skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like an interesting idea. In the end the US needs a system where if a party gets a certain percentage of votes it gets some level of representation in Congress. For example in the 90s Ross Perot got 18% of votes but these voters got 0 percent representation anywhere. This is just extremely unhealthy. The extreme partisanship would get reduced quickly if there were some people in Congress who would vote with one of the big parties one and then with the other another time.
> If you rack up a bunch of debt, but take out a mortgage on your already paid off house to get rid of the debt, is it fraud?

That isn't what was described, to my understanding. What was described seems sort of like transferring all your unsecured debt to your spouse, and letting her go through some individual bankruptcy that doesn't affect you.

> You had a perfectly good house, but sometimes decisions have to be made.

If you're allowed to transfer debt around to related entities where negative repercussions don't affect you, the normal checks and balances of the system have failed.

I imagine a similar situation (even if not purposefully attempted) is why student loans are actually protected from bankruptcy. Parents used to pay for college, because students couldn't really afford it. Parents don't necessarily want to go into bankruptcy because they may have other assets affected. If the students take out the loan, if they go into bankruptcy in the few years after graduating, the parents aren't affected. Students are a risky bet because bankruptcy has fairly little cost for them that early in life, so the loans would be very hard to get. To incentivize lenders to give the loans, you have to protect them.
Once they've done a page there is also often a vigourous comments section, and they do roll that feedback into future updates. My opinion of the site quality is much the same as yours. But at least they show their working and do update content regularly.
Use multi-level form approvals in your company to get things done systematically
In role-play you can more easily lie about what they would do - in fact they can't help it because you know what you want to do, even though in the heat of the moment you will do something else. Thus your role-play is not very useful.

Research says that it is fairly easy to tell if someone is fabricating their situation (I've never caught someone, but I've only interviewed a couple people so my sample size is not significant). Thus I as an interviewer know you are telling me how you react to a real situation when under stress.

You have been in many situations over your life. Don't bring up ones you don't want to talk about.
Cloudflare explained this incident on this post [0]. You can also check the discussion on HN here [1].

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/today-we-mitigated-1-1-1-1/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17201830
Are the 'safety critical' UI components rendered any differently to the non-critical ones? From reading the related blog posts, I understand that they are generated in a separate process, but asides from that detail, are they any more reliable?

Or to put it another way, if we an pick some UI components and marking them as safety critical' somehow improves their reliability, why would you not mark everything as safety critical?

Does the safety factor decrease as more and more components enter the safety critical section? Why not subdivide the UI into more than just one 'critical' process and one 'non-critical' process, e.g. perhaps a light-weight process per component?
Maybe a bit more of a downer than you have in mind, but I read Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine and I thought parts were interesting, especially the discussion of the links between TOR and US intelligence.

Seibel's Coders at Work is really fascinating and it's great to get all these different perspectives, some of them really tearing down current orthodoxy (like the interview about how nobody really reads code or jwz making fun of software blogs).

Free as in Freedom, about Richard Stallman, was also a book I enjoyed reading a lot, although I understand the subject hated it (it's been a while, but I recall it being a pretty sympathetic portrait, but unflattering in parts).

I'm interested to know if anybody read the Carreyou book about Theranos. It sounds like it could be good.
A company I consulted for was using a paid API to handle search.

Despite the fact that the entire site was available in an easy to scrape XML format, scrapers kept using the search feature.

They were trying very hard to overcome my countermeasures--they had a seemingly limitless pool of IPs, they were rotating user agent strings, and they tried to randomize search behavior.

Everytime I implemented a new countermeasure they'd try to find a way around it. It was maddening because we made everything available for them through the XML feed. They just wouldn't use it.
Coding Tech (Programming talks) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxCXg-UvSnTKPOzLH4wJaQ

Computerphile (Computer/Math) - https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

Kurzgesagt (Educational) - https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt

Night Mind (ARGs, Horror, etc) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC58IKuPHnZkdCZ6T5mSRGCg

NakeyJakey (Funny gaming, video essays, etc) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSdma21fnJzgmPodhC9SJ3g

GameGrumps (Gaming) - https://www.youtube.com/user/GameGrumps

SMTown (KPop) - https://www.youtube.com/user/SMTOWN
I don't know why people can't be normal and just have a reasonable career plan with reasonable savings & investment plan for retirement. Seems like people who write on websites don't give a shit or want to work 80hours a week so they can retire at 38
Avoid under-prepared meetings
I've been thinking this for almost all my life: the voting systems used in almost every country are plain ridiculous. The only country I know that uses a system that sounds reasonable is Australia.
Terrible, like the "jungle primaries" used in California.

These systems are ostensibly biased towards moderate candidates, but when there are no moderates as in these days of wildly antagonistic partisanship, the result is disenfranchisement.

Instant runoff is vastly superior in terms of allowing people to express their voting preferences.
I'd argue that the purpose is to act as a deterrent against countries that might otherwise think of invading their neighbors or things along those lines, but it's reasonable to think that the cost of such of large military is not worth the benefits.

It's also one of the US's largest employers.
Most people are sexually attracted to the opposite gender, it's a safe assumption
It is impossible to 'work your way through college' now unless you are making $50k/year part-time. State schools start around $10k/year just for tuition. All in costs are $30k/year+.

I'm so glad I went to school 15 years ago. Students today are totally screwed.
To quote the series finale of STtNG, "All Good Things..."

Is there a target date for states such as Idaho or Montana to receive digital plates? If not, I am considering one of those two states, ideally where the internet speed and latency are within nominal range.
I think when people describe 'the ideal way to live financially' they are looking at the problem as though they have to solve it all in one go, all at once. That's overwhelming, often leads to a sort of, yo-yo pattern of extreme frugality and extreme luxury.

Frugal living are habits that accumulate gradually, as are any other habits one aims to develop. Eventually you don't have to think about them, things converge naturally. Some people might enjoy working two jobs, because everything syncs together that way.
Eh, the principle might be good (though it's not odd that not everyone shares the same principles), but one can hold it and still have exceptions. For example, what about a governmental institution or a public company¹? What about a semi-public company, like a monopolist utility? What if the uploader of the data is OK with it, but the site hoster prevents it?

¹ in the sense of owned by the State, not listed on the stock market
I get facebook and was a user (on and off as I almost annually deleted my account) but then I found it a massive waste of time so gave up entirely just after Christmas.

I did join back up again for one specific facebook group. however I wasn't getting much out of it and on top of that, the Cambridge Analytica debacle just left a bad taste in my mouth and I've dropped facebook entirely, again.

It's been about 3 months now and I really have no desire to sign up again - occasionally I've browsed the group as an anonymous user and nothing has inspired me to join.

I've also dropped Twitter and other social media sits - I feel that until they get their shit together as far as privacy concerns, I'm just not interested in being part of any of that.

So it's HN and a couple of subject specific forums for me, and that will do for my "social media" needs. I've considered joining reddit but the jury is still out on that.
I found it on his own blog, though it's almost impossible to locate now. Basically he inherited a family house, lived in it for a few years, and sold it for a large sum of money (in addition to holding a $100,000 + a year job and saving from it).

As for the paid advocacy, have a look at their financials. You'll see a non-trivial amount of income from advertising on the website and speaking.

EDIT: The house wasn't inherited - he got it from a failed house building business. It's unclear if the costs of building came out of the business funds or his own funds.

> I'm skeptical that being frugal implies some kind of deprivation or overwork.

OP was advocating working multiple jobs and living frugally.
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I'd suggest that non-lethal intimidation wouldn't necessarily work on crows. Crows routinely mob other threat birds (e.g. buzzards, in my experience) and even a single crow will chase a buzzard off.

Firing bullets or similar from a drone might not be a good idea in a crowded urban environment (damage to people and / or property).

Drones deploying nets to catch them (or at least make them fall out of the sky)? Perhaps, until the crows cotton on, to the extent of swarming the drones.

Self-detonating proximity drones? Have the same issues as firing bullets (falling debris) and not very economic.
statement -> service

sigh
If you want to do the 'scientific arguments' thing, then surely it is up to the EMH proponents to convince the rest of us, while the rest of us stick to the null hypothesis.
Recent earnings reports and guidance suggest otherwise
I think the only way to avoid this brand of self-interest is to, prior to any discussion, agree that the changes will only come into effect 20 years into the future. It's hard to predict who it'll benefit that far into the future. 16 or 12 years might be doable. 8 is definitely too close. 4 is a train wreck, everyone is on campaign already.
Not software/hardware technology, but "The Silent Deep - The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945" has some remarkable accounts of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover who was quite a character - extremely effective but also quite remarkably rude and intimidating.

Note: What a US Navy Admiral is doing in a book about the Royal Navy is one of the things that makes the book fascinating.

Here is an account of Jimmy Carter's interview with Rickover when he was a young naval officer:

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/07/09/Carter-extolls-old-N...
Show HN: BUdgetDuo – Easily determine your share of household expenses
I've always had a theory that there are some variable luck factors that we can control.

Meeting driven, creative and important people is a huge multiplier for luck. It, perhaps more than anything I've done, has changed my life for the better.

I had a solid job in Mobile, AL working for an ad agency. Although, it felt isolating from the tech world. To combat that I started a publication interviewing designers and entrepreneurs just to stay plugged into the community.

So much good has come from a couple years and dozens of interviews. I met a co-founder, was paid to host a similar podcast and have made a ton of friends around the world. Not to mention, I might not be working as a designer had I never started doing interviews.

Give yourself opportunities to be lucky.
Single member districts is another reason. Even with good voting system single member district is bad for politics.

Proportional representation should be the minimum requirement. Adding additional voting system goodness on top of it is great.
> which system is the best

Can't this be reasoned scientifically?
N=1, but shopping at Trader Joe's in NYC will save you money -- if you can bear the crowds.
Mastering Image Delivery with Cloudinary
Ask HN: Who is using CakePHP3
Just wondering how big is the community size of CakePHP
Theres a discussion on that post in another thread below, but suffice to say the julia community is pretty exasparated with the constant need to respond to that post when its main source of the speed claims was to measure the perofrmance of a hello world program in julia and included the compilation and startup time in the benchmark.

Thats a deceptive and unhelpful 'benchmark', especially when the C++ compilation time was not included in its benchmark. Julia compilation and statup times are slow if you are expecting the feel of the Python interpreter, however, julia's compilation and statup time add a finite, constant overhead to its preformance and so are completely irrelevant for high performance numrical computing.

If you were wanting to spawn many julia instances and make them execute a single command then exit, yes julia would be a terrible choice of that (unless you turn of compilation and use its interpreter or statically compile your program) but for the most part measuring startup time just isn't relevant unless it takes a minute or something absurd.

In julia the only libraries I know of that take a minute to load are plotting libraries (once you make your first plot the library is blazing fast again) and thats been considered such a big issue that a new plotting library Makie is well under way which is supposed to be fully statically compiled in julia in order to slash the first time to plot.
How to Recover Galera Cluster or MySQL Replication from Split Brain Syndrome
No you need to work 15-20 years, depending on tax rates.

Unless you meant 130k after tax (which is doable today for many engineers).
A little different from what others are recommending, in that it wasn't made by a tech insider, but Werner Herzog's "Lo and Behold" is an excellent nonlinear and eclectic documentary about the internet
People disagree on what the purpose of government even is, so... no.
I and at least one friend have the bug, too.

It also seems to clear your ban list, which is a major issue for some people.
Why APIs are the next big productivity tools
Only if you can define your criteria for "best".
I had the same thought, all 4 of these people have F you money and publicly do whatever they want with zero reprecussions
Let's be fair here, if you're running on anything but Linux you're hoping every application updates their bundled Qt frameworks when there's a bug found in it too.
Telegram says Apple is blocking its app updates globally
Face Detection Using Pure PHP: No OpenCV Required
Why are they showing only quadcopter drones on images? AFAIK for long distance flights you need winged drones, which are much more efficient... You should of course adapt them so they can take off & land vertically, like Google's Project Wing.
The page isn't loading for me. https://web.archive.org/web/20180601141754/https://trac.torp...

(https://archive.org/donate)
Hacker Defaces Ticketfly’s Website, Steals Customer Database
Was anyone else from your team going to the conference? Did you give them enough notice? Or are they being hard-nosed on never sending anyone to conferences ever?
> Emacs is in a race, not against Vim, but against VS Code and Atom for which editor can be more easily customized. In the long run, it doesn't look good for Emacs.

Emacs is extensible in Lisp; VS Code & Atom are extensible in JavaScript. The point goes to emacs.

Emacs has Magit, Org Mode, AucTeX, notmuch, gnus, ERC, emms, TRAMP, calc, calendar, Diary Mode — what do VS Code & Atom have? The point goes to emacs.

Emacs runs in a GUI. Emacs runs in a terminal. Emacs runs on a machine halfway across the world on the other side of an SSH session. The point goes to emacs.

Emacs is far from perfect, but it's far ahead of its competition.
We have a federal, not national, government. National percentages of votes earned are meaningless.

I'm not saying that's good or bad, but that's what it is.
I want to make sure it's said that effective altruism is intertwined with the rationalist movement (Scott Alexander[1], Eliezer Yudkowsky[2], Robin Hanson[3]) and that, among these so called rationalists and the parts of the effective altruist community where they hold sway, there are a lot of advocates of AI risk mitigation research (what this means, who knows). These people see AI as the greatest risk to humanity, if you agree to a very long list of tenuous assumptions and implications.

I don't think the one paragraph in this article where this is mentioned does enough to emphasize this part of the community. Many members of effective altruism use it as a front to recruit people into their belief system, which is centered around devotion to / fear of future AIs that exist solely as thought experiments. And while their leaders don't necessarily explicitly endorse it, the communities they foster tend to also be fairly right wing / race realist / misoginistic / bigoted.

Many of the people in the rationalist and effective altruist community believe that if they don't help create AI any future AIs will create a hell and punish them in it. Seriously. That is a serious belief.

Check out more: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/effective-altruism-is-self-re...

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/26/book-review-twelve-rule...

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3wYTFWY3LKQCnAptN/torture-vs...

[3] https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/989535565895864320?la...
This also assumes that decisions to donate to a cause are driven by logic based on an ROI calculation but they are often driven by emotion, not logic. Donors give to causes they care about and feel connected to. If you grew up homeless for example, you're more likely to give to a cause that helps alleviate homelessness vs buying nets to combat Malaria (where you may have no connection) even if the ROI for donating to buy Malaria nets is higher.
We're moving Aircrud into public beta and wanted to take the chance to explain what we're doing, and why we think APIs are a huge source of untapped potential for teams.

Let us know what you think!
Facebook has extensive location history available for most users, so just a EULA clause probably wouldn't do the trick. They'd probably have to show a more active attempt to block Illinois residents from the system.

It wouldn't be a retroactive solution, either.
If you're connecting to a clearnet site, you probably need HTTPS _more_ than on a standard connection - you _explicitly_ have a node between you and the site that you don't necessarily trust (see, e.g., https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/25/can-you-trust-to...).
>Ave you ever had to work on an application that's more than 5 years old, with an active dev team of 30+ (just the web developers) that have had over 200 hands in the pie including contractors then? I have, and it was a nightmare.

I was a rank and file developer on a similar shit show years ago. The main difference was that it was a greenfield project at a startup. The people calling the shots were dead set on using the latest fads -- at the time it was the Rational Unified Process, with all the attendant documentation, and EJBs. I knew that Entity Beans were a monumentally stupid idea when I first read the O'Reilly book about them. And I said so, to anyone who would listen, to no avail. I think the team reached 40 developers at its peak, of which maybe half were totally incompetent. (By my standards.) The schedule slipped rapidly, we were put on mandatory 6 day work weeks, I bailed out, easily finding another job, and eventually the whole project cratered.

I'm not going to argue with your experience, tracker1, but all of my experience tells me that the ability of the developers is the best predictor of the outcome of a software development project. And our profession, unfortunately, is awash with incompetent people. For example, people who have worked for over 5 years as a Java developer, who are unable to write a Hello World program in Java from scratch in a plain text editor, and compile it and run it from the command line.
There are many extensions for Firefox that provide the same functionality. Here's one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary-ex...

Also, if you're using Windows, you can use WordWeb (which is a full-fledged app).
> Free of reprisal from the government. I don't know why people keep going around thinking they're being repressed if their decisions have consequences.

The willful disingenuousness of that argument becomes apparent when applied to other acts most people would abhor:

"That anti-X graffiti sprayed on your house is perfectly okay since it isn't the government that's persecuting you. I don't know why people keep going around thinking they're being repressed if their decision to worship X/be an X/etc. has consequences."

The "free of reprisal from the government" isn't a principled stance; it's a tacit admission that the the speaker is ethically okay with mob justice as long as the mob is on their side.
What a total cluster f@. Facebook must have an army of lawyers to deal with both domestic and foreign lawsuits.

This country's legal system is like a swiss cheese with holes everywhere. Dealing with states, federal governments and municipalities costs our businesses billions of dollars each year.
If anyone wants to do more research on this, the keyword is "monomorphization".
The downside of doing so is that it still gives plenty of time to cancel the changes at year 12 or 16, once it becomes apparent who will stand to benefit/lose from the change. This type of hacking future benefits is evidence in many of the tax overhauls, which use predicted future savings to offset short-term costs. And often those future savings are legislated away before they come to fruition.

(Of course, sometimes those future savings wouldn't have happened anyways, due to unreasonably optimistic assumptions about the performance of the economy.)
GiveWell’s CEO’s compensation is 200k: http://files.givewell.org/files/ClearFund/Meeting_2017_06_06...

That, after working at a investment firm and having a BA in religion.

Not sure that’s the skills and salary I would trust the use of the word « reason » and « science » with. Having a 200k salary in San Francisco definitely skews your vision of the world.
Dark Patterns in UI/UX Design
You should really watch Clone Wars then, it's considered canon and is really good in general. If you don't want to watch all 121 of them, these are the best:

5. Carnage of Krell (Season 4)

4. Orders (Season 6)

3. ARC Troopers (Season 3)

2. The Lawless (Season 5)

1. The Wrong Jedi (Season 5)
Carnot efficiency limitations means the winning solution can't use burning CO2.

Batteries and hydro can both break 90% round trip efficiency while having very low costs. To win something needs to be better than that or very cheap, and burring stuff is not cheap.
Yup hn is pretty insidious with silently controlling everything on it's website of content provided by everyone else.
All of those are skills and trait the poster has, not luck. Your logic is concluding that the poster drinking enough water to survive is luck