skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted we're talking about nations and their peoples and their histories and they are always long, deep, and tangled up and there are no simple truths. I'm aware of the origins of Wahabism through The Arabs (Eugene Rogan). I was looking for individual perspectives than what's easily available online. I've also tried reading up on the animosity between Iran and Saudi, and couldn't find any straight answer.
I commented above that I greatly understated this. I've been explicitly asked to build it with fiscal commitment should I choose to say yes.
Ask HN: How to deal with a dysfunctional relationship with a 50/50 co-founder?
We’re four years into a bootstrapped B2B startup that set out to solve two ambitious technical problems for our industry. Last year we turned over more than 1m USD. Each of was responsible for one side of the business.

However there were still a lot of technical issues to be solved when we launched. Over the last year I’ve been able to clear all the problems on my side, but he has pretty much done almost no technical work since launch two years ago. Instead he sees his role as the figurehead of the company who basically just does sales and ideas and treats everyone at the company including myself as incompetent PA’s.

This worked for a while because we had a lot of hype around us in our industry and the money was rolling in. However the next round of potential buyers are wisely waiting to see how things turn out with our first round of customers.

My co-founder responds to complaints by telling them that their problems aren’t really problems in a very professional and well written manner, but that’s not working anymore. I now find myself having to mend bridges with customers which causes a lot of conflict because I am “overstepping my bounds.” Additionally I have to “overstep my bounds” to engage with his talented direct reports who now openly despise him, in order to convince them to not leave the company.

Now the money has nearly run out and we need what seems like a miracle.

I feel like I’ve tried everything I could think of to try and turn this relationship around but I don’t I just don’t see how anymore. We struggle to have any meaningful conversations about anything related to the business even when I manage to maintain my composure in response to nearly constant put downs.
Some do. Some are quite contented.
Indeed, but the Tory victory at the 2015 election was a surprise to everyone. Tory High Command likely thought another coalition with the Liberal Democrats would have allowed them to scribble out that line of their election manifesto with a coalition agreement.
The Black-Scholes model may not be a good example; it is successfully applied by financiers on a day-to-day basis.
Introducing roboter 1.0
>That could change, if batteries get a lot cheaper and lighter.

The batteries could be free. Until they literally burn up so the plane can get lighter and therefore can land, it's pretty much a non-starter for anything over a few hundred miles. The max takeoff weight of a Boeing 787 is 50 tons more than it's maximum landing weight, which will probably damage the gear in some capacity.
> I still don't see it happening, outside of silos.

For mobile, the only remaining options are silos.
It’s funny. I researched it and I could never find a good answer why you shouldn’t suffocate them with vasoline to remove them. All the articles just say it’s better to remove them ASAP even if you squeeze them.
Good question... Though likely the answer is pretty mundane: It's probably something they keep being asked about in interviews, and they feel some obligation to dampen the hype on cryptcurrency- Also, there's a "survivorship bias" issue, in that both guys got very successful using business strategies involving an unrelated domain, so of course they would say "If you want to build wealth, maybe instead focus on these other asset classes that worked really well for me."
Do your special skills work as well with your eyes closed? It may be that you’re very good at integrating external waypoints and references, and simply lack those for time.
> It's even less wise to take advice from those who speak from ignorance.

Being in Bitcoin since 2011, I've found most Bitcoin advocates tend to be of the ignorant sort with regard to both the technology and the economics. They tend to gather their information from what they're told to think on places like Reddit, and are quicker to communicate via memes than have an actual real conversation.
Right, but I'm not sure there would be a motivation to breed barn cats. They're already pretty good at what you need them to do. Feral dogs, on the other hand, can't herd or protect livestock, nor are they useful for hunting.
I find a lot of this has more to do with the organization and management than the coder itself.

Taking a pre-production build to a customer and getting angry when it doesn't work? That's an organizational problem, and the developer is justified in getting angry at someone for doing that.
I'm not saying that OpenStack is better/worse - it was only out of our goals.
For sure OpenStack has better tenancy support, much more mature approach to networking or storage (in containers world we are still working on https://github.com/container-storage-interface/spec ) but in the same time - we only needed to have a qcow2 based vm running between already deployed pods, with the same user interface. That's all, without other story around that.
This isn't even remotely true: "Unlike the electric car, there is no emerging technology that can save air travel from this environmental impact."

Something as simple as flying low enough to create low level cloud cover would more than reverse the net effect of NOx and CO2 produced by planes. It's just more expensive because it takes longer and consumes more fuel.
> That's a pretty loaded statement that I disagree with because it presupposes that man has only being organizing his affairs for centuries when we both know that mankind has existed for thousands of years.

I'm not sure what assumptions you're making here. Governance and politics have both existed for many many millennia, roughly as long as language has existed I'd wager.

> I'll be upfront by saying that government can be totally independent of politics

I disagree completely. The definition of the word politics is activities associated with governance. That was my point above. You're choosing to focus on a narrow and negative interpretation, and not the primary meaning of the word.

politics:noun

the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area

the activities of governments concerning the political relations between countries.

the academic study of government and the state.

https://www.google.com/search?q=politics

> How did mankind manage its affairs prior to politicking?

There is no such thing, and there never was. Politicking is the word for persuading others to join together to achieve things not possible as individuals.

I acknowledge that politicking is sometimes also used to mean grift and power grabbing and other things. But using it that way is a choice, and it doesn't represent all possible politics. In my opinion, it also doesn't represent anything close to a majority of politics either. Most politics that occur are necessary and benign or good, and only a minority are the type you're worried about.
>jfk terminal 7
I built a system that displayed where I am by different color statuses. For example, if someone comes looking for me and the lights are red, I'm not there. Yellow means busy, don't interrupt, rainbow/green means come in.

Controlled by a Raspberry Pi, great for an office or a shared space. I ringed the door with LEDs.
These were among the only Lead-bismith cooled nuclear reactors ever operated. Sodium-potassium eutectic or pure sodium coolant is a better heat transfer fluid but in a water environment it's just a little crazy due to sodium-water chemistry. The US Navy tried sodium coolant in the USS Seawolf [1] and it was smaller, quieter, and more powerful, but they had problems with the steam generators. Not an unsolvable problem but definitely a challenge. The success of the water cooled competitor eventually led to the predominance of water cooled reactors in the commercial fleet.

Passively safe Lead-cooled commercial reactors are still thought about today. Challenges include high pumping power required due to high density, erosion issues at high coolant velocity, and corrosion issues without very stringent oxygen control.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Seawolf_(SSN-575)
Same here. I dream of taking such a flight. The destination doesn't really matter.
I'm using kubevirt for this. My usecase is to allow preconfigured windows VMs to boot up inside of kubernetes - so that both Windows VMs and Linux containers are manipulated using the same API. It works very well!
Previous submissions, with times, comments, and points, sorted by number of comments, then number of points, then time of submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354581 2016-03-24 @ 17:16 (77,116)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13435425 2017-01-19 @ 13:05 (23,71)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11342109 2016-03-23 @ 04:14 (3,17)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11351665 2016-03-24 @ 10:08 (2,8)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280149 2016-12-29 @ 21:09 (1,21)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11350420 2016-03-24 @ 03:40 (1,7)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11349408 2016-03-23 @ 23:55 (1,3)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13457228 2017-01-22 @ 20:29 (1,2)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343119 2016-03-23 @ 09:51 (0,3)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11351826 2016-03-24 @ 10:48 (0,2)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343658 2016-03-23 @ 12:07 (0,2)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17013695 2018-05-07 @ 15:49 (0,1)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14524481 2017-06-09 @ 20:54 (0,1)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11689653 2016-05-13 @ 10:57 (0,1)
You don't have to to stop flying, only stop flying so high. Low level cloud cover has a massive net cooling effect.
The ultimate postgres vs. mysql blog post
Leaving mortality aside, survivorship doesn’t just apply to literal death; it usually (and importantly here) applies to sampling: Let’s assume for argument’s sake that poverty does indeed have a significant, detrimental effect on brain development. If a researcher now looks at poor people that beat the odds, they might well observe that these people used their (above-average) intelligence to surmount problems in their lives cause by poverty.

But it would be invalid to use that observation to extrapolate that all (or most) poor people possess this kind of ingenuity. No: it was only the ones that were very smart to begin with. This faulty generalisation would indeed be an instance of survivorship bias.
At top of WorkFlowy founder’s todo list: Keeping app’s cult-like following happy
I am missing the point of the article. Why does build failing require any incentive or punishment?

If a build fails, nothing changes in the production environment. The developer can troubleshoot and fix the build. Pretty much like when local compilation fails due to a syntax error.

Why does such a routine thing as a build failure need to be rewarded or punished?
I think that Bloomberg is making a smart move here. While they have general news too, their primary focus is on high quality reporting on the financial and business markets. Many people within those industries will happily pay $35/month for this news if they find it useful, and I'd venture that many will just charge it to their employer, who won't bat an eye.

They could charge $10-15/month and try to appeal to a broad audience, but the vast majority of people wouldn't pay that anyway. Given the choice, I'd prefer a smaller number of higher paying consumers within a niche anyway, since I can make a more targeted product and still bring in revenue. If anything, this lets them be laser focused on their niche.
That's not how shell quoting works. I don't want to explain the mistake and the fix.

Use a shell function instead of an alias, that's the better tool here.
Indeed, I always found summitting mountains as some kind of a hubris activity. I am like "okay, that's really interesting but that's ONE achievement requiring moderate amounts of effort and one-time investment so don't count me very impressed".

I mean, I am not judging people for doing it. Not at all. It's a good way to get to know oneself better!

Being an adult however is a battle you have every day.
Understanding Postgres EXPLAIN: Joins
Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers
Google I/O starts tomorrow. Coincidence?
The Boring Company went from digging tunnels for under ground roads for lorries to flame throwers.
That’s a great idea. Eventually I plan on introducing paid plans but I’d give a free premium plan to OSS projects.
It wasn't really the issue. Yes, that was a major problem but the real issue was the plane was old.

The newest model had been built in 78 (G-BOAF, Aircrat 216). Think about it, how many airlines back in 2000 were flying planes that were between 22 and 25 years old? Not that many. Just looking right now, AF and BA are around 12 to 13 years for their average fleet age.

Yes, the airframe was aging slowly because high temperatures while flying would prevent humidity from building up but the maintenance on this aircrat was expensive as hell compared to more recent aircrafts.

And it was a downward sliding slope. Anything was costlier on this thing because pretty much everything had to be custom built compared to other planes.

And in the end, it stopped flying not only because AF and BA decided to retire their Concorde fleet but above all because Airbus retired the aircraft certificate of airworthiness.

Is it political? Economical? Honestly, probably both. Airbus probably didn't want to get dragged in the mud again if anything else were to happen.
What exactly is wrong with fighting for social justice? If you’re going to resort to name calling at least choose a label that’s actually bad
Xamarin for linux is coming, so truly crossplatform .NET should be a future possibility.
Why we should all be using Windows 95
There is a niche of people willing to pay extra to go faster and a number of startups are looking at providing supersonic (Mach 2) commercial flights (Boom is the most famous).
One thing you will have to recognize is that this will happen over and over again. So you are not going to find 'The Product' because there will always be other products that you could make and chase. And new development is so much more fun than maintenance, the same goes for new companies.

In your shoes I would analyze myself first before making a decision: are you just good as a starter or are you able to go the distance? And then to recognize that most of the value creation happens early on in the life cycle of a company but most of the value capture happens later on. So if you exit early you will financially hurt yourself.
> People who advocate for a universal basic income say it will be a way to pull people out of poverty. Skeptics think a universal basic income will act as a disincentive for people to work.

IME, advocates tend to say it is a better way of alleviating the symptoms of poverty than means-tested benefit programs and that, compared to means tested programs, it provides greater ability to take advantage of (and less disincentives to) other existing means of lifting oneself out of poverty in the developed world.

And skeptics and advocates both agree that it will reduce economic compulsion to work, but advocates argue that the reduction to structural disincentives and barriers to development and outside income involved in both means-tested aid programs and the trap that is necesssry-but-dead-end work would outweigh that in the conditions prevailing in the developed world.

While it may be certainly interesting to study the different models of exogenous aid provided in the study here, I don't think it's particularly relevant, other than tangentially, to the core arguments regarding UBI because the design is wrong and the environment is wrong, and should not be viewed as a study of UBI so much as a study of charity models which might have some incidental relevance in discussions of UBI.
> If an expert can't give a convincing argument for their claims, why believe them?

IME, there's weak correlation between an expert's persuasiveness to a non-expert on one hand and the truth on the other hand:

* As an expert in my field, I could convince non-experts of almost anything; they have no idea what I'm talking about: Is it true? Have I omitted key things? Twisted other things? I wouldn't do that, but I've seen others do it. As an example we're all familiar with, U.S. intelligence officials have said, 'we're only collecting metadata about U.S. citizens, not content, so don't worry'. Obviously these experts knew that bulk collection of metadata is just as invasive as content, but it convinced the non-experts who don't understand that.

* In fields in which I'm non-expert, I used to think I could evaluate expert claims based on their persuasiveness. I was wrong - I was a mark, a sucker; I was the kind of person that propagandists, experts in persuasion, count on; my overestimation of my own powers, my ego, was my weakness. Eventually I observed a pattern: Later, when more facts came out or I knew more, what had been persuasive was actually BS. And a key point: It hadn't become wrong; it was always wrong and I had been conned by it. And what about those situations where I just never learned I was wrong, and the con continued indefinitely? In fields where I read a variety of experts and have some minor sophistication, I've learned that newspaper op-eds, which many find persuasive (people love to send them to me to read) are not infrequently dogs-t piled on a foundation of horses-t, with a few grains of truth sprinkled on top.

IME, the general wisdom that most people gain through years of painful experience is that persuasiveness has a small place, but far more you need to learn who to trust with what, who not to, and how to tell the difference. That's the only solution.
Retrobatch: Workflow tool for image processing in macOS
I'm the founder, the company has done well. We are serving customers in four continents now. W
> Credit card sized

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> $11.98 shipping

is it wrapped in silk and gold leaf?.
Yeah, something like RedHat does make lots of money off pure OSS because they sell huge support agreements to large orgs. It's harder/impossible to get smaller businesses to pay for smaller things like tools without holding back functionality.

It's all about incentives. If you are selling support, you are incented to give poor support and documentation to your free users. If you are selling functionality, you are incented to give good support to everyone with the understanding that they need to upgrade if they want that functionality. I think the open core model makes for a happier, healthier community in general. The line in the sand where the user needs to pay is very clear and no one is treated poorly.
Volvo to Use Google Assistant, Play Store and Maps in Next-Gen Infotainment
Guess I'll have to take your word for it as I must be too self deluded to see otherwise :).

Edit: I'd also like to add that as someone who meditates daily, I actually disagree that being exposed to a lot of different situations is automatically going to help you get to know yourself better. You can be exposed to all sorts of situations and not be mindful of what is going on inside. Alternatively, you can be doing something totally mundane like sitting and watching your breath and come across new and interesting things going on in your own mind that you had never noticed before. The difference is going to come from how mindful you are.
Trees in the Clouds
how about with a drunk father? they fucking know this. fuck u economist. end capitalism. its midget jews and mexican hogg heads here in southern california.
> living in a productivity-oriented time where inner cultivation and inner peace are overlooked

Depressingly correct. You are very intelligent to have realized this at 22 and please, never forget it. We live in times where you have to actively make space and time for your inner cogwheels to run in peace. Without that, you will be depressed and stressed out your entire life.

I don't want to put a tinfoil hat but from the outside it kind of looks like we are all treated as worker bees with zero desires and needs for leisure time.
> public debt and public deficits are irrelevant

Translation: Countries can incur as much debt as they want, because they can "print" their way out of it without harmful consequences.

> inflation is the most important constraint in public spending

Translation: People's economic suffering is the most important constraint in government spending.

> most cases of hyperinflation in history, including the infamous Zimbabwe, are due to a supply shock

Translation: Most cases of hyperinflation in history were due to economic crisis.

Hyperinflation is due to creating far too much new money. Enough to foster price increases of at least 50% per month. Economic crisis does not necessitate doing that.

By the way, in the case of Zimbabwe, it was the government economic mismanagement that created the economic crisis that you blame for the monetary mismanagement. From your article: "From an economic perspective though the [government] farm take over and collapse of food production was catastrophic." Then the government chose to try "printing" its way out of the problem. Hyperinflation wasn't mandatory, it was a consequence of reckless behavior.

> how an honest reader of the MMT literature would arrive to that conclusion

The only substantial concession to inflation risk I've seen in the MMT literature is in conditions of "full employment." Feel free to set me straight if that's not correct.

Empirically speaking, inflation follows injecting money into an economy, and inflation is quite harmful. It seems MMT resists at least the first conclusion, if not both.

While we're on the topic of honesty, doesn't MMT feel like an economic "get rich quick" scheme to you?
The Economics of Writing a Technical Book
Does the fda have jurisdiction over animal drugs? I’m surprised they’d do an official clinical trial.
> they were still naked scanning

The X-ray scanners with the naked images have all been removed. The RF backscatter machines do not produce full body imagery, they highlight areas of concern on a cartoon figure.

Turn around after you go through and you can see exactly what they see. There are no back rooms with naked images connected to the RF scanners.
Google Partners with JBL for an Android TV-Powered Soundbar
My sense is you paid for the software as it is on the date of purchase.

With that you get a trial of all updates for a year. If you don’t like the trial you don’t pay and revert to the version you paid for.
Just remove them? As long as you remove them within 48 hours you'll be fine. Why go outside? You might get hit by a bus.
I would think that the consequences need to be pretty immediate to have a psychological effect. Seeing at the end of the month, "Wow, I broke the build 8x. I should be more careful." just doesn't carry the same sting as "Oops; there went today's coffee budget!"
Announcing the Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview
Intelligence is mostly a result of environment: access to 1-1 tutors, high quality nutrition, supportive peers. None of these things exist in poor areas in the US as far as I can tell.
Yes, you can use KubeVirt for Windows. In some cases, it may be even better than Virtlet for that purpose. But if you want a real Kubernetes Deployment / StatefulSet / DaemonSet / etc. built out of VMs (examples being unikernels, nested Kubernetes cluster for testing etc.) Virtlet may be a better choice.