skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad you found a thing that works.

My feeling is that we have dysfunctional behaviors and that alcohol is a tool we use to deal with that.

Its easier to not drink now, because I don't want to drink. I think that I know why I drink most of the times (and is scares me when I drink and don't know why); even when I don't know why, I can usually figure out why.

I did not want to quit drinking before my wife left me. She certainly did not make me drink. It was a way of coping with her demanding personality that I chose.

It's good if you can make not drinking work for you. I may be way off base, but if you can figure out why you are wanting to drink and if you can change that thing in your life, then that situation is far better.

If I could choose, I would still be married and have developed a different coping mechanism and just be completely sober, but that's not my choice... the fact that I don't want to drink and only do it for social expediency is cold comfort.
http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2017/12/07/improvements/

"In our quest to improve the service for you, the user, we're making it worse.

It was great before. It's going to be terrible now, but you're going to love the changes.

We asked our investors and they said you're very excited about it being less good, which is great news for you."
There are a few more things end-to-end encrypted these days: Health app data, payment information, etc (see https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202303).

However, I am really curious about whether or not using iCloud Backup negates these protections. For iMessages, Apple specifically says that it does: "If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your Messages." In other words, if you use iCloud Backup, Apple specifically holds a key allowing them to decrypt your messages in your iCloud backup.
There's https://easylist.to – might want to start a new list in this format or look for existing ones on github.
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Minecraft peaceful mode or creative mode
You're hopelessly romanticizing the past. Life back then, in those forests was short, violent, and on the edge of starvation. There actually isn't a lot of food for people animals in a forest, especially the older it is.
I used to read the Connections column by James Burke regularly but he quit writing it shortly after my family actually sprung for a subscription :(
Apache Airflow is a great way to future proof your cron jobs. Existing cron jobs can be easily migrated and with that you'll get access to built in logging, distributed execution, connection management, web ui for simple monitoring and task retries and more.
What if I didn't received either a rejection or an acceptance email?
What Mathatir said is "Fair Trade over Free Trade", instead of fear.

A country as wealthy as China can quickly take over most of the assets in Malaysia, which is another form of colonialization.
it’s obvious they have a secret FISA order preventing them to.

How is that obvious? And how a court do this? What would be the legal basis?
Your part of the world, maybe. But there's remedy to everything you described in most of the modern world.
You’ll also be watching American businesses dying as they lose to global competitors who operate in a much more favourable regulatory environment, because their country doesn’t force them to pay 150k per engineer.
something like this might be https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/daemon-haunted-container-worl... I'm posting the PR link rather than the projects since the I'm not sure what the intended CLI for actually using the container is.
LOL I was thinking the same
The list of allowed WebView implementations is baked into the ROM and, by default, only includes the AOSP WebView and various flavors of Chrome.
That's absolutely what happened with the nations up and down the Atlantic coast, which was densely populated before (post-Viking) European contact.

Cahokia, though, was abandoned 250 years before that, in the early 1300s.
And this is how populists get elected.
This would work if you're just ignoring that specific error, but it's better to guard for idempotence. Only apply that ALTER if COLUMN bar doesn't already exist.
> So...what's special about Ohms, Kelvins, and ångström

Nothing other than misguided thinking in the early versions of the standard.

The other problems with these special symbols is that if you call tolower() or similar on them they'll return the "normal" character they're based off of. So toupper(tolower(char)) != char.
Google, Apple ditch college degree requirements
Traffic light model means using red/yellow/green.

The problem I see with a lot of sites is that there is plainly a problem, but the status is still green. I was checking reddit's status page and Aug 20th was green throughout the entire downtime and still is. The amount of times I've seen it be inaccurate makes me think it is not a good model.

I would much rather have a graph of requests served and other metrics (which reddit has). You can very clearly see a dive on the graphs and know something is wrong.

This is what I'm referring to: https://i.imgur.com/UAtFnfI.jpg
Your comment reminded me of the famous J.M.W. Turner painting[1] which depicts the throwing overboard of hundreds of slaves so the captain of the ship could collect insurance payments.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slave_Ship
I can see why future employers might find this tough to swallow. It’s a difficult thing because on the one hand you want enployees that do the right thing and are generally ethical people, and this certainly shows that he meets that criteria. On the other hand, companies don’t want the liability of having an employee that has proven that they are willing to share confidential information and documents, such as bank records, with third parties - regardless of the reason.

I hope he lands on his feet, or gets enough of a reward that he doesn’t have to work for a while, since finding work may be tough now. Doing the right thing isn’t always easy.
I think the comment is in reference to the second problem listed, "editing the plaintext file is difficult."
I am having a hard time understanding this article.
Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted
I'm glad I only told one person, because it is pretty heartbreaking to get un-accepted. But I get it- software glitches make mistakes, people make mistakes, companies make mistakes. If something THIS small was going to deter me, maybe I should just give up and go get a regular job. But that's not gonna happen! Let's do this!
Incorrect. I am neither pro nor anti-China. I am neither pro nor anti-US. I simply felt that a counter-narrative was necessary to break up the incessant pounding China has taken in the past few months and weeks. And every time someone tries to even out the discussion, it's met with the stonewall of "well that's whataboutism". Perhaps a little whataboutism is warranted at times for the sake of perspective.

However, I do disagree that free speech should be the end-all-be-all, ultimate supreme virtue to strive towards. That's such a naive and childish notion and I don't understand why it has become such a meme. Yes it's up there, yes it should be implemented in due time and is suitable for economically and politically stable nations but how can any rational person advocate it for all nations in all states of development?

I'm sure the vast majority of citizens in those states where freedom of speech is most advocated for would prefer censorship over living in a destabilised nation mired in endless conflict and divisive free speech.
Sure you can. For those images, start with properly placed lights. Then murder the images in your editor by increasing shadows beyond what is natural, and tune with the curve editor. What objective limitation does a phone camera have that would prevent you from doing that?
I wasn’t talking about lacking domain expertise in a given area, I think obviously. I’m talking about something much broader and universal, but I’m still sorry for causing you offense, that wasn’t intended.
As a 25 year old, going on 31 days quitting cold turkey after blazing every hour for the past 5 years, having gone through a divorce 10 months ago...thank you for your post. Seriously, thank you. I attributed a lot of my successes to my weed smoking habit, but I have been catching whiffs of what you said in my own life, and to hear someone else express it so clearly...you’re really helping by sharing your experiences. I truly wish you the best.
Fixed: https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-every-company-th...
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What exactly do you mean by bait and switch? Is your job title "SWE" but your tasks are support-oriented? Is the salary lower than expected?
It would be great to have an art gallery, digital or physical, devoted to ai produced media. They could run exhibits highlighting different strategies, or have awards for creative or accurate results.
I share the same sentiment (and yes, it seems that it's "broken for good" - i.e. it will stay indefinitely).

There is https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ project. Still, it's the most annoying on phone, where I see now solutions.
Why? You can run python or anything else in Jenkins just fine.
> laying down similar amounts of money on Whitman vs. Claremont/Mudd/Scripps.

As a former Stag, I'll take that bet!
100% correct. iCloud data is recoverable by apple without passcode, except keychain and phone backups, if i'm not mistaken.
"overreach"

You mean, like Google continuing to compile Location statistics while assuring users they're not?

"designed to shake down American..."

Or, it's not just a scam after all ... for whatever reason, some places in the world feel a need to protect themselves from US ...

... and they're actually trying to protect their citizens. Unlike 'our representatives' (hah!) in the US Congress.
Why does astroturfing need to come from a large organization? A bunch of like-minded users could be enough

We have an actual word for this: grassroots.
>The design of this irrational system only makes sense when a 3 letter agency saw it, and got FISA to compel Apple to key escrow.

Or the more common reasoning: Apple wanted to provide a method for you to restore your new iPhone from an iCloud backup without treating your Apple ID password as an encryption key.
Please don't go collecting artifacts like that; leave it to the pros.

Being able to collect detailed records of archaeological finds, including things like soil stratigraphy that require very specialized knowledge, is an important part of preserving the heritage associated with these artifacts. An artifact that's been stripped of its provenance has been stripped of almost all its scientific value.

It's also potentially illegal - always on state and federal lands, and even on private land you need to get the owner's permission. (http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-antiquities-act-statute/14587)
They'd make good album covers.
“American” is the demonym for the USA. Demonyms refer to natives and inhabitants of an area, or more broadly to characteristics of the area. The term is absolutely not used exclusively to refer to citizens, but I’m not interested in a semantic argument, so suffice it to say that my point is simply that citizenship is an arbitrary legal distinction, and in my opinion a horrible place to draw the line between inhabitants of the US that the government should protect and care about and other inhabitants that the government should not protect or care about.
Of the three explanations:

1) you’re in the wrong neighborhoods

2) you have bad taste

3) there is no good street art in Chicago

... I don’t think #3 is the most likely.
I worked at a company which wrote their own scheduler and it was fraught with bugs. Dealing with time and date is HARD. Really, really hard. Your custom scheduler will break and at a worst possible time.

If Cron doesn't work, get an open source or commercial solution. And who cares what tech the scheduler is written in? Scheduler's job is to provide run your programs and provide API and a nice GUI if you desire.
Hey guys - this is awesome and compassionate; thank you
Oh, 40 years old! Piece of cake, I thought the question was about 40 years in development.

I'm 53 this year, still love programming. I think the trick is to always be trying to move forward, and also look for ways to share your experiences with younger generations.
Hi everyone, after all this, we believe the right thing to do is to accept everyone into Startup School, so we're going to find a way to make this work. More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806459
A sad, amusing, enlightening article.
Intentional irony ;)
Huawei's favorable regulatory environment has less to do with its ability to bring in foreign labor like Cisco and other US tech companies, and more to do with trade barriers set up by China for national security purposes (also, potentially other actions in violation of its membership in the WTO). The US claims Huawei as a national security threat, because the Chinese government could be using their devices to backdoor critical infrastructure. In the same manner, China claims Cisco as a national security threat [1]. The point here is that the spherical cow of all things being rootless, unbound, purely individual and rational economic transactions does not actually exist. Behaving as if it does is a loss for your group as other groups adopt more mercantile policy.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-25/cisco-chi...
> Porting to 1.0 was a pretty big headache, there was a lot of stuff in full .NET that wasn't in 1.0

Yeah, this.

For example, originally they weren't going to include SqlDBAdapter or DataTables or any related classes. They really just thought everybody was going to be okay with using Entity Framework for everything and not having a generic, non-ORM database interface.

Most of my coding involves either extremely simple tables or where I want to manipulate tables for third-party applications that have over a thousand tables where I don't have access to the source code. Most of it is ETL or ETL-like. It's also usually in PowerShell or Python, but some of it is in C#. Making an EF would take ages for some of these applications, especially when the schema isn't always relationally sound (but it's third party so I can't change it). It still just blows my mind they they thought it'd be okay to make everybody box and unbox their database into classed objects instead of just letting you manipulate it as a DataRow. As far as I know, they still consider DataTable and the like to be "legacy".
I've also experienced this. Intense dreams are a common withdrawal symptom, apparently.
"I'm pretty sure "prefer" rather than "urgently need" isn't compelling enough to give a startup a enough of a competitive advantage. There's also not much (if any) synergy with any of the rest of HappiLab's core competencies to make sense as an addon for them.

IT services could be just another vendor HappiLab handles."

Potentially. I think one of the things that will become more important - and will synergize - is the number of wet/dry labs. There are an awful lot of new computational servers being bought by non-tech savvy PIs.
Thank you for giving us another chance. We're truly sorry for all the trouble this caused.
> Also resulted in the greatest era in human history in terms of peace and prosperity.

You are confusing Capitalism with foreign policy.

> Why not?

Where do you think all this anti-US violence comes from?

Empires have never fared well once they fell from power with the exception of the British who were geographically isolated and had very powerful allies.

Simply because the bloodshed caused by US foreign policy mostly occurs on foreign soil doesn't mean it will stop just because the US is no longer an empire.

> I think it's hard being at the top and maintaining global order. You get blamed for everything and you get credit for nothing.

The US actively instigated violent revolutions, torture, and abuses in other countries. Pretending that is "part of maintaining global order" is absurd.

The pillars of what the US is credited for is something half the population actively rebels against (globalism, free trade) and were achieved in spite of the popular will domestically.

Simply because I believe a certain technique should be verboten doesn't mean I ignored credit for the US's successes.
excited to see how we are able to connect with other founders. This is something I have wanted for a long time.
Fortunately I was busy coding so I saw the two emails at the same time. Disappointing, but I was always planning on making this successful on my own. I'll still audit the course to see what I can learn.
Interesting, where can we learn more about this? (eg; cri-o, podman, I saw rkt mentioned elsewhere)
Nice save, well done.

Understand that the advisors won't be able to give personal feedback, but I am happy to be discussing ideas / issues / feedback with other peers.
The rights that citizens protect with violence don’t generally require the state’s authority. I don’t need a law to give me the right to use force to defend myself and my property, that right is naturally mine. It is however very nice that the state’s laws generally respect those natural rights. Now the state can use citizens to enforce its laws irrespective of rights, that’s called conscription, as in for example a sheriff’s posse.
> Also resulted in the greatest era in human history in terms of peace and prosperity.

For some.
More than 15000 startups... I wonder how that will play out.
Great analogy ... and that loop's been iterating for 5000 years ...
>The reason the US is hated isn't that the US is evil.

If toppling democratically elected governments for financial gain, sanctioning genocides and arming their perpetrators, installing brutal dictatorships, all in name of making a quick buck, if that isn't evil I don't know what is.
I have no inherent problem with the concept of citizenship, I just point out that it is arbitrary, and more importantly, I don’t think it should be the threshold for the people the government should be expected to protect or support.
15,000, huh? That’s a lot more than I expected.

How many had you originally accepted? (And thus, how many have advisors?)
> virtualization isn't magical security juice you can sprinkle over stuff. In fact it increases your attack surface in a lot of ways.

Any thoughts about qubes OS?
I applied, but haven't received a rejection or and acceptance email. Does this announcement mean I'm in?
If you can detect them try to serve them wrong data
I disagree with everything you wrote. There are tens of thousands of businesses that are successful with boring ideas. There are tens of thousands of great ideas with terrible teams that are long dead. Your statement is a combo of survivor bias and hubris. Case and point: the biggest industries for millionaires in the US are real estate and dry cleaners. Boring ideas executed well make boatloads. Stop worshipping TechCrunch and start doing the work.
We had originally accepted about 4000 - although our goal has always been to make our MOOC as much about "open" as we possibly can. Our own misstep has caused us to accelerate things.
It seems like once a month we get a report about the TSA or Homeland Security falling down on the job. Is there a school for TSA or DHS? Can it be overhauled? It seems like an external government agency needs to be brought in to evaluate pretty much every agent they have on payroll and classify them into "OK", "Retrain", and "Dismiss" groups.

The problem is their might be too many in the "Dismiss" group for it to work without sacrificing screening capacity and efficacy.
This is why we need to recognize (constantly) that Tech has no voice in matters of morality.

Double that for Hollywood, btw.
Thanks for the second chance. Will be cool to be able to connect with other founders and access the private community forum.
This is attractive in theory but it's a bit difficult to do in practice. Usually the places with the worst comparative odds are also quite aggressive in banning sharp accounts (including any proxy accounts you'd set up as this rival sportsbook). You've got to take the vig into account, as well, which is likely high. So in most cases it's probably not be worth the cost. Especially when there are plenty of other ways to use sharp information to make money.
Why is it "HN logic" if one guy said it? Look at the thread and you will see general sentiment is precisely the opposite. Hate these kinds of comments.
A great way to save the situation. And the resulting community created by 15k startups might lead to interesting directions and developments. I'm looking forward to participating and meeting our peers out there.
I have used cannabis a long time and while I had similar ideas in my 20s, none of this is similar to my current experience - mainly the verbiage and ideas that seem to be derived from drug treatment literature.

I’ve tried not consuming cannabis for long periods and it doesn’t improve my life overall. I did find it necessary to abstain when I has a programming/sysadmin startup job and was trying to learn and manage a huge load.

However, I’ve realized that I’ve largely smoked to cope with my significant growing medical issues over time, and my experience with life in general is not similar to that of others. Most people haven’t spent 1/3 of each day feeling much like they’re dying following meals, but I sure have.

For me, it alleviates my insomnia, anxiety, helps me relax, reduces minor aches and pains (of which I have many), and helps me work through my endless food settling/belching/chest pain/vomiting complex.

It also has a huge community around the cultivation, artistic accessories and (less engagingly) consumption. I was an artistic pipe blower for about 18 years and have a lot of other friends who have devoted their lives to making glass smoking accessories. Overall it fills a role somewhere around coffee, tobacco and wine.
That is a bit odd. I often have the experience of standing somewhere wondering what I was doing, but that's more of a momentary thing that I would call garden variety absent-mindedness.

The other experience that comes to mind is driving - my brain sometimes shuts off for minutes at a time. Not a good thing.

I suspect this has more to do with what's on my mind than what substance I'm taking. I'd be skeptical that it's the CBD causing this experience in your case, but without more data it's hard to say. The one thing I'd recommend is practicing some attention-based meditation, like counting breaths for a few minutes each day. It may strengthen the meta-awareness muscle and reduce the likelihood of these blank-outs.
Not that it matters, but it's the other way around (for the most part -- although scepter does affect some non-intel).
This is fantastic. It would be great if there could be a way for teams to 'level up' and get access to an advisor + the AWS / Stripe credits. Is that possible @yc ?
Does that mean you have 160 advisors scheduled for this?
The interview seems to support the "sommelier's talk" hypothesis, considering the doctor explicitly says that "the sativa/indica distinction as commonly applied in the lay literature is total nonsense and an exercise in futility."