skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things I liked about Slashdot was the option to periodically review random comments (with context), and how they were rated, with the option to state whether this was appropriate. Furthermore, the ratings themselves had descriptors: Insightful, Funny, etc.

I think this idea should be taken further so that you can’t post as much (or even at all) unless you are actively participating in meta-moderating, i.e. helping the community.
Companies shouldn't give candidates homework assignments
Skydrop seems like a simple idea but for us in South America this is actually a huge issue. I hope they get successful.
* people getting shamed on social media*

thats the only thing i can imagine is going to come of this
That is exactly what Honda would do. Shut down the plant and fix it properly. In fact, that's what every other carmaker actually does, except that they do trial runs of their factory lines before actually initiating mass production precisely so they can identify and fix problems in the assembly line like the ones Tesla is now facing.
"The million dollar brownstone that nobody owned" story that came through recently had its title "restored" in Idaho which suggests to me that Idaho is a favorable jurisdiction for people to do this sort of thing.
In the UK there is certainly a degree of magnitude more diversity to the voices who engage in the discourse and are listened to. But can we name even one 'radfem' with similar mainstream platforms and access to the sort enjoyed by Owen Jones or Laurie Penny? I would think it would make sense to have named at least one if the situation is that of a "very much dominated" area.

As a rough marker of popularity, Owen Jones and Laurie Penny enjoy followers in the 100,000s (Jones over 700K). Sarah Ditum and Glosswitch each fail to break 20k. Helen Lewis, who hasn't written on sex work on the Internet more than a few times and certainly not strongly for abolition or the Nordic model, has barely 100k followers.

Unfortunately I don't see it as a pejorative that the grassroots movements we hear and know about tend to be protective of porn and prostitution as institutions. Small independent groups all supposedly working for the same better world will always end up in a survival-of-the-fittest contest, making concessions at the most controversial nodes to win favor. Basically every man in the Anglosphere who counts himself as progressive or leftist engages with the sex industry in some way, while basically none will care about anyone's abortion. Directly thus, we have the political movements we see today.
And after you call them out for their lies, they will say you're toxic to the community for suggesting that they're not being genuine.
I applied for the S18 and I was rejected. I have to admit that at least 80% of these startups are much better than mine one.

I can also notice that almost all of them are in the public beta, whereas my project is still in development. It seems that this is also an important factor in the approvement process.

What happened with: "we also invest in ideas", "you don't need a finished product in order to be accepted".. Those days are gone :)
Oh, I don't disagree, but before the limit was just "reasonable," whatever that meant.
I recently read Eleven Nations (which I recommend), and in the epilogue, the author sounds quite hopeless. He does not believe the USA, or Mexico, or Canada will survive the 21st century in their current forms/borders.

Imagine, for example, that California secedes (or more to the point, the northern California coast secedes). What would Seattle and Portland do? How about Vancouver? After all, Vancouver has far more in common culturally and historically with San Francisco than it does with, say, Nova Scotia.

And why would LA and San Diego join San Francisco's revolution? Their dominant culture has more in common with Tijuana. Part of the author's argument is how much sense it would make for what is currently northern Mexico and southwestern USA to break off and become an independent nation together.
Which is good since other manufacturers are making 200,000 or so.
> The annexation of Crimea wasn't an offensive play, it was a desperate defensive play

Wow. 'Yes, your honor, I did robbed that guy - but it was a desperate defense!'
Yeah, or we could just have passed a version of the "garden leave" that wasn't toothless
I disagree with your statement. I would say that given current events and the coverage of them you are seeing Russia more that other entities.

This happens for a variety of reasons, some technical, some political. The technical ones are when indicators for an active APT group are released it becomes easier for others in the industry to see them and to catch them or report on their activity. This results in that group having more attention in the media as firms publish their findings.

The prior US administration took the step of sharing many of those indicators with the industry and so the Russians are getting caught more often.

This has happened before. Remember the 'Aurora' incident that Google had around 2010? That time frame from 2006-2014 the Chinese were dominating the news for this sort of espionage.

In short, I think that we are simply catching the Russians more often right now as they haven't had time to retool or cover their tracks and there are active defensive campaigns targeting their teams. Obviously other countries have an interest (including the US - remember the Vault7 leaks?). As an example, there was an article on HN just recently about how the Chinese rolled up the CIA network in their country via a compromise of the CIA's messaging system.

As far as hiring Russians, the specific groups that firms like Microsoft track are ones composed of government entities (hence the article notes 'Hackers linked to Russian government entities..'). They are not generally hirable by third parties.
3. Talk to law enforcement or ask your customers to do so (not sure who has the better standing to get something done?). Even if they don't do anything, might help get GoDaddy to take it seriously?
Yea, this is the world view I'm starting to work with here.

Before, I'd say, "companies can't do that, it'd be illegal!" Now I think, "would it cost more to do the thing and fight a legal battle over it than the profit possiblity? Do the damaged parties have the means to fight a pitched legal battle? Is there a lobby angle than can be taken to simply change the laws?"

I wish I didn't have to be so cynical.
I do put notes about my workouts or anything out of ordinary, but in general I just trying to keep it down to number of point (which no longer represent 100kcal anymore) and adjusting total number after each "sprint" and its results.
> The tension between federal and state power is an intentionally designed feature of the system

True, but "AGs of states finding friendly judge to force federal legislature to do their bidding" is not part of that design. If they just passed state-wide regulations and federal AG would sue them for it, then it'd be a different case, where one could justifiably invoke state rights. But in this case it's just plain lawfare.
50% is a huge paycut. Most people won't voluntarily accept that, so it's hardly an adequate protection.

For what it's worth, in states that do require compensation for non-competes, that compensation is typically about the same as the base salary, i.e. at or close to 100%.
I don't know about Amazon, but the earlier articles people posted on the subject did have a lot of people who were let go and then had non-competes enforced against them.
It's not a matter of if they will game the system, it's a matter of when (no software is perfect, not even PageRank).
As a professional, you should realize that you are not a customer of Docker, you are a user that provides them no value.

They have little revenues and an over valuation to justify, while being attacked from all sides by competitors (Google, AWS, RedHat, Pivotal). Docker is in a bad position and they are desperate.
Unfortunately it’s usually rich and powerful people who go to great lengths to obfuscate their ownership of assets, so this is politically unviable.
I think this is CafeX.
> Are you saying that there's a liberal/progressive bias in media?

yes

Here are some more examples, they report for weeks on Gazans violently protesting and attacking the boarder and sympathise with the Gazans, but when was the last time that you heard about the ongoing Darfur genocide? When Obama imprisoned illegal immigrates in separate cells based on age and gender, the media parley said a word, but when Trump did it... How about a CNN reporter admitting that the Trump - Russia scandal is a nothing burger?
You bet your ass I was, but you mean the 19th Century
Door? Wow, I just wish I had my cubicle walls back again.
Possibly not? The high resistance splices are producing heat and at some point I believe they fail, which could affect the whole grid.
But remember, China's social credit system is terrible! How could anyone think of rating people like that?
Agree with the degree part.

Having hired a few software engineers, a question I am asked a lot (not by the engineers themselves, but a lot of other, some even non-tech friends) is that why do I use college and degree as a filtering criteria. My explanation is that, one we do not have the resources of Google to access the candidate in that depth. Two, even if we were to do that, it would mean a candidate going through 7-8-10 rounds, given the kind of things that need to be tested. If you could end up in a good program/college, it tells me that you have some ability and saves me on a few tests. Then, I can take 2-3 tests/interviews and make the decision quickly. This is not to say that other person without the degree is less talented, but that the talent isnt demonstrated yet and it would take more tests to maybe see that. Moreover, its not an exact process, we are as likely to fail with a good degree hire as we are with not so good degree. So, does not seem fair to take a candidate through 8-10 tests. (it also has a cost for us, given we are a small team and everyone's time is important)
Re: weight watchers - it is close, but not the same. the ultimate goal is to get mind assign points for food, no matter how much each point worth in calories. 1click = 100kcal is just a starting point.
Yeah you're right. I just tried to register for an exam and it was $19
They are impostors. True libertarians protect the right not to pay for other. You can support whatever you want only after you get this right.
What does it look like when you buy and hold 31 cryptocurrencies for a year?
Interesting concept. How does the clicker relate to the spreadsheet? that is, if you're entering the data into a spreadsheet anyway, why also the clicker? (isn't the point of the clicker to simplify away the laborious/unmaintainable spreadsheet stuff?)
Perhaps look for legal representation? I moved off GoDaddy when that big migration to Namecheap happened and have avoided them since. There was one domain that I'd forgotten to move and tried to transfer it a few months ago, which they had some bizarre 90 days "lock" on. Anyway, it wasn't very important so I just let it go rather than deal with Godaddy.
> Paying income tax _was_ unconstitutional.

It was never generally held to be, and the US had (though not permanently) income taxes prior to the 16th Amendment.

> The 16th amendment had to be passed to make it constitutional.

No, it had to be passed to make income tax on revenues from certain forms of interest, dividends, and rents to be Constitutional under the (quite controversial) holding in Pollock v. Farmers Loan Trust Co. Income taxes moe generally were held by the Supreme Court to be excises rather than direct taxes and therefore Constitutional even prior to the 16th.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock_v._Farmers%27_Loan_%....
Chrome 69 will take the next step to killing Flash, roll out new design
Been there, done that. I feel much worse about paying my federal taxes now. Federal contractor (to whom we were a subcontractor) spent at least five times what they should have, and very little of it trickled down to us. They also were a “broken telephone” between us and the end customer, so we didn’t get much user feedback. Any call (not _video_ call mind you, a phone call) with them had a minimum of 10 people, and after the call everyone on their end would have immediate amnesia. 1/10 would not recommend.
And who will fund that? Because Tesla is not Honda, they don't have the ability to sit back and spend a year or 2 on just prototyping assembly, they don't have the decades of experience running factories like this, they don't have the money to shut everything down for a few months to fix what amounts to 37 minute of fixes per car...

It seems absolutely insane to me that they Honda would stop the world for something like that. It's like what, $15 per car in labor? $30 per car in labor? And you want to stop the whole factory output for potentially weeks to stop that? That seems like a monumental waste of time and money.
Back in the nineties, a journalism professor told our class about an experiment where a local American newspaper tried to publish some minimum percentage of "good news," and their readership tanked.

I cannot find a reference to this story, but a Russian paper tried a similar thing about ten years ago with similar results.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8702807
Moving applications to the cloud: Lift-and-shift, refactor, or containers?
> Why? Going back to the common carrier regulations pre-Internet, it's like you're saying that just because mail carriers have to carry anything (as long as it's safe), then magazines delivered by mail carriers would have to allow anyone to write articles.

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that an entity that wants common carrier protections has to act like a common carrier. If they want to be a publisher with full editorial control of the content they publish content, then they don't get common carrier protections. If Facebook and Youtube/Google want to say "you can't say that here", then they can take responsibility for what they do allow to be distributed on their platform. I feel the exact same way about Comcast or Level 3.
...and I'm sure we all agree as to what speech, and "accountability" mean in this context...
You've already missed the point.
Apple is hugely concerned about low cost Chromebooks eating the educational market, but it's because they want them to be using iPads not Macs.

Releasing the $329 dollar 2017 iPad was a direct response to Chromebooks in the educational market. It was actually a rather unusual product for Apple. It replaced the iPad Air 2 and did have a newer processor, but saved on cost by being thicker than the Air 2 and lacking a laminated screen. For reference, the Air 2 was the first iPad to have a laminated screen and the current iPad Pro models still do.
End-to-end encryption was already in Skype before Microsoft bought it. They removed it and now it comes back as an optional feature.
What do you think was the reason that they removed it?
These days dealer prep mostly involves taking off the plastic paint protection film, removing any other hardware that protects the car during shipping (suspension blocks, door bump pads, etc), checking functionality of major components, verifying fluid levels, etc, and finally detailing the car (well, washing and vacuuming at least).

You can actually find the dealer prep checklist for a lot of cars with Google, for example GM has theirs freely published on their public web site.
Yeh and don't look now but... its also becoming a bloated mess. Notepad++ is a native application and it blows vscode out of the water for speed. Though obviously it does not have ide-esque features of vscode. Furthermore, there is no paid version of VS Code, and if there were, and it ran like dogs ass, I would say the same thing. They need to put on their big boy pants and make a big boy native application.
Apple Discontinuing Back to My Mac in MacOS Mojave
They posted here on HN recently and I went and checked out their menu. And while it sounds delicious, I just cant believe that I, personally, would be regularly paying ~$15 for mac and cheese - let alone that be a venture backed startup.

I am already of the opinion that food is exceedingly expensive in every regard, and when even McDonald's is now $11 for a big-mac meal, I just can't believe how we aren't looking to make food any more affordable.
Now it's my personal goal to have a score of zero on FB.
For selling a product, off the top of my head we've got eBay, Craigslist, Facebook marketplace, nextdoor, and whatever other social network you can think of. Amazon, with a bit of work. Crowdfunding sites if you wanna go that route. If that thing you're selling is a car there's specialized websites for that (shift, for example).

I have only ever been able to have Comcast, ever. In the 9 houses in 6 different cities in 3 different states I've lived, always Comcast was the only option.
Do we eat too much sugar these days? Too much meat? Too much dairy?

Yes to all of it. Probably so.

> It doesn't explain why some people NEVER have to diet while other go through life starving but still gain weight.

But there is a very simple explanation: Self-reporting is bullshit.

Never believe anyone who says "I can eat anything I want and not gain weight" or "I hardly eat anything and still gain weight". There's always something they aren't seeing. Anyone who says that needs to keep a very strict food journal for a month. No cheating, no "well it's just a mint". Strict. Everything gets recorded. You take a bite of someone's ice cream, you record it.

What you'll find is that their caloric consumption is right in line with their weight.
22 years ago

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/03/business/investing-it-the...
Worse? You know about Sabra and Shatila right?
And it's not uncommon (in certain states, in certain industries) for forged identities to be used. As I understand it, so long as the SSN is "valid" and goes with the name provided, employers don't (and possibly can't, legally speaking) go beyond that.
It kind of looks like they are in a plains state somewhere. Having lived in the midwest nearly all my life, I can say with confidence that you are going to spend a lot of time waiting if you are waiting for a calm day.

They probably just make sure the wind isn't gusting too much.
Honest question - how do you have that flexibility? I'm qualified as hell - or at least, I look really good on paper. Yet I probably have at least a 3-to-1 rejection ratio for jobs that I'm insanely qualified for. As much as they go on about a "tech labor shortage", I feel pretty grateful when I find full time work because I get turned down so often - plus, I feel like even if I demanded (the quiet that I actually need to work effectively but who cares, right?), they could rescind that at any moment and I'd be left choosing between quitting and being unemployed again or just gritting my teeth and taking what they dish out.
Correction: They succeeded in making one, it just didn't take off as a business. There's a difference. When it comes to simply getting a certain piece of functionality, even an open-source community is free to go build a competitor and give it away for free. The obstacles when it comes to internet infrastructure are encountered before you even get in the gate.
> The touchscreen crashed twice

In this case, do you lose the speedometer etc while it resets? Does it reset automatically or do you have to press something? Genuinely curious.

Edit: this will become the go-to excuse for speeding in the future - "I'm sorry officer, I don't know how fast I was going, the speedometer had crashed and needed to reboot".
So not a democracy then?

Gaza a lost cause...you really think you can make a deal on the West Bank only? While Israel has de facto control over many parts of the Gaza Strip in violation of Geneva Conventions? https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/israels_obligations

Edit: At least 9,733 Palestinians and 1,253 Israelis and have been killed by someone from the other side since 2000.
At least 2,197 Palestinian children and 134 Israeli children have been killed by someone from the other side since 2000.

https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/charts/
You aren't allowed to bury cat5 in your neighborhood without government approval, and they'd tell you to just lease time off Comcast lines.

What will you connect your cat5 cable to?
The lineman (and my guess is the pilot too) wear a conducting and fire retardant suit made of metal threads. This essentially acts as a Faraday cage.
And not surprisingly, you've decided to quote something from a collection of blogs owned by Soviet immigrant (involved in Communist ideological games back in USSR).
> It's also not going onto other people's property and doing whatever you want.

It is when that property is considered the public space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

The internet should be regulated in the same way with defacto monopolies over "public" communications wrt. Twitter, FB, YT, etc.
at(1) is great, but you'll still have the problem of a different environment to cron (it copies most of your environment variables and working directory).
I feel you. All I can say is that weight loss is simple. But it's not easy. To be successful, you have to change a lot and some of it will suck.
Because it was downvoted to less than 1 for a while. Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about that, which they ask you not to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Instead, just give a good comment a corrective upvote. Users tend to that, correcting the problem and leaving comments like this one referring to nothing.
I agree with you completely. The allocation of resources to the luxury market is almost completely been up to the collective decision making of developers building the houses.
It's not about being comfortable with the difference, rather about seeing that the difference keeps increasing because that small minority keeps tipping the scales. You are not as equal as democracy makes it out to be.

50% of Americans earn ~$37000. The poorest 35% had a decrease from 2016 to 2017. Do you feel they are particularly favored in the grand scheme of things? Because they certainly have the power to change this by sheer voting power.

As I said before, democracy is the business of selling promises once every 4 years. Unless you have the power to get what you actually want you are not leading anything and you have no real power. It's like the power to choose your poison is not an actual power if you didn't want to die in the first place.
Facebook/YoutTube/Google don't want to be common carriers though. They're DMCA safe harbors, but that's totally different.

Do you think newspapers shouldn't be allowed to have opinion articles that are prefaced with "not the opinion of the paper"?
Hard disagree there.

Your 'free' time is valuable currency, and every minute must be invested as productively as possible, or you'll lose to someone else who does in this kill or die monkey knife fight economy
[https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/].

(edit: corrected link. Thank you!)
This looks really well done. I've been meaning to do this for some time. While I agree it's best to learn to properly configure your tools, this can be a good first step for newbies.

The problem I run into with sharing dotfiles is that my dotfiles aren't what someone who's new should be using. They need sane defaults that they can build upon, not the mess that my dotfiles have become over 10 years. This seems to be a good solution to that problem; giving some nice basics to set a newbie on the right track.

Really well done.