skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could be right, but on the other hand many qualified professionals prescribe Zoloft or Xanax and be done with it. A personal account (which in fact many of the comments here on HN are) can be very helpful, if only as a reference when talking to real professionals.
I feel sorry for the "lakefront" houses that have a big empty pit in their back yard. They've tried several times to fix this, and I'm pretty certain that there was a special assessment associated with each attempt.
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You were seriously invested with all of those pages on the whaling practices of the 18th century?
Well, yes, but that's also currently an issue for say your average rural Indian farmer. Or north Korean.

I get that we're talking about Americans here, and can't be expected to solve every problem across the world, but I'm having a hard time drawing some arbitrary line in the sand here.
>This is why I appreciate having Elizabeth Warren as our Senator: she has spent her life fighting for our basic interests on issues that weren't sexy enough to get a thousand-person protest march going.

She'd have been able to do a lot more good for us if she were still fighting those fights instead of toeing the party line as a senator. There's plenty of other senators to toe the party line day in and day out. Politicians that want to protect consumers are much rarer.
> 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

You're right, but I'm not just talking about the subprime issue. It's bigger than that with numerous companies providing different goods and services. We're beholden to a number of service contracts that are stacked against us. For example, I was stuck with a terrible ISP. Daily outages, constant resets, and times in off-peak ours where my throughput was absurdly low. No matter how much I called and complained, there was nothing I had in my favor, because the speeds "may fluctuate from time-to-time due to the nature of the service". My choices? Pay double for ADSL or put up with it.

According to the contract, they're not obligated to give me 100% uptime with 100% of the bandwidth as advertised. That's understandable. But there was clearly an underlying issue with the infrastructure that was not being addressed. So contractually speaking, they can give me hand-wavy answers about why they can't give me complete uptime and throughput with no repercussions, but as the customer, I must pay my bill in full by the due date.
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And even if you were to argue that gerrymandering didn't swing overall election results (it does), gerrymandering also makes certain seats more secure than they normally would be -- causing certain politicians to become incumbents. What reason does an incumbent have to listen to their local community's grievances? Their job isn't at risk if they don't please the public (which is the opposite of how it should be).

So, even if the House of Representatives was a direct representation of the US population, they would still not have the incentive to listen to their populace.
I agree with the sentiment but considering the bailout we got barely passed because of conservative outrage, anything with even a wiff more of "socialism" would've been doomed.

Reading about the crisis still pisses me off but I also am grateful there still is a system. Conservatives flirted with stupid in a big way in 2008 & 2009 and it could've been a lot worse.
I think you have troubles understanding the concept because it's too remote from what you are accustomed too.

The seller has to get the car inspected. It's a standard inspection to detect many many problems. The buyer can certainly gets it re inspected if he likes too. The inspection is a legal document that's important in case of litigation. It provides protection to the buyer and the seller.

A car cannot be sold without an inspection certificate. I think the car is also forbidden from being on the road if it didn't pass an inspection in the last 2 or 3 years.

A timing belt that's shockingly hold and on the verge of breaking is a serious issue. The vehicle should not be allowed to be sold or driven in these conditions.
Climate change is a big issue that in order to fix (if it is even possible) involves many people working together. No matter how much C02 you conserve, if a tanker ship exists, it will pollute more than you can ever do in your life. With the case of arts, if you buy a painting you will directly encourage the creation of a new painting.

> What an enormous opportunity cost it is to not take the loan if you think you'll succeed. It's a bad situation for everyone involved and there isn't a good answer to the individuals in or about to be in that situation.

As for a solution for people in that situation, I can't think of any. But then again, people with prison records, facial disfigurements, born in a 3rd world country also struggle to live. Yet if we want to make life easier for them it will make life much more difficult for us. You may call that selfish, but that's just what humans are.
But Electron man. Electron. (sarcasm)
Sure, and apologies for the harshness in my original post.

My main complaint about the marketing landing page at https://cloud.google.com/appengine/ is that it doesn't contain any immediate information about the different environments. It does have a link to "Choosing the right Environment" but it's _waaay_ down below the fold. In general I wish Google Cloud product pages had their big "View Documentation" buttons up at the top next to the free trial button, instead of way down below the pricing section.

In addition, neither the "Choosing the right Environment" nor the "App Engine Standard Environment" docs linked at the bottom of the product page contain detailed information about the second-generation standard environment, which is frustrating. I do appreciate that the language-specific pages in the main docs link contain a short comparison that includes the beta environments, at least.

That said, the primary document comparing the environments (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/the-appengine-enviro...) seems very out of date. For example, it mentions you should use the flexible environment if your app:

> Depends on other software, including operating system packages such as imagemagick, ffmpeg, libgit2, or others through apt-get.

However, the Node standard environment contains these three packages and more (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/nodejs/refe...).

There might be other nit-picks to be said, but really, my main criticism of the documentation is that trying to understand the split between "standard/flexible/second-generation standard" environments at first glance is tricky. I'm sure y'all have plans for this going forward as these environments come out of beta, so I'll hold off on whining too much more. Thanks for asking for further feedback, and for clarifying that the new PHP runtime is a second generation one.
I'm not so sure it's a "start". They had a chance to fix it, and they chose to legislate protections that fall short of that.

From a lawmaking perspective, it can be construed as "we looked at the issue, and found low-level employees to be worthy of protection, but nobody else."

> The article also specifies that laid-off workers are exempt.

Even in states where non-competes are generally enforceable, courts are often reluctant to enforce them against laid-off employees.

But guess what? Big corporations have little interest in enforcing non-competes against poorly performing employees.

Take a look at the article I linked elsewhere, to see what type of employees Amazon chooses to selectively target for non-compete violations. They are the well-performing employees who jumped ship for a better opportunity elsewhere. Their goal is to discourage this behavior, so they don't risk losing their best employees or (heavens forbid!) paying them their market value.

I don't know of a single case where they sued a poorly-performing, fired, or laid off employee.
Oh, I am not saying they are bad (overall). Just that, if it didn't exist before then I would never be able to convince myself to pursue doing that.

More importantly I want to understand how to let go of such inhibitions (and thoughts) of not pursuing such ideas..
I don't know where you're getting this isn't supported. I'm entirely on board with this; I just wish it went further.
> I cannot imagine a BMW exec ever sacrificing unit completeness in the name of productivity.

You're very naive and haven't read the news in the past few years, it seems.

PS: Referring to the emission scandal.
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Why do people think it's easy to make perfect cars in small numbers?

I would assume that defects will go down as they scale up, as things will become less manual and more automated, and they find the common problems and fix them at manufacturing time.

Are there other car companies that started from nothing that went a different direction? Did they start with nearly perfect cars then get progressively worse as they scaled up? Did they plan to mass manufacturer cars?
Yeah, it is cheaper than stopping the world. It is much more expensive than not making the mistake in the first place. So much so that I would guess that Tesla is losing money on each car that they had to rework. And remember, Tesla had so many production issues that they _did_ have to stop the world and move into a tent of all places.
Great post. In addition, some foods/drinks are able to satisfy more than others whilst their calories don't add up.

Consider simple water. I once read a book which recommended to drink water right before dinner so you'd eat less; it seemed to work. Drinking water in general when I'm hungry helps, and has far less calories than soda or alcoholic beverages. Best of all, if you're in a restaurant in The Netherlands you may ask for tapwater and it has to be free (IIRC they could ask you service costs, not sure). But you need to make sure you ask for tapwater.

Also, learning to fast (practicing) can aid with feeling OK to be hungry. Some people start to feel terrible if they don't eat for a while (my partner has this problem) whereas I fasted for a longer time and it certainly changed my perspective on food in general. I'm not eating for a few hours? I'll survive. I've been through worse (whilst I was on smoking cessation I barely ate for a week, with very light foods such as cucumber).
All that matters for weight loss (and weight gain) is calories in and calories out (CICO).

All of the "special" diets that people propose work on this principle. They simply take different approaches to try to make "eating less" easier.

Certain foods make you feel fuller than others, so some people have success changing their diets to include more of those foods. Other people have success just eating less of what they eat now without changing their diet.

As far as I know, the keto diet is designed to treat epilepsy in children. There is no current scientific consensus that keto helps with weight loss compared to any other diet with a similar CICO.

I'm sure people are researching it right now so that could change, but we know enough about how the laws of physics and the human body work to know that whatever is happening, CICO is the basis of it.
>> Here you describe NATO as a hostile force but it's clear that the countries joining NATO were wise to do so as a defense against a hostile Russia.

> The cause and the effect. 'hostile Russia' is a result of NATO expansion (among other things), not vice versa. From Russia's perspective it was not wise from NATO to accept those wise countries, expecially considering NATO had an aggrement with Russia on this part.

The argument that Russia is just defending itself against hostile expansion rather falls down when you count the number of countries that are members of NATO who have been the victim of Russian expansion (0) compared to the number that are not a member of NATO who have been the victim of aggression (more than 0). That rather implies that being a NATO member protects you from Russian invasion and explains the desire, for every country that can, to join NATO.

>> Perhaps the Russian state should focus on addressing those issues instead of invading and trying to destabilise other countries.

>Usually you have to deal with both internal and external issues at the same time.

Perhaps but Russia does not appear to be dealing with the internal issues which is my point.
in the US banks managed to steal houses by just making claim on them because they have overwhelming authority.
Try: https://www.edx.org/xseries/gtx-introduction-to-computing-in...
The courses are free, the money is for certificates of completion.
There are a bunch of videos on YouTube.
I looked at the RFP itself and I disagree with these arguments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17754900
When I started my diet I was a very obese, 300 lbs, untrained (no lifting or running experience), 6'2" male in my early 20s. I am now 225 lbs and have put on significant muscle mass. I don't know what my BMI is, but BMI for a lifter is a useless metric as it doesn't take lean muscle mass into account. I achieved almost all of my weight loss over the course of one year; obviously putting the muscle on took much longer than that.
From the article:

Students pay to take the tests and have their results shared with the over 60 companies that are now accepting the results when considering new candidates.
> 'hostile Russia' is a result of NATO expansion (among other things), not vice versa

Russia never stopped being hostile. They were hostile long before the existence of NATO.

Nothing about their behavior has fundamentally changed. Much like China with Tibet, Taiwan or Hong Kong, they believe that they have a right to the conquest and control of numerous free countries on their borders. Any excuse will do to justify the annexations, whether cultural great nation beliefs, or NATO, or inventing conflicts & slights, or pretending that they have to protect 'ethnic Russians.'
I don't think your last statement is accurate. While the device is "listening" for the trigger words, it's not storing information. It only collects information you call upon it for. You do need to actively engage. I have not seen evidence of otherwise.
The ability for these State Attorneys General to do this is good. The fact that it had to come down to this is terrible.
I don't know if "interesting" is the word I would use; what they're doing to that subpopulation is approaching Nazi Germany-level stuff. However, the human rights violations could prompt the global community to take action like they did in WW2, which could honestly be one of the better outcomes of all this.
At one time, the Detroit automakers ran "dealer preparation centers" to finish what the production line hadn't done.

Is that the "dealer prep" line that always seems to appear as a non-optional line item in the price of a new car?
Federalist paper #10 contains a lot of thought on this topic, and it's worth reading. Like all documents of this type, it should be read as a kind of argument between two competing sides. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed10.asp
One of the papers you sign when getting a mortgage is one that says simply "I have read and understood all these documents."

I have read them. There are a lot of pages, but it's pretty straightforward. (The escrow agent just sat there impatiently twirling her pencil and sighing, but she never said a word.)

If you can't read them, or can't understand them, hire a lawyer to do it for you, check for any hanky-panky, and explain it to you. It's worth a couple hundred bucks to protect your 6 figure investment.
That's one reason why some states don't allow title companies and insist this type of work be done by actual real estate attorneys.
> That's somewhat debatable, if you mean 'expansionist' like Russia would like to rebuild the USSR or a new Russian Empire.

It's not debatable, Putin said in the recent press-conference that "they're lost Ukraine and other Soviet republics", effectively claiming other countries as "runaway" parts of Russia.

And as for NATO "expansion" - Russians can blame themselves for attacking Baltic states in 90s or messing things up in Moldova, trying to be a 'peacekeepers' there.
Python.org has an official tutorial on their website:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/
Most other companies would fire a factory manager if even a fraction of the cars produced at the factory required rework of any kind, let alone the majority of the cars requiring 37 minutes of rework.

Take your Eurocar example, and then multiply that by multiple systems. And then apply that to almost every purchaser of the vehicle. And now you understand Tesla's problem. Somewhere along the way, Mr. Musk's "perfectionism" is interfering with the actual production and quality control of the vehicles and resulting in vehicles that are very far from perfect....when they easily could be, if he were to let the professionals run the company.
Your base assumption seems to be that world influence has a positive linear relationship with population size, which is not something that I agree with.

I don't necessarily disagree with it either, though. I think the situation is far more complex to boil down to just that.
Vermont recently legalized it via the legislature, though I think your main point still stands.
> One avenue would be to put those who report the same things as biased in cohorts, to be shown or not shown similar content.

That just reinforces the current self-silo effect we see, with people only seeing the point of view with which they agree.
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I know the type of comment I'm about to make is discouraged here but...

That was really funny. Thanks for the laugh, needed that today.
Congrats to the core team! I'm super happy to see 0.19. We recently went live with a website that was fully written in Elm 0.18 (www.project6.com). I'm excited to upgrade to 0.19 and take advantage of the new browser package. If anyone is interested in learning more about the decision-making process behind choosing Elm for that project, I discussed it during an Elm Town podcast episode (https://elmtown.audio/the-risk-of-elm-dhruv-dang).
Even more egregious is the proportioned delegates within the electoral college.
You think Tesla is losing money because of 37 minutes per car that needs rework? Roughly $15 per car of labor?

Not making the mistake in the first place isn't possible at this point... Your options here are "stop everything and fix it at the source, burning piles of cash every second it's down" or "hire some workers to spend 37 minutes per car to fix these known issue while you work on solving them at the root".

And going with option 1 seems like a fast track to bankruptcy.
Yes, and the flat soda bottles don't sell well at all.
For anyone in a place with options, My suggestion is simply switching to a Net Neutrality proponent. Ditching my comcast today in favor of Sonic fiber. Cheaper, supports net neutrality, and waaayyy faster :)
Thank you. You said it better than I could have.

When I ran across this line:

"This is the reason that you do not die in your sleep every single night."

I just about rolled my eyes. You can go without eating for quite a while without dying. 8 hours isn't killing anyone who wasn't already knocking on that door.
> It's called checks and balances, and it was how the system was designed to work.

No, it's not. Just repeating "checks and balances" doesn't mean courts can be abused for doing something that is not court's purpose. The court's purpose is preserving the consistency of legislation (including the Constitution as supreme, very hard to change part of the law) and adherence of executive to the law. In this case, the executive is clearly within the law, but some people are unhappy about it, so they want to abuse the courts to make them legislate from the bench that the policy must be different. This is not how the system is designed to work, this is the exact opposite of it.

> The courts aren't being used as a replacement, they're being used as a court.

They are being used to force through a policy that is not supported by either legislature or executive. That's not a function of a proper court.

> When one part of the government does something, you use another part of the government to counter it, until you've exhausted all your options.

No, that's not how it's supposed to work. It's not "try anything until my side wins, then block any attempt of other side to try anything at all". Your side may temporarily win, but when the other side does the same, you end up with the broken system where nobody respects any decisions and the only thing that matters is which side you're on. I call such system broken.
You complained they never got a "trial." The person you're responding to was quite correctly pointing out that was completely their choice, a disciplinary hearing would allow all sides to present information, but she effectively plead guilty instead (i.e. take the ultimate sanction).
> who cares about the details of the manufacturing process?

buyers worried for assembly quality and overall reliability?

for example a misplaced or improperly installed mounting brakets make panels noisy over time, panel misalignment will affect resale value, badly tightened glasses will opacize etc.

people aren't able to see the car they're going to get beforehand, at most they can refuse upon delivery, se yes knowing assembly line issues is kinda important for a car, not everyone is a valley software engineer pulling 150k+

edit: wow musketeers out in masses I see
Ask HN: GoDaddy is refusing to take action against Domain Fraud, What can we do?
Hi, I am part of AeroLeads.com and some of our customers informed us a few days back saying they are getting emails from "aero-leads.com" pretending to be us. Few of them were confused why we changed the domain too!

I immediately sent an email to GoDaddy (where the fraud/phishing domain is registered). I actually sent an email to their all 3 - Abuse, Domain Fraud and Phishing departments forwarding those emails along with detailed explanation but GoDaddy has replied saying that they can't and won't do anything.

May I know what options I have to stop these emails being sent and preferably, removing that domain.

Some of the options I am considering is -

1. Call GoDaddy on 480-624-2505 (their "abuse" number) and tell them that we are going to take legal action if you don't do anything.

2. Complaint to ICANN (I am unsure what they will do).

Anything else we can do?

Thanks
> They don't want to see an alien military alliance straddle their borderlands.

And all countries that bordered Russia don't want to see Russian military straddle their borderlands.

So... the obvious solution - counterbalance.
I would amend that to say the potential for world economic influence has a positive linear relationship with population size. Clearly population alone doesn't do it, since China doesn't yet have the economic weight of the U.S., but they have a much greater capacity for growth.
Maybe I’m overly pessimistic about how people collectively behave.

But seriously, imagine an article posted on Facebook stating that Planned Parenthood sells body parts of aborted fetuses (or something similarly likely to elicit reactions). Obviously, that's either factual or it’s not. Yet I'm certain that if Facebook users had the ability to vote on whether the story is true of false, they would vote based on personal beliefs, not on what they would find by fact-checking the story.

Likewise, for anything else that in any way touched on an inflammatory issue. Do you actually think otherwise?
Trump doesn't actually care about it, and I would be surprised if he understood it. Right now he's against it because Obama did it.
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