skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition, it also forces disabled people to out themselves in cases where their disability isn't particularly visible, which can be humiliating for people who don't want the whole world to know exactly how their body is malfunctioning.

For example, here's a comment on one of the posts on Lawrence Carter-Long's Facebook page:

> Not an answer to your question, but I wanted to report to you in case it's useful for your media appearances (and thank you for being our spokesperson!): Yesterday I was at an upscale restaurant, one of my favorites where I have dined countless times before. I ordered a ginger ale and they brought it in a glass with ice, no straw. I asked our server, politely of course, for a straw when she had a chance. She replied "Actually we are doing a no straw policy now. It's better for the earth" (or something along those lines). After a little bit more about eco stuff, during which I was just kind of in shock, she then added, "but if you want one, you can ask for it," which was said in quite an unfriendly voice although up until that point she had been a very smiley, friendly server. I replied "As a disabled person who needs a straw, I am going to request one." and then she brought one. But it was very uncomfortable and everyone at my table agreed that while we all supported having an "opt-in" policy, once I had asked for a straw, the policy should be to bring one rather than trying to basically "eco-shame" people out of asking. My disability, a genetic connective tissue disorder, was not visible to the waitress, but it means that when drinking from a glass, especially with ice, I have trouble swallowing without using a straw. Without a straw I am likely to choke, splutter, and/or spill my drink down my front. I felt humiliated and angry that I had to out myself as disabled in order to get the straw I asked for. Please feel free to use this story in your interviews if it's useful, and if not, thanks for listening to me vent!
"are allowed to maintain data about me and my life, sell that data to others, and I have no recourse"

All of that applies unchanged to Verizon, Comcast, et al, even if they aren't currently doing so.

"My broadband and mobile providers see a much slimmer cross section of my life"

I'm not sure this is true in general? I agree that Google and Facebook have a fair bit of data about me. They have vastly more data about average users who use Facebook sign-in, don't block tracking, leave location services on, etc. But broadband and mobile providers see every site most users visit (even if your DNS isn't your ISP), along with metadata about those interactions. And mobile providers track location effectively non-stop, even if location services are off, plus extensive metadata on calls and texts.

And that's before we get into the monopoly issues; Verizon now owns the scraps of data-hog Yahoo so it's operating in both domains. I'm not sure why I would assume Oath is any less scary as an aggregator and warehouse than Google. (Less secure, undoubtedly, but that's not a mark in its favor. "Verizon sucks at technology" does not make me feel better.)

"How could you not demand oversight and regulation of such systems in a democracy?"

Again, my argument isn't "Facebook and Google are beyond reproach", it's "why are we more worried about FANG than their analogues who also have monopoly control over users and in-depth access to people's locations and call records?"

The other issue with regulation, of course, is that a key concern for all of these companies is that they hand data to the government, often without so much as a warrant. (And yet again, mobile providers are noticeably worse about this than any other player - except Yahoo, which is now tied to a mobile provider.) That doesn't make regulation a bad idea, but it certainly cripples my faith in it as a full solution.
11-12 years ago, Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio used to be $9.99 a bottle.

It was a very good wine for cheap and wine hipsters loved it.

Then after a string of stellar reviews in different wine media outlets it became hard to find at $20-30+ a bottle.

The price, coupled with the scarcity and good reviews made it even more sought after. So production was increased.

Now it is easy to find for $18 a bottle.

Because it is now popular, and relatively expensive, wine hipsters turn their nose up at it.

Snobs will claim for days that the ramp up in production has led to quality differences to something they tasted a decade ago, with absolutely no way of supporting that claim.

I imagine the same thing happens with whisky, except whisky production is harder to increase due to aging requirements.

I'm 100% sure that if Japanese distilleries find some way of increasing production and availability, whisky snobs will wave their hands and say "oh they ruined it", even if every objective means of evaluating it shows it to be spectrometrically, molecularly, and even atomically identical in every way to whiskeys back when they were rare.
> a little side conversation was broadcast to the other side.

That's awesome actually. I work with a lot of remote team members and very often people remote miss these little side conversations.

When everyone is in a meeting room, the side conversations are fine and attendees can selective tune out if it's not relevant to them. However when team members are remote these digressions are often missed and they lose the opportunity to participate.
Doesn't solve the problem of rediscovering it because of the new title.

If so I'd rather have the pin just say "We think a better/more descriptive title would have been X".
Here's a list of things from January of this year:

- when scaling nodes, didn't get the desired count
- creating and deleting clusters takes a while (30 minutes)
- cluster operations get stuck in a loop
- disappearing node did not bring up a new node
- external management setup was difficult (GKE assigns publicly reachable IP by default)
- changing SSH user or key through azcli or GUI didn't work
- default storage class wasn't set
- admission control disallows deploying a registry in kube-system
- nodes randomly go into notready state
- no ability to add new node pools or modify pool without destroying cluster

This was all prior to GA.
People absolutely want large detached houses, but housing developers want to build densely packed multi-family housing because they're more profitable.

To me it has always seemed that presented a big empty plot of land, large detached houses are more profitable for the builder- I figure single houses are probably easier to slap together. Then, as an area grows and land is suddenly constrained in supply, then the developer wants to build dense.
This would definitely result in less plastic waste.

My concern though, is that it results in needing wash more dishes with clean water, a precious and vital resource, so I don't know how to tell if the net exchange is good or bad.
I disagree. Political flamewars aren’t appropriate, but this doesn’t seem to be that. It’s a thoughtful piece, and will likely generate both thoughtful responses and flamewars.

Let’s just downvote the flamewars and enjoy life :)
Interesting - thanks for the heads up.
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

Swedish peasant teen finds himself seperated from his brother and on a boat to California in the 1840s. Reads like an odd mix of Louis L'Amour and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I usually don't read fiction, but I found this to be completely gripping.

40 Chances by Howard Buffett

Warren Buffett's son, a farmer in Illinois, describes the difficulties in feeding the world and America's somewhat backwards approach to helping the third world get self-sufficient. As someone in a very rural area, learning more about the economics of farming is fascinating.
Articles like this - https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150817-sea-turtl...

On one hand, yes, it is silly to put so much focus on disposable straws. On the other hand, it's such a low hanging fruit and should be so easy to get rid of. There's just no need for them in 99.9% of cases, and they're simply thrown in a pile to sit for 10000 years after spending 15 minutes in a drink.
Then I would have to disagree with your point of view as marginal gains in a lot of different areas in all our lives (tiny dents, as you say) is how we're going to change things, barring a deus ex machina massive breakthrough in technology, which - I'm not going to hold my breath.

One could use the, "I'm not given up x, until y is reached" for almost anything that's a contemporary convenience or luxury. That's stymies most any progress.

If the problem is people's view on disabled people, then we need to change people's view. If right now, we can get rid of plastic, single-use straws, except for disabled people, then to me: that sounds like a very reasonable compromise to marginally remove new plastic from the environment.
A few simple regulations would help a lot.

First of all, arbitration and civil court access for challenging bans and such. Second, require specific explanations. Third, require content-neutral social media / common carrier policies.
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Last time I drank Japanese Whiskey it ended in a sleep waking incident and urinating on my flatmates feet.

I tend to avoid it now.
Do something like what? Move from a local to a nationally defined zoning scheme? That's not trivial for a country of any size. But moving your local zoning from exclusionary to inclusionary is theoretically possible, specifically because the consensus required is much smaller.
Ask HN: How do you hire globally and stay compliant?
It seems that even fully remote companies can't hire everywhere (for instance, GitHub restricts the list of countries and seems to be struggling to grow it). What isn't hiring through a proxy company more popular?

Thinking of Safeguard, VelocityGlobal, NPAWorldwide and others.
They're focusing on customers that can afford it, so it's not about you caring but you not being their primary customer.

You can download the developer edition and it does everything except cross-region replication if you want to test it.

It's a great product and the real deal, we used it before (as a startup too) and it did the job and is one of the most polished databases out there.
Funnily enough, this comment shows up as number 2 for me after doing that Google search.
I don't see why this is such a big deal. The morals of the past are not the same as the morals of the present which are not the same as the morals of the future. Marginalizing something like this is a disservice because it is as much noteworthy for how it highlights the changing ethics of medicine as it is for any other reason.
I agree, but you're not going to counter bumper sticker phrases with multi-paragraph quasi-Buddhist philosophy. :-) So I just stick with "what a load of crap".

But you're coming at it from a different angle, I feel. Instead of "finding your passion", I hear you advising a different way of looking at it such that one can find fulfillment (for lack of better phrasing) in whatever job by matching the story in one's head to reality. I'm on board. Hell, I've been happy doing janitorial work. Was it my passion? Well, no. But it needed to be done, and I could do it, they're paying me, and in the end there's something satisfying about a clean floor. That was enough for me at the time.
There are multiple different products under the same "Kinesis" branding umbrella, among them:

* Kinesis Streams (the product being discussed in the post)

* Kinesis Firehose

* Kinesis Analytics

Most people, when they discuss Kinesis, mean Kinesis Streams specifically. The other products are Streams consumers.
Could be someone social engineering or they just don't want the chatter about issues directed to them.
The reason it's hard to find is because the sherry cask Yamazaki won best whiskey of the year a few years ago. It was a limited batch so everyone started buying everything Japanese. The sherry cask that won used to go for ~150/bottle. Now it's $3k. Now I'm priced out of all of my favorite whiskies. Fuck you, hipsters!@
I guess they should have specified that if you are choosing between being a doctor, a lawyer, or a software engineer you should select one of those specialties not randomly but based on your preferences (aka passion).
It would be interesting to compare this with DragonflyBSD seeing as Matt Dillon expressly forked FreeBSD over disagreements about how best to handle multiple cores.
Amazon is currently banning people for making too many returns.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/banned-from-amazon-the-shoppers...

My guess is that they have an algorithm to automatically ban people who abuse the return system. But if you are the unlucky person who gets one defective item after another and returns them, then Amazon bans your account. You are not allowed to buy anything else on Amazon's web site, ever. And it is difficult or impossible to speak to a human to resolve the situation.
I like the big picture thinking in this article. There is an aspect not covered in it or in the conversations: littered straws. For litter its better to have a larger lid than a smaller one and a straw.

I pick up litter at a nearby creek. Most straws tend to very quickly break down in a brittle way into smaller pieces that become increasingly much more difficult to see and pick up. If I see a glass bottle or a straw, that is an immediate pick up to avoid it getting broken down further.
Why not have a scale-up system?
> What actually happens, in the real world, in situations like this, is that people suffer and die. They don't become Ayn Rand's ideal man; there's just lots of needless suffering.

There are many many counterexamples to this. See [Seeing Like a State - Wikiwand](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Seeing_Like_a_State) for many good ones.

There's a lot of good evidence that people are in fact capable of taking care of themselves pretty well. But violence, especially organized violence, is tho a very real problem for basically everyone. But that's basically what a government is, fundamentally, so it's not obvious that 'more government' always rebounds to the betterment of everyone or even most people. As with everything, there are tradeoffs to be weighed!
PS: To thous who disagree, I will point out Manhattan as a classic case of high density and high cost. Feel free to pick some real counter examples.
So they should make new lids from paper (not plastic), like they did for the straws
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> You sound like a marketer trying to sell a fridge on a phone call.

I've got no stake in Dhall and I'm not a contributor. Check my submission history to see the sorts of things I try to do at HN if you're curious what my agenda here is.

> Why complicate my projects pipeline and force my team to learn yet another tool that may just be abandonned in 3 months?

Dhall's substantially older than this and open source, so its not really an attrition risk in 2018.

But I'd argue your pipeline is already complicated. My CircleCI2 flow got enourmously simpler when I was no longer struggling to represent complex concepts in YAML and could just produce an object graph in Dhall and then render it to the right YAML. I've also switched to using it to generate json for mesos API calls to make sure I get the fields right.

> Or you could write a nice Python library, with clean API, and eventually a linter that makes sure the Python configuration file is a restricted subset of Python.

I grant, this is possible. But why does having it "in Python" matter? How does that help people writing Golang or C# or Ocaml or Scala or Ruby?

Dhall's decision to template out more standard files is a smart one, it means it can serve as a stand-in and let programs that do the heavy lifting of a product or process (e.g., a Python ML binding or airflow process) use their normal tooling and do what they love.

If you're mad it is written in Haskell, I dunno what to tell you other than that it's like "jq". The host language doesn't matter because you invoke it for its outputs.
Your story is not unique, sadly. I flew all the way to Hong Kong just to find my Airbnb was full of bed bugs, then had to fight them for 2 weeks to get a (partial) refund.

https://www.airbnbhell.com
> Then all the people move in

> Property values start going down

So you're saying that because it's so desirable, property values go down?
Great info, thank you! Glad to see there's a sub for this too. I'm about to try the same setup.

If it performs well enough, I might just do away with owning a gaming desktop entirely.

Have you tried GSync with your setup?
Super solid advice here, If I need to only pick 3 immediate actions.

* Get at least 7 hours of sleep. Try for 8.

* Do a few minutes of stretching and meditation every day. (use Headspace or Calm applications)

And my personal recommendation:

* Sit and stand with your back straight. (This raises your confidence and assertiveness; then makes you feel in control; then reduces anxiety, and finally improve your health).
Can you provide a link or two?
> But just like buying a >$1k bike, for the average person you can't take advantage of the extra value and care that went into the product.

I'd put this price at around 2500. The better shifting from a decent group set makes a huge difference in a new rider's ability to enjoy the ride. It's hard to enjoy a ride when your chain keeps dropping and you cant shift through your gears. Though, I really wish someone would come out with a mass market Ultegra spec'ed decent geometry steel bike for ~1k.
Part of the reason they are big in the US may be the fact that we drive so much. There are many Starbucks stores with drive-thru windows.

If you want to consume a beverage while driving, a covered cup with a straw is much easier.

(One could now say “Americans shouldn’t drive so much!” or “don’t consume food while driving”, I guess. We should probably also build more dense housing in walkable neighborhoods, invest in mass transit, and shorten commutes and working hours so everybody has time for a leisurely breakfast at the neighborhood cafe.)
Most important issues in any society which is going back and forth between 2 parties are subjective, gun control, abortion, illegal aliens etc. Each party tries to insults other party's stance on very complicated subjective feelings, or at least that's what I see on news networks and late night shows(which are mostly liberal).
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I don't know exactly why, but the indignity of this story really gets to me.

Does having a desk at a big tech company really strip your humanity to the point where you're OK sending messages like these to another person?

How do you treat other human beings with so little respect?
It's being able to buy a bit of the present that you'll be able to sample in the future.
Good try, Jeff Bezos. We know it's you.
It's still both everywhere, but not as much anywhere as some would like to believe. It's better now than it ever was, and as long as it keeps moving in that direction that's a good thing.
To play devil's advocate: it sounds like you let your 12-year-old self pick your career, not knowing what it would entail, and now you're trying to rationalize it. You say you love your work, except what you have to do this morning, and you're putting off another task that needs doing ("for obvious reasons"?). That's not exactly the behavior I associate with love.

It's called "work" because it needs doing, not because it's inherently unpleasant. Your boss won't make a penny more just because you don't happen to like doing it.

(I see the same thing with relationships. There are people I'd be miserable to be with, but that certainly doesn't mean everyone would. Likewise, many people pick a mate in high school and then discover 10 or 20 years later that their teenage self wasn't such a great decision-maker, or simply that they've changed as they've grown.)

I switched careers recently, after many years in software, and now I adore going to work -- every day, every task. I cannot believe they pay me for this. How would you know if all other jobs would also be "crap work" for you if you haven't tried any of them yourself?

EDIT: I'm glad I used a throwaway for this comment! Are people so offended by the concept of needing to try something to discover if it's pleasant or not? Or that another job might be a better fit for them?
There are a lot of things that people enjoy as a hobby on their own terms that they'd probably find a lot less fun if they had to do it every day on someone else's terms.

I was very into photography as a hobby at one point (still am to some degree) and I even toyed with the idea that maybe this is something I could do professionally. But the reality is that I would have unlikely become a staff photographer for Life or National Geographic and would much more likely have ended up as the photographer for the college news service--who was actually quite good but mostly took photos of rich alums shaking hands with the president.

Everyone differs of course. But, in general, one good strategy is to do something that you like well enough most of the time, you're good at, pays well and use your spare time and money to pursue things you like as hobbies.
Hmm. I guess Mendal wrote a journal, not a paper per se. Millikan's oildrop experiment?
This is closer, but I think the best analogy for this is hearing about the fire, deciding to never buy matches again and thinking that you're doing your part in preventing house fires.
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Serious question: If this case goes to trial, which is unlikely, will the defendants be allowed to subpoena the DNC server, which to date has not been forensically examined by any government agency?
There is an 'executive relations team.' Too many people recommend writing to jeff@ which is a mistake because the decision of that executive relations team is usually final. So if you make a mistake in your letter, misunderstand something, or they just don't decide in your favor it actually forecloses other opportunities you might have had to get a resolution.
It's not a controversial viewpoint that single-use plastics are killing the planet, both in using up a very limited resource and flooding our oceans and foodchains with plastic debris.

Why are they single use? Because they're commercially cheaper to throw away and replace. So straight away, if we're going to legislate anything, it should not be that you cannot use plastics, or a centrally collected tax... It has to a requirement that you pay for the collection and recycling of any plastic your business uses. Start requiring that and you'll see many of the single-use plastic bullshit packaging vanish overnight.

Starbucks are making these new lids out of polypropylene. Unlike a straw a lid is very easy to wash and PP suits this just fine. A clear PP is also a lot more valuable to recycling as it is purer, and easier to use than a dark green PP (or polystyrene, I'm not sure what Starbucks are currently using).

Should also add that the ~"omg think of the disabled children" comment is ridiculous. People who need straws to drink will a) carry reusable straws with them and b) still be able to get alternative material straws from Starbucks. I've used both wax paper and cellulose straws. They're both fine in cool drinks.
I'm not sure I follow. If a company has 75% from group A and 25% from group B while these groups make up 66% and 33% of the population respectively then it makes sense to address the underrepresentation of group B. But why would we applaud a 50/50 ratio? Isn't that just an underrepresentation if group A? A majority is not necessarily an overrepresentation.

This line if thing seems liable to give credence to the notion that "diversity" is a dog whistle for achieving an underrepresentation of undesirable groups (men, Whites, and increasingly Asians).
You can come intern at my factory in Arizona, no charge :)

I will teach you about laser cutting, robot welding, keeping the supply chain going, and how to make a profit when competing directly with China and India.