skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your story sounds much like mine - I took up vaping when I didn't have access to Vyvanse (between jobs). It helps, but I found I liked it enough to continue.

These days I use 6mg/ml juice, and use ~5ml per day on average. I've not found any real negative effects after about a year. I go increase and decrease my intake periodically, and the worst effect I've had is a "stuffy" feeling in the morning when I hadn't vaped anything the evening before. Even that doesn't seem to happen when I'm in a period of decreased usage; I've stopped for a day or two before and didn't really notice.

FWIW, nicotine does work as a cognitive stimulant, at least for me. It's nowhere near as powerful as Vyvanse, but it's effective enough that it helps me "get back in the flow" when I'm not interested in something but need to get it done.
This would be great if it weren't another ploy to hack the legal system through a moped-sized. Rent the same 125cc scooters that they already rent in Italy (a displacement size that can easily keep up with city traffic), require that users be licensed (and help them get licensed), and insure them.

Instead, they're just going to look at the laws of each state and figure out the maximum speed and displacement they can offer to people without them having to be licensed or to have ever been on a scooter before, and whether if they duck tape some pedals to it they can get away with more. And what city/state official(s) they have to bribe to get those laws changed or to keep them unchanged after people end up severely brain injured and dead.
American Universities with engineering departments have an Order of the Engineer ceremony and I recall some people got rings I think. It's been a few years though.
Nebraska was deforested at least a century ago.
> Can't find a link, but I've seen people on this website claim that electron apps that are just a web page (and thus don't work offline) are better for Linux on the desktop than actual native applications. Sure, they do mean that cross-platform is essentially free, but you have to rely on someone else's computer for them to work.

This is false, at least in the way you're thinking. Electron apps are written with web technologies, yes, but they generally don't load their UI via the web; all HTML/CSS/JS lives locally on your machine. I don't use the GitHub app, but if it's true that it can't commit without an internet connection, that's just bad design, as opposed to something inherent with Electron.
yes Netflix is definitely necessary ;)
ah okay, I always sort of imagined it would be like that in SF. I live in a metro area that is not as tech-oriented. when I tell people I'm a software engineer at parties, the only thing they find impressive is that I actually have a full-time job.
is that actually spaghetti though? it looks like linguine ...
I will agree "strength" is probably not the right descriptor there. I almost didn't play it because I wasn't entirely sure.

I'm not perfect, far from it, but I try to fail graciously before I choose to stray from doing the right thing.

That said, I absolutely do recognize that that is a luxury that not everyone has given their situation. However, I do think that some use that to justify not having to do the right thing in cases where that isn't actually true, and that at least striving to always do right, but sometimes failing to do the right thing due to circumstances is a better approach in the long term versus minmaxing immediate returns because doing the right thing is inconvenient.

Or I'm hopelessly naive.

Or somewhere between those.
Climbing five floors is qualitatively different from twenty. You can do the former anaerobically easily enough, but the latter is firmly in the aerobic regime unless you're an Olympic-level 400m sprinter.
Can you give an example of how AI might help judges/lawyers/etc discern facts and avoid the influence of rhetoric?

Isn't it a bigger issue that even if people agree on the facts, the law can be mushy with concepts like "reasonable" such that two people can reasonably disagree on what is reasonable given the same facts?
Ah, thanks for this. Have something similar using fixer api, but only displays quotes. Not conversions. And not as pretty printed ;)

Uses Fixer.io - Foreign exchange JSON API

https://fixer.io/
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> That's a fair point but I think they are saying that if they really wanted to re-read a book, they could just rent it again.

...unless they somehow pissed off Amazon and lost their account. Or the publisher/auther pissed off Amazon and got taken down. Or...
Was there an article in there amongst the ads and self-promotion? I must have missed it.
I'm looking for what people's real experiences are. Twilio provides guidelines around this, but they are very conservative and speculative.

If this isn't the place, though, I understand.
>How many people want to climb 20 stories of stairs

In SimTower you can only build to four stories with stairs and escalators, I believe.
Uncle Bob is a menace to TDD. Nothing more effectively or immediately turns people off than being told that they are, in fact, unprofessional and by extension unethical.

As for myself: I am not sure that TDD can really be learned effectively from a book alone. I read Kent Beck's book and my reaction was "well this is concisely-stated bullshit". Then I went to work for Pivotal Labs and I now I understand the fuss.
>If a car is not cool enough for me to want to own, why would I care to use the communal car rather than the bus? Can the auto industry survive selling 10% of the vehicles is does now?

Not every industry has to survive forever. Can the telegraph industry survive the ~0% of sales it had before? Cars just aren't that useful in densely populated areas. The US will have to move away from personal vehicle transport and to mass transport/walking/cycling.
There's a few people around me that ride them around and I feel the same way as you. I very very rarely ride my motorbike wihtout at least kevlar leggings and a kevlar jacket but I see these inexperienced riders riding through the streets and footpaths at 40km/h with a bicycle helmet on and a kid on the back, sometimes with a helmet, sometimes without.

It's dumb. It's also unfortunate that it's going to take ~10 people to die/permanent disability before anything is done about it.

I think you're right about the design of the bikes too. The ones I see are definitely designed to look and function like a moped/motorcycle.
Katie's New Face
> Let's see... I don't want anyone actually stealing my money.

If online shopping sites start charging you 10% more based on your profile indicating you can afford it would you consider that stealing? How about if they just "customize" what products you're shown and you only see the high end ones?

This is on top of all the soft manipulation advertising already does, it's entire reason for existence is to make you buy something you otherwise wouldn't have. It's not stealing but it still involves less money in your wallet.
It could be considerably easier to manage adding and removing and editing rows from a table rather than enum options (plus you can store other metadata). Particularly if you have some sort of more or less autogenerated CRUD system.

Also, while this may be something of a "schema smell" a lookup table could be shared. In a small, fast project this could be useful.
Good point. I guess I've always taken choosing who you work with for granted. That being said if you join a startup you don't exactly get to choose who you work with any more than if you join a team at a big company.
Sorry to hear about your experiences. On the other hand, I'm from Australia, and it's absolutely not the case here.

Healthcare could always be better funded, but here it's honestly amazing compared to other places I've seen.
Reading letters from the late 1800's and early 1900's this was true in European cities at least among some classes of people. There might be one(?) kitchen in the building.

I think every single apartment having its own kitchen and every person having their own set of cutlery/dishware/pots/pans/etc is very, very new.
Sure. So you rest a minute or two.

But tell you what. I'll try the experiment later today.
If you've only eaten bread in the USA you've never actually had bread. Even Australians complain about it.
Running. I'd explain more but I gotta go run.
Well, TBF he did say Silicon Valley, not SF.
Disclaimer: I work in statically typed languages.

I’ve studied and practiced TDD for years. I’ve even written articles to help beginners.

I now only practice it sparingly. Sometimes it makes more sense to write the test first and other times I already know exactly what I want and I know how to make it testable.

An even bigger issue I have is the huge reliance on mocking which leads to completely brittle tests and code that can withstand no change without all hell breaking lose.

Lately I spend more time on acceptance tests, which I do often write first. I use unit testing for non-trival logic.
Earlier post : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17760733

But zero comments at 6h
> It's an early traditional company that's in the black but is not poised to go through the roof or become bloated with employees or ask a ton of its employees

Why not just call these small businesses? If they're in the black, then they can just operate using a traditional business model.

The startup is about _not_ operating traditionally, but, taking a massive risk to do something different, that can _eventually_ get to that traditional model. Usually by way of turning into a publicly traded company. Which many small businesses never will achieve, by the way.

Entrepreneurship doesn't mean you have to go that "insane growth" trajectory. It _can_ just mean "launch a small business". And that small business can just be private for a very long time; there's nothing wrong with it.

Some idiots may have you believe that the "best entrepreneur" creates startups, but that's stupidity at it's finest. IMO the best entrepreneur can create the _right kind_ of operation. There are plenty of examples of private companies that can grow but don't require operating non-traditionally.
A big advantage to working at a BigCo is how it looks on your résume, or the "About Us" page of your own future startup.

I've seen so many hiring managers trip over themselves to hire former FANG employees, without knowing anything else about them. It's like graduating from an ivy league school.

There's also way more networking opportunities at big companies, merely because there's so many more people.
Ask HN: Azure/Microsoft Account Suspension
I have a nearly two-decades-old Microsoft account. I use it for Xbox One, for Skype, Office, Outlook, and Azure. I am a paying customer of all these services. I use my Microsoft account for VS Code Live Share as well. Suddenly, Microsoft decides to suspend my account for an unspecified reason. The entire Microsoft world ended for me! The only way to do something is to file a lame form here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/concern/AccountReinstatement

So, I think, we need to demand more from giants like Microsoft and create a project to enforce behavior when our digital and business lives depend on these accounts. I will start with a few suggestions:

1. Violating in one service should not shut down access across the board - authorization may not work for the violated service, but authentication should continue to work so, let's say, sending spam in Outlook (which I didn't do) should not lock you out of Azure.

2. Paying customers should not be suspended without a hotline and SLA to unsuspend them. For example, when my account gets suspended, I should have a unique ticket number, which could be used to call a direct line with, and talk to a 24x7 team to unsuspend my account!

3. When the account is unsuspended, it should be given a grace period and not be suspended again - mistakes happen especially when AI and rich policies are at play and the customer should not suffer repeatedly by them in short periods of time. Once unsuspended, an account should be suspended for a 30, 60, or 90-day period.

4. Each suspension should have a solid proof. Again, we're talking about well-established paying customers. Most hackers and most hijacked accounts are free.

5. The above privileges may require 2FA (which I have!)

6. Suspension of well-established customers should be tracked and stats for it should be published.

7. Every wrong suspension should double up the grace period or be compensated in some form.

Add your feedback!
Having just gone to India everything is tied to the Aadhaar Identification: banks, schools, welfare, etc. It has overall completely replaces a bunch of different identifications into a single centrally located entity. However weird I feel about it being Orwellian I can't say it hasn't been good in terms of simplifying access and providing services since you just need a single identification. So it wouldn't be that hard to just add additional information like how much healthcare was used where and can easily be implemented by end of the year.

But the problem is will all the private sector be able to handle the added load of nearly a billion people accessing the resources...
Some of the best HN has to offer in terms of interesting and thought provoking discussion is on generic tangents, and so long as the discussion remains civil and contained to those threads concerning it I see no reason to discourage it for being discussed.
> So what company that once it gets into a position to bully won’t?

All of them will. All of them need to be regulated better instead of just getting a slap on the wrist.

Just don't go throwing "Microsoft is my open source hero" (and that last paragraph) bullshit on my face.
> When the hell have you ever been banned from netflix?

Better example: It's extremely frustrating to be in the middle of an intense movie and have your internet become flaky or go out completely at that moment. On the other hand, nothing would have stopped you finishing that movie if you owned it, save perhaps a power outage.

Granted, movie watching isn't important enough for me personally that I find owning movies worth the costs, as I'm sure is the case for most people, but for some it very well might be—it just depends on your priorities. For instance, when I commuted to work (about an hour each way), I didn't use Spotify because I didn't want my music listening on the train to be at the mercy of my mobile connection.
Hi Agustin! First of all, congrats! I think I must have been one of the first 100 or so users of Fintual and am constantly pitching how cool the onboarding is and how simply you explain the service. On that regard, I’m sure I have pushed 5 of my close friends and colleagues to invest in the platform and the first feedback I get is how stable their investments seem to be. I do get a lot of un faithful responses from people who don’t trust online services with their money... they compare it to bitcoins and crypto markets... here’s my first feedback, I think you need to work on explaining how and where your funds are being invested. I have experience on traditional banking investments and I see the same pdf document my bank used to pitch their funds at me. You should work on that.

Another I miss, and have to start tracking on my own is the fluctuations of my investment. I am a bit of a control freak and keep an spreadsheet with the percentage earned each day. It be great to have that info within the platform. Every time I show it to my friends they seem to trust the platform a bit more. That’s another... more data, easier it is to influence others to join.

Sorry if this seems like a feature request! :P
> DDG is my default search engine. I still use the google bang over 80% of the time

Use the Startpage bang !s, or use Startpage itself. Startpage provides results from Google, AFAIK, but Startpage is designed for privacy. Startpage even has a built-in proxy service - there's a link under every search result.

(I don't know how private Startpage really is; I don't know why DDG has more credibility with privacy advocates; I don't know how they get away with providing Google's results. Does anyone know?)
Shouldn't this be titled, "How to use HN to market yourself using clickbait articles that seem to offer very little value"?
Well, the whole point of the article is to observe a trend. None of this is a big problem right now.

But economic incentives might push the renting model to become the main - or even only - model to use many goods and services in the future. Similarly, trends about the number of service providers seem to point towards consolidation as well.

So if those trends hold true, we might at some point have Megacorp Inc. offering Living-As-A-Service. And then we would have a problem.
> The main argument seems to be that because we're not having forced arguments and considerations in meatspace, mano-a-mano, we're not challenged enough.

In meatspace social pressure exists unlike on the internet. An example is racist/misogynist jokes are not acceptable in most IRL contexts (especially those that are being logged/recorded permanently as is the case on the majority of the modern web) whereas on the internet it's not only discouraged but it's actually a great way to build a following quickly.

The internet is fundamentally changing how we communicate, ingest news, and share information.

The argument is that before safe spaces and echo chambers online, individuals that aim to engage general public with their message in any meaningful context are forced to compromise their extreme views. In my view Alex Jones wouldn't be a nationally recognized name before the internet, at best he'd be able to get influence over 30 or so of his local conspiracy theorists. No publication would print his views, because of how large a portion of the population they would alienate and anger. I'd argue this pressure is a net positive and having it removed online is leading us down a dark path.
String Theory is a theory in the same sense that Quantum Field Theory is a theory. You need concrete phenomenological models to make predictions. While there some ways to do that starting from string theory there is no one known model to rule them all, the way the earlier attempts like Georgie‘s SU(5) GUT Model was. For some flavors like F-theory it is even a research questions how to make certain predictions of matter content etc at all. This is made more uncomfortable by te fact that the most natural susy extensions of the standard model have been all but ruled out. This also eliminates one of the main reasons for susy: as a solution to the fine tuning problem.
Because it's such a massive percentage of the population?
Commercial store bought sure, but we've got good bakeries even in my modest town[0,1,2]. I can't believe the bay area doesn't have good bread.

[0] https://www.lafarmbakery.com/

[1] http://www.neomondebakery.com/home/index.php

[2] https://www.greatharvest.com/ (This is a francise but it's got some decent options.)
> Given the hypervisor on EC2 is opaque to me, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to avoid co-tenanting in a risky fashion.

In Linux, at least, the Xen hypervisor on EC2 exposes some information about itself at /sys/hypervisor. In particular, I think /sys/hypervisor/uuid would allow you to detect co-tenanting (between two VMs of your own).

Not saying that I think you should do that, or that'd I'd want to — it'd be a PITA to coordinate amongst VMs, and I'm not sure it would matter (what if you're co-tentant w/ a malicious VM? even if you detect it, how do you get out of it?). That is, inside the VM seems like wholly the wrong place to attempt to deal with this. But I don't think many people realize /sys/hypervisor exists.
"Hetero privilege" is proved by the discrimination and stigma against gay relationships, families, the violence against them, rejection by their families, their churches, institutions like blood banks, etc. I think if someone can't already see it there then they won't find it by teasing apart an example like this. It's just seen as another awkward situation. There are awkward situations specific to hetero men too, so it's not seen as a problem.
I'd say that the difference between lots of stairs and and no stairs is enough to cause a difference in price for rent. I'd say that this is the market working as intended. Or, if you believe that it is not a big deal, you can abuse the market inefficiency ;)
My understanding is the initial handshake is not terribly secure, and sniffers watching that can obtain the long term key used by the pair forever.

But I gather a third party can force a handshake refresh at will, which may be what they're doing here. Code's available. : )
There was a period when they were 5-7 years old where they did want to play a lot more, and we had to limit it and cut them off. One notable experience: we make them watch their own time limits, and there was a time where they went 20 minutes over, so we banned gaming for 2 weeks, and it hasn't happened again.

It arises sometimes during school holidays, but more often than not, they themselves decide it's time to finish up and go get some outdoors time.

I acknowledge that this dynamic is likely to change significantly when they get a bit older and particularly getting into teenage years, but I don't think we could have done this initial groundwork any better, IMHO. (And another key component is that all screens are in shared family spaces, not in bedrooms.)
> I've been using DDG since ~2011 and have found myself using the google bang more today than years ago.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17763031
Theory of Hypertext Systems (1995)
This is really cool!

Crazy idea: what if the first letter of the domain name was used to determine the first letter of the Unicode name of the emoji to select? That way there'd be some kind of mnemonic instead of having it be purely random.
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homeless citizens and needles I understand, but 'human excrement' -- what? Is people shitting in the streets as common and as noticeable as homelessness? WTF is that about, I thought SF was, by and large, wealthy? Why isn't it clean?
A couple of questions for Zeit:

1. Once your docker container is built, am I paying to store it on Zeit?

2. How is a Dockerfile versioned? Can I update it? Or do I need to redeploy.

3. Is pricing for containers granular by time or per request to a container?

4. How can these Dockerfiles talk to each other? Is there an API or method to fetch specific url's for each container?

Looks like a great idea, am curious to try it out sometime.
I found this set of articles great for using less mocks and creating less brittle tests: https://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/2015/07/06/how-to-do-pai...
I guess it's quite obvious - energy consumption, particularly non-renewable.
You know exactly what I mean but you can keep pretending not to. It's about signaling.

People who are accepted into Y Combinator know how to keep their eye on the ball; if they move a muscle, it is only to catch the ball. So yeah, I think he was just pretending to be nice.
That's when car hire companies come into the mix. If you're not commuting those distances regularly, chances are you've planned the long distance in advance.
To be fair, the parent asked for untestable theories.
Really, I got downvoted for something where every word was inarguably true in the sense of objective fact not opinion, and informative about half a dozen subjects?

This place is as bad as reddit and slashdot. I haven't returned here very often over the years; this kind of experience makes one feel unwelcome.
Only if there was a Gavin Belson in this version