skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a social truism that people tend to want to talk to their current social circle, regardless of topic. Telling people to take it Reddit because it has a subforum for the topic amounts to saying "The reputation and relationships you've spent years building in this community are irrelevant. Go start over with learning the culture etiquette and people over there." It ignores the reality that jumping into a new forum to spout off on a highly controversial topic typically goes south in short order. It isn't generally well received and doesn't generally result in meaty meaningful discussion.

There is no reason at all such discussions cannot be had here.
Im the founder, just looking to get some feedback from people on my startup. We're also building an iPad app for brick and mortar stores without e-commerece, to power with deliveries.

If you have any feedback for me, especially functionality related, or just that the fonts I've used on my website are crappy, let me know :)
You've pretty much got the gist. Pre-Lampert, the SHLD bull thesis centered on its real estate assets... huge quantity of long-term leases way below current market prices. Other hidden assets included intangibles such as brands.

Lampert came in and started running the financial engineering playbook, most crucially the various spinoffs, of which the most important one was the spinoff of Seritage, which is the embodiment of the "RE asset value backstop" strategy. What Seritage does is to partner with the mall landlords (operators like Simon Property Group) to redevelop the former Sears footprint into something more in line with current market preferences (think subdividing into Dave & Buster's, Pandora, etc.) and re-rent the space at a big markup. This is the shell that holds the pea.

None of this benefits from the decline of Sears' core retail operations. Plan A was always to return Sears to profitability, which would have made a killing for ESL. He has struggled mightily to do so, and failed just as mightily. A large amount of effort, capital, brain damage, and reputational has been incurred without a commensurate reward.

But again, Lampert's a very sharp guy; downside protection is in place. Besides the spinoffs (which ring-fenced a bunch of capital), he's migrated a bunch of ESL's investment up the ladder to a creditor position, including big holdings of "fulcrum" securities (unsecured bonds) that will give him a big voice in BK.

A+ for financial engineering; F for business ops. Overall grade: C-.

Not a zero-sum conspiracy working as designed, just desperate wriggling off the hook of a failing workout. Turns out you can't cost-cut Sears to profitability, and competing with Amazon is harder than one might think (?)
Next up ... JCP.
It's taking a little longer than it should, but people are finally starting to realize that the actual reason there aren't as many women in software is because they've chosen not to be. They're wired differently and therefore have different interests.
I am delighted they won their case as it appeals (pun unavoidable) to my sense of right and the reasons given by the Supreme Court sat well with me. However, a LGBT activist raised the interesting point that the bakers were in some sense only requested to print the pro-homosexuality message on the cake and if read this way there could be serious (or hilarious) consequences for the printing industry.
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It shouldn't be in the transit planning - it should be addressed at its root cause, instead of trying to paper over the issue by focusing so much on the incidental nature of public transit bringing a shift in location.

Unfortunately, oftentimes people have a very NIMBY attitude about these sort of issues in the US in general, and end up perpetuating the problem through intentional ignorance.
The automatic size management doesn't go over 3x RAM, but manual configuration allows for a maximum page file size of 16TB. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2008/11/...
Yeah fine but total warming over the next 25 years could well be sufficient to get us over the critical threshold, and methane does have a greater impact than CO2 over a period of 25 years.
That's a very abnormal position for any member of any church in the US to take. I've been in many different ones and never heard anything like it.
SMS is insecure and not a secure form of 2fa, never mind a secure password reset option.
Exactly! They spent time and energy on this new codebase without gaining consensuses on the value of the new codebase and without giving their accessibility experts reasons to feel invested. And without investing in training them.

Why is user experience and accessibility always someone else's problem? Why does the burden of "learning enough" to do their job correctly always fall on everyone except the engineers who advocate doing these complete rewrites?

React and JSX are not open web standards. They're popular, but they're are not a common denominator. They require you to learn and use JavaScript first and foremost and were designed uninclusively with software engineers as the audience. This is a stark contrast to the declarative languages of CSS and HTML that were designed inclusively with designers and other non-programmers as an audience.

So, you know what? It's no surprise that a React rewrite alienated an accessibility team. It's no surprise that the accessibility team worked their asses off to try to demonstrate the value of inclusiveness and tried without success to train these engineers and get problems the engineers created fixed, only to be told the issue was going about it the wrong way.

React's fanbase largely views inclusiveness and accessibility as an optional, bolt on feature that can be addressed later. As something it's okay to sacrifice on the alter of the new hotness. React's fanbase doesn't give a crap if someone who could previously contribute something very valuable very effectively can't anymore. Someone who has concerns other than learning new languages and frameworks constantly should just get out of way, they're clearly too dumb or too old to matter.
This year in Chicago there has been 457 (around 350 blacks) killed, how many have the police killed in Chicago? 4 this year. The crime rate is the biggest problem not the cops in minority areas.

I understand the fear of cops and I do believe in self policing but for the black community the biggest problem is rampant crime.
Trust is one of those things that is asymmetrically visible. It's very easy to not notice the many many times a person or organization is trustworthy and only see the instances where they are not.
And the development blog for the lazy: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://...
There's also the point that a lot of countries aren't at war precisely because they and/or their opponents have nukes. If the nukes disappeared then so would the reasons for the cease fire.
I think that just having a proper code block, that worked on mobile, would help a lot.
While I think everyone should be aware of phishing, I don't think any amount of education can reliably prevent this sort of fraud. I see this fundamentally as a process problem, as I assume email was a common way of changing payment information. Email needs to be taken out of the loop.
Can you link to some of these materials?
We've had similar problems in the areas around Baltimore. A nearby mall used to be a nice place to go until they added bus stops that go back and forth between the mall and the city. Afterwards, they're starting being a problem with drugs, assaults, and 1-2 murders in the parking lot before they had to put up guard towers throughout the parking lot. There's also a nearby train stop that the county is trying to get closed because people ride the train in, steal stuff from the houses and stores in the surrounding area, then hop back on the train to get away.
Yeah, Metra (Chicago) and Metro North (New York) are the exception, as a lot of those systems were built before the 1960s.
Yeah they have. Really well. But it's left them quite vulnerable to a trend-sensitive audience that may leave them just as quickly.
So no more Android patent protection racket from MS? What about using exFAT in Linux distros (especially commercial ones that need to provide support for SD cards), will that now be free?
Sort of. But fire and tools are technology, the very lowest tier. Our ability to stack technology, to use tools to build better tools, is what makes us interesting - as long as we actually make use of this ability.
The quantum bluff
While scientists and researchers were struggling to create a quantum-state-operated system, they were unintentionally created a quantum state of the truth. In terms of the quantum computer, it appears that it exists (the state of ‘1’) and it doesn’t exist (the state of ‘0’) at the very same time. Just like that poor cat of Schrödinger.

And Schrödinger’s favourite cat is the key to understand the problem with quantum computers: in fact the whole concept is bogus, since Schrödinger’s living cat is not the opposite of Schrödinger’s dead cat, because a living cat is NOT the non-existence of a dead cat.

https://newcompendium.com/2018/10/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-quantum-computer/
I test my internet connection with HN. It is more reliable than Google these days.
Drawing attention to the problem and making the observation in question aren't identical behaviors. I frequently engage in meta discussion on such topics.

To draw on a common startup meme:

Ideas are nothing. Execution is everything.
An addendum: crime isn't just a law enforcement problem, it's reflective of broader societal ills like wealth inequality, poor education, and lack of access to opportunity. In my opinion, law enforcement is a bandaid for those symptoms, but does not strike at the underlying issues, and defining crime and poverty as that domain is also probably counterproductive to reducing them long term.

My experience in most of East Asia is that the police are extremely unintimidating [1] when you see them but generally invisible otherwise, perhaps indicating that strong law enforcement is not a requirement for managing crime rates.

[1] Tokyo: https://imgur.com/a/FGstZJ3
>And one can only suppose that the doctor has already proved it in other tries, which is why they suggest it.

Medicine is not coding. It takes almost a decade of formal education to get the specialist title. And at that point they are at the starting point of their career as specialists. And they are not supposed to try ideas with
patients. They can get in serious trouble if they pull treatment ideas out of nowhere and push them to their patients.

>Third, the whole "once they've tried it and are invested in it it's too late for them to see it's not good", is your addition, not some logical deduction.

This is just plain human nature working. Why do you think our industry is plagued with fads and buzzwords?
No idea why you're getting voted down, I do the same exact thing in our work bathroom when it's empty.

Also, for anyone looking to exercise in the workplace in a slightly less weird way. Find a flight of stairs that doesn't get used often and run up and down it. I'll take two steps at a time when going up and just go at full blast until I feel my heart rate getting up there
Just step outside and do them on a sidewalk, it only takes a minute or two.

I keep a pair of tight-fitting lightweight mechanix gloves on hand for doing pushups anywhere...
oh, that's a relief. good to know. thanks.
mind sticking up the relevant sections of your vimrc somewhere so I could take a look?

the rust stuff in my vim dates to v. early post 1.0 and would love to link ale + rls up.
I can't help but think a solid UX pro would know that the site's audience is a bunch of coders who dream in .txt files and would have acted accordingly. Wasn't this site designed to attract the hoodie and conference Tee crowd to YC projects in the first place?

(PS: this post is loving and in jest)
I wonder, what will the reaction of the "respect local laws and regulations" crowd will be to this development?
Buyer and seller enter a smart contract where the buyer's funds are locked for two days, then freely recoverable by the buyer only after the contract expires. That proves to the seller that the funds exist at no risk to the buyer.

A day before the contract expires, buyer and seller meet up to inspect the goods. Upon inspection, seller hands over the goods and buyer validates the release order in front of him before departing, thus completing the contract before its expiration.

Infinitesimal cost, infinitesimal risk.
Tunnel with a rail system is found under Mexico-California border
To be more precise, recent improvements in hard target kill probabilities are actually due to improvements in fuzing rather than improvements in targeting. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has a rather good article describing the tech and its strategic implications:
https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
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In the court of public opinion you can judge anything any way you like if you have enough people behind it. That seems to work ok with extremism, why wouldn’t it work with stealing, right? Just because you can judge doesn’t mean you’re right.

In the meantime Apple is immoral for profit. You’re immoral out of principle.

As I said before, in the court of public opinion even rape is justifiable by what the victim did (Dressed too provocatively? Got too drunk? Deserved it). “The public said it, must be correct”.
You’d like to make poor business decisions a crime?
Please no, my favorite clothing store in the US
Thanks for spelling this out, I think this is exactly how to look at this.
MS still have quite a lot of problems remaining. Some things are surely better, but many are as bad as they were. Such as lock-in in many areas is still a big issue.

When they'll support Vulkan on Xbox, will make ActiveSync an open standard, and etc. and etc. then you can claim, they are really different today.
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You forgot to hit Enter twice between each list item.
Sears was headed toward bankruptcy with or without private equity. My question is specifically addressed at the harm of private equity picking the bones of what is already some pretty sorry looking roadkill. Those pensions and suppliers weren't going to get paid no matter who owned Sears, not at the rate they were going before Lampert showed up.
Here are a few alternatives:

1. Force European states to guarantee their Jewish citizen's right to return.

2. Force Germany to cede territory towards the creation of a Jewish state as reparations for the Holocaust.

3. Literally any plan that doesn't involve shipping European Jews out to West Asia.
NYC's system was (partially) developed by two private companies. It was quite successful for a while, although they did make the choice not to also be property developers, which is how Tokyo's companies make an income.

Then a populist decided that he should build a municipal subway system to drive the other two out of business so that the city could buy them out, and the rest is history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Subway_System
Carbon Black just announced a new threat hunting product at user conference
An untapped market of engineers would be tapped...

...if and only if...

...there were no other factors at play that cause that market to remain untapped.

For further rational thinking, consider this. If there's a bias, it doesn't mean women won't get hired. It just means they won't get hired for the best positions. Everyone else gets Amazon's cast-offs.
Things are going to get very interesting when AI inevitably reveals consistent differences in performance among genders.

There's only so much you can sweep under a rug.
No, I'm saying that if you want to view or delete the data that MS has collected, you need an MSA.

If you want to downgrade/disable it, you follow the instructions in the links provided.
You switched from C++ to Rust and don't use Java because Java is old.

You've made at least one person's mood a little lighter today. Thank you.
If you know that a university is doing construction, then you know they're paying someone. It's not hard to know a university is doing construction because it will be reported on, they will have had to gain permission to do so, and you can just drive by and see the construction. Once you know that, then you just need to figure out the name of the companies involved. That should be simple: often construction companies will put up a sign, or you can just ask some people on site.

That's assuming no prior knowledge, in which case it would be even easier.
Zero. The hotter the planet gets, the more water evaporates from the oceans, which condenses into clouds, which reflect sunlight, which cools the planet.
Refuting bullshit is actually 10x easier than coming up with bullshit in the first place.

The reason people think it's the other way around is a testament to the power of appeal to authority.
I rode the Virgin East Cost Line a few times and it was only OK.

When they lost it to LNER, though, it turned into a complete nightmare. I've done 4 round trips now between London and Edinburgh on LNER and have had air conditioning in my car a total of 0 times, and the already long 4.5 hour ride delayed by an hour or more each time.

Maybe I've just had terrible luck, but 8 separate legs and 0 comfortable rides leads me to believe it is completely mismanaged, and that regular maintenance isn't occurring.
Remember to light one for Vasili Arkhipov and another for John Bordne, on 27th and 28th of this month, respectively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10452983#10455951
As someone whose generally bearish on crypto currencies, I do see one clear benefit to ICOs over traditional exchanges. Namely the fact that you can trade them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from anywhere in the world with an internet connection, in any currency (theoretically) and on no fixed exchange (although it's likely that the number of exchanges will be limited to reduce price instability).
I’m not saying he should be fired. I’m saying that it’s a misrepresentation to say that he only claimed that there are differences between the sexes in aggregate.
Because the only reason for tokens is to create a little confusion that allows people to think they'll be allowed to violate securities laws.
check out this paper by danah boyd from 2000, for discussion of more or less this issue in virtual reality. https://www.danah.org/papers/sexvision.pdf
Sorry for the inexact language. I'd say "mainstream" means not some kind of apocalypse cult, adhered to by a good number of people and not likely to demand intervention from law enforcement or militaries. I'd say that preacher was not only very fringe, but also should have been arrested.

I'm not offended and it's rhetorically specious to claim that I was. I disagree with your characterization of religion because I think it's dangerous. If you call the adherents of Islam irrational, violent, and brainwashed that's a powerful tool that can be exploited to justify a war or two.

Most religious beliefs are a fine addition to human culture. Some are not. Wars will be stopped by increasing our understanding and acceptance of each other, not by decreasing it.
Not the good guys, but (in recent years, for the most part) less bad.

The US had concentration camps in World War II. They did not have a policy of deliberately killing people in those camps. So, yes, the same (there were camps), and yet really different in a fundamental way that really mattered. Yes, it was wrong. No, it wasn't the same as Germany.
> It's the only truly global network that will function equally well in mountainous regions of northern Afghanistan, on the Antarctic polar ice cap plateau, in the middle of the south Indian Ocean, or elsewhere.

Interesting. I only know a little about the market and products and always have been curious (and on the occasions I needed it, good info was hard to find): What about names like Intelsat, Inmarsat, Globalstar ...?
But there are fewer women in software now than there were 30 years ago. Are women today "wired differently" from their mothers?

Single-generation changes in behavior aren't genetic. They're social.
Is Chrome delaying too? M70 is supposed to contain the distrust change, and last I heard it's scheduled for an October 16 release.
I also mean people legally seeking asylum, people who had a legally recognized status, people who have a legal status, that is being retroactively stripped, people in rural areas who were not issued sufficient documentation at birth, decades ago.

It's funny you bring up legality, here - because the process by which those people are removed is the opposite of such. They are often deceived about their legal options, not provided adequate legal representation, are kept imprisoned until they confess, have few to no opportunities to appeal decisions made against them.

> fraud

Please explain to me how, twenty years ago, a two-year old was capable of committing fraud. Fraud requires mens rea.

It is a kafka-esque mockery of a legal system.
I agree that the argument of Israel created all the conflicts on middle east is a little bit lunatic but I disagree with you with the rest, forcing the choice of where to put the displaced Jews after WWII on Palestine's shoulders was a little bit unfair at least.

And it's not that they chose Palestine as a destination, nobody of the allied forces had a plan to offer asylum to the ~6mi jewish population in Europe and they didn't want to stay in Europe. UN forced his hand on making the immigration official (which was til that moment mostly illegal because it was surpassing quotas established by Britain/Palestine government). Imagine today if the ~1mi Syrians in Germany went to UN and ask for part of Germany territory just because they cannot mix nicely with the local population and the UN agreed, how fucked up it would be.

It's like stealing your neighbor money and donating to a good cause, is it wrong: yes, but are you going to make the world a little bit better: also yes. It also puts your neighbor in a very bad position, if he let it goes he loses his money, if he fight for it he's the guy who doesn't share his money for good causes.
3DS did this in 2011 and it was better, too.
Anecdatum: I was a big music buyer because iTunes made it quite easy.

I like to “own” my music, so it was appealing- DRM free, album art and metadata formatted correctly.

But then they nerfed the ever loving shit out of the music app on my phone and force fed me Apple Music. Since I ideologically disagree with that model I went back to the old ways of CDs and luckily I have Plex which handles my music on my phone now.

It’s not as nice as before but it’s better than being forced into a subscription.
I tend to think this is perfectly correlated with the rise of Big Data. Just as banks scored your likelihood to repay a loan based on your past behavior, marketeers want to score your economic value based on the same and more (transaction history + whatever personal data history assumed to be relevant). I suppose this doesn't follow the real definition of behavioral economics but it sure seems related - like let's hire a data science expert to write economic models on consumer behavior(?) In short, this field is popular because it gives power to the internet Giants.
I agree. I have no background in military strategy so I try not to feel too comfortable in making conclusions about warfare tactics, but it seems like the reason we haven't had a classic major land war between two superpowers since WWII seems to be because of nuclear weapons.