skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at a startup and I am 25. I have saved up some money and seriously considering retirement by the time I am 30.

Not that I have a lot of money saved up. I just have a couple of thousand bucks. Nothing fancy. But to me it is a seed money to try out new things, at an age where making huge mistakes wouldn't result in me being 70 and penniless. There will still be enough time to return back to IT once (if) I fail miserably. And it will also be an extended break in the worst case.

I want to explore the world, jobs, hobbies, people. I have realized the 8 hours everyday I spend on my desk is the best time to be out and about. The sunshine is literally gone by the time I get off work. If this is what hundreds of years of progress and planning has led to, I think we have failed.

So yes, I support people who think about retiring early, and actually living their lives when they are still young. If youth is the best time of one's life, it shouldn't be wasted on the desk.
No, I don't think so. I am talking about human psychology and having perspective. This seems to be a common theme on HN: People here have tunnel vision. There is a lot more to the world than Hacker News and folks in tech and so on.

I participate here regularly and I spend a lot of time online. Yet, I did not know this person's name. I am not inner circle enough for his name to have caught my attention before.

Also, Alanis Morissette's fame was not undeserved. Neither was Meatloaf's.

But thank you for commenting.
Agreed. My girlfriend thought she'd never be into basketball. I asked her to watch a game with me, made a point of talking to her about what was going on, and some of the decisions being made. A few months later, she's as avid a fan as I am.

I have zero interest in baseball, not a huge interest in football, despite being in Seattle. But we find basketball a lot of fun and make the trip down to Portland about once a month or so to see the Trail Blazers play - a team that still tries to live the "Keep Portland weird" ethos.

What's intriguing, too, is that despite her dad's best efforts - he definitely sees himself, at least in his mind, as a counter culture revolutionary who despises professional sport as being "what the mindless drones pay attention to", our step-daughter, a seven year old who alternates between My Little Pony, Frozen, and being a self-avowed pacifist vegetarian, also loves and begs to go to games because of the atmosphere - somewhat made curious by the fact she has near zero interest in watching them on TV, but at the arena she is entirely involved, cheering, chanting, dancing, having a whole bunch of fun.

Which is what it should be about.
The hackerrank site is terribly coded. Going between the problem and submission pages takes several seconds and hangs any browser I use about 25% of the time.

+1 to the incorrect solutions
Funny how Chomskyan approaches to Linguistics and Syntax require their own indoctrination and belief system and "the most exotic information and understanding about all kind of arcane issues".

Meanwhile, statistical approaches continue to win in the real world.
I don't like this, because it means the Bay Area will likely never be considered a megacity :(
But with FLDC, you can have both :) The ASIC miners for Bitcoin cannot fold proteins, we are trying to bring in the Altcoin miners still using CPU and GPUS
The "intellectuals" who watch sports are interested in strategy. This encompasses on field strategy, personnel choices, and beyond.

The fact that you ignored (or are ignorant of) this side of sports tells me that you've not actually had much practice "making conversation or building rapport" around sports.
"That's nice. What other corporate products must I consume in order to be a validated member of your social caste?"

Go ahead, say, with a straight face, that such a remark was not effectively a paraphrasing of what I said and was a non-loaded question asked with sincerity. To claim that you were not implying some corporate brainwashing in what you said is, frankly, disingenuous.
"The man who..." is beginning to sound like catchy clickbait titles.
But Apple's whole M.O. is putting the customer first.
The thing that I didn't see in the data is while yes, the longer uber is in a city the less likely you are to wait, there is also a flip side of the driver no longer waiting as long when uber becomes more established in a city.

Let me explain...

When Uber was first in Chicago it was normal to wait 10-15 mins for a ride to pick you up. You would pull the app out while you still had a few things to do in the apartment before you left, order the Uber, and then by the time you were ready it was right out front waiting. The time waiting felt very seamless, although there might have been an actual 10 minute wait. When it also first started drivers were totally okay with waiting a minute or two for you because the demand wasn't as high back then. They didn't want to lose a potential customer. However, now that Uber IS more abundant in Chicago you can no longer do that little technique. Most drivers will get pissy with you if they have to wait outside for more than 30 seconds, or if you are not curbside waiting for the ride when they show up. Since drivers now also have more options for people to pick up, they can be more choosy on the customers they decide to take. They can easily cancel rides if they are too far from the pickup or are waiting to get a new customer. So since you can't "queue" up a ride like the "old days" you have order the ride when you are actually ready to go and are already waiting. Now that you do this, the wait is felt 100% by the customer (which was once avoided), if that makes sense. So what used to feel like nothing now feels like you are waiting in the cold for possible 5-10 whole minutes, which obviously often feels a lot longer that. Thus making you more likely to cancel the ride if you see an empty cab or another opportunity. So there is a bit of a catch 22 here, if I'm using that phrase correctly.

It does makes sense that they don't want to expose this side of things though, because that places more blame on their own quality of drivers. It probably shows that as a city is active longer, the ratings/quality of drivers goes down drastically. I've noticed it quite a bit here in Chicago, and it's really disappointing. The average quality of driver I get nowadays is almost 1 to 1.5 stars lower than what I got 2 years ago.

I'm curious to find out if anyone else has had this same experience or not.
the trouble is that they pollute the newsfeed with all the crap your friends 'like', when they should only show stuff that they explicitly 'share'
That approach doesn't scale. Does mildly appreciating a skim of an archery blog post and clicking through a video mean that I need to skim EVERY archery related blog post and video? Where does it end? If someone links an engaging blog post on knitting do I have to go out and buy yarn?
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> The only possible reason someone would choose Go is because, somehow, it is advantageous to their process.

Or because of the hype (and that they didn't know any better), which is quite common in the industry nowadays, unfortunately.

In a similar fashion, the Go designers were surprised that, what they thought was a C++ replacement, did not attract C++ programmers.
The disdain I have for sports is letting an external event (like a team of free agents branded by my hometown losing) impact my happiness.

That said, I love going to a baseball game outdoors. It's like a happy hour that happens to have live action.
While I'm a big fan, Rohrer might be a bad example. He's simultaneously well known (your average dev is not) and yet lives a very austere life style and puts artistic goals ahead of profit. For instance, his latest game won't provide a livable salary unless it's supporting millions of dollars being gambled per year.

However, I'll say Cordial Minuet is a great game: exhilarating and pretty deep. Doesn't hurt that I've won over $1,000 (results not typical).
More convincing than the Model S.* At least for me:

I have been playing around with buying a Tesla S for a while. Maybe from day one of them being available. But then the feature set of the Model X got released. And I was disappointed. About Tesla and about me.

Driving rentals in the luxury car segment for the last 3 years installed a pretty stubborn view of what features I think are worth their money.

The Model X features were praised especially by my peer group (like hacker news readers) and indeed, a lot of those features are worth their money. The problem is, those features are pretty standard in those rentals I was driving.

I got disappointed because I fell prey to the techie-bias, that completely ignores the fact that the Tesla S lacks features which are standard in cars half the price. Again, this car is starting at 70k $. Take a 3 Series BMW Sedan, customize it until it costs the same - besides the Model S's acceleration and low-to-no-noise there is absolutely nothing were the BMW is not superior or at least on pair.

Which got me thinking about everything Tesla does get right: A Jobs-like persona as part of their marketing and a history of taking bold risks is creating a brand that enables them to take a midsize-quality car and sell it as a luxury one.

* Realizing how biased I was towards reality made me remember how personal we deem the decision of buying which car. I think the fact, that a lot of the first comments made here tried to dismantle the i8 as a weak attack on the Model S just proves my point :-)
Ha, yeah. Some of us were abused mercilessly by the "jocks". On top of that, the school administration, and wider town culture didn't give a shit, because to them the young sports players were local superstars, and could do no wrong.

And if a few young nerds kill them themselves because of the abuse, what harm right? As long as our school sports team is on form it's all cool.

If not liking sports makes me a snob then ok, I can live with that. but let's not pretend working class sports culture is all good clean fun. It can be as venomous as any other culture.
I upgraded because of SublimeLinter plugins (inline error checking for js, jsx, ruby, php etc.) only available on ST3.

ST3 seems pretty stable for regular use.
Witnessing the Last Days of Blue Fin Tuna at the Tokyo Fish Market
Giuseppe Peano: A teacher that did not give his students tests
If Coinbase Is the Future of Bitcoin, Then I Want Off This Ride
How is the valet going to park it and get out of it?
It's worth keeping covert and side channels in mind, though: e.g. an instance can leak bits by timing variations. Capability security is a big big deal, a qualitative change in the game, but I think this comment is over-promising things.
> A turbocharged I4 can produce just as much power as a naturally aspirated V8, but it doesn't sound as powerful.

Well, yes, you can make a 400HP 4 cyl turbo, but you wont have the same response as an NA v8. It's going to take some time to spool the turbo, and you wont have on call power. The torque curve will also look insane. Engines that perform like this don't last very long.
Fair enough, i did not know that, and i do love Gridcoin as they are supporting a different platform than us. I wish them the best of luck, though i do think they should move over to Counterparty rather than a new POS blockchain they have been creating.
I've noticed so many more ppl wearing Fitbits than Jawbones recently. Is the difference really that significant?
To my ears, this "cultivated disinterest" label comes off as something of a cheap stereotype. Simply put, not everyone who lacks interest in professional sports nurtures a "cultivated distinterest" in the subject, nor are we driven by some need to display this disinterest as some kind of marker of class rank or intellectual superiority. We simply lack interest in the subject, period.

And when pressed on the subject, I never use language that conveys any sense that I think others are stupid or shallow for being interest in professional sports. If anything I just say, kind of sheepishly, "You know, I actually don't follow professional sports", or something to that effect. And surprisingly, this kind of honesty has, itself, sparked interesting conversations with people, on several occasions.
This position taken by Chomsky is exactly what the article is denouncing, and I think Chomsky comes off as a smug jerk here.

If Chomsky believes cheering for your classmates is stupid, then he must believe that we should be perfectly objective and treat everyone exactly the same. If you're a judge or President, you have an obligation to the public to act that way. But me, I'm glad I have the luxury of showing preference to my friends and family. I care about my neighbors more than people on the other side of the world. And yes, I will root for my home team and cheer when they win.

I don't believe it's irrational or wrong to play favorites this way. And even if it were, it's so fundamental to being human that we could not be any other way. Perhaps we are a jingoistic species.
Could it be that when space and time get stretched beyond the Planck interval, then the black hole ceases to exist at all beyond that point? In other words, the center of a black hole is non-existence itself.

Looking at it from the time angle, we all blink in and out of existence constantly. But when time and space gets stretched too far, it becomes impossible to blink back into existence, as if the process runs out of gas if the out-of-existence time period is too long.
I was trained as a scientist in Pittsburgh. The Steelers taught me far more about the city and its people than any experiment I ran or article I read.
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Hi languagehacker,
this is not science fiction. It just shows you a way of implementing a serializer that works for all kind of models in Django Rest Framework.
If they dig up this thread, their lawyers can very easily demonstrate willful trademark violation, which lets them really nail you to the wall if they take you to court.

You know you're in violation of their trademark. Fix it.
4 TB is certainly not big data. Many people would agree with this. Additionally your definition of big data is flawed. If I can't open a 2 GB text file with a single application, does that mean it's big data?
> It reads a bit like an ivory tower academic discovering what "the poors" are up to.

"A bit like"? Isn't the piece pretty overtly "How I, ivory tower anti-sports intellectual, realized the error of my ways, converted to the 'working class' ritual of sports fandom, and found that it was useful for one's own social engagement, despite having some worrisome aspects."

I mean, the authors journey into sports starts with hearing a speaker at MIT claim that people who talk about "working class struggle" can't speak to the working class because they avoid sport -- and seeing themself in that critique.

It actually is somewhat impressive for its ability to maintain an attitude of disdain for sport while recognizing the utility of joining the fandom, while at the same time adding new disdain for those who don't play the same game.
It wouldn't be too hard to extend the SSH protocol to include something like the HTTP Host-request header. In the protocol exchange section of the SSH RFC ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4253#section-4.2 ) the format described is:

SSH-protoversion-softwareversion SP comments CR LF

In the comment section of the message, you could add something like "X-Host: hostname.wherever.org" and a smart SSH server could proxy the connection to the correct host. This happens before the key exchange occurs, so you'd still get strong authentication from having the right key.

I checked through the OpenSSH and Paramiko code, and both essentially ignore the comment section of the version exchange - everything between the first space and the CR/LF at the end. They does hold on to it for part of the DH key exchange, but they never try to interpret the bytes, so a modified client could keep sending the X-Host extension and stock OpenSSH would just ignore it.
I'm with you. There's a whole world out there, it's not hard to find other shared interests.

... although it did get awkward when a Lyft driver opened up enough to start telling me about financial astrology. Fascinating, but awkward.
Not right now. I just looked at it again, but it's just way too ugly to open-source without some serious work. It was cobbled together from bionic's headers with a re-implementation of enough of the standard library to get TomCrypt and file I/O calls up and running.

Happy to share it privately (email in profile).
I don't know why. Yes IPS does have the best image quality but it is awful for eye strain.
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The barrier isn't understanding of sports, or even dedicating time to them. The barrier is that I'm not presented with an interesting narrative. I'm not invested in anyone winning, so it's not interesting.
Cultivating an active ignorance about sports is stupid--knowing more things never hurt anyone. And I definitely see that trend in my peers.

That said, I wouldn't go the further step to say that people should somehow be obligated to like sports. I don't like most sports--for reasons brought up, but not really expanded by the article.

My main beef with sports is the effects sports have on education. My city spends millions annually on the maintenance of stadiums, simultaneously cutting budget for schools. In turn sports figures become role models for kids, and sports talent is a poor indicator of being a good role model. Even when sports figures aren't horrible people, their fame encourages children to seek careers in sports--a field where very few will be successful--at the expense of their education. Even when sports scholarships allow people to go to college who otherwise couldn't, sports scholarships rarely result in good scholars. Professional sports are directly counterproductive to increasing education.

At a personal rather than societal level, I don't see a point in emotionally investing myself in something that has no actual effect on my life. I'm not above having a few beers with friends while watching the game, but I would rather have a few beers with friends without a big screen TV distracting us from actually interacting with advertisements for products I don't need or want.

And I don't need another way to make small talk, regardless of class. I don't want to make small talk about things the person has only a side interest in--I want to find out what people are working on, what they care about. How is your spouse doing? What about your kids? Are you working on anything interesting? Making some progress on a hobby? Getting closer to a goal, paying off loans, buying a car or house? People actually are affected by these things--they're things that actually matter and make a difference in their lives. If you show interest in these things you're showing interest in them, in their lives.

So no, when I show overt contempt for sports I am showing contempt for people. All the reasons I don't like sports are pro-social.
The clubs model brings a different set of problems, especially in populations already divided by religion or class. See the sectarianism and tribalism that have developed around the Old Firm derby in Glasgow, for example.
I couldn't find any pictures or videos of how this works.
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I'm not too aware of payback timeframes and maintenance costs of solar power. So I thought I would look into the Rutgers solar canopy. This led me to the news article at Rutgers discussing the project:

http://news.rutgers.edu/news-releases/2011/04/rutgers-board-...

The description largely matches this article in the Washington Post. It also mentions that it was a "40.8 million dollar project." I'm uncertain if this includes various tax breaks and incentives, but let's take it at face value.

It also mentions that it will generate 1.2 million dollars per year in electricity. If we assume that electricity costs will stay perfectly constant and that maintenance costs are factored into the 40.8 million, this means the facility would pay for itself in 34 years.

I do not actually expect maintenance to be included. I ask myself, how long does a solar panel actually last? It seems many tariffs and incentives are based on a 25 year life of a solar panel. The UK Centre for Alternative Technology has the following article: http://info.cat.org.uk/questions/pv/life-expectancy-solar-PV...

In it, they explain that a solar panel's output will go down by about 1% per year. The materials surrounding the electricity production will wear, yellow, or otherwise decay, but the power production seems largely unaffected for 30 or more years (aside from the 1% decrease each year, that is).

On the flipside, energy costs are rising at much more than 1% a year. So in terms of raw energy pricing, and assuming that maintenance isn't too much of an issue, it seems like the Rutgers facility might "pay for itself" in 35 years. Of course, it isn't exactly a good fiscal decision to freeze $40 million dollars for 40 years.

I have no idea how to quantify the benefits of shade for the cars. But overall I now have a basic understanding of why someone might build the Rutgers facility.

It also seems likely that as energy costs rise, solar panels become less expensive and more efficient, then these canopies will make much more financial sense. It seems like it would take a lot for it to be a "good money investment" though.
I'm sorry,but this is such a nonsense argument. This car is "just" slightly below 100k pounds. That's not Rolls-Royce or McLaren territory. That's the same price as Range Rover Vogue, Mercedes S-Klasse or Audi A8, of which there are thousands of(at least here in UK), most driven not by chauffeurs with their own valets,but with people who actually bought them(or their spouses). The difference is that there is absolutely no problem with driving that Range Rover to the shops. Or to the gym. Or to work. You can park it anywhere and get out of it easily. But meanwhile, doors on that BMW? It's not about price - it's just stupid and impractical, plain and simple. And I would expect more than this German company.
Who's the company?
Unaffected by the GHOST vulnerability
In Amsterdam one of these (and the very old industrial terrain around it) has been repurposed into public spaces.

Concerts/Festivals are frequently held: http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/clubs/photos/2012-04-0...
> When a kids says, "Hockey. Meh. It is a bunch grown men with sticks chasing a black piece of rubber around a sheet of ice" he is saying in effect "What you love is obtuse and low brow and I don't care how that makes you feel." And that is just rude.

Kids who openly show their disdain for STEM disciplines--especially mathematics--are legion. At a societal scale, courtesy is a two-way street.
Apple are losing their edge also in accessibility quality
That does work up to a point, although that can be taken too far as well. When people interpret any expression of disinterest as "you must not understand it well enough or you'd like it", that's painfully wrong in the other direction, too.
And here's one in Amsterdam: http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/clubs/photos/2012-04-0...
"even Mother Theresa apparently had a steely side"

Even? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor...
I'm not setting up a straw man. I'm saying that it makes more sense if computers and humans are looking for the same things. Since humans read the indentation, computers should read the indentation too.

The way things are in bracketed languages, humans and computers read different things, and you just have to hope that they always match up. Sometimes they don't, and the human and computer will have a misunderstanding. To make it a real linguistic redundancy, like in Spanish, the compiler should read both and issue a warning if the indentation is incorrect or misleading. As it is, you and the computer are actually speaking different languages.