skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their base product is bringing in $5/month/user, and they'll often get dozens to hundreds to thousands of users for each company that joins, whose employees are usually already using the free version of slack, as a sort of grassroots movement within companies. It's been the primary means of asynchronous communication for the last ~5 customers I've worked at, and I've been in slack channels of 30 to 300 users - in total, an easy 500 paid accounts, and that's just from my network.

Anyway yeah it's a risky investment and a precarious valuation, there is plenty of competition out there right now, yet somehow nothing seems to be able to come out as better than Slack. Maybe if a party actually spent those millions in investment funds to create good non-Electron apps.
No. You see:

void feel(x: Noun)
void feel(x: Adj)

"discomfort and uneasy" is actually an instamce of the superclass of Noun and Adj, but there is no overload for that so it doesn't compile.
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I wonder why they have not used jlink + jaotc ?

Maven is already able to compile a the code with Java 6/Java 8 and the module-info with Java 9. With jlink, you can then create your own jdk and AOT the part of the code you want with jaotc.

Maybe those tools are too new and the perf are not great ?
>I completed my studies at New York University, where I received a BA and an MA in English literature, with more than $100,000 of debt, for which my father was a guarantor

So not only is the child financially and economically illiterate... the father is too.

These people will have found one way or another to make themselves into debt slaves. Cars, vacations, too big houses... you name it.

Think about it:

Why would you spend 100k for the opportunity to have no job prospects? It only takes a few minutes to look at the forecast.

Bizarre.

Now their English degree is being used for virtual pan handling and garnering sympathy.

What about my sympathy for not having parents to guarantee my loans. What about the loans I took out for a car and got a lemon and then the car seller disappeared?

No, because that is not a sexy topic and won't allow anyone else to share in the 5 minutes of "hate".
Twenty-two states ask U.S. appeals court to reinstate 'net neutrality' rules
I can deathmatch fine in Quake 2 on a US server. but slack? Yeah no.
The folks downvoting you have obviously never been in the rooms when RFPs are drafted. I've been in the room half a dozen times and in almost every case the RFP is written so one particular firm will win the bid, and at most 1-2 other firms are even qualified to respond.

Edit: Once while sitting on the private sector side of the table (yes RFPs were often drafted in consultation with the company that would eventually win them, if just informally), a [state] government employee expressed concern over the wording of a particular requirement because he was worried that it would open the door to our primary competitor being qualified to fulfill the bid.
He isn't even a developer. He just documents stuff, if I understand that correctly and makes it sound like he is a messias.
There's another lesson in this as well: There's still a group of people who aren't in this class... the people who didn't even apply in the first place. How many people were either too lazy to fill out the application, or thought "we won't get in, why bother", etc, who arguably would now be benefiting from this had they applied?

To me this is a good example of how, while you can't literally "make your own luck", you can make decisions that put you in a position to benefit from fortuitous events. (For the same of argument, let's assume that getting in to SS, even as one of the 15,000+ is still beneficial).

"You have to enter to win" as they say.
Not a question of preference, and not a troll - I'm actually curious about how/if it could work in practice.
Facebook posts as a whole have roughly the same quality of content whether a post has 1000 likes or it has no likes. A friend showing off photos of him in the Maldives, or a video of a cat dancing to EDM, how can you claim one is more valuable than the other? For the most part, Facebook is nothing more than a chatroom.

HN posts (and reddit posts in certain subreddits) genuinely do have a difference in quality, and that's where the value of upvotes/downvotes comes in.
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An astounding level of toxicity?

One person called the company "jerks" without singling anyone out. Another posted a rage meme to express their displeasure. The overwhelming majority of the hundreds of comments were even more restrained.

Perhaps I'm missing some of the more "choice" comments but as a whole I have far more of a problem with the official corporate-speak than the reactions too it.
I have to agree with "a lot of filler" part of your comment. This must be a result of the expectation that publishers set for authors regarding the minimum expected length of the book. I found that I would stop reading many books past the first few chapters because then the repetition sets in. The first few chapters deliver the core message and then the author is forced to extend the narrative to deliver the expected word count.

In any case, I find reading a physical book to be more enjoyable and effective (in terms of retention and recall) than reading on a digital screen.
The Kindle Paperwhite helps a great deal with the e-book reader problem, and having distractions just a click away. It's useless as anything but a book.
That could be pulled from anywhere. If the only marriage is the origin source of the base image, it will be a quickie divorce.
> russia is one of our geopolitical adversaries.

“One of” is a key phrase here, because...

> all of the international relations theorism that has been dominant in the last 70 years says that for every inch they gain, we must lose an inch, and vice versa.

...this is not true in a situation where Russia is one of our geopolitical rivals, only where they are sole meaningful rival. That arguably was the model of the early Cold War (prior to the significant split between China and Russia), but bilateral relations with Russia are not zero-sum when we have other geopolitical rivalries.

> no major player is about to risk trying to grab a mile or inflicting any kind of serious blow that could be overtly attributed to them as an act warranting retribution.

That's manifestly false; Russia has fairly brazenly conducted several such acts recently against members of the Western Alliance. (Particularly Brittain of a new objective and 8.)

> implying russia could invade europe or something similar

In what continent does one find Ukraine?

> was ridiculous at the time, and has been proven false given the difficulty that russia has had in ukraine.

You mean, was correct at the time and has been proven true by Russia's invasion of the Ukraine and conquest of significant portions thereof.
If you have to die, a dessert isn't a bad place to do it though :)
Safari version looks to be abandonware :/
Narcissists can get really jealous. So how come psychopaths can't be jealous?
I like that they at least address the causality vs corellation question. I didn't read the whole 80 pages, but just considering it explicitely is a big step further than many empirical papers go. :)
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one
I don't think that there is a solution as easy as moving to $SOCIAL_NETWORK or $ACTIVITY_PUB_SITE.

I feel currently that the issue with social media is it's hyper stimulating. Speaking from a recovering social media addict point of view, the modern web latches onto human tendencies too well. We can be outraged, surrounded by people like us, 24/7. That's immensely fulfilling to most people, including me.

I don't use social media anymore because it's awful for me. And I don't think the echo chamber issue can be solved, at all. It's not a technology issue, it's an issue with how humans respond to these networks and the Internet in general.
> with high-end GeForce GPUs resulting in 1.5x the kill/death ratio in battle royale games.

Resulting in...? Please.
Do you have research to support this? Propranolol for instance is psychoactive in addition to hitting plasma norepinephrine / blood pressure etc
May be extend a bit further to check if the return value is 0? Can be accessed via `$?` in most non-Windows systems.
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Sometimes I'm surprised I can still send and receive email via SMTP.

Having lived through the hell that was x.400 I'm almost amazed there isn't a billed tier for businesses to go back to those dark days. Although I think we almost were there with exchange/Skype federation.
Ugh. Have you tried using Teams? I’m forced to now and I want to kill cute, fuzzy woodland creatures every single day.

Simply integrating with 365 isn’t enough to justify its use for anyone who knows any better.
You could always click it and find out.
> I don't think I could do it with an e-book reader. In those things, they put the distraction stuff just a click away. Hell, they'll sell you more distraction stuff you can play the millisecond you get bored with the text.

I have owned some model of Kindle for six years now. For each device I have owned, I put it in airplane mode as soon as I took it out of the box and I kept it that way. (I generally download what I want to read from pirated ebook communities, so no need to deal with an online bookshop’s ecosystem.) It is not hard to avoid distractions of being sold more stuff.
China reaches 800M internet users
Not available on iOS AFAIK.
This is an example of zeugma.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma_and_syllepsis
> Then I read as much as I can until I feel "bothered" (beats me what the correct adjective is here. "Bored"?) At that point I pick up the distraction device and poke around: Twitter, Facebook, HN, and so on. I make an effort to put it down. Eventually I succeed, then back to reading.

This sounds reinforcing. I understand you have to fight through the boredom a bit, but not sure giving yourself a quick fiddle on your phone is optimal.
My mind expanded it to "I feel discomfort and I feel uneasy," since both work. You can feel nouns and you can feel adjectives, just in a different sense. It sounds weird, because we like to construct our logic with parallelism [1], and in this case we're using different definitions of the word, "feel". This makes pulling "feel" out front in an associative manner less correct.

I feel[a] hunger, and I feel[b] sad. I feel[a or b, but not both] hunger and sad.

[a] transitive verb; a physical sensation, acting on the object (in this case, "hunger")

[b] intransitive verb [2]; an emotional state, described by the adjective (in this case, "uneasy")

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(grammar)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_verb

EDIT: Clarity. Also, IANAL (I am not a linguist), and generally you don't want to take lingual advice from an engineer, like me.
Morgan Stanley stops research coverage of Tesla
Understatement! 5% vacancy is a signal of “housing crisis” as currently experienced in many American cities. People carping about tiny vacancy rates has become some kind of NIMBY meme: we don’t need to build new homes because look at the minute fraction of existing homes that are vacant!
"At some point people need to take responsibility for the consequences of their own actions." Are you talking about the people that lent the money? Debt is a two way street this is why some people are credit worthy and others are not.
That's 3200 episodes, versus how many radio programmes has the BBC broadcast in all?
What is the lowest acceptable number of employees that a company that's planning to go public can have? Sometimes I wonder if this rapid inflation phase is just a check boxing exercise.
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I don't know about you but I don't want to come to HN and read a bunch of comments of people cursing. There's a difference between self-censorship and just being somewhat professional. I rather like the idea that people here will actually construct a coherent comment instead of just calling other people assholes.
The potential for deep Github integration too.
Boy do I have a bridge to sell you!

Forecast for today haze with extra smog in SE China.
Exactly. Take two minutes to look at the last popular posts about magic Leap here and it’s filled with patronizing criticism of anyone that thinks the product could either be real, not a scam, or actually good.
Someone tried to run this investor scam on me during Slack's funding process. Replace Google with Slack, and the scam was nearly identical in execution. Be careful out there! http://mobile.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/business/con-artist-exp...
“I have spent a great deal of time during the last decade shifting the blame for my debt. Whose fault was it?”

After all that he has been through, he still doesn’t seem to give consideration to his choice of major as the root source of the problem.
Very true. I should have made that clearer in my comment.
With better heuristics and fuzzy logic, our IDEs should detect and handle such usage without hassle.
Does it matter?

I'd think behaviour like this should be condemned every time and wherever it is exposed even if it is not unique to one country (and it isn't). "Everyone does it" is a piss poor excuse for pretty much anything.

But to also answer few of your questions...No, it is not new. It is not limited only to US. Russia is not the only one doing it, but it seems to be more aggressive than most. And not all of them do it the same way (I think there's an ethical difference between pushing a favourable view of your country or trying to destabilise one).
No controls for any other industry - if you want an H1b, bid.

So anyone who desperately needs someone on a visa can get them. Low-end body shops go away and a bunch of industries that are being cheap don't get their visas. This is called a good thing.

There are many sectors where hiring managers want degrees and other certifications and pay minimum wage or damn close. Then they complain about worker shortages.

This is all solved by higher pay and better conditions, but people want to bring in indentured servants as it's easier. As someone who has run businesses and bootstrapped, that's utter BS.
> If anyone from the LA Times is listening, even though I am accessing the website through our US VPN, I'm still fully protected by the GDPR.

Cite?
Hmm, I've clearly written my post very poorly. It was from a UK perspective (British Empire and all the horrors that came from that etc).
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You need to remember that a lot of the people like Alice H. Lichtenstein are heavily invested in the current thoughts on nutrition. I can not stress enough that "The Big Fat Surprise" is very informative about the current state of our nutrition policies here in the United States (and this leaks out of our country into many others that follow it by default). Just watch that "The Real Food Politics" video (see above).

Here is another article that specifically addresses this study,

http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2018/08/low-moderate-or-high-carb...

Zoe Harcombe takes a hard look at this study, and there are so many problems with this study, I am amazed that it was published, but wait, I would take a look at this,

https://twitter.com/WGyogaSC/status/1031258976560852992

This was a "paid to publish" study.
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma_and_syllepsis
Agree. There are usually one 2-3 good ideas in most non-fiction books these days. I don't feel any guilt about skimming and not finishing such books.

Another effective way to absorb the main points quickly is to Youtube the author giving a longish talk about his/her book, typically Talks at Google or some such. Or a podcast in which the author discusses the book.
Can someone please provide a TL;DR?

:)
TIL: Apple users live in a single geographic region.
I bet local and provincial officials have reported resounding success!
Ye that's been parts like customer service as the famous example. I was talking about a firm's entire operations, including head office.
> Agreed. I was excited by the prospect of being a part of a network of other vetted founders.

I feel compelled to say this. I am one of the founders who got an initial reject followed by an accept email. I read the accept email and felt good (I had not even read the reject email). When I learned that YC has accepted everyone, I felt better. Sure having access to a dedicated advisor has an advantage. The advisor can guide you and all that but it's ultimately your hustle. Now the playing ground is more or less levelled when it comes to hustle.

Also, how does this 'part of a vetted group' feeling help in your startup's success ? Agreed, it's a momentary boost in confidence, but beyond that I'm not sure how the vetting process adds any value. The way I see it, the vetting is more or less random.
Well. Russia is basically and dictatorship with only one candidate (Putin). So no opportunity there for anyone to hack the election there. It appears to be not very common for one country to interfere with another countries election... if you forget about how CIA tried to interfere with almost everything in Middle America in the 80's.
When someone proposes a solution that involves throwing money at a problem, you should be jumping for joy, not asking what happens when someone then throws money at the problem. Such a solution is the economic equivalent of proving that an NP problem is actually a P problem.

Blockchain as implemented in Bitcoin takes a thorny sociopolitical problem (how to store monetary value) and turns it into an economic problem (how to calculate SHA-256 moving the smallest number of electrons).

As applied to the Rohingya situation, it switches out the political power of whoever is currently dominant and replaces it with monetary power (proof of work). It commoditizes political power. I don't know about you, but I'd take an economic problem of being the group with the most money (== computing power) over an intricate, shifting political problem any day of the week.
> In Docker's defense they don't really barrage you with marketing.

Although they may not barrage you now, there is no telling what the future holds with stunts like this.
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Hmm. To me, it seems not. Or at least, it seems an everyday expertise knowledge, derived from direct experience. He does not seem to be a qualified expert. The goal here is to sell the books.
> for all technical books, things like O’Reilly, No Starch, etc, I always buy physical

Same here. I always feel odd when I'm reading a physical book at my desk, though, since I've never, ever, not even once in 25 years, seen anybody else actually reading a book - not even the ones who have a shelf full of them at their desks.
After Facebook and Instagram I pretty much gave up and stopped trying to figure it out. Maybe I’m a dinosaur but I don’t get the appeal of most software products that have come out in the last decade. It seems the formula is simply:

1. Spend investor money faster than your competitors.

2. Don’t worry about the product quality, just make sure it has chat and that the chat is incompatible with the 200 other chat apps out there.

3. Load up on hype, marketing. And buzz/PR.

4. Once you have a critical mass of users, lock them in.
Why is half of this article a summary of the Big Short?
So what I am hearing here is that practicing reading will help develop that skill of deep reading? I remember in High School when I used to run through my History textbooks and loving the process, remembering most everything I encountered. Now (5 years later), I feel this block in my mind that prevents me from going deep on those topics. It's hard to describe, but it feels like the material isn't being absorbed... Somehow it's getting stuck in my short-term memory and not making it much further unless I really study the material.
Whenever he tried to read anything substantial, Carr wrote, “I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. … The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.”

100% describes me. Haven’t found a solution yet.
I do a lot of consulting so that might have something to do with it. Basically I get paid to appear to be the smartest person in the room (which I personally think is utter and total horse shit but that's another rant). I've been told my whole life that I'm "smart" but the problem is there are lots and lots of people out there who seem (I've tried to read their papers on ML) like they're an order of magnitude smarter. I write like a 13 year old, but maybe I speak better? IDK.

For most people I think it's totally subjective. If you surprise someone with a bit of knowledge they don't have (either memorized or figured out for yourself) people think you're "smart". People who share what they know or help others come to a novel solution appear "smart".

I do believe in a general concept of intelligence (q). I'm willing to bet mine is only slightly above average if even that, only because I keep meeting programmers who cannot think as clearly as I can so I have to assume I'm smarter than some of them.

I'm sorry I don't have a better answer. It's a total mystery to me. I feel like a total dumb fuck most of the time.

You said you identify with my first comment. How so?
Tons of bug fixes with no new features makes me very happy
Is the pipeline, OCR->Translate->MCGAN/DeepFont?
> Then I read as much as I can until I feel "bothered" (beats me what the correct adjective is here. "Bored"?) At that point I pick up the distraction device and poke around: Twitter, Facebook, HN, and so on. I make an effort to put it down. Eventually I succeed, then back to reading.

I noticed myself doing this while watching a movie. Even at suspenseful moments, I press "pause" and pick up my phone to browse around HN and Facebook. After a while I continue watching, but then five or ten minutes later I'm back on the phone.
Ironic that you think HoloLens would be the one that plays nice with every device when it’s already limited to Windows. Magic Leap on the other hand is a less than two week old device that already plays nice with iOS/Android/MacOS and Windows.
I speak from experience
None of that is related, proven by the simple fact that Docker and other open-source for-profit companies exist and have already contributed significantly to the industry.

This was a bad marketing-driven move, but that's all it is.
Wow I havent checked up on Minetest in years!

I'll consider making a Minetest version, but I'd have to review their Lua modding api to see if it'd be feasible.

Thanks
Growing up on a Montana wheat farm, while we didn't use the phrase "cowboy up", there was always "is there a bone sticking out" toughen-up message.

And we did have one of those 15 minute hailstorms, and a lot of nervous June months without rain.
Facebook does that so those people would interact more with Facebook. In other words: it's doing exactly what those people want done. Besides, it's not like people wouldn't leave Facebook otherwise.

The real reason for increased racism is the abuse low-level workers have to endure in order to make the current Germany "economic miracle", and those fresh migrants undercutting, illegally, their already abysmal wages. Fix that, and Facebook won't matter. Don't fix that, and even going at it like Xinnie the Pooh won't help.

Very unfair that immigrants get blamed for economic misery. Of course, they're far from the only ones getting blamed, but they're the only group that the German police doesn't protect.