skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, "spontaneous" may be a bit misleading, since it is a very slow, gradual process, but yes.

Hay is basically grass clippings bundled together to feed to grass-eating animals when there isn't any.

Great care must be taken to collect hay when it is as dry as possible and store it in such a way as to dry it further and keep it dry because wet hay rots. Decay produces heat, and because hay is also a great insulator that heat can even reach the ignition point for the dry parts of the hay.

It tends to smolder, since it is predicated on being fairly wet at first and the middle where it is hottest will have bad airflow until the whole "being on fire" part dries the rest out, but it will set your barn on fire easily enough, and it's a real devil to put out, since you're usually trying to spray water through dozens of feet of hay to where the core of the problem actually is.
Well, the money is going somewhere, and it doesn't seem to be them for the most part. Perhaps it's more about buying directly from them and cutting out the middlemen.
Let's see:

Drunks/junkies/mentally ill people shitting, pissing, and vomiting everywhere, while verbally (and sometimes physically) abusing the passers-by.

Noise.

Breathing the stench of exhaust fumes, week-old garbage, and someone else's idea of cooking.

Having no place for your children to sit on the grass without worrying about them finding someone's discarded needle or excrement.

Having no space for gardens, hobbies, or gatherings of family and/or friends.

Bad schools with apathetic parents.

The inability to leave personal property unattended for even a moment.

The need to have extensive home security (bars on windows, etc...)

The much higher likelihood that you or one of your loved ones will be mugged, raped, or killed.

Those are just a few that come to mind.
Agreed, I remember hearing about this and was happy to see it draw attention to their business. Now that just seems like a cruel twist of the knife.
Obviously the guy should have been fired if the intent was to offend or demean. Personally, I would never in any circumstances use the word. But do we or don't we want black culture to shape all of american culture? The word shows up in movies, TV shows, and music that white people consume and enjoy. When a word is offensive enough that it is derogatory when a white person uses it no matter the context, but okay for a black person, that is a cultural form of separate but equal. Either make the word something everybody can say or nobody can say. I vote the latter but if black people truly want to reclaim the word as a positive, then I am okay with that as long as anybody can use the word (at least with positive intent).

EDIT: Black people took a word that meant something horrible and made it into such a good thing among themselves that even white people want in on the goodness of the word. How is that not a huge cultural achievement that they should be proud of and allow the broader culture to take up? Doesn't it show the strength of their community to make something awful into something good?
The way you curtly replied makes you think that the question is settled, perhaps even trivial, when in reality regarding consciousness that is but one person's thought on an issue where nobody can claim to have an understanding, let alone an answer, and regarding molecular biology there is still much, much to learn.
Porn is an incredibly challenging industry to profit on.
That sounds like a very pertinent thing to disclose when offering a critique of a competitor, particularly when you're not able to substantiate (for legitimate reason or otherwise)
Maybe people appreciate the workmanship that comes with a handcrafted pair of scissors. Maybe it is sharper, better made. You don’t know that.

If you are a programmer, how would you feel if I questioned your skills, saying that it should be outsourced to India and you are better off doing something else in your life?

Your comment comes off as highly insensitive
Don’t have the time to watch it now, could anyone quickly summarise in text form? Thanks!
Your last point is very important. At the very least start with comparing your function running with what it needs and then maxed out. Don’t forget warmup time.
Uber driver was streaming Hulu show just before self-driving car crash
This is very much how I think about this issue. It's a problem of a completely different class than almost anything else.
If you’re looking for a quality Scissors, there is a Finnish company called Fiskars[1] that makes amazing high quality scissors (and shovels) that amazon.com carries.

Disclosure: not affiliated. Just wanted to give them a shoutout since very few people I ran into have ever heard of them.

[1] http://www.fiskars.com/
I don't own an iPhone X but I'm fairly certainly there are X owners who don't care about using the device as a signaling mechanism.
I know what you meant, but organic chemistry is distinguished by a carbon nucleus. The chemistry of life is called biochemistry.
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Do you have a recommendation for American-made scissors?
Including "society". For every tragic company failure or suicide or whatever, there are always stories like this. "She seemed fine." "We never knew they were in trouble". "He's not the kind of person. This is no less true in the internet of 2018 than it was in the small towns of the 1930's.

We don't get to see half of what we think we should be able to see of people's lives. Even people we "know".
Wow.

My wife has ancestors that fought in the Battle of Franklin, and we’ve toured the house a couple of times. We’re planning on making it to the descendants gathering at some point.

The idea of my kids’ great-great-...-grandfather marching across that valley into the Union lines and near-certain defeat is haunting. They knew it was a lost cause, without question. We make it a point to play “The Bonnie Blue Flag” every time we drive through that area.
If only someone would pay Kanye to promote IRC
Getting a space bar fixed isn't a "space bar fix"? Interesting.
I'm not sure what I would recommend as an introduction to relativity. If you're mathematically minded and have a lot of time on your hands, and actually want to learn the physics, a superb book is "Spacetime and Geometry" by Sean Carrol. As for a layman introduction, I'm not sure what to recommend.

As succinctly as I can put it, in our current understanding spacetime is a 4-dimensional space whose curvature is related to the local energy-momentum content. In turn, the motion of particles in freefall is dictated by this curvature.
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Question- how much was the Uber driver being paid for their labor?

This is supposedly Uber's big bet that will supposedly win them a nearly multi-trillion dollar industry. Why give the keys to someone who apparently doesn't take the job seriously?
> "Leaders have to be beyond reproach in the example we set and unfortunately I fell short of that standard "

vs.

> "Thanks. Rise high, fall fast. All on a couple of words...." [Later deleted]

Something tells me that even after being fired, he still doesn't get it.

For someone who leads a team specialized in communicating with the public, seems incredibly tone deaf.
"An object's property had a specific value. That value became different."

How is something that's different different from something that's changed? It sounds like it's one and the same to me.

Also, you used the word "became". That word has temporal connotations. So if you define change in terms of time, you can't then go on to define time in terms of change without it being another circular definition.
Yeah this is a "get yourpitchforks, boys" type of article.

I was slightly amused at the notion that this will go on his "permanent record," because that is not a thing that exists. There are databases (plural) that provide data for background checks, social media accounts, etc., but a singular "permanent record" document simply doesn't exist and has never existed.
> It recounts an incident that occurred "several months ago" when Friedland used the N-word during a meeting with Netflix public relations staff during a discussion about "sensitive words." Several people told him they were offended by his use of the full word, according to Hastings's memo.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/22/news/companies/netflix-spoke...

Sensitive, like the recent internal protests at Google, Amazon, and Microsoft over political matters.

* Amazon - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/amazon-workers-t...

* Microsoft - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/technology/tech-companies...

* Google - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-...

Due to this degree of social sensitivity I will never relocate to the west coast for employment.
I think this is the best answer to your question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO15S3WC9pg
Yes, we're serving client web traffic directly with Lambdas via API Gateway. We have no traditional instances or non-serverless components of any kind in the core stack.
There's a few things about this (specifically and in general) that are frustrating.

Writing 'the n-word' is similar to saying 'the f word' or 'the c bomb' - everyone knows what we're referring to, and I suspect many simply mentally substitute the actual word as they read.

There's some Le Guin style 'power of true names' thing going on with the myriad words that are somewhere on the sensitive-to-offensive spectrum for whoever you may be talking to or near.

It's especially tricky for non-USA persons, as a lot of US pop-culture is exported, and it comes bundled with a surfeit of political, social, and historical cruft we are expected to track.

In AU it famously caught out one of our comedians in 1979 during an award show, when he used the word 'boy' with Muhammad Ali [1] -- spectacularly neither the host, nor pretty much anyone watching in the ballroom or at home, had any idea it meant something other than someone younger than you, let alone something derogatory.

The wonderful comedian Reginald D Hunter has a strong opinion on the matter -- basically that as long as we all keep skirting around certain words they'll maintain their regrettably powerful effect over people -- but he has the benefit of being in a demographic (black and a comedian) that, by social convention, can casually drop the word. Anyway, I love the idea, but I have no idea how we can get there from here.

[1] Search: bert newton muhammad ali
The ownership of the n word is a metaphorical reparation for slavery. Its existence is a reminder that white people did something terribly wrong to black people. Much like Holocaust denial it's not just a logical construct but a blasphemous one.
Here are some of my pages on attacks via filenames and how to counter them...

https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames....

https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html

It is not really just a shell problem.
Wow. I didn’t realize they were Finnish. I’ve grown up with so many of these in India, I used to think they were actually Indian! TIL.
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I think you're vastly underestimating what makes a script language "scripty" - not having to declare types is only one factor and probably not the most important.
These are welcome improvements, but I worry that they will continue increasing complexity to the point that we have another C++ on our hands. There's a balance between new features and improvements, and simplicity and stability. I hope the Rust team finds that balance.
My uptime monitoring project uses AWS Lambda heavily, almost exclusively https://apex.sh/ping/ — it has been great. I've processed 3,687,727,585 "checks" (requests really) with it, and I only had roughly 1 hour of downtime two years ago in a single region. Since then it has been stable.

I have 14 or so regions so doing the same thing with EC2 would have considerable overhead, though I can still imagine many cases where Lambda would not be cost effective, but its integration with Kinesis is fantastic as well, stream processing almost cannot be easier, and while people say Kafka is more cost-effective, with a bit of batching you can get a long way with Kinesis as well.
Two sides here:

- He is stupid to not know the social untold rules, such as never say the "n-word".

- Those untold rules are also so stupid to start with. How is it ok to say the "n-word" but not the original form. They are the same thing.
I don't know about other companies, but here's a generalised description of officially what a senior software engineer does.

- Relevant tertiary qualification
- min 5 years experience
- long list of proficiency relevant to particular area of work
- Proven ability to take a lead role in the design and development of a feature from start to completion
- Establish technical feasibility of assigned projects
- Uses diagramming appropriately to convey technical details and features
- Create, Document, Maintain technical design approaches
- Mentor other developers
- Lead debugging investigations and report results
- Present results of research and investigation, to team meetings, or at conferences, etc.

+ Everything a normal/jr dev does

I think it's a pretty good/comprehensive definition, and it seems clear enough to me in my work environment.
It may seem strange to someone from another country... but there aren't that many countries that fought a massive, traumatic, bloody war over the issue of slavery. Add in Jim Crow, which only ended about 50 years ago, and you'll find things are a little more fraught than they might be in countries that peacefully abolished slavery (or didn't heavily practice it in the first place).
Yes. That’s what made Tim Ferriss famous.
"Locality"?

BBSs were more of the than not local, with some federation in that the operator or someone he trusted would exchange data between the local BBS and some distant BBS.

Similarly IRC used to house a high number of very local channels back when i first came online (and one tried to pick a server on the network that was in one's own nation or a neighboring one to avoid finding oneself on the wrong end of a net split).

Social networks offers much the same via various means (groups on facebook, sub-reddits on reddit, etc).

Honestly IMO, what killed IRC was IM and SMS. This because now the schoolyard cliques could once more ostracize.
Inexcusable. No person-- black, white, otherwise-- should use that word.
Physical products see lots of delays, year plus not uncommon from what I’ve seen, in the kick starter space. What surprised me is how old this company is, and that this was their bread and butter product. Their LinkedIn shows they’ve been in business since 1902. That’s over 100 years in business, yet they still had a massive delay, over scissors. To me, that’s like saying a Samsung or Apple, had a two year delay on one of their mid cycle phones (e.g.,Iphone S versions).
And millions of them don't.

Educational outcomes, crime (both as victim and perpetrator), and mental health are all worse for those who grew up in cities, and not just slightly worse. Much worse.
Because in reality, people and politics are a complex matrix of thousands of issues and not a simple left-or-right slider.
Solipsism is basically the only defense against the conclusions from the evidence of the "real" world. But if you argue for solipsism then I say you have much bigger problems than consciousness because you basically rejected everything that has ever been "known" or experienced.
If you reject our "shared reality" then anything is possible, including paradoxically, the "shared reality".

If you accept the shared reality on the other hand, consciousness is measurable to some degree. So the real question is do you or do you not accept we share experiences?

As an addendum, if it is all up to me as you suggested, I just made consciousness measurable so there is no need to keep arguing about it.
Do you guys find CloudWatch logs too slow? Even on very small apps I find searching the past few days takes minutes (5-10m), but I'm using "structured" JSON logs as well.
This is extraordinarily stupid. I fear people in the US are living under some form of mass psychosis about this topic.

I grew up in the south. It's been probably 30 years since I heard anyone use the dreaded word in the traditional derogatory and demeaning way. But, like every other American, I've heard it used thousands upon thousands of times in the new way, and I know exactly what it means: "man", or sometimes just "person". That's all it means. I wish that word had died long ago. But it's still here, for better or worse, and everyone knows it means man/person.

Did the people who supposedly took great offense at the use of this word take great offense at its usage by other people throughout daily life, including being used in probably thousands of programs on Netflix itself?
Regarding the tooling: I hated debugging Lambdas via CloudWatch logs when using them for Hustle, it drove me to drink.

I eventually got upset enough that I made a tool to stream the cloudwatch logs to the terminal and colorize, indent + nicely format json output:

https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw
It’s not just on the west coast - you would get fired for saying that anywhere almost.
> But coming from another country it is still strange to me that there are a couple of well defined words that are COMPLETELY forbidden

Maybe you should learn American history then.
I’m wondering —

Why did you do this?

Do you speak Sanskrit? Did you approach the Sutras in sanskrit or via translations?

What is your Yoga practice?
So you're refusing to work anywhere where you'll be fired for repeatedly using racial slurs??
I'm surprised you don't meet many people who have heard of fiskars - I grew up in the Northeast USA, and there's near-universal agreement in my social circle that Fiskars makes the best quality scissors on the market, to the extent that we all share memories of fighting over who got to use the fiskars during craft time in elementary school. Weird!
You're downvoted because your post expresses misunderstanding.

Roberts rightfully expressed no disdain for same-sex partners, nor did he express it should never be legal.

Rather, it should have nothing to do with constitutional law, (nor really even federal law).

Sadly all of our modern civil liberties are fought for on self-serving platforms rather than on a social framework consistent with civil liberties. In other words, people claim to be civil libertarians, but they act in a way which suggests they just care about an expedient pathway to the ones they personally care about.
Thank you for sharing. I accept the first half of his argument, which is why I don't use certain words. However, Coates gives himself the freedom to use certain words he would not himself use in situ. The news article posted appears that there is a word that white people cannot utter in any context, even in describing why they don't use it.
I think the main reason it hasn't been outsourced is reputation. Chinese manufacturers could make great scissors, but how could they convince people to buy them? Higher quality costs more, and Chinese products have a reputation for low quality at low price. If they increase the price many people will assume it's a scam. I don't think the UK has as good a reputation for quality as e.g. Germany, Japan, or Switzerland, but it's better than China, so the marketing cost will be lower.
I wish open standards, and the tools that facilitated them, were more welcoming to the 'average' crowd. I used to use IRC in the past. I still do but it's just couple of logins a month. Even many of the support channels I used to frequent from OSS have moved to other platforms. Hobby channels etc have moved elsewhere long back.

I faced the same problem with IRC that I am facing with Signal today. Though this analogy doesn't really seem that coherent but I hope you see where I am coming from. No one I would like to communicate with via such apps/platforms seems to use it. IRC is great but I would like to connect it with people I know, are part of something I like or do, or are from the place I belong to. They don't. They have moved to other platforms, long back, or never really used IRC.

I believe a lot of existing IRC users, including me, are still around just because of the nostalgia.
The Holocaust is a fact. All white people being descendents of slave owners is not.
Just to be clear, you want to work in an environment where you can say racist things with impunity. Is that really how you want to present yourself on HN?
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I had such a poor experience with the 2016 MBP that I switched to a Dell XPS 9560 running Windows 10 & WSL. The XPS units are quite nice.
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I'm in New Zealand here, I used to think they were from here too
He said the word in a meeting regarding the use of "sensitive words" in comedy.
To me, if you want reparations, economic ones would be more helpful. As strict as the current cultural enforcement of the word is, I see it as only a way to divide and not a way for black culture to be part of all America.
The parent didn't ask for a link to a video, so a link to a video cannot be an answer to the question. Perhaps you could summarise or quote the part of the video that you believe answers the question.
It's not that it's controversial, it's just that it's not a workable idea, or at least you haven't proposed any way to make it workable. That article, if I recall correctly, is about cultural taboos. I don't think this is one of those.

Stepping up the level of fines and corporate penalties to be greater than the expected gains from bad behavior is a much more workable solution. Companies were much more careful to not act too monopolistically when the government was in full trust busting mode.
That reasoning applies in China as well, or I should say especially in China.
Default burn for all hellbans. I think the total black hole here is kind of ridiculous.
If only Maven were replaced with Make (in the Java world).
I'm not sure if that is the right way to interpret it.

For example, every single exchange out there is holding people's assets, in trust, and thus, are also making it difficult to distinguish the line between stupid and malicious.

Society is still learning and it's having growing pains. But, these pains, are leading to stronger, more resilient systems.

I think we'll soon start seeing non-custodial exchanges, the way it was meant to be.
English is a kind of mutt language. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes were Germanic tribes and old English (aka Anglo-Saxon) is a Germanic language. In 1066 good old King Harold got an arrow in his eye at the Battle of Hastings and William the Conqueror (from Normandy, France) took over. From that point on, the language of the court in England was French. Over time, more and more of the French language got mixed into what is now known as English. On top of that, in the north you had people speaking Old Norse. Quite a lot of words (IIRC apple, gate and bucket are examples) come from there.
Yes, ctrl-esc was the original shortcut since 3.x, and when there was no Win key yet
The speaker in your video used the word "faggot" the same way, with no intent to offend. How should he be punished?

If we're going to have this debate via videos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRJy48JWiHk
I would love to know what that article is! You have any more info?

I made parts of this argument recently: https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/regulators-need-to-st...
Maybe the OP would like to look up the word "reign" in the dictionary. It doesn't seem to appear in TFA.

It is a perhaps understandable mistake for someone whose native language isn't English. "Reign" is about kings ; "rein" is about horses.
Right, I addressed that in my post...
Thanks for your assumption that I didn't learn it. I did.

I probably don't have all the emotional background on this subject as you have, growing up in America, but that doesn't change my observation.
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