skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't just about individual comments; we're looking at the threads as a whole. In the above case, the parent got two subthreads in reply. One was just fine, while the subthread that began with your comment went unhinged. From an overall discussion quality point of view, the snip point seems clear. It isn't personal! And certainly not because of political views—we mostly don't even scan for those.

Choosing where to prune these threads is always a judgment call. You're right that the offtopicness often starts on both sides. But it's a matter of degree. Your comment was a significant degree worse, which is probably why its subthread was significantly lower in quality.
It is awesome that they are working on this, but can I just say there are a lot of basic search features they need to add before "doing the hard thing". Here are some things that I should be able to do easily but can't (or can't very easily or well) using GitHub's search mechanism:

1. exact or close string searches for code that involves ![]{}_-*() etc characters

2. searches across past commits (e.g. find a line that used to be in the code)

4. search across pull request + comments (not just issues and commit messages)

5. advanced search operators -- there should be a full filtering UI with ands and ors etc

Because of this I often find my self grepping locally, or (more often) totally out of luck.
In theory...

But many of these people have sufficient mobility that you have to remain under the tax level of your competition. Most of them have no actual tie to Puerto Rico and would leave in a heartbeat if they found a better deal.
Four year old's commit in linux kernel
When Apple first presented iOS 12 to the public and to developers, it promised a feature called Group FaceTime that would basically work like Google Hangouts; you'd be able to video chat with up to 32 participants at the same time. That feature has now been pushed back to a later software update in the iOS 12 cycle—meaning it's not available for us to test yet.

Bummer... :/ that’s probably the one feature that I’ve been most waiting for
And to be clear, these WeWork non-competes are expressly about union busting. A few months ago, the WeWork I was in at the time went from in-house cleaning and facilities staff to a contract, keeping about 1/3 of the same individuals. It's unclear what exactly happened, but we were fairly sure the workers tried to organize.

WeWork wants to prevent people from even being able to transfer to the company they contract out to after firing people, is my belief.
Another review worth reading is MacStories. It covers the new Shortcuts automation app in more depth.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-12-the-macstories-rev...
saying mean things doesn't hurt people - even if they're really horrible, they're just words. Providing guidance that is false or intended to hurt people, like Elon's tweet, is fundamentally different.
In 2011 we launched Birthday Dollar, a Facebook app that let users send and receive small gifts of money and gift cards through the platform. We watched usage tic up day after day and felt momentum grow.

Then Facebook announced they had acquired Karma, a gifting company, and planned to integrate them into Facebook as Facebook Gifts.

I immediately pulled the plug on Birthday Dollar, processed the last transaction and shut the whole thing down.

What did I learn? I learned that there's no shame in surrendering without a fight.
1. Not clear why you think this is a solution for enterprises. Business <> Enterprise. Not many large enterprises are going to take a chance on a small company given the large number of CMS systems available. If I were an enterprise looking for a CMS, I'd either being looking for something like Adobe or go the opposite way and go with an open source solution that is well adopted.

2. While you may be right that you can raise prices, you have to remember the competition - I'd compare this to, say, Wix or Wordpress or Squarespace. It may be 200% better than those tools but price matters to the people buying and they will be comparing them.
Randall Munroe actually did a small section on eradicating the common cold in his What-if book, the basic idea is if that all of humanity stayed away from each other for a week or two then the common cold would die out as it can't survive outside of the human body for more than a week and normally survives by continuously hopping from host to host.
SQLite 3.25.0
>Amazon has no literary opinion

This is not exactly true. Amazon has removed books from its publishing platform based on their content, and even makes pseudo-literary judgements by forbidding "placeholder" or "dummy" text.
> we are all familiar with the habit of the powerful of spinning atrocities with words.

Are your words not maybe slightly jaded?
The United States is not Spain. Nitpick all you want - the vast majority of populated places in the US will never ban cars, at least for the foreseeable future.
These days, England.
First developer beta[0] is out if you want to try it out...

[0] - https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/18/apple-seeds-first-beta-...
Great work! I've been looking for a tool to help jumpstart my designs before moving to code, especially for grids. Adobe XD is fun to work with, but it's a bit far removed from the code for day-to-day.

Questions:

Do you plan to add support for additional CSS and JS frameworks (e.g. Bulma, Vue, etc.)?

I noticed Atom is supported for real-time updates; is VS Code support planned?

Thanks.
It's kind of a question of integrity. Do we have a moral obligation to disagree with something someone says that we feel is wrong? Even if it's not in our interest to do so?

Maybe we do, maybe we don't.

Personally, if someone with a large influence on my income says something I find offensive or outright idiotic, I disagree in a polite way that shows that I respect their opinion even if I don't. If I feel that it would really offend them I'm not above lying and pretending that I do.

Sometimes I feel morally conflicted about this, but it's kept me out of trouble.
PyObjC 5.0 is out
Google is not 'providing' a CDN. Google is inserting a CDN between its search and my servers on its own initiative and without asking me how I felt about it.
PL/Lua: Lua as a loadable procedural language for Postgres
The problem is that once the rich have settled, populist movements will grow to tax them, and the rich being settled as they are, can't easily escape these politically coordinated expropriations.

The result is that the rich begin to slowly trickle out, at a rate that is not fast enough to make the negative repercussions of the involuntary income redistribution that voters support apparent to them.
> Finally, I think Puerto Rico itself also suffers from an artificial handicap with respect to the Jones Act.

The Jones Act has prevented Puerto Rico from ever building a solid, stable economy of its own. It's the reason Puerto Rico's economy was in shambles long before Hurricane Maria hit. As long as the Jones Act is in place, Puerto Rico doesn't have an economic future.

They've experienced a massive brain drain over the last few decades, because everyone on the island can relocate to the mainland, where everything is cheaper (due to the Jones Act) and there are more lucrative jobs. This creates a vicious cycle which is still ongoing.
Its more “do as I say, not as my younger self did. Sigh...”
Just skimmed the essay and wow, what amazing advice. I totally agree with the whole "figure out what your options are and just pursue what interests you" ordeal, rather than try to figure out exactly what you want to do in 20 years. Thanks so much!
This feels a bit naive. I understand wanting to use their position to change the world, but the right way to do this feels like the practices that Google did - small nudges to change behaviour, rather than commandments from the founders, which enforce a particular world view.

There are health and religious reasons why one may want to eat meat, but also vegetarianism for environmental reasons is a fairly US/Euro-centric phenomenon, and doesn’t have anywhere near the same following in parts of Africa, Asia, and other places.

Here’s a good thread on the topic: https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/100636379997523148...
Notaries work differently in different countries; they emphasize different facets of a notary system.

In the U.S. notaries are traditionally decentralized, and a notary often maintains possession of their journals for years if not in perpetuity.

The primary functions of the notary in Common Law jurisdictions is the ceremonial and evidentiary value, not administrative value as in Civil Law countries. (All three functions matter in both systems.) Ceremonial because we can assume that when someone executes a notarized signature we can impute greater attentiveness to the contract. Evidentiary because the notary himself and the required third-party witnesses are (or should be) readily identifiable and available for questioning regarding the circumstances of the execution of the signature, including the authenticity and state-of-mind of the executor.

Plain signatures operate much the same way--we use them for their ceremonial and evidentiary value. It doesn't matter that a signature is easy to forge; the signature is a device for anchoring the act of consent to a concrete environment where we can begin asking and investigating pertinent questions as to authenticity and intent. In practice, the validity of signatures is rarely challenged in court. Either everybody agrees it's obviously or plausibly forged, or everybody agrees it's valid. But disputes regarding the circumstances surrounding the signature are endlessly varied. (Civil Law countries traditionally handle the problem by making notarized signatures the final and only word--non-notarized signatures have no value, notarized signatures cannot be repudiated. They sacrifice fairness for administrative efficiency. The trade-off between fairness and administrative efficiency is at the heart of most distinctions between Common Law and Civil Law systems.)

Public ledgers are not suitable substitutes for either of the above functions, whether according to the calculus of the Common Law or Civil Law systems. Arguably they're a step backwards. They're great for replacing all the other technical machinations of transactions except the most important ones--the ones that allow us to adjudicate disputes regarding intent and similar complex questions.
sure ya do, use firefox
I missed my flight.

フライトが恋しいです

Hilarious. That’s “I missed my flight” in the same sense that “I missed my wife (but she’s back from her trip now).” As in, “I long to be with my flight, but alas, we are apart.” See: https://jisho.org/word/%E6%81%8B%E3%81%97%E3%81%84

飛行機に乗り遅れました

This would probably be the translation I would use. I’m surprised that it’s not directly in the corpus as a canned phrase. In this phrase, 乗り遅れました literally means something like “[I] was too late to board [the plane]” and doesn’t express some kind of bizarre longing or affection for the plane.
You also can't search a forked repository, which is pathetic.
Nacl was designed by cryptographers for exactly this problem.
Sometimes I get the impression we get pure fictional programs before the elections ...
> Elon has used those loans to finance a rather extravagant lifestyle.

How does this actually work? His stock is just his collateral for those loans, which can be transferred if he defaults on payments?
iRobot i7+ initial impressions
Ah, security cameras. Never-updated linux boxes, frequently with homegrown http servers, often with secret hardcoded credentials in clear text laying around in the firmware blob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8DjTcANBx0
Crippling? I'm as information addicted as the next guy, but unless I'm missing something fundamental about RSS, the only effect is that you as a user will notice new posts a few hours late. That seems more than reasonable to me.

If it turns out not to work, they can go back.
After I proposed to my wife, we did a pre-marital counseling class about budgeting. She knew that I had credit card debt but she didn't know how much and it shocked her when I laid out the real numbers (over $10k). We had about 10 months until the wedding so I told her I was going to try to pick up some moonlighting projects to pay down the debt.

Fast-forward a couple of months and I've picked up a few really simple websites, blogs and a simple web application that I found through responding to ads on craigslist.

I did these types of pretty crappy jobs for a few years until I finally got enough of a portfolio to start bidding on larger and more interesting projects.

Currently I no longer prospect but work as a resource for other creative agencies who need devs on various projects for a few months at a time. It's good work and all started by realizing that I could take more control over my debt and get it paid off quicker if I was willing to give up my tv time in the evenings.

And I did eventually pay off that credit card debt, but not quite before the wedding.
> And in the end it doesn't quite manage to solve the problems for the rest of PR.

As long as the Jones Act is still in place, there is no tax policy Puerto Rico could implement that would solve its economic problems in the long-term.
> being more sympathetic to some of the critiques [...] efforts of the AMP team to address many of the complaints

> full of naïve bravado (e.g. "all we need is clean HTML")

These statements seem contradictory unless I am missing the "sympathetic" part wrt this critique and I am missing the "effort" part to address this complaint.
Design better forms (2016)
I was an Apple engineer from 2007-2011. Worked in IL2 and IL3, as well as across the street in De Anza 7. When I started, all the signage in the Infinite Loop buildings used design cues from classic Mac OS styling--the Chicago and Apple Garamond fonts, pixelated icons and bitmap dingbats from the Cairo font. Awesome geeky old Mac stuff.

After the iPhone took off they started removing all of these signs and replacing them with ones that were more "on brand." The building number signs, with their Apple colors and pixelated Chicago characters, were replaced by gray Myriad on solid white.

Everyone in my building either had their own office or shared it with one other coworker. I was a relatively junior engineer, a couple years out of college, with a window office to myself. Haven't had that since.

In early October 2011 I was looking for another job. I was actually at another company's office for an onsite interview when the interviewer told me of Steve's passing. Must have been awkward for him to deliver that news, but I did accept the job in the end. :)

Sadly, I joined the company too late to see the famous "Icon Garden." I think it was taken down in the late 90s/early 2000s.
They sell very long rolls of electrical tape. Hundreds of feet, it you want it. I guess it all comes down to aesthetics.
Detroit Billionaire Dan Gilbert Buying Sports Illustrated, Money and Fortune
> Page load speeds are, frankly, none of Google's business

If I as a user care about page speed when choosing between search results (many do, every single amp-related thread has several, this one included), then Google cares and it is their business.

If the industry were capable of making fast web pages then they'd already be doing it. Claiming that "only using some features of system X" is equivalent to "use system Y which is defined as a subset of X" because a technical comparison claims that they're the same is completely missing the mark.
Calling the second one a bug is ridiculous. “If the file /tmp/moses/ exists on the file system then an unauthenticated remote attacker can list all of the non-admin users and change their passwords“. That functionality is way too intentional.
Five months ago:

> It's funny how often that comment—which I made as a 22-year-old undergrad—resurfaces. Someone even reached out to me 2 weeks ago because they wanted to use it in an article as an example of "the disconnect between the way users and engineers see software"!

> I like to think that I've gained a lot of perspective over the last 11 years; it's pretty clear to me that point #1 was short-sighted and exhibited a lot of tunnel vision. Looking back, though, I still think that thread was a reasonable exchange. My 2nd and 3rd points were fair, and I conceded much of point 1 to you after your reply (which was very high quality).

> Obviously, we have the benefit of hindsight now in seeing how well you were able to execute. Kudos on that!
>What happens after Rice?

???

Who cares?

The object here is to get talented people an education. What they do with that education is their decision. The owners of your hypothetical company can do whatever they please with the educations they have obtained over the course of their lifetimes. And the students, who now have an opportunity at a cost free education, can similarly do whatever they please with the educations they obtained.

It's called freedom. Take all the educations we've been providing and go out and enjoy all the freedoms you have.

Maybe I'm not understanding your view correctly? What, exactly, is the problem with allowing poor or middle class students into Rice at a reduced rate? (Or even free in most cases)?
>Leslie Tuchman was visiting the Hawaiian Islands when she came across the concept of ‘hoʻoponopono’ in her Reiki class, introduced by her teacher as a word for self-forgiveness.

What is the world coming to when you can no longer trust the people with magic hands?

I knew a reiki master. He broke his leg and had pins put in it at the hospital. So, being a reiki master, he pulled the pins out himself with pliers and then used his reiki powers on his leg. He now only has one leg, after infection nearly killed him, but last I heard is still claiming to be a reiki master.
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At least in the US generally notary services aren't expensive. Most states set upper limits for the per signature fee that can be charged. Of those that set a limit California is the highest at $15. Of the states that have a set limit the vast majority set it at $5 or less.

You can also often get free notarization at your credit union, public library, local government, church or through your employer.
Lisp Repl.it Tutorial
AMP is not more, it's minus. It has minus features and a minor audience so we don't need it.

I added AMP for my site and my audience is not increasing but it's the opposite. So, it's not even good for SEO. Maybe it's usable for a news site.
We think a lot of the same problems that Monolist is solving for the individual also exist for cross-functional teams. The plan is to eventually offer paid enterprise and team-based features.
Visa and MasterCard agree to settle swipe fee class action for $6.2B
Can you outline a scenario in which there exists no central bank?

While everything you have said is true, I feel as though there exist giant icebergs gliding silently past your watertight steel hull.
Snitches. Nkt!
Yes, and then the states can be confederated by some series of articles. Wonder why nobody thought of this?
What seems to piss the bookstore syndicate, is the fact that they'll have to buy this book from Amazon if it ever wins this prize (or simply not distribute it, which was never seen); and Amazon is their arch-enemy, on a crusade to destroy all bookshops.
I see, so geo distribution could be as simple as making the file available in multiple locations, with IPFS doing the rest.
Companies fail. Without dividends the long term value of all companies is zero.

In the short term, like my lifetime, growth stocks are great. But, you need dividends at some point or what does stock ownership actually provide?
Vermont First State to Pass Data Broker Law
Re: your second point, I experienced that too. It's an interesting thing to deal with.
The problem with AMP is... it forces JS just to push less data and focus on content while the solution would be... to simply use less junk on the website. IMHO this could be done with limiting what is allowed on the website.
> Earlier this year, the Mirai defendants worked with FBI agents in Alaska to counter a new evolution of DDoS, known as Memcache

what the heck?

> The Mirai court documents outline how Dalton, Jha, and White jumped into action in March as the attacks propagated online, working alongside the FBI and the security industry to identify vulnerable servers.

As in, scan every IP for port 11211?
Because the alternative is not a city but a city-sized theme park.
I haven't seen any evidence that long-term residents contribute more to the tax base per capita. The spending differential between short term and long term renters is so large that it seems not just plausible, but likely, that the former contribute more on balance.

>>A City should look after it's long term residents first and foremost.

I don't see why it should. A city should look after those within its boundaries, whether they're there for a day or a year. It shouldn't set up walls and promote long term residence over visits.
>If it's for CS, don't bother...

True.

If it's for CS... get an Uber or Lyft from Rice University to Hobby Airport and get on a plane to San Fran so you can go interview the Stanford grads instead. Those guys are second to none.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250 (a few minutes earlier)
What area of SJC are you talking about?

I go there quite often and would like to see this for myself. Especially the area where no cars are allowed.

Cheers
Who do they think they are, California?
Unfortunately no. You can easily not hire someone for "fit" without describing why you didn't think that they fit. You can also say a million other legal reasons for not hiring. Unless they specifically say that you were not hired because you're a momma then you've got a long, long hill to climb.
Yep probably. The FBI does not attract top talent these days.
> AMP requires me to manually edit URLs to remove AMP before sharing

That's Google's usage of AMP pages, not necessarily AMP itself though, right?
Aren't schools funded by property taxes? Is that a tautology that school rating at least is correlated with property values?
What an incompetent bureaucracy. Voting envelopes should be “postage paid”. Government should be picking up those costs automatically.
Just updated on my iPhone 6s that I dumped due to slowness. It’s just as fast now as the android I replaced it with and LastPass works with all my Apps now. Only thing missing now is good keyboard support (disclaimer: haven’t tried since update)

I’m really impressed and happy with this direction Apple’s taking. Hopefully they’ve learned their lesson with the battery slowdowns.
and metadata is stored in plain boring json because of the same reason
Jesus. I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, needing a paid license to float down a canal on an inflatable is ridiculous.

The comments responding to you don't make any sense either. Needing some sort of permit to permanently moor a houseboat is totally different from having to pay to use a canoe or inflatable in the water.

In case there anyone wants to defend the UK's absolutely idiotic licenses, here's a concrete example from your neighbors about 100 miles east.

Here in the Netherlands we have a ridiculous amount of public water - canals, rivers, lakes, etc - and it's all entirely free to use. It's even free to moor your boat temporarily (up to 3 days) at thousands of spots around the country. Our population density is double, we have more people with boats, and we have a massive amount of commercial shipping traffic everywhere. We've got several of the busiest ports in Europe. One of them is as big as ten of the port of London! And somehow it works out splendidly.
Something weird to me about the FBI not having good enough technical abilities that the cooperation of these three had such an effect.
Just take them on the metro/bus/light rail? I think I'm misunderstanding something in your question...
This is extremely cool, but I wonder in practice whether people in Washington who accept notarized documents/etc would know this is a valid way of doing things? Education seems important here.