skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, our civilization is built on codified laws, otherwise dictators arbitrarily decide what is allowed and what isn't. Is that justice? You're defending injustice. Rules must be written down and clarified, if I'm wrong so is civilization.
This is fascinating. I almost made an impulse purchase.

Didn't know I could own fragments of Kapton tape from Apollo-11 or a part of the tail fin from the first successful Falcon 9 landing.
I flagged this because it’s more politics focused. And it’s a tabloid, so I don’t really trust anything they write.
I'm thankful for getting cured of my chronic back pain of 10+ years just because of one HN comment (1). I was at a point in my life where my whole life used to revolve around my pain but thanks to this one comment I was cured of this terrible misery in just less than a month. So thank you HN and thank you @ceras for making my life so much better.

P.S I'm happy to say that propogating that knowledge had that exact same effect for another HNer who was also suffering from the same fate (actually he was contemplating suicide by his own comment and he too was healed like me(2).

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17899799

(2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18151061
These are not 'my examples', these are the ones from Al Ries book. It does not mean that there are no examples of it right now. Examples illustrate a point, they are not the point.

In fact, as mentioned the fact that there is sometimes not even space for a second brand right now illustrates the relevance of the insight.

What is insulting is the laziness and arrogance here.
Resolving High Disk Usage on Your PC to Improve Performance
Note that the acronym is Baas... which is Dutch for boss (and incidentally the source of the English word too) :)
It's a forum with two moderators, not a civilization with a multi-tiered court justice system to interpret the laws.

You're going to have to live with that.

If you disagree so much, maybe it's time to go somewhere else and spare the rest of us from your permanent, belabored grudge. Like, boo hoo. Seriously. Hopefully you find something else to spend your precious time on earth worrying about.
I bet you did not want large 5" screen before.
“Langlands’s”! Now that’s eccentric.
If you like videos, PBS Space Time published one recently about the paper that tests the light sail hypothesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICOlaQOpM0
> user input needs to be validated at every level

Possibly the best advice a new web developer can get. Once you realize what kinds of things can happen with unvalidated user input, it really changes your outlook!
Have you heard of the Robin Hood legend? It says the man was robbing the rich, and was very popular with the populace. I find it hard to believe that his robbing activity was regarded as 'unethical' by 'almost everyone'. Or a recent example, the sci-hub and libgen projects. They are robbing publisher shareholders of their profits. Do you think those projects are regarded as unethical by 'almost everyone'?
I fail to see how your personal experience (and preference) relates to my complaint about useless 'experts' that are predicting bad earnings, with Apple proving them wrong every time at the next earnings report. For about 5 years in a row this has been the case and it has nothing to do with the actual products.
You misunderstand. These reports come out from third parties about 4 months after release, and are always disproven once Apple release their quarterly reports.
Out of curiosity, which country are you from where this is followed?
> I'm often bewildered as to why I run into so many back-end developers who are deploying to Linux, yet using OSX for their daily driver.

It's very obvious: they use a personal machine for work only 8h a day and want their OS to be usable the other hours of the day and weekends. It's not that they necessarily prefer macOS for programming, but they prefer macOS for everything else they spend most of their time on. Or, alternatively, they have done so for so long they're more productive on macOS (admittedly a worse OS for programming) than Linux.

Just think of it like this: my demands from a development environment are much less strict than from a consumer OS. For developing all I need is a terminal and some programs, that's it. For a consumer OS all I need is what every other consumer needs: a functioning system 100% of the time with good usability.

It's much easier to run a VM than to constantly fix hardware issues or usability quirks that are out of your control as a user.

Your idea seems to make more sense when you use one for work and have a personal notebook for whatever else. Some people can't have that, or just don't want to. That was my original idea when getting a Linux notebook, but when I had to use it as a personal machine it became much less adequate.
It seems they forgot they are being tracked by governments though. E.g. during the gdpr debate the exceptions for governments were barely discussed. I am also not sure to what extent what you re describing was due to snowden or the trump election.
I'm thankful for this website.

As a middle-aged developer in a fly-over state,this site has helped me to stay current for years. I can't think of a single other site that has impacted my career even half as much.
Or take a percentage and scale the perks.
besides the many singularities of planet earth: life, ecosystems, consciousness ...
"Some of CIA's best analysts developed their skills as a consequence of experiencing analytical failure early in their careers. Failure motivated them to be more self-conscious about how they do analysis and to sharpen their thinking process". From the article.
Same in Germany, but programming apprentice and computer science major is a completely different thing, afaik also in Switzerland. No one coming from 3-5 years of unpaid (and depending on country expensive) university is up for this kind of payment and training.

Though the majority of devs would be better of with a programming apprenticeship instead of an university degree in the first place. Only a fraction of devs work on these hard technical problems or complicated architectures that are actually engineering and not just programming.
Their nicks don't ring a bell with me, and I've been here for ~2 years.

Which probably means that what they're doing is a good thing though, not a lot of flame wars going on!
(Or alternatively, I just stay away from articles that might cause need for more moderation).

But thanks! Good mods are crucial for a place like this
personality test and I said ok I guess I can do that but as I opened it today it really fustrated me

-not completing the test is an indicator of your personality.
I have had a few of these things shoved at me and it has , in my experience, very little to do with placing you in a personality complementary position.
workplace personality testing has more to do with making money from the data that is generated, and that came from some long in the tooth middle management that gave 0fux about the job at the time.

feel it out and maybe turn the table for the interviewer, so its not about how well you fit and what you bring, make it about how well the employer fits your capabilities and how much they will lose if you walk away, maybe in mid interview have someone call you and beg for you to reconsider and come work for them they need you now.
in other words HAX YOUR INTERVIEW
Google's own websites use Material design
guidelines extremely sparingly if at all. Material Design is most commonly seen on Android apps, and that's usually because app developers aren't interested in customizing the look and feel beyond the bare minimum.
It's the same in the way that matters, it's a social collection of humans that requires governance. If they want to improve HN they should be codifying more rules as they get more experience. Calling "not groovy" is really not helpful in helping others understand their rationale. Who's going to moderate after dang and sctb are gone? Humans are fallible.
Who knows. I don’t think it would be the best proxy - these days everyone and their dog has an iphone.
Track the security practices and compliance of your favorite apps
up until a couple of months ago, apple was the only company selling a proper 4-inch smartphone.
I think the long term answer here is to either not rebuild or mandate that the houses be built to a wildfire proof standard. Stucco, tile, ember and flame proof soffits etc... and maybe fire shutters and doors.
So I've recently been throwing around the idea that I might have some form of ADHD after really not wanting to accept it for a while. I also happen to have the least structured job of all time - work from home freelance web developer and writer.

After having a structure my whole life in school which I did fairly well under, suddenly I found myself with literally no structure, deadlines that are always far in the future, and the ability to literally watch Youtube all day long without any _immediate_ penalty.

I love seeing things like this. I've had to build all sorts of structure into my life, but the hardest part is always getting myself to do it, because, you know, I could just _not do it._
Thanks guys. And — despite the fact that every time I say the phrase on HN I get downvoted to hell — I'm going to say it: not all heroes wear capes ;)
Fortunately Trump's supporters aren't fans of the intelligence community either, maybe partly thanks to Snowden.
Ask HN: How long did your app take to be approved by Facebook?
I'm reading on Facebook Developer Group, Stackoverflow, etc, that in some cases it takes more than 5 months (!!!!) to get approval from Facebook, both app review and business verification.

How long did it take to you? Are there any recommendations to get approved faster?
dang really is a great moderator. He's got a good eye for spotting problematic behavior, and a level head for dealing with it. He's set me straight in the past, and I'm glad he did. The way he remains both professional and empathetic, even when dealing with sensitive users and topics, really exudes the best of hacker news ethos. Here's to you, dang!
Oh that place was the thing of a bygone era, undoubtedly.

Some of those signs are probably from back then, but they retained the style right up until they closed in 2016.

The place was a godsend when I was younger—you could get hygiene products and some food items for dirt cheap.

And the sight from the street was even more wild than those hand-painted signs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Ed%27s
Why can’t your parents boss you around for free? :)
I’m an environmental economist with a tech business working on climate issues. I use HN for its front page which I treat like a newspaper. I’m always surprised by the number of climate-related articles on the HN front page and the often excellent debate on the community boards, which to me indicates a growing concern generally about climate issues.

I’d like to point out that the debate is slowly moving on in the climate world, from what to do, to how to manage civilizational collapse.

This talk at Cambridge Uni will give an insight into this terrifying discussion:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1C0DVEcZwaif9i6vxQs75...

For what it’s worth, I don’t have an opinion on what will happen; how can anyone within a complex system? But I do think proper scenario planning which factors in collapse as one scenario is necessary.
dang has great taste in fiction. I enjoyed our brief discussion of character names in Pynchon and Peake.

Here's why I remember this: no one I know in real life reads fiction. I know plenty of people who read non-fiction (political stuff mostly), but no one in my circle takes the time to just sit back on a rainy Saturday and read something someone else made up. Even my wife is reading Bob Woodward's "Fear", and we aren't even American. So yeah, that little interaction made my day.
Oh, there is a solution there- just force men to take a equally long sabbatical/education/family break from their jobs.

If both sides are absent for up to 5 years, suddenly, there is no disadvantage.
I am thankful for my new job. After graduating, I worked at a defense contractor for over a year and got tasked with basically nothing and had no one care about results, staying current, or learning, and I felt it. They kept saying things would change when I got my security clearance, but as I talked to more and people, I realized that it wouldn't be enough of a change, so I switched industries. In my new role, I am learning a ton (because they decided to hire me even though I didn't have the knowledge they originally wanted) and I am loving it. My team is super helpful and I'm reminded why I first enjoyed programming and problem solving.
Recruiters are most typically useful as a filter. If they can reduce an unmanageable number of candidates to a manageable pile without too many false positives, you are doing well.

In more niche/difficult to match area, good recruiters can be helpful at finding difficult to source candidates, much more so that evaluating them.

Those two skill sets are quite different, most recruiters don't do both well.
The horizontal ad at the top skews mobile fyi.
> the quality of the films that are targeted at the intelligentsia is head and shoulders above what we used to have.

Any examples?
Wow! The Mohel and Rabbi who performed Honest Ed's bris was Al Jolson's father: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Mirvish
How is the government going to function if we can e.g. ask the census bureau to remove our PII from their database. Clearly the government needs an exception.
What I heard about treating foreigners in Japanese police stations qualifies indeed as torture. The rule of law applies when you confess.
That’s kind of my point. When you remind people that they’re caring more about the tragedy of one person than they care about the tragedy of millions, you’re not helping them to sleep better. You’re just shaming them, and the result is likely to be that they’ll care less about both, rather than more about the millions.
I don't know where you work, but where I'm at, less than 6years of solid experience would be considered junior, no where near seniour - that's 10-15 years of relevant experience.
I don't know what the parent poster prefers, but i find the 4/4.5 screens a bit too small and anything larger then 5.5 a bit to big. 5 or 5.1 or 5.2 is my sweet-spot in screen size. Its just what fits my hand the best. Im currently looking at changing from the S7 Edge that i find a little too big and was looking at the XR and 8 in the store yesterday. The 8 fits exactly what i want in phone size, and im having a hard time finding good android phones with good battery life at that size.
I used the word "cook". You seem to have substituted "professional chef" into that sentence, and then responded as though that's what I wrote. Obviously nothing I wrote will made sense if you're substituting out new words with very different meanings.

I specifically used the word "cook" and not "professional chef" to indicate the type of cook who can do the work without going to university for it. Picture the guy flipping burgers at a McDonalds. That's a cook.

I really liked your previous post, I was hoping we could have a conversation without the hostile misinterpretation.

When I say education I'm referring to university. The traditional education a girl in Somalia can get by the time she is 16 is, in comparison to a university education, "not educated". This is plain language, and you understand it well. But you seem to be mixing in some sort of moral judgmental meaning along with the economic factual meaning.

If simply stating that homemaking requires less education than engineering, medicine, or law is "devaluing women's work", then devaluing women's work would be the correct thing to do. But a statement about the economic dollar investment into work is not the same as a moral judgment of it.

When you say people "devalue women's work", is that all you mean then? That people correctly note that it requires less educational years to produce a homemaker than an engineer, doctor, or lawyer? Because "devaluing women's work" really sounds like a moral thing.
It just depends on which provider you have an enterprise relationship with. They all have a bunch of closed alpha/betas that you simply need to ask your account manager to join.
Your Favorite YouTuber Promoting Your Mobile Game?
That's great! It feels so good to be doing something you want to do.
Short and distort [1] is big business, sketchy and mostly illegal, but common on the markets biggest shorted stocks, AAPL included.

For short and distort to work, the stock/product has to be one in major demand that can be pushed down with big fish efforts and it will bounce back almost guaranteed. Skimming funds for the hedge funds and big fish from the small/medium longs.

The SEC is starting to crack down on short and distort [2] as it is a market cheat like naked short selling [3] was which exacerbated the Great Recession. SEC cracked down on naked short selling three days after the Great Recession cliff in Sept 2008 [3]. But the levels of shell/misdirection in short and distort is very hard to track down. It is market abuse and if not checked could break the public markets now that most of investing is automated/HFT.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_and_distort

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-190

[3] https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-204.htm
I also have "some form of ADHD". Turns out stimulants work pretty well. I was terrified of them for most of my life, and it doesn't help that a lot of doctors are also scared of them, but they work, and getting treated with them is one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Kickstarter PBC 2017 Benefit Statement [pdf]
Oh, right. I misread the title.
Anyone that has never been freelancing for a good amount of time will think this is a joke, but it's probably not.

Even if you love your job, you're working on your own personal projects, and you know how to manage yourself and get away from distractions, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to motivate yourself some days...
I think they're good mods, but I don't think this thread is appropriate, nor would I want to have put them in the position of deciding whether to delete it bt making it, as the OP did.
Does it really matter? Anyone can see he is taking the hit for the executive team. He’s a “lame duck” in the sense he already he announced he was leaving months ago.
yay pynchon! i buy trystero coffee just for the name (you have to be in the know to find it (but it's not that hard)).
Dang has done a very good job I must say -- haven't noticed sctb, which means he did a good job as well, not drawing attention to the moderation (which is what happens when it's done badly).
Wait, you're telling me these guys don't have capes yet? I'm sensing some great gift ideas for the YC secret-santa this year.
I've collected some more alternatives to host comments on a static site: https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
Show HN: We've built a Slack emulator to demo our Slack bot
I _can't_. "Hey Siri" picks up faster on my phone, and when the mac hears the acknowledgement chirp it shuts that down.
Notice how abstract you're getting trying to defend yourself. It's because you know it's unreasonable, so if you speak abstractly enough, you hope you can liken your little crusade here to some axiom of civilization. Maybe you think you're Rosa Parks.

That nobody else really cares will be a critical life lesson for you.
Fuck them. I've been shadow banned because I said oriental wasn't an offensive word, which every Asian friend I've ever had has confirmed. They're here to force San Fransisco liberal social justice politics down everyone's throat.
Bob Widlar: the Valley's most celebrated dropout and IC designer
I second this. The notation was driven by the concepts, problems, and approaches. If the notation feels bizarre it’s because you don’t see how it improves/clarifies the underlying concepts, problems, and approaches.

Learning the notation itself can be useful as a way to point you towards relevant concepts, e.g., “Where did this symbol come from and why did it become the convention? What concept/problem/approach motivated it?”

But if your goal is to memorize a bunch of symbols you’re gonna have a bad time.
That article starts by saying "Let's do the math", skips half of it, then pretends there was a conclusion.

This is an opinion piece without an actual argument.

e.g. the article says that, to keep up with increased demand,
we'd need to add twice as much wind energy yearly as China currently has installed.

What the article neglected to mention is that China got to that point in
less than 10 years from producing pretty much 0 wind energy - and with a mediocre effort at best.

The world is very much capable of adding that much wind energy had we any reason to do so.

Now I don't think we should go all renewables myself, but that article presents a weak ass, flawed, half-baked and incomplete argument at every turn. A proponent of a different opinion than that author would have no trouble completely ripping it apart and thereby discrediting his opponents. There will be no useful debate like this.
Or you can have syntax highlighting in your brain, like Feynman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_synesthesi...
>In traditional farms, everybody worked. There was gender split in both power and tasks, but nevertheless, there is no entitlement to be idle.

You don't seem to understand the implications of that statement. In a country where the way to obtain food is tightly coupled to physical strength, men dominate because they are stronger. That's reality.

Even though women can (and do) substantial, non-trivial, and important work, the work they do [in unindustrialized nations] is derivative of a man's; you can't operate on resources that aren't there (preparing food is impossible if there's no food to prepare). That's also reality.

Those two things are the reason why women are second-class citizens in unindustrialized countries- implying that there's some grand conspiracy by men that makes this so is intellectually dishonest. Once industrialization renders the physical strength to resource equation moot, women are able to be productive in their own right (a farming combine does not care who is sitting in the driver's seat), and they become first-class citizens shortly thereafter as the Western world has demonstrated without exception.

(Residual effects may vary and are to be expected because humanity evolved with this concept; I needn't elaborate as to what they are).
This is great. XD
Thank you for the software.
Thank you for the hardware.
Thank you for the Internet.
Thank you for the Telecomms.
Thank you for the Electricity Supply.
Thank you for the Power Stations.
Thank you for the Oil, Gas and Renewables.
And thank you for the coffee mug my kids gave me.
I don't need a boss as a service, I have a wife who handles all our finances...