skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changing a name to "deleted" (or something similar) is, however, a somewhat meaningful workaround to alleviate the problem from end-user point of view.

But even that carries an administrational cost so I don't think sysadmins should be forced to do that just at the whim of other people. (Particularly when we are talking of things that are offered more or less as a public, free service).
Depends on how much water.
Let me clarify: I totally do not think that this state of mind is a reality at banks - and probably not at many tech companies either. I truly abhor the fake "passion" demonstrations required in the typical corporate environment. They are one of the reasons why I hated my time there. It is a tragedy, a travesty of the good things humans can achieve through their work.

However, this concept is a reality in my life, and I am observing it in people other than me as well, at work. In no cases does it involve people "working round the clock" - though sometimes it does involve people thinking about work-related topics even when they're not at work. And it also involves them thinking about non-work things while at work. From time to time, people might choose to work late, but there's no external pressure to do so.

This philosophy is best explained in a book called "The Seven-day weekend" by Ricardo Semler of Semco fame. Note the emphasis of letting life take over and blur the lines from that "direction", rather than just trying to fool people into working longer hours, which is indeed a disgusting approach to business.

PS: I'm European. This notion of work being an evil biblical curse to be avoided is just as backwards as the american-style attempts to convince people to work all the time and "show passion".

PPS: That said, thank you for highlighting a way that my arguments in this matter can be misunderstood.
Conducive to existing life adapting. But what about life forming in the first place?
That commenter at PH could tell the original design took 20 minutes, and if you only have resources to allocate 20 minutes to a product page design, how good can the product be? I think there are more in this community would agree about the original design without completely writing off the product's potential.
I will happily join you in outlier-land. I want to be able to read - and quickly grok - what a product is about. Needing to watch a video to understand a product is a marketing fail, IMO.
Ah, thanks Monica. They're beautiful!
I though Mercury was 3:2 solely because of its elliptical orbit? The fast rotation at the closest orbit continues during the long eccentric part, where it has time to make an extra half turn. Just geometry.
I know these aren't all web-based hacks, but I'm guessing the majority of connected devices are using http. Simply switching to https everywhere would remove a huge amount of attack surface for almost no cost.
Ironically, fracturing has superficially improved security for the moment. Devices with the largest user base get a disproportionate amount of the attacks.
We should form a club! We can have meeting where we show videos that we all ignore, while we chat over drinks.
I am employed to develop and maintain a desktop application for simulation and modelling with the engineering
discipline.

The application has been in development for over 16 years. At inception a web application was totally out of the question.

The application is CPU and RAM intensive. Until recently, this ruled out a web application. Amazon and other elastic compute providers have swung this pendulum a little.

Model size generally exceeds the limits of Local Storage.

The simulation can generate from hundreds of MB to multiple GB of data. While this can now be retrieved over the internet, the time to do so can become an issue. This will be compounded when the user wants to run sensitivity series (ie multiple models with slight variations).

I have built a few CRUD web apps in my time. HTML+CSS+JS was incredibly painful compared to the desktop UI toolkits I have used.

The models built in my application almost always contain client confidential information. Explaining to them that we/they have to send their data to "the cloud" in order to run the simulation is not going to be acceptable.

Whenever I dip my toe into web development to see if things have improved, I still struggle to understand the convolutions required. Compiling CSS? How many JS libraries? I have to sacrifice how many chickens for my app to work right in IE+Firefox+Chrome+Safari+mobile?

As far as I can tell, all the web app stuff is just to sidestep the need to install and update an application? While this might be an important consideration for a (IMHO lazy) IT department or for a communication based tool (Twitter/Facebook etc), it really doesn't make much sense to me for office applications and many other common tools.

Why should I need an internet connection to do desktop publishing? Why do I need to transfer my possibly confidential data to someone else's computer just to transform it? These are things I have always been able to do with a desktop app, without having to compromise on privacy or performance.
Good luck finding enough people who will be passionate about cleaning your office, or collecting your trash, or driving your Uber, or processing your DMV application, or building your new house, or stripping your old laptop for recycling, or making your Starbucks, or exterminating your pests, or cleaning your blocked sewer, or picking your fruit, etc etc.

It sounds lovely to say we can all be passion workers, and of course there will be people who are passionate about the above jobs, but not all of them, not by a long shot.

There are definitely jobs that are hard to find enjoyment in... then again, it all depends on your perspective. Even cleaning someone's shit-stained bed can be a work of passion for someone who cares about what they're doing there. Or it can be a curse, a horrid job to escape from. It all depends on your perspective. I'm not saying everyone should magically find a sense of purpose in those jobs. I'm saying that when no one needs to work one of these jobs for money (i.e. we get away from subsistence work as a major mode of operation), the only people who will do those jobs are those who want to.

And yes, automation will play a big part in reducing the more unpleasant aspects of such jobs, I'd imagine. We don't need to wait for AGI, either - the Artificial Narrow Intelligences we've built everywhere already do take care of many menial jobs - soon including driving cars, etc.
As a disabled person, I have noticed this to be a huge problem in San Francisco over the past 5 years or so. I regularly get pushed into walls and trees as groups of young people walk by. A courtesy I learned as a young child walking in the financial district with my father was to always get into a single file line when approaching a group walking towards your group. It is also a common courtesy to walk on the right side of the sidewalk, like roadways, when walking against oncoming people.

And while I have your attention.. It is also common courtesy, and something San Franciscans have known for years, to remove ones backpack when riding MUNI. Either wear it in the front or put it down between your legs. That way you are not unknowingly smashing people in the face or taking up too much space on a crowded bus.
From the short story:

"Miss Cormet reflected to herself that the prosperity of General Services and her own very substantial income was based largely on the stupidity, lack of resourcefulness, and laziness of persons like this silly parasite"
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Perhaps in some cases, but how does that apply here?

People won't stop needing to sort arrays just because the syntax is made heavier and obscure.

It's fine to punish people for coding in the wrong way, but here I have to accomplish a task (sorting the array) and so the punishment serves no purpose at all except for making my experience worse.
In the wrong hands, all our best ideas become disgusting ideological tools for oppression. How many people have been murdered for truth, freedom, beauty, etc? Doesn't make the ideals any less appealing, or indeed any less worthwhile. You just have to use them for the right purposes - for example, not "to maximise shareholder value" - a depressingly lame and dehumanising goal for any organisation.
Could make the deleted-suffix unique for every thread of comments, this would be a reasonable balance between allowing the interplay of conversation participants to be left unscathed, and preventing tracking/correlation of comments across the entire site.
I don't have NaNs in my list. That's an invariant I would be happy to express in the type system.
Thank you. Every once in awhile I need stich some mobile screenshots together and this seems perfect.
I would love to be one of these "continuers", but I can't imagine ever being able to retire. I don't have a pension plan; I have a volatile savings fund tied intrinsically to the economy. I may or may not have social security, but $1000 a month is not much to live on in this day and age (it doesn't even cover a quarter of my grandmother's assisted care living costs). I am unlikely to ever be part of a multi-billion dollar buy out, and I don't have an inheritance waiting for me when my parents pass away.

And before the "Mr. Money Mustache" squad comes, no, I am not willing to defer living my life today just so I may be able to live it tomorrow.

I am, on the other hand, lucky to be skilled in a market in which I can continue to work in so long as I have my mental faculties. I guess I'll take that for what it's worth.
Hah! I saw this post and the first thing I thought was to integrate it with GitLab. You guys make an amazing product that really makes the "behind a corporate firewall" world bearable. Thanks for the fantastic work!
Residents in faster places tend to report feeling somewhat happier
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This is partly due to the big red warnings you get with self-signed certificates. Yes, it would certainly help, but to the user seeing a crossed-out https is worse than a simple http. And the user's perception matters much more than security does to these people.
...except that 45% of the economy just got given back to the people, mitigating the shameful status quo. Now the regular folk run 95% of the economy.

There's no issue of having rich people or not; its ok to be wealthy. Its not about punishing the rich. Its about them hoarding almost the entire pie.
Many do seem to be insisting that search results and online information be preserved as a record of 'truthfulness' in case they need to be used against someone legally or in the court of public opinion (like a politician or a celebrity who wants a scandal 'erased' or who wants to redact some statement or opinion of theirs.)

By definition, this assumes the ability to correlate this data with real life identities (otherwise the whole argument is pointless) for as long as it's relevant.

That seems to me like an implied obligation to maintain a surveillance system (or state) in all but name.
That might be a red-herring. When times are good, people get positive reinforcement for doing bad things. Thing might hire the next programmer, and the Carpenter gets the next job, and everybody assumes that the right best way to conduct an interview is for both people to “flip the bozo bit” on each other as soon as possible.

Then when it becomes hard to find good people, Thing suffers because they are too quick to reject people based on one answer. And if the Carpenter finds there are few jobs that suit his criteria, he has trouble getting one with the style of answer he tries to jam into every question.

That’s a bit of a metaphor for how many (but not all) companies become internal shit-shows in tech. They get a lot of positive feedback (raising money, adulation from HN) for their tech, but meanwhile are terrible managers.

It takes great discipline (and possible great mentoring) to say to yourself, “things are going well, but what am I doing wrong that I just happen to be getting away with?"
This is something I thought before I actually used python. In practice, two identically looking pieces of code ARE. Yes, you can mix tabs and spaces, but not in the same block. The moment there is ambiguity the interpreter errors out. So, in practice this is never a problem, your text editor should not be switching on you randomly and the official style guide strongly asks you to use 4space tabs. Simply follow the official guidelines and be able to configure your text editor, and you will never think about this again if you're actually using python.
Sure, consider it a gift. Now go forth and change the world. (Or at least the world of laziness.)
That adds clarity, thank you.
Enjoy your cake. While you can.
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Might makes right. If the rest of the world wants your cookies, then of course they can take it -- you'd either have to give it up or take a bullet to the head.
Sounds like you are approaching burnout my friend. Beware the unsustainability of this approach. Launch is simply the start of a long journey. If the launch fails to get traction, will you have the energy to continue?
This partly true, though HIPAA is more of a burden because of people's misunderstanding of it than what it actually mandates.

However, I posit that it is a lack of government regulation that has allowed health IT vendors to take no responsibility for supporting standards that enable data sharing across care settings. Every person in ill health deserves better study and care than we currently provide.

These problems are indeed well understood by some of us in healthcare, the details of a US 'Interoperability Roadmap' are available at the below link. Please take a moment to see where we are now, where we are headed, and how you might contribute.

http://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/nationwide-inter...
A*-like algorithms aren't really even applicable to Battlecode though because of the tiny bytecode limit. You're essentially forced to use local navigation or something like distributed BFS.
This should be in the FAQ.

1) Users who are trying to delete their account may assume that it's doable but that they just can't figure out how to do it. Putting this in the FAQ would prevent that.

2) Users who know that you can't delete accounts probably want to know why.
Saving 10% of your income is not really the same as "defer living my life". Its more like "stop drinking so many lattes". You can save for retirement without much pain. Just discipline.
Very cool idea. I hope you guys make it big.
Most people under estimate how long they'll live for. You'll probably live to 85.

> I am not willing to defer living my life today just so I may be able to live it tomorrow.

Living in poverty in the years when you need increased care is sub-optimal. Who is going to pay for your later years?

If there's one thing I could tell 16 year old me it would be "save, and save hard, for your retirement years".
They had to click a web link because it was their first time using the service so they had to add their credit card. How else are they supposed to charge you?
That's just horrible. You just changed behavior globally.
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One of the plus sides to all the NSA/GCHQ surveillance is that it should end up being an excellent resource for historians, centuries in the future.

That is, assuming that they have access to the data, and novel methods of interpreting it in bulk. It'll be like a more honest, raw version of the Twitter archives.
If Magic is going to be the one selecting the services, this may cost Google and others a great deal in ad revenue.

How would they respond to this? Their own meta-service?
I was expecting to see some new text-editor with strict rules...
It is unrealistic to expect the kind of control over your public image that allows you to delete or rewrite the past to better suit the present.

And it is dangerous to take this dangling carrot and then keep quiet about judicial abuses like the british super-injuction orders that protect the rich from having their affairs exposed to the public.

It's much more sane to reject the "right to be forgotten" concept in its totality and start thinking seriously about the persistence of data in the digital age.
You don't disagree, we just have a misunderstanding of terms :-)

To me, going on holiday, learning the guitar, writing fiction, sleeping, etc. are all also part of my work/purpose, which is multi-faceted and not contained in a single job description (not that I have one of those).

There's a saying that "sleep is when you work with your eyes closed". How many brilliant work-related answers and solutions have you come up with while sleeping or in the shower? Obvious conclusion: your ability to sleep, take showers, and do other things that "recharge" your mind is not something separate to your work, it is crucially important so that you can actually do good creative work, rather than just bashing out mediocre widget after mediocre widget. And pretty much everyone on HN does what Schmidt calls "smart creative" work.

And there definitely needs to be a two-sided trade-off between organisation and employee in this: if the person is expected to be effectively "working" (i.e. considering work-related topics in the back of their mind) at all times, then the organisation needs to recognise that and not impose ridiculous restrictions like fixed working hours and workplaces. As Ricardo Semler puts it, we've all mastered the art of checking our work email on a Saturday evening, but few of us have mastered the art of going to watch a movie on Tuesday afternoon.

Please note that no company will, imho, be able to develop such a culture without it turning into a manipulative scam unless the people who are trying to create this culture actually genuinely care about people, rather than just pretending to care. I've covered that idea in this article: http://danieltenner.com/2014/07/31/you-cant-hide-from-yourse...
This is what you don't get, pal. The rest of the world may be able to get some of my cookies but they will NEVER have access to the COOKIE MACHINE because they are SHEEP. They just don't have it in them! Get it? You know what this means? It means I'll ALWAYS have my cookies and they will ALWAYS starve.
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Thank you guys! It's more clear for me now.

So, the problem is: Ubuntu is a fine distro, but it's backed by a (commercial) company, not the community. And this company has done something unfair to the community, the contributors, violated privacy for sending user's data,...

Not about the technical or Linuxrism things, am I right?
That's just it, I wouldn't. This seems only useful for people who are maybe just too busy to do it them selves and have enough disposable income that paying a couple extra bucks to the guy handling your business isn't a big deal.

HN seems a little out of touch.
For addition I can't either, but you could use it to overload multiplication of two (mathematical) vectors to a dot-product

impl Mul for Vec2{
type Output = double;
fn mul(self, other: Vec2) -> Double {
self.0*other.0+self.1*other.1)
}
}

Although I must admit I'm not (yet) sure why you need to explicitly state the output and define it for the function. But I have only just started with Rust.
Well, they're usually revising/improving their models while the robots print money today to ensure that the robots can print more money tomorrow. The frequency and depth of the human input varies based on the kind of strategies employed (macro/statistical arbitrage etc). Moreover, successful models take competitors' potential models into account which (like everything else) is a moving target.
MMM isn't 10%, it's closer to 60%.

To quote:

> But a middle-class American family with two teachers making $60k each per year, who are currently saving zero and struggling to get by? THEY SHOULD BE SOCKING AWAY $5000 PER MONTH. Word.

I'm personally doing closer to 15% per paycheck, but the realist in me knows that will never be enough to retire on.
It should probably be on the account creation page as well.
Labeling glutamate content is a silly idea. The issue is that anyone would make a "no added glutamate" claim, thus perpetuating the myth that glutamate matters.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9089660
I'll put it this way: I went to a top business school (which cost a lot more than $3000), and my finance professors were former traders, federal reserve governors, investment bankers, algo traders, etc. Without exception, they recommended a buy and hold strategy for non-institutional investors. Buy companies you believe in (or better yet, index funds), and hold them until you need the money. And this was in classes where they were teaching us investment strategies! The game is rigged against you; as an individual investor your information will always be 3-5 seconds out of date, and your trades will get thrown in the back of the queue behind the institutional investors. Any strategy that relies on market timing is doomed before you even start.

Professional traders (hedge funds, etc) can get away with risky strategies because they're balancing risk. For every insanely risky, 30x leveraged trade they make, they also hold metric fuck tons of US treasuries. You also never invest in one hedge fund; you invest in 30 or 40 hedge funds because most will lose money. The guys running the funds make their money off of fees because the return of the funds is usually based on economic factors more than 'alpha'.

Trading has changed a lot since the 40s and 50s. Modern finance wasn't really invented until the 80s as the relationship between debt and equity became much more fluid. If you really want a proper investment education, I would suggest a real education in the form of a computational finance degree as offered by many of the top quant business schools (CMU, MIT, etc.) There you can learn about the leveraged trading strategies that HFTs and algo traders use, why they work, and how to exploit them.

The big traders have a word for individuals who try to beat the market: suckers. There is no arbitrage, and even when there is, someone else will beat you to it because your access to the market is inferior to theirs. It's fundamentally unfair, but it's what happens when you have a revolving door between the federal reserve, the SEC and the top investment banks. You're playing a game with asymmetric information from the losing position against very skilled players. If you beat them, it's dumb luck. You're not going to be able to do it consistently.

The guys hosting seminars on investment strategy have found a way to consistently make money: by hosting seminars on investment strategy and charging $3000 to $5000 to attendees. If they had a truly ironclad way to make money consistently in the market, they wouldn't need the money from the seminars because they would be pulling in tens/hundreds of millions a year running a hedge fund or prop trading group.
Not almost. I will hoard THE entire pie and I will not feel ONE bit of shame about it, because it is MY PIE! You are the one who should be ashamed for wanting to steal from my pie just because you are incapable of baking your own.
I didn't say it's pretty.

Merely chose that example to point out the absurdity of challenging Ruby on the grounds of flexibility (of all things).

Obviously, in a real program you'd rather write a custom sort-comparator, use a wrapper-class, or monkey-patch only the specific NaN instances that you want to change the behaviour of.
> Chalk it up to the quite modern phobia that big companies are out to get you.

Well, they aren't really out to get you, but based on their track records for generally putting profits before people, it's the safest assumption....
And if you die at 20? At 30? What happens to all of those life experiences you passed by so you could work more?

Worse, what if you die at 100? How will you pay for your life to 100 if you spent it all getting from 65 to 85?