skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attaching slack chats under projects or tasks would be an improvement in some cases - use slack in the way it best fits per use case instead of one case fits all.
To us, $1M doesn't sound like a lot in areas like SF/LA, but, generally speaking, most nouveau riche in this demographic typically don't even think COL upfront. In the ESPN "Broke" documentary, it was said something like 50-60% of athletes end up broke (essentially back where many of them started). Young, financially uneducated, popular, and newly rich is a perfect storm for wealth mismanagement.

If a 20-something actor/artist/athlete lands a lot of money, the first thing they go to is immediate lifestyle "improvement". Fancy cars, nice clothes, luxury amenities. "I'm rich now, so I gotta look the part, right?". Scroll through a few Instagrams of rookies who got their first payday, and you'll see them driving in an S-class Benz with an LV handbag. The novelty of saying "I'm a millionaire now" imprints the image that they will be a millionaire forever - and that short-term thinking is what runs the well dry.
All of these reports take into account the intoxication of any parties involved. Not sure why it’s unfair to point out that the person illegally in the road was in a state that contributed to the accident. It’s not like she was just standing on the sidewalk minding her own business.
PRs are a useful artifact that can trigger CI builds, provide an organized way to discuss changes, record reasoning behind multi-commit changes, etc. etc.
Crypto stats via SMS
This seems more like a horror story of ego than a profound teaching moment
How to Optimise for Success, a Theory
Well fine, but I'm gonna run old vehicles that havent been infected by this until then.

Having to babysit the self driving car is a no starter
Agreed, and in a hypothetical universe where Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion and 4 justices signed on to his take, we would have even better protections against _Smith_ type privacy infringements than what this current decision might offer.

There's still a lot of gray area though -- it's easy to say that the money in my bank is my property, even where it is in the care and custody of a third party, so by that argument, Gorsuch's property argument gives me more privacy protections for non-warranted searches to my banking data, but on the other hand, it's not clear that my Google Map data is 'mine', since Google provides it as a service to me for free, and uses that data for other purposes.
I would hate for my logic engine to be required to backtrack every time a candidate interpretation was evaluated. AFAIK, prolog allows no alternative. Nor can it support the many powerful probabilistic extensions for rule-based reasoning that arose 25(?) years ago, nor the many improvements and variations on impasse resolution.

IMHO, the choice of prolog unnecessarily straitjackets a modern production system, making the engineering approach of this startup that much less powerful, flexible, or viable than it should be.
You should evaluate the loading performance of your store. If you attempt to use PPC ads to get traffic, many visitors will bounce because it takes so long to load, and once it does load, it is not interactive for a long time. This will make you spend more on advertising than is strictly necessary.

You're currently serving ~5mb of uncompressed JavaScript and are not using a CDN for your root domain. I would start with those.

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/180622_77_7b98a10a75ec84f...
>law enforcement has been moving away from even that cursory glance since 9/11

It was moving in that direction long before 9/11. It just gained mass notice when everyone started taking off their shoes at the airport.
Two weeks is not reasonable for someone who presumably could've walked over & back, at an official crossing, with instantaneous review of her passport/eligibility.

Sure, an improper entry adds some complication. But if her story checks out – passport available for review, low signage at the crossing, in jogging wear, video shows no suspicious packages, well-established addresses/education/career – then perhaps 24-48 hours would be reasonable.

I'm not uniquely blaming US border authorities here – if Canada wouldn't take her back within 24 hours, as someone with proper documents who had just previously been there legally, they share the blame in creating an unreasonable system.
IRC gateway from Slack. But they closed it down because <insert random bullshit PR message here>.
In the absence of a competent system there is no solution, permanent or otherwise. It’s like trying to secure your laptop against someone who has physical possession of it; you can’t, they own it now.
> Not a fan of Gorsuch

Why not? Unless I’ve missed something important, his legal interpretation and application so far seem to be fair, balanced, straightforward, and non-partisan.
It's going to be very easy to point out that these lessons were learned in an abusive environment (which it certainly sounds like they were), while completely glossing over the importance of the actual lessons. How an idea is expressed and the value of the idea are orthogonal. If someone is yelling at you, maybe they are just being an asshole. And maybe they are telling you something valuable, albeit in an unfortunate fashion.
Open borders or good social safety nets, pick one.

edit: if there's some way that we can pick both please feel free to tell everyone.
I left EE and became a full-stack developer! No complaints about JavaScript here. Verilog should just switch to lambdas and get it over with.
Does this actually conform to Material Design guidelines? The use of shadow/depth seems gratuitous, for example, in the selected item in the left menu.
A lot more.

If you don't know me, what does it mean? Maybe I'm terminally ill and every birthday is just a reminder of time running out. Or maybe I'm terminally ill and I don't care? How could someone know this without knowing me personally.

I guess that's a german culture thing. Don't try to be a friend unless you're willing to undersetand a person and support them even through bad times.
So why are they behind Trump?
The same problem exists in Slack, there is no E2E-encryption. And you can't self host it.
This might get me some flak, but IMHO it's an unconscious double standard for many people and it's also not exclusive to the English language.

Germans do something similar, a German who moves to another country, even if it's Thailand for retirement or because life in Germany supposedly doesn't work for them, is called an "Auswanderer" and usually has a rather positive connotation of being "worldly" and well traveled.

Guess how many people call immigrants "Einwanderer" with a positive connotation? Pretty much nobody.

Some might argue there's an economic dimension to this, like German pensioners bringing their money to the other country, but that also doesn't always apply: There are plenty of Germans who are migrating because they have economic troubles in Germany and think they could work it better elsewhere.

As unbelievable as that might sound to most people outside of Germany, there are so many of them that VOX Germany has a whole Docu-Soap about Germans migrating to other countries, and it's been running for nearly 12 years with great success [0].

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Deutschland!_Die_Auswa...
At Rendevu (https://rendevu.co), we think the problem you're describing is due to Slack's (or any messaging app's) inherent synchronous nature.

We're building an intelligent asynchronous feed that aggregates discussions from all the other apps you already use (google / jira / trello / invision), and gives your team a one stop place to find info that doesn't go stale like a wiki.

We're running an alpha right now at https://rendevu.co. Feel free to check it out if you get the chance.
What should I teach my children to prepare them to race with the robots?
Yea me neither. Generalizations like this aren't helpful, or least bit fair.
I am a US citizen. Once on a visit to Basel I walked without a passport to France and then to Germany, and then back to Switzerland.

No one stopped me. Thanks be to the Schengen Agreement.

Friends of mine, in the glory days of the 1990s, went canoeing in the Boundary Waters. They went to the Canada side and 'claimed' some island for the US in jest.

They didn't get stopped, much less detained for two weeks.

In the same glory days, people on the Maine/Canada border would frequently pass back and forth without a problem. Eg, to get gas in the US, where it was cheaper.

That's why there are still things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera... . Which, you'll notice, allows people from Canada to enter the door on the US side without going through customs.

So it is not unreasonable that there can be flexibility on what it means to cross the border.
> ownership of one’s own body.

Given that the framers were living in a society where that right was distinctly "alienable", and either were themselves or needed to appease interests that insisted that said right be alienable, I'm not sure they considered that one.
At least for some time, on mtgox.com you could log in with your original credentials and check your balance to make a claim. Not sure how that's going to be handled now.
I started to downvote you on your "No True Scotsman" fallacy, but the more I read, the more I felt that I was just downvoting on biases.

Regardless, I don't believe there's room for that kind of negativity on HN toward roughly half the population of America, most of whom are assuredly neither evil nor disgusting.
Funny, but look at it from the perspective of those actually involved. Canada doesn't have a magic spreadsheet of all the people currently allowed in the country. Nor does the US, or France. They have to check up on visas and such.

And because this person is currently in custody, they cannot be released until they know there aren't any outstanding warrants in any of the three countries involved.

But this does not avoid the fact she violated the law. In legal terms, she deliberately crossed the boarder. She didn't knowingly violate the law, but this isn't someone forced across the boarder against their will. "I didn't see the marker" isn't actually an excuse. Someone in the US has to actively decide not to prosecute. That decision too take time, and won't start until such a person's identity and status has already been assured.
IMO the problems with social media are not technological problems or even product problems. They're problems of human behavior and social psychology. I don't think you can fix that with a different product offering.
I want to pick at your “moon rovers” comment because I think it’s somewhat misguided (although, yes, it does apply specifically to Chinese government officials).

One of the reasons that the United States won the race to the moon (while definitively losing the race to space and manned space flight) was because we were the first to dump exorbitant sums of money into the hot (and extremely expensive) new kid on the computing block: integrated circuits.

Before ICs, computer parts were often hand-welded, which NASA determined was too failure-prone to reliably control the lunar lander, as such a device had to be able to handle shaking, cosmic radiation, temperature shifts, extreme G-forces from liftoff, and so on. For that same reason, the Soviets were also unable to complete a reliable lunar lander before the Americans, regardless of their past successes with spaceflight.

NASA’s immense investment in integrated circuits greatly accelerated their adoption, and as a result, computers became much faster, and much cheaper, than ever before.

The history of computing goes straight through the Apollo 11 lunar lander, which does not get nearly as much credit as it deserves.
One always has a voice simply by choosing the place to work at.
The thing is you can have a simple aesthetic and have it look nice. Not that this looks bad, but I mean, it can suit a product and stay performant, easy to maintain for designers, very little cognitive overhead to work with the design system, etc.

Sometimes I feel like people lean on a lush and complex design system to draw eyes and attention away from how thin their product/data/whatever is. Welp, this is boring. Let's slap some lipstick on it.
Title: which world country are we talking about? Oh, right... ;)
I think the alternative is posting important information to a feed that intelligently updates itself, rather than into channels where it gets pushed above the fold.

We're building this at Rendevu (https://rendevu.co) and running an alpha right now, feel free to check it out.
This still feel relevant today in explaining the push back against modern liberalism and social justice movements. Emerson was apparently not a fan of virtue signaling.
The citizen scientist who finds killers from her couch
Why not use a thread in the channel? To be fair Slacks' thread implementation is rather poor, but it's better than nothing.
Right, Uber's position will be / is, simultaneously, one - "it's not our fault, that's why we had the human driver there", and two - "in order to cut costs, we used to have a human passenger there to record anomalies while driving - we axed that and require the human 'driver' to do so, whilst being responsible for the safety of the vehicle".
There are several things wrong with this IMO.

First, branching/PRs are not automatically process-heavy. If it is for your company, there's probably something else wrong.

Second, this process—if done right—dramatically INCREASES code quality and DECREASES defects. This can be backed up with data. Code reviews, if they're not rubber stamps, are extremely valuable.

Third, the trunk-based model described in the article often leads to big-bang release branches. Master should be gold. This facilitates rapid and small releases, which directly impacts the business. This can also be backed up by data (e.g. see the Accelerate book).

Fourth, this model (again if done right), plays an instrumental role in compliance. The article doesn't even mention compliance, which is a HUGE thing bogging down a lot of companies trying to adopt DevOps practices right now. It has nothing to do with discipline or trust.
Pollutants from agriculture a serious threat to world's water
What kinds of testing/analysis have you done with your laundry detergent? As you probably know, Tide has a vast amount of rigorous chemical engineering behind it: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry...
How does that solve the problem the poster is describing? IRC still has that issue.
It's interesting. Looking at total healthcare spending from 1990 to 2005, Netherlands and Sweden were about the same per capita. From 2005 Netherlands costs shot up, overtaking countries like France, Germany, Iceland etc.

Sweden didn't shoot up until 2010.

The Netherlands has spent a lot on healthcare, especially after 2006 - not as much as Norway (which I suspect has higher costs due to sparsely populated areas), Switzerland, and Luxemburg, but more than the rest of Europe. If you pay more, you get more.

Are you sure the benefits of your hybrid system aren't because you increased health spending by over 50% (about 7% pa) from 2004 to 2010, where Sweden only increased by about 30% (about 4% pa)?
Email checklist
No shit, I would hope so...
Somebody has to do real work in this country.
My team recently started using slack again and I'm finding it extremely lacking.

Whoever made the decision to use it cheaped out and didn't pay for it, so our history on channels is just getting lost, while I can still search for useful info or tips from 2 years ago on Gchat.

You can argue that this is the business model, but that is a shitty business model then. Sell features that further empower a team, don't intentionally remove one of the largest benefits of communicating in writing.

But what really pissed me for the past few months is the fact that you are unable to mute specific people. I recently had to coach a junior person, who despite being bright, fun etc. just failed to take to heart that they shouldn't interrupt someone to ask for something they could figure out themselves by looking around some, or that smiling emojis a minute after they got their answer was an additional interruption.
This lack of a basic feature caused me weeks if not months of agony, making me more angry than I should be towards a person that didn't really deserve it, making me worried about my performance etc.
The press really distorts what the justices are actually like. Read the opinions -- they are a great example of government explaining itself to the people. Real explanations, addressing the potential shortcomings of their own arguments.
Easy on-boarding guide for front-end devs
> also serves as a nice illustration of the fact that if tabs are allowed in source code, people will mix them with spaces

This seems disingenuous, I could just as well point to a piece of code and say "if spaces are allowed in source code, people will mix them with tabs". People should get over themselves and accept some people prefer a single character to specify tabbed-space and other people want the exact number of spaces. I find space characters cumbersome to work with, so I use tabs myself.
Extreme Finitism – Banish Infinity for Good
Defensive technology can shift the balance of power and escalate violence in ways that are hard to predict. Humvees carry armed soldiers, who could act more aggressively if they were safe from retaliation. Reagan's missile defense proposal was criticized for undermining second strike deterrence against US missile strikes, and thus escalating the arms race. Ultimately, there is no technical solution to prevent war. Education, tourism, economic ties, diplomacy, and humanitarian efforts are better ways of promoting peace than military defense.
Had no idea there was another shortcut other than the Windows key, confirmed it works on Windows 10.
Freelancers are precarious...in the writing business (which, it is clear, is what they meant). More fundamentally, freelancers are exposed to the current balance of supply and demand for their profession, in a more direct way. If there is a shortage, you feel the way you are treated improve more quickly than if you were full-time, and you can definitely increase your pay more quickly. If there is a surplus, it works the other way.

Unfortunately, the real lesson here is: you need to enter a different labor market. Change your profession (or, in some cases, location). This is, I freely admit, way easier said than done. I'm sure any retired steelworker or coalminer can guess what that's like.

I am trying to make sure my daughter, currently junior high age, understands how important it is to have a profession for which there is more demand than supply. I find that the messages she hears from society are quite the opposite. But, if you want to be able to demand that you are treated with respect and dignity, it helps a whole lot if what you are doing is something for which there is currently more demand than supply.
Concise Implementation of Minimax Through Higher-Order Functions (2013)
My monthly subscription of beard products and enjoyment of craft beers define who I am as a man
This was grossly negligent on so many levels, I find it hard to believe that was televised live with enthusiasm just 32 years ago.
Better workflow:

Star every individual you talk to

Star channels you talk to often

Mute channels you only read occasionally

Occasionally close messages to people to clear the list.

Important things stay on the top, everything else moves to the bottom.
Ubuntu and Gnome handles doubled resolution just fine, much like the retina MacBooks.

It’s the fractional scaling required for all the other resolutions in between which is troublesome, and I believe that applies to Macs too.

In this space, I think the only contender doing it really well is Microsoft Windows.

That said, I prefer Linux. For me having a few warts here and there is an perfectly acceptable price to pay for having a full computing environment I can fully trust and adapt to my needs.
What about Uber's policy, which used to have a human passenger recording events and anomalies into a device for later review? I say "used to", because they axed that for cost reasons, deciding they could have the driver do that. While driving. Or at least being ostensibly able to drive at a fraction of a second's notice...
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I am not sure I care about the hierarchy of the company I am working with. If I do have an issue that can not be resolved with a standard “look up in the issue database” method - I need to be switched to someone with the necessary skills to fix that for me.

That is mostly not the case with Google as it usually ends up in a situation where I am meeting a group of their lawyers instead.
All code could be constructed as a Perl one-liner. Or minified.

There is a point where reduction = obfuscation.

AFAIK, it's harder to hit that point using IRL organic languages, but TBH people abuse acronyms while coding. IANAL and YMMV, but just my 2 cents FYI - TMYK!
Legally, the onus is on Twitter for pulling the plug on an API that was being used actively without much notice.

I’m actually surprised that it was done in this manner, as many startups have a “business continuity” section in whatever contracts are drawn up with customers, detailing the specific steps and timeframe of retiring a particular service. I would have thought this is standard practice for a SaaS company.
Ditto, Mint and Personal Finance is good enough.
Gibson's language is so heavy, it was almost physically hard to read the book as a non-native speaker.

Also he was obviously not really into IT (at least when he wrote the book), which added to the negative perception even more, and left me with very mixed feelings afterwards.
I think your answer (with which I agree) is a confirmation of the former. The questions-to-be-answered must be posed first, so that the low level filtering can filter out what we aren't interested in, because we can't record all the hits for each event and store them. (although I think one should consider it, perhaps if a huge part of the budget had always gone to storage, we might have petabyte databases for lower energies, which could now be stored on consumer HDD's and new patterns in old experiments could be found, while at the time of this old experiment this may have seemed senseless as no individual physicists could back then hope to have a local copy. Similarily today it would generate preposterous amounts of data, but if we record them now (even if expensive) then physicists 20 years from now might be able to store them on their future personal media...
The complete trade history of every MtGox customer up to 30.11.2013 was leaked in 2014, you can find your own trade records in the leak. However, the leaked trade records didn't contain emails/names that you can search for, so you need other details to discover what your userID is. This page may be helpful:
https://bitcoin.tax/mtgox

If you registered at MTGox before mid-2011 you can use the user database leak from around then to find your userID, which you can then use to search the trade records.