skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US conflict with Iraq was unjustified and based on blatant lies. Whatever their reasons for invading, they were certainly to further their own interests, the economic boost of a war machine and rebuilding infrastructure, geo-politics, etc. The interests of the "poor Iraqi people" come about dead last on the list of reasons the wars occurred.

So "protecting your civilisation and way of life" from the fallout of an unjustified war that one's country (coalition of the willing?) participated in, does make one a bit of a bastard, and that's putting it lightly.

Last time I checked we're all humans and until we all live in relative comfort there's a bunch of fatties on one end consuming more than their fair share.
Well this is downright evil.
...in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door...
Is it any more difficult to jam than other network technologies?
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Swimming with the big fish is flawed from the start. Why do businesses use one drive? Because they have enterprise office and outlook for their email, and one drive was thrown in. Why do businesses use google drive? They use the google suite and gmail for their email and google drive was thrown in.

If dropbox wants to compete with enterprise software they'd need to reinvent the office/g suite AND email services. They tried the former with dropbox paper, but it's clear that they've bitten off far more than they can ever chew, especially when your direct competition is google and microsoft.
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I don't work with HIPAA but with other compliance/regulations NOT using version control is the problem.

Unless you have patient information hardcoded into the source code for god knows what reason...
So the ruling class simultaneously believe that There Is No Alternative, but also that giving workers (partial) control of the means of production is a good way to Smash The Patriarchy?
So yes, when I lived in the Europe one of the joys of coming back to Oz for holidays was that you can actually see stars. Even inside a big city, the nights tend to be clearer than in Europe and the light "pollution" more limited.

That said, I've never seen the Milky Way.

I probably could if I went out somewhere far from the city, but I can't remember ever actually seeing it, even when doing star-gazing at school camp.
I tried the V10 SW a few days ago. In sunny, dry weather, with no debris and 0 traffic. In a flat, well-maintained parking lot. A dog with a paper bag over its head would navigate better. I won't trust it until they are 10 iterations into it.
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What was the bottleneck?
Ask HN: Mind map like tool for information organization?
I love mind maps. However, most tools are somewhat restrictive or "slow" when adding anything other than plain text.

Is there any tool that works better with different media?

I'm not sure how to put it into words, but I envision a blank canvas like Prezi (at least when it was launched) where you can structure information with mind maps, add snippets from the web, plain text or even videos/images almost like you have an infinite sized table and you lay down all information you have, but in a digital format.

It also has to be searchable and potentially offer some sort of outline based on the information you have to easily glance at structure?

My intent is to document ideas, tasks, and information that serves as reference.
Yes, saddle points are far more common than local minima in high dimension. Unfortunately they're really good at slowing down naive gradient descent...
Yes, there's another comment here somewhere that points to a study where showing violence tends to increase post-shutdown compared to leaving communications open. I suppose leaving things open lets people organize more, but they tend to be more peaceful in those gatherings. Just supposition though.
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Can’t pass on the opportunity to share one of my favorite (and topical!) paper titles:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04474
So someone who takes classes for 3 years now has to pay $31,662 dollars, which is still significantly more than 13k. Also, I'm now realizing I misread your earlier post and you were completing your masters, not undergrad. I feel like the people racking up debt today are mostly doing it in undergrad, as graduate students usually pay little to no tuition and get a stipend.
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Yes, we must free ourselves from the oppression of writing unit tests and having a tool auto-indent our code! How brave to take such a noble stand on this controversial issue!
During my ~60 months inside Google, these nuggets sometimes proved to be useful, telling about a newly available tools (e.g screenshot diffing in UI tests), common pitfalls (like mixing up dates from different systems with and without timezone), common best practices (don't use `now()` in test, instead, imitate the flow of time using...). These are just off the top of my head after several years outside Google.

Nothing mind-blowing or earth-shattering. A number of useful things to learn at these 30-60 seconds when you can't read anything more interesting, though.
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Perhaps you could comment without the personal insults. You have good info to share. Let it speak for itself.
Which is exactly what was predicted:

"That's a very volatile part of the world. And if you take down the central government in Iraq, you could easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off. Part of it the Syrians would like to have, the west. Part of eastern Iraq the Iranians would like to claim. Fought over for eight years. In the north, you've got the Kurds. And if the Kurds spin loose and join with Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq." -- Dick Cheney
That’s the wrong measure by a long shot.

If I lose a $2000 rifle, and that rifle is then used to massacre a school, was the loss a mere $2000?
That'd would be the largest tree by volume, the General Sherman tree is 52,500 cubic feet.

The tallest tree would be Hyperion, a coastal redwood, which is in an undisclosed location in one of the Redwood National or State parks.

Coincidentally the oldest tree in the world is also in California, Methuselah in Eastern California is 4,851 years old.
If somebody leaves a void (US?) then the next strongest force (Iran?) will try to fill it.

In the case of Iraq (maybe similar for Syria?) I guess that there aren't probably big motivations/interests nor strong cultural similarities for the West to create something similar to a "Marshall Plan" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan ) to kickstart again the nation and then make it work long-term from both an economic and indirectly social perspective. Therefore, I think that Iraq will just drift more and more towards what will look like the next-best offer(s) (Iran?).
> It doesn't say Microsoft or IBM

GitHub does, now, though I really hope that isn’t necessary for a company to adopt version control.
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I fully agree, ideally we would be doing both! But due to obvious realities of humans, any time or money spent trying to tell people to stop doing what they are instinctively motivated to do is a waste.

Americans love to fool themselves into these naive, moralistic tirades that lead nowhere. Take the issue of teen pregnancy, for example.

For decades, the American approach was to wag their fingers at teenagers and tell them to not have sex (similar to how we currently wag our fingers at the developing world and their use of oil). Meanwhile, in Northern Europe, they focused on making contraception widely available for teen girls via state run healthcare programs.

Fast forward 50 years and the US has 6X as many teen pregnancies per capita as a country like the Netherlands. Ignoring human nature and focusing on moral appeals doesn't work for sex, and it won't work for consumption either:

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/adolescent-pregnancy-a...
Not really, it's mainly because it hasn't been optimized over many many years yet. Also, everything in Rust is implemented in Rust. Unlike interpreted languages like PHP, it's self-hosted.
It's not apples and oranges, the price of money has been at historic lows for a while now. You might even have a better credit score than him and qualify for a lower rate (although not as much principal).

Also, even if your CEO makes 10x as much as you, that still might not be so bad and not qualify you to talk like you're being victimized by someone conceptually talking about how interest rates are low. Supposing he makes $2M per year, sounds like you'd be doing fine.
You are wrong regarding disposal of plastic. Most of developed world does not recycle its plastic, we ship it to China or Philippines, where its sorted by hand, or illegally burned and land filled.
Often it is shipped there illegally by our own governments.
Recently China stopped taking contaminated plastic, and much more of it now ends up in even poorer countries.
Many kinds of plastic are 'unrecycleable' at all, like most plastic bags and films. Some are recyclable (like plastic bottles) but uneconomic to sort from the grades of plastic that aren't, from each-other, and from random food contamination. No country in the world has achieved good track record of recycling plastic, and it probably impossible without very tight control and discipline.

Unrecycleable plastic in single use items should be illegal.

www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-48455440
The installers for 64 bit applications.
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My only evidence is that I didn't hear of one. Didn't even hear about the studies. Perhaps they just confirmed what everyone already thought or wanted to believe or the gender disparaged by the studies didn't care enough to raise a fuss. Whatever the reason.

I did hear about the president of Harvard being fired though. I read about The Bell Curve. Damore. The list goes on and on. You must know what I'm talking about.

Maybe I'm just biased so I filter bubble out evidence that sexism is sexist.
My most breathtaking glimpse of the world: Stopping one night while hitching through the Nullarbor, and walking to the coast very close by. Pitch black, but then not quite, for all over the sky were insanely more and brighter stars than I have ever seen before or since.
And then the crashing waves at the foot of the cliffs, and wind roaring in from the south, with the just the right amount of arctic chill to make it awesome and remind you that across that ocean lies Antarctica.
That's more than thirty years ago, but words about 'the end of the world' still take me back.
No you can only lend out the securities of clients that are themselves on margin or have an explicit borrow agreement (which grants you a kickback of the money made from the stock loan).

Cash accounts without a margin balance cannot be lent out.
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It’s true that banks are able to offer money market fund sweeps, however, they are incentivized to hold funds as deposits (better for their bottom line), which often results in limitations on account activity, and checking account interest rates near 0%.

We built Brex Cash to give startups their time back -- so customers can spend time building their businesses, instead of optimizing deposits and spending across multiple bank accounts. Within the Brex Cash account, our goal is to provide startups with a safe and liquid place for their funds, with benefits of yield that larger companies are offered.
First Republic and Schwab are common choices in SF that have good features/perks.
What if dark matter turns out the key to a decent space drive? There appear to be galaxies without it (a good reason for believing it exists where there is evidence) and so any aliens there would be SOL.
> How do you plan on making money?

[I work at Brex]

Brex earns fees, including distribution/referral fees (also known as 12b-1 fees) from money market mutual funds that are included in the Brex Cash sweep program.
Oppenheimer and Einstein were very nice people who in general weren't in agreement with most of the policies of the governments that they helped develop killing machines for. Those governments knew this, and distrusted them for it.

Only some of us are sociopaths (a lot of people in tech, sadly), but most of us just compartmentalize and rationalize, with a special pitfall for the math-oriented is the truism that technology doesn't have moral implications in and of itself, just the uses to which it is put. The last is one of those things that people never bother to justify, they just think of it as an obvious implication of a impenetrable division between abstraction and the material world that is nevertheless marked by humans shuttling information between the two. To me, thinking of people this way is just warmed-over dualism.

If you introduce a technology into the world, you have to consider the possibilities every type of person with every possible aim having control of that technology. Not doing this is simply not scientific.
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That was hilarious, the 2nd half was better than the first! You’ve had an amazing lesson in running businesses, you’d now make an excellent CEO, much better than the one you work for, having done some of his job. All I can say is they didn’t pay you enough money for the amount of stress you went through!
Exploits or not, exposing those services to the Internet is a bad idea. If it weren't for NAT that number would probably be much higher...
The title is "Do Developers Discover New Tools On The Toilet?" but an overbearing mod changed it because he thinks he's Etiquette Secretary of the Internet, and probably also so he can plausibly pretend this isn't a website dedicated to Alphabet's PR.
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It’s huge in a corporate environment. Unpatched machines and clueless users are the biggest threats. Everyone has clueless users and they can be dealt with. If you have unpatched machines then you have no control over your environment and it’s only a matter of time before you’re breached, assuming it hasn’t happened already and you don’t know it.
You will be. You don’t think you have it in you, but just wait. You’ll find that you have more in common with the bastards than you ever thought you could.
Interested! Senior full-stack dev with 15+ years of experience. Node/Typescript, GraphQL, PHP7/Laravel, databases. Lots of AngularJS/Angular 2+ experience, so I can easily pick up React.

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It was far from arbitrary.

The British drew the map specifically so that they could use the local tensions to divide and conquer.

We're still suffering because of that.
What do you do after you get bored? My Achilles heel has always been too much internet and distractions, and actively removing those has helped increase concentration.

Not specifically related, but I personally find that having too many options for what to do generally makes me hop between things too much. I have a theme for every day of the week, and I don't allow myself to work on anything under a theme for another day. MWF are three courses respectively, TH is backend for a side project, weekend is frontend for a side project.
>As far as cognitive empathy, sorry fellow men, we can't blame our lack of cognitive empathy on biology

Are you claiming that there is zero biological influence on this well documented phenomenon that exists across cultures?
Payment for order flow (pfof) is demininis revenue for both sides.

Look at Schwab's income statement: pfof is less than 1 percent of it's $5bn 2018 revenue. On the other side, the traders or internalizers, they must pay to buy this order flow and it's a competitive landscape. The money they make on the flow barely covers what they pay for it. Markets have become very efficient.

My sources: Schwab annual report. Also I used to internalize trades at a big bank. I still know some people at the big shops who still do it.
No, and they have a large attack surface thru various techniques, so not a good choice for anything but keeping touch with friends and relatives (assuming no mass usage occurs)
Yeah, this happenned to me. No allergies all my life, then about 35 yrs old, it seemed like my nose was running all the time. Blowing my nose about 20 times a day. Enough drainage down my throat that it was causing gag reflex amd coughing issues. Finally lead to bad sinus headaches. Got diagnosed with allergies this past winter. Now, daily take Xyzal and Cingular plus Dymistra nasal sprays, and I get weekly allergy shots. The headaches have mostly subsided and I can breathe more easily, but I still get some drainage.

Odd thing for me, despite my allergies being to cats, dogs, tree and weed pollen, I always feel worst when I'm in the office away from my allergens. When I'm at home with my dog and 3 cats, with the windows open and pollen flowing through the living room, I'm fine. :shrug:
How many refugees are living in your spare bedrooms?
Etrade just did the same, so called competition.

besides all competitors had a really bad day on the stock market.
> The Taycan is DOA.

No, they'll be selling about 20,000 a year which is what they always planned for. They're actually increasing production capacity at the moment:

https://electrek.co/2019/10/02/porsche-taycan-increase-produ...

> I’m not about to spend 150k

There are two cheaper variants on the way. Buy one of them if you want:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/cheaper-porsche-taycan-ev...
Humans aim and pull the trigger -- and they aren't self-motive.

Robots are different.
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I wonder if OP meant “deciding whether or not to kill people”.
In professional settings, when it comes to these kinds of awkward topics, I have found a method that has served me very well:

A. Meet with the person who is applying the unwanted pressure (it works best one-on-one, so if more than one person is pressuring, you may need to figure out who is best to speak to).

B. Frame your concern as asking for advice. For example, "I'm struggling with how to handle this on-call thing. Work-life balance is EXTREMELY important to me, but I love my job, and I don't know how to set that boundary without upsetting management. What would you do?"

In my experience, this approach makes the listener very sympathetic and pragmatic, and they advise you to do what you already want to do (and subsequently stop pressuring you to change). I think this is because people like being asked for this sort of help, and when they enter "advice mode" they take a step back and look at the situation from an impartial distance.

YMMV, IANAL, etc., but it's served this awkward introvert quite well.
America waged war based on information provided by a Iraqi minister, who was later found to be working for Iranian interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Chalabi

IRGC had also announced the Syria as its 35th province.

https://carnegieendowment.org/2013/08/27/iran-s-unwavering-s...

IRGC and Russian bombing had driven out most of the Sunni's from Southern Syria towards north Syria, close to Turkish borders. and Iran is repopulating the land with Shias from allover from Afghanistan to Lebanon.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/13/irans-syria-pr...

IRGC has sort of created a contiguous Shia controlled land mass from Iran, Iraq, Syria to Lebanon. Some geopolitical observers I follow, expect the next will be in Afghanistan, with Afghani Shias against Pakistan controlled Sunni Talibans, as soon as US withdraws from Afghanistan.
If you look at the diffs between this and the last list, there are def some companies that opted out of listing. Some of them had so much funding that there's no way that they could've just fallen out. For example, Machine Zone, Zenefits, LendUp, Soylent.

Also interesting, are supposedly well-capitalized companies from the 2018 list that shut down: uBiome(with a fair amount of attention) and Meta.

Other fun observations might just be how much money people are raising. Memsql was 40 in 2018, and is 67 in 2019. I'm guessing they didn't raise money in the time between, and a bunch of companies did so in the meanwhile.

Also kind of interesting? CoreOS(2018 #42) was above Heroku (2018 #46), but in this year's list is above them (Heroku #71, CoreOS #73). But both were acquired by the time that the 2018 list was made. I'm not sure what this is about, but maybe it's because the acquisition terms weren't all cash, and there were fluctuations in the intervening time in Salesforce vs RHT(and then, RHT got acquired by IBM so who knows how that factors into the present value of what used to be CoreOS). Fun.
It’s a continuous process.
That's my point. There's been a steady trend toward global annihilation and as a species we are running toward it.

I was out with a bunch of friends who worked for Northrup Grumman and I was like, "Why do you guys work there building things designed to kill people?"

Synchronized response: The money is good.
You're not storing patient details in VC...... Right? Maybe show him that you can run svn even on his own machine... Anything... Anything is better than not using something
Nice property, investing in an interesting and potentially business venture, buying $1000 fundraising tables with local politicians, buying an artist you like who has potential to become collectable, buying a car and learning how to maintain it, home or garden upgrades, a degree in something you are interested in, .

Happy to help you spend your hard earned dollars ;)