skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were given many great answers. Largely it boils down to aversion risk, and a lack of access to cheap VC money. Also, the market is not big enough. You really can't replicate most things that work in Sweden in France, or Germany-Ireland. As such, focusing on B2B just makes much more sense. Don't mind that Europe is not a heavy consumerist society. Actually, as of the past decade or two, a huge chunk of Europe entered the post-money era, where people tend to own less, spend on personal growth, and live more frugal. Ad revenue (that keeps many B2C businesses afloat) in Europe is not nearly as high. Even AdWords in Europe compared to the States are cents to dollars.
Are you talking about Alex Jones?

He doesn't seem to be on this list, but please add him if you can find a reliable source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_banned_from_ent...
Which is very sad, because there are hidden gems in GnuStep and Etoile in the form of Obj-C runtime and Language Kit Runtime respectively. It could have served as a platform to develop and run dynamic languages, with support at OS level. But OSS community hardly paid attention to these llvm backed runtimes.
Folklore. One might hear one's parents saying such a thing many times before one is old enough to carry an umbrella.
TFA crashed my mobile browser, and you say the new is even worse?

An email to a mailing list would have been more appropriate on a few fronts. If not for the new CoC, I might express that differently. </sarcasm>
Tangentially related (2014): http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/wage-price-inflation-an...

"Thanks to the eccentricities of Alan Greenspan, the Fed did not raise interest rates. Instead it allowed the unemployment to continue to fall. It fell below 5.0 percent in 1997, it crossed 4.5 in 1998, and reached 4.0 percent as a year-round average. And inflation remained tame. The result was that millions of people had jobs who would not have otherwise. Tens of millions of workers at the middle and bottom of the wage distribution saw substantial real wage gains for the first time in a quarter century."
The thing is all of this is still possible even today on GNUStep and Etoile because they have Dynamic language runtimes, compiler people have to replace the runtime part with Objc runtime. And you can use Smalltalk or Lisp etc ..
Why Supervisors Envy Their Employees
>Fortunately these people are mostly outside the technical realm, where direct criticism of work is very rare.

I think this sort of special snowflake attitude is part of the problem. There are plenty of other fields where people's work gets directly criticized. Tech is not uniquely (or even unusually) rational or meritocratic.
Evolution of Animation
This is why we have institutions with processes that attempt to manage and improve quality.
[Complete layman here.]

Could it also not mean that gravity is "just" a 3D (or 3+1D) phenomenon?

For example, what does gravity mean in 2D?

Can we rule out that our 3D† universe is not a rarity in a larger, 4D universe, much like how true-2D planes are a rarity in our 3D universe?

† D as in spatial dimension, excluding time.
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Show HN: Away from Keyboard (AFK): Reduce eye strain with reminder to take break
Well, if CEOs didn't have that much bearing on the success of businesses, or don't have much bearing on the success of businesses once they reach a certain size, then seeing a wildly successful CEO completely flop at the next company would make sense.
If you have a Fiat money then you must have a control mechanism.

But not doing anything is just as much a centrally planned policy in a fiat money system as doing a lot of stuff.

And just btw, if you actually study economic history you will see that the monetary system before fiat central banks also adjusted monetary supply just threw a different mechanism.

I would prefer something different then the Fed. And a more clear set of rules what they should do and when.
I am the maker of Away From Keyboard (AFK). Away From Keyboard is an app that reduces eye strain
with reminders to take a break.

AFK tracks movements on the mouse & keystrokes on the keyboard. After a certain interval, it notifies you to take a break & tells you to do some other activity to reduce eye strain. It takes care of your eyes for you without getting in the way.

I was inspired by Aware but I needed more features which is why I built Away From Keyboard (AFK). Also it was a great way to learn some Swift.

This app has helped me immensely & my eyes & head are more relaxed now thanks to AFK. Happy to answer any questions you have :)
I did this when negotiating salary at my last job. I discussed this with my wife, and we agreed, that having +20% salary wouldn't improve our lives much. Working 20% less probably would. So far it seems that it worked out :-)

The extra day helps for us to actually get somewhere during the weekend, and I really appreciate both having more family-time with my wife and daughter, as well as posibility to get somewhere on my own without the guilt of "but I should have been with my family".

On the other hand, I sometimes feel that I am not working enough at work and it has been tricky to align some of meetings within the team I work in, i.e. we have a lot of meetings on monday or friday :-/
Err, Apple always posts their results quarter by quarter.

Besides, not even sure what you're going about. Apple never sold the most phones.

If anything it's the opposite: they're catching up to Samsung:

https://www.statista.com/chart/7941/apple-vs-samsung-smartph...
It doesn't help that the word passion has become distorted from it's original meaning, originally more to do with suffering.

It's more helpful to ask one's self: "What am I willing to suffer for?" rather than: "What am I passionate about?" where passion today seems to mean what would I prefer to do rather than work.
Is that a fact from psychology or statistics or something, because it sounds to me like making excuses for his bad behavior? I don't see how being an asshole should have much correlation with success.
Lots of comments attacking Amazon for lowering wages but ignoring the fact that warehouse work in general is on borrowed time and going the way of horse and buggies (https://youtu.be/RFV8IkY52iY)

At some point in the near future, these jobs won’t exist. Are the commentators suggesting they not be automated? Likewise long truck driver driving is going to eventually collapse.

Any attempt to make Amazon pay a vastly higher salary for packers will just accelerate the drive to full automation.
Actually the focus should be on increasing household discretionary income. The part of a persons income that is left over after all the mandatory expenses of food, shelter, tax etc are taken care of.
I suspect that if more people were more absent then we would all be less well informed (in my workplace, YMMV). I've noticed before when comparing on-prem vs. home working (which I also do sometimes) that you miss out on the 'micro-meetings' (e.g. a short chat while making coffee) where useful snippets of information are exchanged. I've never found an adequate replacement for these.
Russian spies tried to hack the Swiss lab investigating the Skripal case
Maybe Win 98 looks like Nextstep rather than the other way around.
I'm a bit skeptical about this one and wonder to what extent the effect is actually measurable for newspapers. The problem seems to me that not every topic is covered in the same way by journalists and that the journalists are usually also specializing in particular topics and don't just write anywhere.

A science journalist has usually studied some natural science but has to cover all of them and has to simplify a lot, so a trained expert will find a lot of inaccuracies. This is not true for the journalist who reports international events and affairs - these are based on much simpler facts such as "which government decided what" and "which spokesperson of some organisation said what when". It's much easier to get worldly facts like this right, which mostly come from multiple news agencies anyway, than describing news about theoretical physics to laymen in terms that are 100% accurate to a physicist.

In a nutshell, I'm not so sure that the effect really exists in any significant way.

Another issue is, of course, from where else you would get accurate news if not from journalists and press agencies. I've never heard of any reasonable and viable alternative from critics of traditional news media. Cell phone videos by citizen reporters with hysterical voice over can hardly count as a good substitute. Neither are copy&paste news aggregators or bloggers.

At some point you've got to trust your newspaper (or read a better one!) unless there is explicit counter-evidence from elsewhere against the story. Most botched reports get corrected very fast anyway.
Why don't we just hold the people who create the products accountable just as we do for any other product?
Has the LHC Accidentally Thrown Away the Evidence for New Physics?
This is a common misunderstanding of p-values.

There is a 5% chance of observing the effect, if the effect is not there.

I think the difference is best illustrated by an example:

If you have 20 researchers investigating a hypothesis that turns out to be false 1 of them will report evidence for a false hypothesis, which will likely not replicate. Thus, if for every true hypotheses investigated, 20 false hypotheses are investigated, and the 19 researchers with false hypotheses do not report their result, that means that 1/2 of the reported positive results will not replicate.
The CoC clearly speaks about harassment and not about personal lifestyle choices. If you keep your private life to yourself you should be fine.

Can a CoC be abused? Sure, if the community culture allows it. Does that possibility invalidate a CoC alltogether? Probably not.

A CoC will codify allowed behaviour which decreases the freedom for some forms of expression, most of which were destructive in nature and wasting everybodies time anyways. So in a certain sense you loose something, but you will also get something. Very talented persons who are to shy to use their ellbows all the time might be more willing to contribute etc.

IMO a ok tradeoff
You can consider mean, mode, and the other centrality measures as points that minimise some sort of average deviation. And depending on which norm you use to measure your deviation, you get different centrality measures:

* L_0 -> mode

* L_1 -> median

* L_2 -> mean

* L_infinity -> midrange, I think

where roughly L_p(x) = [ sum_i |x-x_i|^p]^(1/p) ]
How is this kind of derivative trading any different than online poker on credit? Turns out the other guy had the nuts, well sucks to be a norwegian tax payer I guess.

Yeah, sure we need liquidity and market makers do have a job, but this makes the nasdaq look like a mismanaged casino..
Michael Savage. While I agree he's said some pretty terrible things, I do find it kind of weird that he's on that list when so many other similar people aren't. They should really either remove his name or add like 50 other names.
Ask HN: Advice on pre-selling enterprise software?
Hi,

On the back of our offering, we've managed to book a few demos with enterprises. Wondering if anyone has any advice on whether we can/should pre-sell to enterprise companies given that there's still quite a lot of product to be built? How will we structure the deal?

Cheers
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I base my impression of their working conditions on a friend of mine, who's worked both the warehouses and as a delivery driver. The managers are slave drivers, and if you're just a minute or two behind on a schedules delivery, you get dinged, a black mark on your employment record and a severe talking-down. Even if the delay is of no fault of your own (bad traffic, weather, etc.), it's seen as a personal failure on your part.

No level of pay can make up for being treated like shit.

Regarding the counterfeits, Amazon loves to say how they're dealing with the issue, but the examples just keep piling up. And of course their childish behavior around Chromecast and Youtube.
I'm not so sure. IF was in "fad" mode several years ago. The IF sub-reddit is already 6 years old. Now it just appears to be something that people are rediscovering because of posts (mainly on social media) about this type of research. There's nothing "new" in IF in terms of the approach to diet.

Here's an HN submission from 2012:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4341091
>Any attempt to make Amazon pay a vastly higher salary for packers will just accelerate the drive to full automation.

No one is asking that Amazon pay a vastly higher salary to their low tier employees, only that they consider the cost of living for those employees and pay accordingly within a particular market.

The means to afford food and housing should not be out of reach of a full time employee, even if their position is likely to be automated in the future. That shouldn't be considered a luxury only available to the well-to-do. If the likelihood of automation is a valid rationale for lowering wages then just about everyone should be living on borrowed time and $12.00/hr.

And Amazon is pushing for full automation at maximum speed regardless, so employee wages are likely not a factor in that timeline.
This is how I use RSS as well. I wound up writing my own self-hosted RSS reader which is extremely simple and supports this workflow.
If someone would like to check the validity of their claim, here is a great calculation tool for drones: https://www.ecalc.ch/xcoptercalc.php
In my case, with NoScript blocking all javascript (and cookies also blocked) I got the full article appearing with no nag pop-ups (the nag pop-ups are almost always javascript based) or any other irritant. The article was fully readable, and mouse wheel scrolling worked perfectly to scroll through the full text.

So you have the ability to "stop this bullshit" yourself, at least for the Economist's current page design.
I also got the impression from the way he described the situation about him not being good at reading emotions that it could be aspergers. That would be a good thing since there are many ways for him to mitigate issues around his emotional awareness, mostly by just understanding how he is different.
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Since the benefits seem to be linked to ketosis, I believe we’re talking about fasts longer than 1-3 days, since that’s typically how long it takes to reach ketosis. So anywhere from 1-14 days, I would think.
I was thinking in the context of a tech company, where you also have non-technical business people.

Yes, obviously in some fields tough peer review is also common.
The customer's don't see the horrible conditions behind the scenes, all they see are cheap products.

If you're a delivery driver, your job options are extremely limited. You can deliver fast food, or deliver for companies like Amazon. It's either that, or starve.
This reminds me of Afterstep.
Looking up details of the study design, the molecule in question, β-Hydroxybutyrate, was tested in vitro on human tissue, and in vivo only on mice, so, as usual, wait patiently to see if there is any confirmation in, say, a large-scale study of a human population.

The researchers tested the efficacy of β-hydroxybutyrate against cellular senescence in vitro on human umbilical vein endothelial cells and human aortic smooth muscle cells, and they observed the beneficial effects of this molecule in vivo: by injecting β-hydroxybutyrate into fasting mice, the scientists were able to alleviate the senescence of the animals’ aortae.

https://www.leafscience.org/molecule-appears-to-have-anti-ag...
Wouldn't the most optimal strategy be to walk in an outwards expanding spiral? Even if it's the longest walking solution for simple examples, it would beat all these "infinite distance into one way" solutions. Ofcourse the rate of expansion is something else to think about.
We're probably more confusing political correctness and politeness with not speaking up.
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Win 95 literally stole some of the NeXT look. They stole the grey raised borders and the close [X]. They turned the iconize button into a maximize button for some reason.
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I worked with a CTO once who was both determined that anything customer facing was the best it could be without being rude. If we didnt make the best user experience it would be rejected but we would work harder to get it right, if he was an arsehole like linus we wouldn't have.

You don't have to be a prick to comand respect and to get the best results.
Siver’s ‘Law of Financial Viability’: “When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing to pay for it. If you find this evidence, continue. If not, move on.”

I keep being moved on, and nothing I've tried has ever made real money. That's why I haven't developed mastery of any specific skill (a Masters degree doesn't count). HR departments now hate me because I had too many short internships. I tried to fix that by settling into a job for 4 years, but now that contract's not being renewed, I'm unemployed. I keep trying to throw side projects onto Show HN, but they haven't turned into job offers. How far should I keep moving on before I give up?
Sorry, should have expanded to not coming back to the iPhone.

I must be an outlier here, but I have zero issues with bluetooth. My iPhone syncs straight away with my car (a 4 year old UK Ford Focus), unsyncs straight away when I leave the car, and the AirPods "just work"
> * Member states can make one-off changes to a different UTC offset but must
give at least 6 months notice and can't change their mind during the 6 month
window (but can before that).

> (I suppose a state could give notice of one-off changes every 6 months, but
I think that would be seen as a violation of the "no seasonal changes"
rule, which takes precedence.)

Deciding it year by year would be similar to what Brazil did before 2008 and I‘ve been badly bitten by that. I hope no member state will do this.
How Teeth Became Tusks, and Tusks Became Liabilities
They could have, but it would have meant compromises in other areas of the internals. They are packing so much into a tiny space and decided haptic feedback was more important.

There's the YouTube video of adding a headphone jack back into the phone, and it didn't look fun with the compromises made.
Even if you have a 3 day weekend, you still need to have proper long blocks off work. I used to take days off on Friday or Monday to get longer weekends in lieu of taking whole weeks. It's nice to have a long weekend but I found since taking more longer blocks (week or more) it's a lot better for you to fully switch off work (usually takes a few days to switch off completely).
Or just use the Pravic solution, suitably modified for a large population (see http://zrajm.org/nerd/pravic/).
And since empirical evidence trumps conjectures, we throw the so called "law" of supply and demand into the garbage bin.

Would you mind expanding on this point? It wasn't supported by your other assertions, and I'm curious how such a counterintuitive conclusion might be true.
Yes to all the questions in your first paragraph bar one. Completely rely on the private sector, check. Sponsors tell what to teach, check - that in fact is the entire point! The closed-loop unaccountable nature of current teaching is hugely wasteful and damaging to young people who frequently graduate in huge debt and essentially unskilled. Don't I think that could be problematic, no, otherwise I wouldn't propose it. I think asking whether studying history is important is a low-value question to ask: anyone can argue any field of human endeavour is "important". It's better to ask, important relative to what else? People can easily study history outside the context of subsidised academia, and the opportunity cost of subsiding huge numbers of people who (a) don't care about history and (b) won't use anything they learned post-graduation is enormous.

University is not only there to teach you knowledge but more importantly critical thinking and scientific best practices

Universities like to claim this. I do not believe them.

I think this angle is pure marketing spin that can't be substantiated and covers up the truth - universities make people worse at critical thinking, whilst giving them an undeserved sense of superiority and entitlement.

After all, if they were so devoted to critical thinking on campus, trigger warnings and safe spaces wouldn't exist. But even putting those aside, which parts of university courses are supposedly teaching these skills? I've studied computer science, history and archaeology at university and at no point was any attempt made to teach even the basics, like what the different logical fallacies are and how to spot them.

Actually it makes everything worse.

Why would it? Removing the notion of academic superiority from public life would re-orient social status towards practical experience and away from the ivory tower. That doesn't seem likely to make things worse.
If it's something like a Bugatti Veyron, sure, why not? Surely these superyachts fall into that category?
For our second the rules were:

-- Not repeated in family, friends or celebrities
-- Not too common or uncommon (300-400) in the rankings
-- Easy to say (and yell)
-- No spell needed

Bonus:

-- Not too bound to any country
-- Name.surname@gmail avaible.

In any case, whatever you choose you will love it. I remember not liking the name of my daugther the first weeks, but now I think there wasn't any better name than the one she has.
Can you present any solid evidence to support your "plainly apparent" claim?
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I decided that I would rather have continuous but predictable employment in a totally known environment rather than longer periods of time off and the pressure of finding new work (harder as you get older or if the market contracts).

Also, because I can flex my days around it is quite easy to create long periods away from work without booking too much leave. This is really useful, although I do try to remain predictable for the sake of my projects and colleagues.
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Also maybe the only chance of saving it.
My favourite is Go-Jek reading list https://blog.gojekengineering.com/the-go-jek-reading-list-10...
This sounds great and probably works well for you in practice. But I get a deep sense of dread from your comment, knowing that there are individuals who go to comparatively great lengths to filter online content according to reasonable standards.

The roots are to be found in recent political events and the apparent susceptibility to "active measures" by state actors and private entities alike.

This strongly suggests the vast majority of people spends near zero energy in trying to separate bullshit from thoughtful content. It's all about how loud and how often you blurt a story out there and how brazen you are in spreading it (troll farms, bots).

We are currently experiencing a true crisis of Western democracy that results from evolutionary advantages of bullshit information in a global information ecosystem. These affects seem to emerge when blending global connectivity with human psychology...
It's unlikely to be the best. See further in the thread for an example of a shape for which the known optimal solution does not look like a spiral.
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