
I agree 100%. This is something I've taken to heart after seeing and trudging through academic code over the last few years.

In a way I also think this is a language problem. I hope that for some data-intensive projects productive statically typed languages (aka Swift + Tensorflow + Python interop) can help fix this.
Isn't a checklist something you'd end up writing anyway in the process of determining how to automate process?

At least that's what I keep telling myself. I also write much fewer checklists than I should.
Agreed, like I said, "in some ways". Of course, there are more important social aspects, and it's not an in-depth analysis of the two cultures and it wasn't meant to be -- it simply highlights just how open-minded Americans can be and how conservative Canadians can be and that's all it was meant to be.
I had my E key lift off and just went to the store. They put a new one on.
What? There is no mechanism to "detect and punish rule-breakers" in either Ethereum or Bitcoin. Bitcoin's only mechanism is to push global human-readable alerts, or to pressure rule-breakers to stop through a blog post, as in the case of SPV mining: https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2015-07-04-spv-mining.

If you define "rule-breaker" as "generates invalid blocks", then the only punishment rule-breakers receive is that... their block is invalid, they're ignored, and they get to try again next time.

I don't see any sophisticated collaboration model in play here.

> Even if the Fed required only trusted nodes... Lots of other problems -- everything from medical records to real-estate -- become a lot more tractable.

Why aren't they solved by a database and a public API? What does the blockchain add?
War is some special experience that Western Men have ... where they get to fulfil some kind of murderous power fantasy over people who don't matter?

No. Nothing about that is western. That’s just history.

War is the most human you’ll ever be. I don’t know how to explain it to someone who doesn’t want to believe their own potential for malevolence. It’s like eating from the forbidden tree in the garden. You’re eyes become open to the savage visceral reality that we’re nothing more than primates that talk.
GVRD (Greater Vancouver) in general uses larger land size for detached house (unfortunately, otherwise more properties can be built).

Anywhere else in Canada (Alberta, Ontario), detached houses tend to be smaller.

In Burnaby (not Vancouver proper)

For CAD$1.7m, you'll get a new-ish duplex (4BR, 3BA).

For CAD $1m, you'll get a townhouse (3BR, 2.5BA).

Vancouver prices tend to hover around 10-30% more than the numbers I listed above.

1BR Apartment in Vancouver probably cost $650-700k.

I think it's tricky to compare Apple to Apple (house X sqft vs same house Y sqft) because it won't be. The comparison has to be generalized a little bit with "Detached House vs Detached House in Desirable Location 'Y' ".

I think most Canadians (mostly Toronto and Vancouver) that are having hard times when it comes to housing price are the ones who didn't jump to the market before 2009, which is hard to do even back then because there aren't many hi-tech companies paying high salary.

Salesforce hadn't opened an office until 2010. Amazon didn't explode the compensation scene until 2016.
Pets can be helpful, but I really want to say also that you shouldn't be afraid to try antidepressants. There are all sorts of stigmas about how they make you a zombie etc, but the fact is that they do work for people and I know plenty of people who lead normal lives thanks to medicine, myself included, without experiencing that sort of thing. They do not work for everybody, and they do make you feel kinda ill the first few days, but for most people that is temporary and things get better from there.

All I am saying is that it is worth at least discussing with a doctor if you haven't and it may help if therapy has been ineffective. My own case is not that severe, but I know several people who have had their lives change dramatically for the better after starting proper meds after years of suffering because they believed all the stigma around antidepressants and depression in general. It can be hard for someone who is depressed and needs medicine to understand what the drugs are for, because they don't have any perspective on what it's like to feel "normal." Just gaining a bit of that perspective can be enough to help people manage it.

Either way, I hope you can feel better soon. I know what it feels like.
Modern lead-free solder is excellent, but most hobbyists who never buy solder only have a roll of historical lead-free solder from when it was crap, have awful experience with it, and pass that experience on. You can still buy leaded solder everywhere today and the flux is not as nasty as the ancient ones. Make sure you don't mix the two as lead-free solder doesn't like to stick to leaded and vice versa. So for repairing old stuff leaded solder is still important, but it's no longer a compromise to use lead-free. Also, wash your hands after soldering!
It’s not “should”.

More like “when”
There's an interesting paper[0] from the Bank of England that considers the challenges and opportunities central bank issued cryptocurrencies might entail.

0. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2016/the-macro...
The gap difference between local-based companies and the US-based-with-branch-in-Canada is at all-time high at the moment.
Perhaps you misread; the looking-up wasn't for Jim Crow Laws, but the Jim Crow Economy, which is not taught in most school systems.
Vuescroll-A multi-function, for PC and mobile scrollbar based on vue.js
I don't understand. Generally I don't mind ads if a website is giving me content I want and what I need. But, what I do mind is when whole sections of a website get their content and scripts from multiple different other domains! Most of times it's easy to block such references altogether, but often it breaks the websites which rely entirely on them. Not the ads are the problem. The websites are the problem.

Why don't they embed their ads entirely inside the webpages? They could do an elaborate internal dynamic ads system without needing to load a whole stream of third party content and software from other domains! What's the problem? I don't get it. So, I continue to block ads per default, and I don't care about the constant whining about how "morally wrong blocking ads is".

EDIT: Having a process integrating ads internally will also give the operators of websites the opportunity to vet the ads for potentially malicious advertising campaigns, aka fake ads, etc. Just an idea.
Toronto too. I've been "caught" smoking weed by the police in Toronto and they literally don't give a shit. That said, not everyone is willing to accept that -- there's a huge portion of very conservative Canadians who think "drugs" are for dropouts and losers (and don't realize the opposite is true too -- nearly half of the most successful people are doing "drugs" too).
Bragged about killing. Nope. That’s how you know he didn’t see any shit.
No. We’d never do that in the military. smirk
Though globally and over longer periods things are more complicated. The US adolescent thing while terrible is a special case https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Suicide-...
Amazon Vancouver pays fresh-grad 95k base + sign-on + RSUs.

I don't know how much fresh-grad got in the USA.