skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'm of two minds about this.

Linus Torvalds is, by all accounts, a bully. But that's how science goes sometimes; it is unforgiving and will make you feel stupid and inadequate, why blame the messenger? And science is hard! People regularly get in your way with shitty ideas, especially when you've hit upon something great like Linux or cancer gene discoveries.

I kind of dealt with this at work recently. We were asked to disable the right click menu on our website. A business analyst thought that it would solve a session management problem and instead of asking us how to solve the problem, thought that they would prescribe this solution to us. I tried to kill this right out of the gate; "This is a bad idea, it doesn't do what you want, if you want better session handling we don't do it this way, so let's close this story and discuss a better approach". Nope, that wasn't good enough. Cue 2 weeks of meetings explaining what the right click menu does and how it doesn't even come close to solving the real problem. I really just wanted to call this BA an idiot and bully the problem away, it would have saved a significant amount of time and frustration for multiple parties.

So I'm imagining this geneticist in similar situations. "Hey, I heard that vitamin C can splice this gene better than how you're doing it, why don't you try?". Cue angry response that could get construed as bullying.

All that being said, there are mean people who just fumble about destroying everything in their wake. So lacking any information about this person's bullying... who knows.
I'm here for the Black Mirror 'Nosedive' comparisons.
> So people in Brazil won't know about 9/11(maybe the biggest news event in recent history), for a day. how is it dangerous ?

Well, how many people in Brazil had relatives in NYC? Proportionally speaking not many, I'm sure. But some. And their news provider would have overwhelmingly let them down that day. If you move the same principle to an NYC news provider it would be a catastrophic service failure.
Ah, the toolbar! Now it makes more sense.
I'm really sorry for the proprietary OS users, that's really a shame that they have to give their email to docker inc. now, if they haven't already (docker hub anyone ?), everytime they install docker on a machine (once per install ?), all this crying its makes mes wanna cry :'(
Ask HN: What's the best way to do a listserv in 2018?
I'm about to start a series of founder events here in Brooklyn, like a monthly get together and happy hour.

I wanted to create a listserv-style group for everyone to join. Something where users could bbe given a web destination where they can get a little information about the group, fill out a form to apply, and then manage subscriptions to get discussions (in classic listserv style) or just announcements of the upcoming events only.

I know there's Google Groups and Yahoo Groups and Facebook and various social media solutions, but in the spirit of the times I'd like to pick a solution that I have a little more ownership and control of. With that said I don't feel like actually building/coding it.

Any advice?
Forge is a laravel only platform and doesn't scale automatically. It is more useful for maintaining a standard deployment process for your laravel application. It made setting up queues / redis / mongo a breeze when we onboarded new employees.
I think it's typical. The business-minded management folks at tech companies tend to measure success and failure purely in dollars. If the company's financial indicators are good, they assume their trajectory is correct and change nothing. They won't fix or improve existing systems unless an issue is measurably costing them revenue.

In the case of the enterprise shop I work at, our revenue increases year over year, and so technical debt doesn't get addressed unless it causes such trouble that clients threaten to leave. Development gets slower and costlier over time as cruft builds up in the codebase, but that effect can't be measured, so it doesn't exist as far as management is concerned.

In Slack's case, their indicator of success is the giant valuation they just got. Their desktop app is an annoying resource hog, but hey, they have tremendous market share, so it must not really be a problem for users. And if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
To the contrary: You could start the cultural shift needed to make such a big change by running as a single-issue candidate. The negative attention would be valuable in bringing to light an issue that most Americans still don't know about.
There are dozens to hundreds of capable scientists ready to step into the same place. The role of PI is a lot like that of a CEO, mostly organizing and executing and pulling in grants. They rely on the brilliance and work of their students, though they often contribute ideas.

Cancer research is limited by funding, wall time, and communication bandwidth between scientists, not by talent.
What credentials would convince you she was nonpartisan? Are you looking for a more rightward bent?
> the attempted adoption of liberal democracy and capitalism

Oh, you mean when the oligarchs/mob bosses robbed the country blind and seized all power?

Yeah, that's totally the fault of the West, or some abstract notion of capitalism or democracy.
The problem is that contracts (especially when buying a home) can be absurdly long full of unintelligible language. So we as ordinary people want to believe that we aren't going to get screwed over. We know that these major companies have the manpower and funds to ruin us, but we hope it doesn't come to that. From that same user[0]:

I know about all of the non conforming and other crazy loans taken out back during the real estate bubble pre-2008. I took advantage of most of them as a real estate investor and did many of the shady things myself that help cause the real estate bust and did a few “strategic defaults”.

While there is a lot of paperwork, for the traditional fixed rate mortgage that most people should be doing, it’s not that complicated- you pay your mortgage every month, the escrow amount may fluctuate but besides that it’s fixed, to whoever owns your loan this month, you keep your house.

Most people had no business doing the adjustable rate/ negative equity/no doc type of loans. I agree that mortgage lenders, especially those working with builders, pushed people into them.
Sometimes I wonder why I have convinced myself that a desk job is the way to go. Then I remember that thats 220kV haha
> digging a moat of proprietary tooling

You mean, like disabling XMPP and IRC integrations? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/09/slack_cuts_ties_to_...
> The flexible environment also continues to confuse me - it talks about being a managed Docker container, but it doesn't seem like you actually get access to anything like a Dockerfile and that's more of an implementation detail on their end.

You're right that you don't get access to the Dockerfile. Docker isn't a 100%-isolated environment for multitenant use-cases, so Google needs to control the stack themselves, using specific trusted versions of base-image layers and app layers. There's maybe extra "Docker-image compile time" security restrictions made on top of that as well.

However, it's not just an implementation detail—it has pretty visible effects.

1. A Flexible Environment app slug gets baked into a regular Docker image and placed into your Google Container Registry alongside container-images you've built yourself with GCR. (And your GCR registry, in turn, is backed by a Google Cloud Storage bucket in your own account—meaning that you're paying for storing the resulting images just like any other uploaded objects. You should prune old App Engine Flexible Environment image versions if you don't want to pay!)

2. You can do whatever you want with the filesystem of your container, because it is just a Docker container. You can mount volumes to the container in the container spec (app.yaml), just like if you were writing a k8s container spec. (In fact, sharing IPC sockets through a Docker volume-mount is how the Google Cloud SQL proxy works.) You can internally auto-update your container by downloading new Python/Node/etc. code into the container and getting the interpreter to re-exec(2) itself. Pretty much anything that can run in a "Python Docker container environment" can run in Google's "Python Flexible Environment", because they're pretty much the same (save for those container-build-time security restrictions.)
That's when you go along with their demands for just as long as it takes to get completely off their products/systems all together.
For the most part all of mainstream newspaper's articles are "correct". The bias with them is what they choose to report on and how often they report on it. When they report to the front page an alt-right rally with more reporters than alt-righters but barley provide a section for the violent antifa protesters there who assaulted reporters at the same rally that is bias. Or when they nonstop report on the Parkland school shooting where 17 people where killed and following protests but report on the Orlando nightclub shooting were 50 people where killed for a week.
The CSPA looks quite interesting. I wonder, though, if it won't just fall into the categorization of certifications. I know a lot of tech companies, especially startups, have not much use for certifications. They are only most relevant for compliance and other niche stuff like security.
In the actual experiment Google Engineers manually inserted the data into their index. IDK if my own activities would result in my fake site getting indexed by them, also I don't know how to ensure that I am the ONLY result, which was the case with the google test.
"Non-partisan" is just a obfuscatory way of saying "has politics I agree with".

This is not targeted at any particular side; I see all sides use the term this way.
I am not saying Russia isn't involved in this, but when in general reading the media, it is always 'Russian hackers [this]' and 'Russian hackers [that]', almost like any hacker is a Russian hacker. Hackers are everywhere, and - last I heard - the West is also quite good at it.

With regards to influencing elections (not only by hacking, but using any other 'legal' - yet not-so-ethical - means) I wonder, if after the supposed effectiveness of the (still under investigation) previous election meddling (and also with parties like Cambridge Analytica in mind), anyone involved in the mid-terms can afford to not go all-in with these same kind of tools (like a digital arms race)?

And if they want to go further and create fake news, use botnets to spread it, and hack opponents to get dirt, how easy it is to make it appear like Russia is behind it (could even be a possible win-win if you are anti-Russia)?
It gets even worse when you find out who the 'fact' 'checkers' are.
Cancer research is definitely not limited by funding.
The only way to do it with less risk would be to shut down the line, which would be tremendously expensive and might still result in more risk, since power outages can kill.

It doesn’t look like the safest job in the world, but a lot of crazy-looking things can be reduced to tolerable levels of risk with lots of training and good, methodical procedures.

After all, packing a couple hundred people into a pressurized tube six miles above the ground is pretty crazy too, and used to be fairly dangerous, but these days it’s the safest way to get from A to B.
Good luck to all, except for CSPA. I hope they fail miserably.

The idea that they will insert themselves as a bureaucracy/testing service to "gauge" software engineers is simply offensive to me. This is typical bureaucrat thinking, and not what Silicon Valley is all about. They want to collect a toll tax on every programmer going forward. So frankly I hope they truly fail quickly and miserably.

I hate whiteboard interviews with a passion, but I don't hate them more than "certification processes", like what this group of people is trying to do.
Are you sure you found the right thread? Your comment seems more related to the panic attack thread.
I'd expect Amazon to fight you hard. They take their non-competes very seriously. I had friends get offers for senior positions, successfully negotiate every aspect of the package - especially substantial pay increases - yet fail to get any traction on the non-competes.

Amazon was clear that this clause is non-negotiable, even when everything else is, and even when that clause alone caused the candidate to decline.

They also have one of the most notorious records of actually suing former employees for non-compete breaches:

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/business-personal-amazon-web-s...

(Which didn't prevent them from telling my friend "why worry about the non-compete, it's almost never enforced".)

So yeah, I don't expect them to give it up so easily.

It's a clear case where the best interest of the state clashes with the best interest of large corporations... and the corporations prevail.

TFA mentions research that supports the claim that California became tech capital of the US because of non-compete non-enforcement. What's good for each individual business is bad for all of them together and the economy as a whole.

Tragedy of the commons.
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Yes, and 95% percent of them are intended to proof that BackPage knowingly facilitated prostitution.

Starting with page 42, they list these ads. They somewhat hilariously call the subject of every ad "victim 1", "victim 2", despite there being no evidence, or indeed reason to believe, that they are or were.

I am reading this as someone who's thinking like the author of the reason article: A website running prostitution ads should legally be allowed to exist. You claim to be open to that position. Read like this, ignoring everything that presumes such a thing is in itself wrong, there are maybe 15 or 20 points out of the 156 that could even be considered relevant.
dis·claim·er, noun, a statement that denies something, especially responsibility. [1]

Did you mean "disclosure"?

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3ADisclaimer
As someone with no design background whatsoever, what rules do you disagree with and why?
This was one of the best explanations of why "calories in, calories out" isn't true.
https://betterhumans.coach.me/why-caloric-restriction-fails-...
I was wondering what people generally think on using AppEngine when compared to rolling the API gateway+Lambda for public side projects. Somehow there seems to be much more movement on Lambda front, but I can't seem to find a lot of opinions from people running their apps in app engine, which I am quite sure there are more than Lambda? Or am I mistaken?
The standard environment seems to be quite feature rich, but with a lot of hidden limitations for a newcomer, but at the same time the developer story for Lambda is not that great at all.
That doesn't seem to be being fair to anyone at all, China or Western. I'm not seeing indication many governments in the West care about people jumping up and down over their green-lighting yet another fracking project, gas power plant, etc. Or that they're taking the demonstrable environmental issues with plastics, climate change, biodiversity and so on the least bit seriously.

Our governments are already playing favourites by frequently subsidising fossil fuels, funding roads but not rail etc.

For example, the most recently elected British government happily swung the pen and removed nearly all the feed-in tariffs on sustainable energy. In the process eliminated much of the nascent, and growing, sustainable energy sector in the UK. The most charitable way I can view that is as incredibly blinkered and short sighted.
> Like a disciplinary hearing?

No, a face to face meeting between adults. Not hiring lawyers to do background research and pulling her in in front of a committee. Like you would in case of such a situation in a normal company.

Once you pull an "independent investigation", you're far beyond taking things like adults anymore. I wouldn't want to work at a place where I get inspected like that.

She might have been an asshole, but this is a childish way of dealing with things, and at the cost of bloody humanity.
What is “complex” about a traditional 30 year fixed mortgage? The type that most people have been doing for decades - aside from the craziness between 2000-2008?
See "Manufacturing Consent" (1988) by Chomsky and Herman for a classic critique of how in the West there are also "soft propaganda and opinion guiding" systems in place and operating successfully. I wonder though, with the internet and the rise of Trump, if Chomsky might say these systems are not in control as much as they used to be.
Will someone please legally define "bullying" and "abusive"? This seems like another kangaroo court system in the making.
Actually, electric companies already do charge higher rates at different times when demand is higher.
>Western countries have problems too, and did you see America, this is what democracy leads to."

When you compare the "democratic" two-party American answer to terrorism and the "autocratic" one-party Chinese answer, it's hard to see democracy as the superior choice. Spying on millions of people is terrible, as are the re-education camps, but the "War on Terror" is responsible for millions of deaths while spying on millions of people. Years of soft propaganda make people praise American behavior, and democracy provides no option to end it.
I agree -- I wouldn't mind long articles as much if they got the main points upfront. But the New Yorkers of the world don't do that. They're obsessed with starting in media res with some anecdote that gives painstaking details about the subject's mannerisms or appearance or fashion sense.

When I want people to summarize links they post, it's not because I have a short attention span or categorically refuse to read them. It's because I want to know the broad sketches of what it's claiming so that I know whether I need the extra detail (sorry, "color") it provides vs. whether it's citing a study or argument I'm already familiar with (or is even a relevant point to make).
Data is nothing; interpretation is everything. That's why democracy is needed even in the presence of data: the people still have a need to choose how the data is interpreted and who will do the interpreting.
Look, I'm not even American so I have no dog in this fight. I'me a British lifelong conservative voter. Compared to our politics, American public discourse is dramatically more toxic on both sides. If you can't see that, I really can't help you.
> I also noticed that calories counting was the most efficient way to drop off extra weight, but counting calories is a very-very-very daunting task. If you ever used MyFitnesPal or similar tool you know how much time it takes: unlock your phone, find the app, wait till it loads, go through the list of categories, find the right food (if you are lucky), try to measure what you ate/about to eat and adjust numbers, save. Eventually, it became “I will add all these things in the evening,” then I started missing days until I gave up entirely.

If you are embarking on a diet, I would highly advocate minimizing meal variability to remove the cognitive overhead associated with meal planning. If you pick 3-5 healthy meals that you can eat everyday, calorie or macro counting becomes simple because you already know that what you are going to eat will fit into your daily totals.

I cut from 300 to 215 lbs several years ago and kept the weight off. If you're interested in reading some high level dieting advice, please refer to my post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15604761
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> because our legislative bodies can't work together

This is not (just) a people failure, it's a system failure. More precisely, it's the highly polarizing FPTP voting system that allows one party to dominate almost completely every election cycle instead of having to cooperate with others to government, regardless of how bad their behavior was the last time they run the government. With FPTP, it's just a matter of time before each of the two parties regains power, regardless of the policies they may promote. With FPTP the whole "red team vs blue team" game is inevitable, because FPTP promotes the existence of only two (very) long-term parties.

The second issue is of course the issue of companies and wealthy people buying politicians' votes through lobbying. I mean, who can deny it at this point? It's very clear that this is what lobbying actually does. It's not used just to "try and convince politicians" of something at this point - it's almost literally used to buy the votes.

A solution for each of these problems would be these:

http://www.fairvote.org/fair_representation#what_is_fair_vot...

https://anticorruptionact.org/

https://www.wolf-pac.com/the_solution
Pretty soon you need to ask the question "what is truth?"

Third party fact checkers seems like the best possible thing that could be in that box. It's not perfect, but there has never been a perfect system to determine truth so waiting until there is one is counterproductive. You do the best with the tools you have available.
Did you mean private?

So even if they are a market leader, give them more cash? I get why Uber does it because they have serious commoditized competition with Lyft, but Slack does not seem to have even a close 2nd place.
I did not feel like shit when cold turkey stopping a 4 year daily habit of MJ.

I know it's highly anecdotal, but I'm very thankful I spent those four years smoking cannabis instead of drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, or taking prescription pills.
Also I wanted to add that in some other ex-USSR countries the situation is similar to Ukranian: there are parts of Russian population who associate themselves with Russia and didn't integrate well into the society. For example, in Baltic states (like Latvia) there is a part of Russian popluation many of whom moved in during Soviet times. They don't speak the national language, they feel disappointment because of dissolution of USSR. To make things worse, Latvia doesn't count them as citizens and they don't have some rights, for example, a right to vote [1]. So who knows, maybe Russia will try to escalate this conflict next.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizens_(Latvia)
Pretty sure by "inside conductor" he means one of the lines closer to the tower. In the video I think he's working on the outermost conductor, i.e. the one furthest from the tower.
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After reading about millet system, I still do not understand why it corresponds to "a very narrow and exclusive sentiment".
All governments need some method of contact with the governed to assert their legitimacy. It's telling that in North Europe we had parliaments - places to speak your mind - because speaking your mind was how we did that. Oratory was, and is, seen as a necessary quality in a good governor, since at least ancient Greece and certainly since the days of Rome.

In China, on the other hand, there is no major oratory tradition. The way Chinese government contacted the people was by being everywhere and nowhere - omnipresent, through the imperial civil service, and yet unseen. If you wanted to gain influence in the government, you took the imperial examination, became a bureaucrat, rose through the Nine Ranks, and hopefully, by the time you reached the top, you had enough governing experience to see merit in the old way of doing things.
Russia supports the Syrian regime because it contains the only Russian overseas naval base [1]. This is the same reason Russia anexed Crimea, which is now conveniently a Russian naval base.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_naval_facility_in_Tart...