skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently you didn’t read his post:

Exhibit A:

“My ownership of the Washington Post is a complexifier for me. It’s unavoidable that certain powerful people who experience Washington Post news coverage will wrongly conclude I am their enemy.

President Trump is one of those people, obvious by his many tweets.”

Exhibit B:

“In the AMI letters I’m making public, you will see the precise details of their extortionate proposal: They will publish the personal photos unless Gavin de Becker and I make the specific false public statement to the press that we “have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that AMI’s coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces.”

If we do not agree to affirmatively publicize that specific lie.”

That last line more or less admits Bezos thinks this is politically motivated as denying that would constitute him lying.
Nobody is perfect. Gandhi was apparently racist and John Lennon was an egomaniac, I admire them both still for their efforts to make the world better than what it was before.

Bezos still a human being like me and like you, whether you love him or hate him. I didn't say he cured cancer but last I checked, he puts ONE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR into Blue Origin to help our species keep evolving towards a spacefaring civilization. How many other people are doing that?

I am aware of the grey-area Amazon operates in but it's still better than the oligarchs before Big Tech. I'll give my money to Amazon before Wal-Mart, I know that. Amazon invests billions of dollars in retraining warehouse employees who are getting replaced by automation for high-demand jobs. Amazon didn't have to do that, but they made a decision to and I'm sure Bezos signed off on it.

If you disagree with Amazon and AWS that much, build something better.
My wife and I both started overweight. I don't know why you think that being with an overweight person will drag you down. Sure, you may gain some initial chub as a lot of people in relationships do, but as the article indicates, the fact that you're not alone is probably going to do more for your life expectancy than those 10 lbs.
1) DUI checkpoints are actually law-breaker checkpoints. Illegal immigrants, non-insured, unlicensed, whatever. They don't just catch and prosecute DUIs.

2) They wreck traffic.

3) In nearly all cases they are easily routed around. Most (if not all) are advertised in a local media -- affording habitual day-drinkers the opportunity to avoid them easily. (this wrecks the REST of the traffic near the area, usually with panicked drunk drivers avoiding the stop)

4) They cost law enforcement time, for very little proven efficacy at anything more than accruing state revenue for expired tags and other small misdemeanors.
I believe universal justice exists. I believe you can quantify justice. I think at the end of the day you and I are both right, and both wrong. We hold utterly different perspectives on life, choice, and freedom. These may be irreconcilable. For example, I genuinely believe depression can be cured by "not being depressed".

Edit:

What if I want to live my life paycheck to paycheck? What if none of what you just described about freedom from the emotional stress of finances matters to me? What right do you have to force me to make the "right" choices and be financially responsible? Why shouldn't I be allowed to hurt myself?
Setting aside the legality of the checkpoints themselves, the general public has a clear freedom of speech right to share information about the activities of law enforcement authorities. Barring some exceptional circumstances, there’s no constitutional authority by which they can prohibit an individual or a company from disseminating this information, especially given its clear value to the public.

Whether the companies capitulate on their own accord or due to some behind the scenes strong arming is another matter.
still i believe most people consider extortion a graver crime
Why do you write anything?
> Economics is not a science. The end.

That’s too facile. I’d say, insofar as it is a science, it’s not about the real world, and insofar as it’s about the real world, it's not a science.

But even that doesn’t give it enough credit.
Ok: I don't like any language of file format where the regex s/\s+/\s/g would change the meaning of the program except in parts of the program within string delimiters, except for the parts of string delimiters which contain literal code e.g. ins ES6 `Hello ${world}`.
Why not just use the github wiki?
Hi. So using the version on 18th Jan 2019. I love the tool and deploy and use it a lot but the Android still needs more work.

Regarding E2E. We use Mattermost for online communities. Primarily human rights defenders, aid workers and journalists all over the world. There lives are very clearly at risk in many cases so without E2E for a lot of them we unfortunately cannot use Mattermost as surveillance is an issue.
Moves are exactly the problem, as the data is just copied, without drop running on the source, and they happen implicitly.
I've read both Bezos' letter and this article and I can't find what value this NYT article adds. There aren't any additional details, no comment from AMI or others, no additional context.
Very sad, having flown the A380 many times and it even once saved my life due to it’s masterfully engineered airframe and systems (uncontained engine explosion, the only accident A380 ever had).
It seems we aren’t able to build anything great or unique anymore without it failing in the market (Concorde, A380). More cattle class mediocraty flying on 737s from the 60s and 3-3-3 seating 787s etc
for all its faults medium is not a closed garden
AlgoDaily – mobile interview preparation app
Because deleting a tab could entirely change the meaning of the file, breaking everything, with no compile time errors. IDE tooling or linting might go somewhat to make me more comfortable with YAML.
I can relate. I had a couple of bouts of chest pain/could be panic attacks/could be anything in the last couple of years. I think it might be connected with my blood pressure medicine, but again the real problem is that it could be anything. Not having had a heart attack before, one doesn't know what it feels like, so you're left wondering, "It that what it feels like?" I've been very healthy all my life and so when something suddenly isn't right, it's so surprising. All the time I'm thinking, "Well, why all of a sudden now?"

The one thing I can say is that the worry itself seems to make things about a million times worse. I've made a big effort to remove stress from my life and it seems to have helped. With my medicine, I had to explain to my doctor that "10% chance of side effect X" doesn't mean that it's very unlikely that the side effect I'm having is from the medicine -- rather that he should expect that 10% of his patients taking the medicine will get that side effect from it. Amazing, but he'd never realised that before. Now he's a lot more cooperative about choosing medicine that doesn't cause serious problems :-).

I think a big part, though, is that having a belief that you are healthy makes a big difference in how you interpret problems with your body. For me, once I got things checked out I reasoned that the chance that they've made a mistake is quite small. So while I may have a symptom it does not necessarily follow that I have a serious problem. Getting it checked out is important, but once you have, then worrying is only likely to make you ill. So far that's worked well for me. YMMV.

(But as you say -- still scary as hell if you think about it too much...)
Jeff Bezos: Amazon Boss Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail
Whichever one you (or your developers) are most proficient in.
Jeff Bezos did not wreck small town shopping. People's collective desire for convenience did. And why is this a bad thing? Should people be forced to shop in a way they don't want to?
But then how do I sell my mvp startup newsletter to all the people not capable of actually building a quality product? /s

In all seriousness, it is comical how often people apply revisionist explanations for the rise of certain companies. Its simple really. Great product + big market. You must have both, no exceptions.
Why are you ex algo trader? It still seems like a growing market, so it's interesting that you stopped doing it.

I'm right now working on optimizing my long term investment strategy, but the hardest thing is that there's nobody to talk to it about it (unlike when I have other coding problems), and I have no idea when I'm doing something totally stupid in my code base. Getting the right metrics to optimize is really hard, as mostly I'm just looking at numbers and graphs.
This looks absolutely great! I’ll give this a thorough look over for our coming API development/deployment.

Thanks for plugging!
And... which jobs exactly have they have killed? All you have documented here is some company doubling the number of programmers since May, which sure as heck sounds like creating jobs to me.

Some VC funded startup allegedly working with companies does not equal killing jobs with "AI." If this were really happening it would be real easy to document! The X industry is gone now. Like buggy whips. But it's not; it's science fiction. I know, I know, people _really_believe_ -that doesn't make it real. Numbers, people: name names, no anecdotes about the stories from people next to you in the WeWork or whatever the journalistic dipshits are releasing from a PR agency.
This is very inspiring and kudos to author for being so transparent to share the experiences.

However I really wonder if he actually did any analysis on market sizing and if there is something preventing them to capture the share. I visited Gumroad website, explored it around and even signed up as user and still I have very little clue how exactly does it work. Yes, I can see it "helps" me sell something but I absolutely don't see anything available for purchase. There are no sign of marketplace. So where am I selling? How does the listing look like? What is exactly going on here? If myself as a geek can't figure this out within 30 seconds of landing, there is little hope for non-tech customers.

As an uninformed person in this domain, I think this market is huge. There are dozens of websites like Etsy enabling creators everyday and doing pretty well. However on those websites I know how exactly things works within a minute of encounter. On Gumroad, I can spend same time to encounter those annoying marketing jumbotrones that doesn't go in to any specifics. Being a lifestyle business is great and I love it but sometimes lack of growth is few simple issues like above and one should probably not confuse it with topping out market.
It's $20 for a plan + $10/GB of mobile data. Not sure where $100/6GB comes from.
Yes exactly that. It's proof though that they're just an entertainment rag looking for eyeballs.

Do some digging, find out more context, get relevant legal precedents, or any precedents for this kind of action. Reference Gawker case, all of the stuff that talks about WHY this is important.

They basically just reposted Bezos' letter but in their own words with some of his quotes thrown in.
Why did you quit ? (Assuming you did cos you said you are an ex alto trader).

How long did you do it?
Is it possible to make a living as an algo trader?
Fully agree, and walmart online is an easy replacement and often less expensive.
Aka “picking up pennies in front of a steamroller” or “selling insurance” or “writing naked options” etc.
Those penalties can occur simply from users flagging posts, which is likely what happened here, given the vitriol elsewhere in-thread about Amazon.
Hey Matt, seems like you really got offended by my clarification. I'm certainly not trying to upset you and my apologies if I did.

I was in fact using "above average" as meaning they tend to be more white collar jobs that pay more than the median salary.

With that said, this really seems like something that is upsetting you and I really want you to know that I'm not trying to play a game or trick anyone. Either way, it's just a web forum. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. There is no prize. Just making internet conversation since I'm a little bored today.

Please don't get too worked up about it and I wish you well.
One idea is to try to focus the things you once thought were fun. If you are a developer try some recreational coding. Just build something fun.

This is a bit of a plug but checkout Jamis Buck. I interviewed him about burn out and I learned a lot. It can be a slow process to rekindle things after burn out so give yourself time.

https://corecursive.com/025-burn-out-and-recreational-progra...
It looks like it's invite-only for now.
AMI picked the wrong person. Jeff, literally, has tons of money, extremely respected in the business world.

Forget about the embarrassment, if he secretly capitulates to this, then the real blackmail material would be the capitulation, not the photos. Cause if the owner of Washington Post bowed down to blackmail, every article published in the article will be called into question.

And who gives a shit if a billionaire cheated on his wife or sent dick pics. I don't care. Did he murder someone? Did he not divorce his wife by parting with half his fortune?
It's not that defer is slow in absolute terms†; it's that it's slower than it needs to be for no good reason. The corresponding C++ feature (RAII) is "free" (as in, it adds no overhead over manually writing the cleanup code), while defer is not. Defer would be easier to use for the programmer, easier for the compiler writer, and faster at runtime if it were block-scoped.

†Though the linked list that the compiler has to generate could hit malloc, which costs more than a few nanoseconds.
I can't wait for tipping culture to end - it's just a way for service workers to be abused in a multitude of ways.

I only wish more workers would realize that it will be better for them collectively to get upset at their employers for not paying them fairly instead of the last customer who stiffed them on the tip.
> I don't think anyone wants to use Helm.

Here is why everyone should use Helm:

Helm 2.0 introduced package as a first-class concept for Kubernetes and created the standard to distribute applications, thanks to Helm thousands of people could discover and collaborate on cloud-native deployments of the open source software https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable published and managed by organizations and contributors all over the world.

Helm 3.0 keeps innovating, it adopts the most forward-thinking approach to package management and Kubernetes config management by using higher level domain specific language based on Lua to create expressive package management system:

https://sweetcode.io/a-first-look-at-the-helm-3-plan/

Helm is also backed by CNCF[1] and is the best choice so far for organizations to create a reproducible CI/CD pipeline in a Kubernetes cluster.

[1] https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/06/01/cncf-to-host-helm/
You ask that question like it's the height of stupidity, seemingly failing to remember that it has been that way for the last hundred years. To put it a different way, wouldn't you rather pay a few cents more support your community and fellow neighbors than feed the checkbook of a $100B sweatshop owner a thousand miles away?

Of course, I already know the answer.
I'm relatively certain that it is on the lien holder to prove that you owe them money; otherwise, you could just re-file to have the lien removed.
> Why do you write anything?

Should be obvious: So that unscrupulous places don't fill in their own tip amount.
It would be unethical because any media outlet he owns is an inappropriate place to select to air his personal business. Whether or not he pays for it is immaterial.
Maybe they could move the checkpoints into close proximity of drinking establishments.
Can we take this opportunity to get rid of institutionalized tipping entirely? It is beyond me why this is even accepted, let alone expected behavior for companies to specifically ask for tips on behalf of workers. I traveled to several (developed) countries recently recently and was pleasantly surprised and relieved to not have to worry about tipping for each and every service.
Not taking pictures of your cock and sending them to a sociopath would have been a better strategy. Richest man on earth (well, until the divorce anyway) and he has less common sense than my dumb ass.
Tip for remembering if a noun is male, female or neuter, visualize it as burning/being burnt/blowing up for coding female and freezing for coding male. Of course you can reverse the system if you prefer.

Also in my experience, reading text eventually is the most efficient way to learn a language, including the grammatical pecularities. If you come upon the phrase "das kalte Bier", you know that it is "das Bier".

At the beginning of learning a language, reading texts is too slow. In that phase, memorizing and practicing vocabulary or short translations (like Duolingo, which I can wholeheartedly recommend) are a good start.

In my experience, especially from learning English, it's a good idea to not look up every unknown word when reading. You quickly develop a sense of which words or grammatical concepts are important for the meaning of a sentence. If you see a new word in different contexts a few times, you may get curious enough to look it up. Or you already have a sense of its meaning.
What is up with the strange comma positioning? I assume that’s just a stylistic choice?
Built by a climate lab out of the University of Idaho.
The decline of Western snowpack is real
> the 787 is a compromised experience in the air.

Why do you say that?
Only in states that explicitly permit tip theft (by having a ludicriously low minimum wage for tipped staff).

In other states/countries, this practice is highly illegal.
At first I suspected I was becoming lazy now, only because I believed, against my own unsettling self ridicule I recognise that nervous giggle was, that I should have a pure distilled and faultless prompt / repl / vim / emacs install / ide / visual studio enterprise edition / PGI suite crystallised as if my own personal x-kryptonite shard, pulsing invitingly in my minimalist polar cave.

Imaginatively my infallible future perfect hindsight convinced me that I would be mad to expect a 10 year old me to build a current development system.

Oh my, how preposterous of me. The lengths I went to to get my mitts on my first very own workstation I think can't be repeated on grounds of antisocial hubris. I was monomanaical. Over years. I ditched a first rate education for which I (to my retrospective surprise) knew I was a second rate candidate by this obsessive proto virtue if nothing else.

I have since learned that this is a universal human counterfactual and misconception: we inevitably one day look around us and fail to find the totemic beautified objects of our youthful ambition. ("Where is my beautiful house?") But we have already grown up, and in so doing, found human cares supplant the material and abstract and idealistic, it happened with the most materially successful people I know even more acutely to my experience.

Whether religious or atheist I think we can all take solace in the drive and determination and inventiveness of the next generation to face the similar issues. Meanwhile, echoing just about everyone who has responded, I think we've reinvented enough prompts and repls and gui libraries and stdios sufficient there likely will be some of them to survive the apocalypse.
surprisingly youtube suggestions fixed that bias, I get a good ratio of interests / fluff these days
How does that explain Pecker's rage at the WaPo digging into AMI's Saudi connection, though?

Nearly everyone who wants funding at this scale hits up the Saudis. Describing that AMI looked for funding with the Saudi royals doesn't strike me as a particularly significant reveal; Musk did it relatively recently, and he wasn't excoriated for it. How is news that AMI is doing it worthy of a push-all-the-chips-into-the-pot move like AMI pulled?

Now if Bezos' private investigation team is getting close to some kind of Kryptonite like Pecker personally authorized his staff to assist with encouraging Khashoggi to visit the Saudi's Turkish embassy as a favor to the royals to try to ingratiate himself and angle for a funding pitch, then I could understand Pecker's reaction. Even if Pecker and AMI didn't know the Saudi's intent, it would indeed be very awkward for AMI and the Saudis. The other direction this could be going is the Saudis are directing AMI via cut-outs to dissuade any deeper investigation into Khashoggi's death, and miscalculated Bezos' mettle.

I wonder if AMI overplayed the "Bezos cheated in his marriage!1!1" angle, too. If there is more or less a collective shoulder shrug that billionaire POTUS DJT cheated on Melania, I'm not clear what AMI thought the impact would be on Amazon's public opinion that its billionaire founder/leader is doing the same.

This will be interesting to follow.
TIL. Amazing how you can still believe stuff which has never been true, for all of your life (it was never true for me that QANTAS existed since it ceased to exist before 1961) and only really learn it end-stage.

I suspect its one of these things Queenslanders want to be true, but we have to accept the reality. (I also thought BOAC persisted long beyond BA. I dont think I saw a BOAC jet but I sure saw BOAC turboprops in Edinburgh)
From the New York Penal Law article 135.60 (AMI is headquartered in New York):

> A person is guilty of coercion in the second degree when he or she compels or induces a person to engage in conduct which the latter has a legal right to abstain from engaging in, [..] by means of instilling in him or her a fear that, if the demand is not complied with, the actor or another will:

[..]

> 5. Expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or false, tending to subject some person to hatred, contempt or ridicule;

[..]

> Coercion in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
Not obvious to me, but OK. I guess writing the total would also serve that purpose and you could save time by not writing anything in the tip area.
Are the people downvoting this (presumably Trump supporters), that AMI admitted guilt in attempting to influence the 2016 by using their well known tactics to snub a story damaging to the candidate, and that their plea agreement stipulates that they would no longer commit anymore crimes, and that by blackmailing Bezos, they're essentially broken their plea agreement?

This is the very definition of a criminal enterprise. Breaking federal election laws, blackmailing those investigating your crimes. If the connection to the Trump campaign bothers you, that too is factual, given that AMI's agreement involved assistance they gave to the Trump campaign that was illegal, and the owner, David Pecker, is a close personal friend of the President.

There's pretty good circumstantial evidence from this, and the Cohen tapes, that using power and privilege to "deal with" personal or political enemies does not give pause to these people.

Thus, mafia-like behavior.
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/10936583665834229...
But as you see from responses and down votes even raising questions is frowned upon now.

(Racists and other bad-faith actors may have ruined the "can't even raise the question" routine. It's unfortunate -- we're quickly losing the ability to think critically; and you know what the great men have said about the unexamined life.)
You presume the live system is the only record - its not, there are backups of those, then historical records to reconstruct what might have been there.

Bear in mind the live records are only one part of what a bank keeps.
> But you actually can setup rules to prevent merges unless certain people/groups have approved.

As detailed, that only prevents merging via the UX, not pushes to the main branch. Maybe the team does suck, but I still consider it a shortcoming of CRUX et al.