skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope none of you have to deal with the pain of a loved one going deep down the right-wing conspiracy rabbit hole. This isn't just people getting convinced Obama wasn't born in America. This is people going behind their spouses back to convert retirement savings into gold coins and survivalist paraphernalia. These are people who will cut off friends and family because they don't "understand what's really going on".
Nexus 5x... It is a long slow death.
"I should just pay money to eBay, they take their cut and send the rest to the seller."

That makes eBay the seller, or auctioneer, which gives you consumer law rights against eBay.
I just don’t understand how they have $9 billion in revenue but are unprofitable. A slightly simpler version of the site could probably be run by a few people in someone’s basement plus some outsourced support staff.
A few things I forgot:

- add a few bay leaves when you add the beans and water.

- you can also add diced bell pepper when you add the chopped celery. These, along with onion, form the "Cajun Trinity", their form of mirepoix.
META:

Many people like psychedelics because they hate themselves.

Permanently rewire your personality, maybe blow out your mind entirely? No big deal.
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It always feels that way doesn't it? Except then there's the other 99% that it takes to run eBay.
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What's the potential benefit? What variables would you tweak on a custom bespoke keyboard?
First, full disclosure, I'm the creator of Jenkins.

I'm sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with Jenkins Pipeline. I can see that you know a lot about it.

There's actually no difference between how continuation is handled between scripted and declarative, so I'm curious to know more about what hit you, because I suspect it's something else (though obviously equally frustrating!) Similarly curious about improvement to error reporting, because I think that's something the Pipeline team cares about, and it's one of those things where how errors in real world are made is always more interesting than what we can imagine. I used to work on compilers, so I know the frustration of a poor error message pushing you down a wrong lane, only to discover a few hours later that all it took was one line fix! Modern improvements in Pipeline (like declarative and this one) is in no small part motivated by making those error checks more thorough, easier, and more upfront. So I think this is a change in the right direction.

My perception has been that parameterized jobs are in decline, in part because more people are triggering automation implicitly through commits, and not through explicit "run this" button. Parameters are more implied from the context (branch, commit message, creation of tags, etc), as opposed to explicitly given from UI.

Stepping back from those specifics, I think regrettably software has bugs, and there's always more usability improvements that can be made, so we are just working on those one at a time, which kinda summarize my entire journey with Jenkins :-) So in that spirit, I want to make sure we learn from your suffering.
I don't have exxon reward card I need one plzz
Any bands from that scene or imprints worth checking out? I remember seeing some upstate bands from Syracuse/Rochester/Buffalo when they'd do east coast tours, but I'm blanking on Albany acts!

Was Albany hardcore big on the sxe/vegan thing at that time?
A thumbs up perhaps? Though that might also be conveying more of a "nice job!"
As long as we don't blow ourselves up first, these tend to be cognitively self correcting when exploited at scale.

Would something like the hysteria caused by the "war of the worlds" radio broadcast be possible to reproduce today? Yeah, absolutely. The bar's a little higher though, you'd need multiple organizations corroborating the story over multiple mediums.

Enough people on twitter would say things like "Uh, I'm standing around where the aliens are supposed to be and I don't see shit" to arrest some of the contagion.

I have a theory that new modes of communication automatically seem more trustworthy at first, because most of the time the liars don't move in until adoption reaches a certain level to make it profitable. The problem is that transition. We're late in the cycle right now for the internet. People are slowly learning to take extraordinary claims on the internet less seriously by default.

I like to think about the impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats. Most of America tuned in, captivated. The things he said calmed people down, reduced national anxiety and assuaged their fears. The default mode was to trust him, and that made a historic impact. It felt nationally like the president could finally talk to people on a personal level.

Then a few years passed, and the national trust was taken advantage of. Despite Tuskegee, MKUltra, The Bay of Pigs, Watergate -- pretty much everything about Nixon, and a hundred other events, it took a long time to make the majority of us into the politically disillusioned wrecks we've become.

It's easy to imagine how seductive messages like "the elite are all lying to you" are when that's become the safest default position for a while. The vulnerability we've found ourselves in now is lies bolted on to truths. I'm hoping that we'll all inoculate ourselves with some kind of generalized agenda aversion next.

A man running for state representative came to my door a few weeks ago. He wanted to know if he could place a sign in my yard. To be honest, my default position would have been to say "Go for it homie". Any candidate making door calls is atleast trying to put in effort. Especially since political candidates basically spout vague platitudes that turn into nebulous nonsense.

Fortunately for me, he seemed adamant he wanted to show me the key thesis in his pamphlet before I made my decision, he opened it up and tapped on the header. "Muslims are a problem for America."

"Ohhh you're a racist!" I said politely. "Thanks for letting me know, I have literally no interest in that being in my yard. Have a nice day!"

We don't even have symbols for the bugs in our brain that allow history to repeat itself like it does.
Yep, if you can even compare Electron to Qt. Electron is just a buggy ill-conceived hack to wrap a browser with nodejs to make webpages. All it provides is a blank window with no customisation and a huge size and memory overhead.
exactly and I do not disagree. There is wisdom however in allowing the maximum latitude to everyone in their expression. It is my belief that the 1st amendment through its numerous evolutions, refinements and interpretations in the 200+ year history of American jurisprudence allows for more freedom of expression than what Mark Zuckerberg and his investors or Jack Dorsey and his investors can come up with....

I am certain they all disagree with me ;).

edit: the hardest thing when faced with offensive (personally to me, or someone else) content is to ignore it and let it die without a response in the case where it is legal. What was that saying? Do not feed the troll....?
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This sounds very much like "write code to please escape analysis", but with a profiling step in front of it.
btw my screen reader is all so open source called NVDA.
https://www.nvaccess.org/
The issue here
> Amazon ships hundreds of millions of Android devices that use non of Google's services.
isn't that they cannot do it, it's that if they do ship their own device stripped of Google softwares, they cannot ship other devices they made themselves that are certified.

It's either one or the other. For Amazon it's a choice they can live with. Not so much for the average phone manufacturers, as choosing not to ship devices with Google apps would severely limit their marketshare.

This is the major issue, manufacturers should be able to do both if they want without blacklisting themselves from Google.
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Since 22:59 UTC for me.

Due to the sudden drop-off, it seems like it may have been a poorly executed configuration change.
Thank you for contributing our first outside code! Let's talk about some use cases that might help you as a solo frontend engineer. I'm sure we can figure out a few things to make your life easier.
I scrolled to the bottom. Yep, she's pretty cute.
Old joke.

First kid asks, "What's punk?"
Second kid kicks over a trash can, points at it, and says, "That's punk." First kid kicks over another trash can and asks, "Is that punk?" Second kid says, "No, that's trendy."
I must say that the whole situation is very disappointing. While western companies have been folding, China has a very active smartphone ecosystem with multiple manufacturers of phones and many different providers of services, including app stores. Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?
As someone who also favors long (even very long) sleep, but is planning to have a child, may I ask how old your child is, whether things have already gotten better sleepwise, or whether you think it will?

We're only planning for one, and my impression so far suggests that it's the second child where sleep and free time get lost more permanently, and that with one child the majority of the sacrifices are only temporary (and getting better as the child gets older), but it's always good to hear some experiences.
"You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts"

Especially, if the fact is real. Facebook wants to be a media company (http://fortune.com/2016/12/23/zuckerberg-media-company/) except when they don't.

A media company has a responsibility to accuracy.
I think "protesting in front of twitter HQ for enabling a political view I don't like" is a silly thing to do. If you don't like X (in this case fascism) I am sure there are better things you can do to stop it, like creating an alternative that those who like X would adhere to.
At least you don't have a degenerative muscular disease, wondering if you get to actually play the game before your body gives out.
I agree that it is well within their rights to do that. But I also feel that this is a reason why large software products are not inherently a great fit for the Kickstarter model. I think Steam's "early-access" model is a much more intuitive fit for both the developers and the consumers of these games.
TL;DR: expected values can be very improbable. The expected value of a Powerball ticket is >0, and in fact by increasing the amount of the prize the expected value can be made arbitrarily large. But the probability that the actual value will be >0 is very nearly zero. And most importantly: that probability does not change as the prize money (and hence the expected value) increases. No matter how big the prize is, you will nonetheless almost certainly not win.
> Censorship is wrong

Censorship of one's own platform is a central element of free speech.

> it's impossible for anyone to have an unbiased opinion.

That's true, but doesn't support the preceding claim.
There are always cases where it is hard to understand what is true and what is not. But then there are also explicit lies.

It's not hard to adjudicate that Trumps ambassador to the Netherlands is lying when he talks about politicians being burned to death in the Netherlands due to immigration. But having the claim repeated over and over still creates the impression that there is some truth to it.

And that in turn hurts immigrants and makes it harder for people to come to rational decisions.

Your reasoning basically presumes that all humans are infinitely rational and have infinite time to investigate facts (the reader gets to decide). Neither of these assumptions is true, or a useful approximation. Otherwise user interface design for programs would look extremely different.

As people have all sorts of cognitive fallacies built in, and have extremely limited time to investigate facts, we need to build (and maintain) a society that makes it easy to come to rational, reasonable decisions. The Internet has disrupted the social structures that performed this function in the past, and new ones are only slowly emerging.
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> It's also worth noting that we're in a cultural moment in which the relationship between fans and creators is becoming more toxic. Star Wars fans who don't like The Last Jedi are demanding to remake the movie to fit their expectations. Trolls think the new She-Ra cartoon doesn't fit their highly specific conception of what is "feminine." Creators, of course, should be free to create what they want without fearing a mob. That's how we got the things that people are fans of in the first place, and RSI should be free to make Star Citizen what it wants. That being said, it's no wonder that Star Citizen fans feel like they have some degree of ownership over what it should be, seeing as how so many of them invested thousands of dollars in funding its development.

Kindly fuck off, Motherboard. This modern trend of forced arbitration clauses and IP owners, not just creators, getting their panties in a bunch because turns out they're not perfect and their fans can be very opinionated has to end. It's not "toxic," it's people who don't want to see their memories being violated to make a quick buck, or promises being blatantly broken over and over again.
"(Shopify) Fourth-Quarter Revenue Grows 71% Year on Year Fourth-Quarter ... to $128.9 million, driven primarily by the growth of Gross Merchandise ..." "Fourth-Quarter Gross Profit Grows 78% Year on Year" [1]

Shopify custom storefronts are growing explosively.

There is nothing in EBay's financial releases which indicates they are doing this well in this area, moreover, the non-Ebay branded interfaces are somewhat of inconsistent with their core business model.

[1] https://www.shopify.com/press/releases/shopify-announces-fou...
Nothing? At the time they helped us out, we had just joined the parish. Then we went on a six month hiatus because we were too depressed, but the other deacon invited me to drink beer, because he hadn't seen me in a while. Didn't even have to pay for the beer.

Of course, as somewhat active members of the parish, we help out a lot. We volunteer for the marriage prep ministry, and I often help the men's club out with various improvement projects, by contributing brute strength or woodworking skills. Not all 'tithing' is monetary.

FWIW, it helps if you find a parish that is associated with a religious order, where the members are vowed to poverty. Diocesan priests tend to be the ones with the most monetary ambition.
And speak perfect English according to the Stargate universe.
Not OP, but "The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in
1/299 792 458 second"
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre
It appears Google will be integrating lazy loading into the browser.[0]

In my almost 20 years of development experience, I find my todo list extremely long. And a core principle that has served me well is that if a feature is coming to the browsers for free, it's cheaper and easier to wait for the feature instead of spending real time/money building a cheap copy of it, and then having to rip it out a year later for the native feature.

"Feature patience" seems a fitting description.

I have recently used IntersectionObserver to replace scroll event functionality (modifying sticky positioned headers) and it's great for that, but I don't want to use it for lazy loading, seems like way to much work.

[0] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
The blog linked above has some good information about how conditional probabilities work as well. I advise checking it out. Really enhances your ability to examine the world and arrive at sound insights if that's something you're interested in. (very much unlike LSD)

To your last comment, maybe this is surprising, but I'm a teetotaler myself.
Rolling Stone did a great article for those who are interested to know more. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/

The evidence was severely tainted by the investigators who helped themselves to the proceeds of the crimes. None of this was permissible in court, the defense barely got a hearing.

The story will come out in full one day and we'll all be shocked!
> Exactly, FB is book burning.

No, FB is (to continue the use of book-centered metaphors) choosing not to distribute certain books through its book distribution network.
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> Get a push notification every time happy Kanye West is spotted

Where does it look for pictures?
That was their belief back then, under Meg Whitman. It didn't work too well for them, sales dropped because the site had a reputation for low-quality products and sellers who were plainly crooks. With Donahoe matters improved fairly rapidly.

The NY Times had a series of articles back then about the struggles. This is one of them: https://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/going-going-go...
Are angry mobs waiting to violently attack someone because their neighbor doesn't like the color their house is painted? Is this indistinguishable from when an angry mob violently attacks someone because their neighbor libeled them?

The problem, as history has repeatedly shown, is that speech has consequences. Even simple jokes have lead to violence.
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Wow, if half of what is listed is true then the internet should be up in arms over this.
Not mine, but I just forked and am starting to play with Anarki[0].

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
That’s not how it works with marketplaces. Otherwise Shopify would be on the hook. eBay could process payments but that doesn’t make them the seller.
UI suggestion: Just Say No to multi-page forms that require you to submit the first page of (personal) information before being allowed to see questions on subsequent pages.
I'll move there permanently at some point, but for now I go out from Nov-Feb when the weather's nice (and fewer snakes). I still need to get a proper well drilled. I was living in a trailer out there which was great but it got vandalized, so my plan is to build something more permanent.

I think there's a ton of potential in the CA deserts. The low prices, relative proximity to LA, ability for people to work remotely, decreasing prices of solar - I'm predicting a boom out there in the next 2 decades. The 1950s homesteaders fled because it was too inhospitable, but technology seems to have changed that.
Anecdotally, it’s still taboo to go to a therapist in the U.S., but I think it shouldn’t be. The other child comments here are pretty good, I’ll just add that I’m familiar with a few psychology students and in their training they’ve helped a lot of undergrads get through some tough problems.

I never considered therapy as an option within reach at any point in my life, but I think it could have and can in the future help me, and 90% of people.

If you’re opposed to it, you can actually think of it as better understanding your brain and leveling up your life and career. PhD students go through 5-8 years of training on understanding the brain and human behavior. Even if one doesn’t have serious problems, it’s likely a huge help.
If merely getting someplace is a great effort, they are in need of medication from a psychiatrist. They aren't candidates for therapy if that's the extent of their participation.
But LambdaNative does require installing Android SDK, no? → https://github.com/part-cw/lambdanative/wiki/Getting-Started...
The eight examples mentioned in the Wikipedia page are far from an exhaustive list. They don't include many examples from the original Frank White book, to start. (White also defines it quite broadly, to include the feeling you get in an airplane when watching tiny cars moving along the ground.)

Even if the hit rate is low, that doesn't necessarily deter thrill-seekers. 4,800 people have successfully climbed Mt. Everest (8,300 times[0]) at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars ($45k-70k[1], $11k for the royalty alone[2]), and the very real risk of death (375 deaths). The success rate is about half,[3] up from under 30% before 2006.[4]

[0] http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2017/12/17/everest-by-the-nu...

[1] https://www.alpineascents.com/climbs/mount-everest/price-sch...

[2] Down from $25k before 2014 https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140219-moun...

[3] https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-attempt-to-climb-Mt-Ev...

[4] https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/everest-by-the-numbers/in...
Some therapists are great. Many are awful (just like many programmers can't program fizzbuzz). Your statement itself is a bad blanket statement.
The first 3 months are basically a write-off. After that, it gets better every month (with the occasional sleep regressions).

Everything is back to normal now our kid is 2.5yrs
It is super fascinating how the ellipse drawing problem is solved in a way that could be used in a manufacturing situation.
There are other GPU processor cores out there. Manufacturers can and do license the designs and switch out GPU cores.
Ask HN: Best practices for importing in mass from a REST api/cloud service?
There's no law barring the having ordinary good intentions while also earning $300k. Just as there isn't a law against being a jerk at any price.
Yep I’ve also had absurd cross Amazon-AWS payment issues they were unable to fix for months. Their ultimate solution “uhhh make a new account.”
That's so untrue I literally dropped my jaw. Any therapist that treats anxiety can tell you it's extremely hard for some therapy needing patients (who, yes, are on medication) to make appointments. My wife included.
Nobody's talking about pictures of nipples because the submission has nothing to do with them.
Dare to put a time on that prediction? 1 year, 5?
I tend to argue that it's important to learn the base technologies (HTML, CSS and JS) before you jump into any frameworks. I've found that without a solid base in those three, it's too hard to debug problems.

After that, I'd pick one of Angular, React or Vue and see where it takes you.
I use systems every day (we all do) anchored in this model because the truly great fundamentals here, are the work of K&R. But, and this is a hugely important but they did this in the context of Bell Labs, as a benign funding 'lets see what happens' cashless paradise. Constraints were few.

If you try and take that to a Randiean norm, you wind up with Facebook: exploitation lurks under the counter, for the wrong type of person saying "my way and me alone to decide"

Trust me on this (or not, its a free world) you do want some single artist coded products, and you do want benign dictators like Guido. But please, not Rand. Pick some other metaphorical guru. This one, is severely tainted. She was bad, exploitative, passive-aggressive, and died alone, face to the wall. I don't want coders doing that.

Socialize, and consult, and reflect. Don't be an asshat.
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JSON with significant whitespace is just everything bad about JSON and a little bit worse, though.
Oddly enough, I'm significantly more relaxed than I used to be when I slept more. (Maybe I need it less as a result, and so my body seeks it less urgently.)

I do think I'd be better rested with more though. I'll give meditation a shot, it can't hurt.
But part of the paradox is that "universe time" is so monumentally longer than "human time".

Even if only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of all life make it to what we could call "intelligence", then those beings are most likely millions or billions of years "ahead" of us, or won't be intelligent for millions or billions of years from now.

At those timescales, even things millions of light-years away are "within reach" of some kind of contact, unless there is something making it impossible (like all intelligent life snuffs itself out given enough time).

This is easily one of my favorite things to just think about.