skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes me deeply happy to see this here. Miyazaki's mind is truly unique (and by extension most Ghibli films too), nothing else quite compares (and as the author points out, certainly not Disney & co. despite being Ghibli's distributors in the West). I've introduced many people to Ghibli, a lot of whom would have never even considered watching an animated film (even less so a foreign one), and most came away truly touched.

Miyazaki is anti-war, but he's also extremely pro-ecology as is obvious in most of his films (Nausicaa is an obvious one, but perhaps more obvious would be Pom Poko or Totoro). Broadly speaking, he advocates balance in all its forms. A lot of his main protagonists are strong female characters, and not the "overly girly unicorn princess with magical powers" kind. Violence, like greed, is a disease as opposed to an end (in fact those two concepts are often expressed together in his films, e.g. Spirited Away).

But maybe the best accomplishment in most, if not all, of Miyazaki's work, is his ability to capture the interest and the imagination of the viewers without resorting to cheesy gimmicks, gratuitous violence or sexual innuendos, which seem to be the go-to for a lot of cinema (animation and otherwise, Western and Eastern).
The title reads like something out of Silicon Valley (the TV show). "We're changing the world by providing location-aware in-app database technology for everyone."
> "and it’s consistent with the logic of the progressive disclosure design pattern."

And this is the crucial misinterpretation. Progressive disclosure as defined and used by Xerox is about objects and related actions. And it's all about visible objects! [1]

(Mind the classic example of a square in a drawing application: Clicking the shape discloses editing functions and displays handles to size the object.)

And here is the real problem: The hamburger icon as used today has no other object but the global context. By exposing context to the global context, it's a mere apropos without an object the user might relate to.

When Norm Cox designed the original icon for the Xerox Star user interface, it was a visual anchor for a menu revealing contextual functions to the visible content of the document. (Like selecting rows, etc. [2]) This is notably something else than the global, quite abstract context of a site navigation, disclosing navigational functions to address off-screen content.

Today's hamburger icon is just a paradigmatic misunderstanding.

[1] "A subtle thing happens when everything is visible: the display becomes reality. The user model becomes identical with what is on the screen. Objects can be understood purely in terms of their visible characteristics. Actions can be understood in terms of their effects on the screen. (...) In Star, we have tried to make the objects and actions in the system visible."
(Designing the Star User Interface; David Canfield Smith, Byte, Issue 4/1982)

[2] Compare: http://g.recordit.co/8Q5oAYCaVx.gif
(Outtake from a ACM CHI 1990 conference video, https://vimeo.com/61556918. Mind that the window-less bar at the top represents the global system as opposed to the document window below and its menu button(s).)
"Self made man" is a phrase. She chose to keep the phrase rather than swap the gender to "self made woman" to be PC, as it probably didn't bother her all that much.

Not everyone cares about gender politics or places so much important on their gender identity.
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat
Do you have a list of these introductory textbooks you refer to? I fish around at used bookstores for things, but it's really hard to tell a good textbook from a bad one until you've read it.
They actually have nearly opposite goals. The fusion blanket is supposed to transmute lithium to tritium [0] (create more fusion fuel), so it has capture as many neutrons as possible. The fission-reactor coolant is supposed to be transparent -- to capture as few neutrons as possible. Both of them need isotopic separation of lithium to be practical. But in opposite directions. ARC's FLiBe needs to be Li-6 enriched, and MSR needs to be Li-6 depleted.

The MSRE fuel used 99.993% Li-7 (your link), and the ARC blanket is 90% Li-6 (arXiv paper).

[0] https://www.iter.org/mach/tritiumbreeding
In his own words, “You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.”
which setting is it under?
> Is this just another name for a ledger with auditable history?

Yes.

> Can a blockchain exist without mining or without a currency/coin?

Yes, but the interesting ones use currency/coins because you can use incentives other than the legal system to secure the database.

> What keeps people interested in a blockchain (and currency) once all of the easy mining is done eg, for people joining later?

Securing databases without using the legal system in order to outmaneuver some issues intrinsic to legal systems.

> - I see that transaction costs for bitcoin keep rising, is that related to the size of the blockchain?

It is related to many things. In bitcoin's case, the primary cost is the consensus algorithm, ie the network has to "outpay" any potential attacker.

> I thought bitcoin was supposed to be decentralised – doesn’t a group of centralised developers have the ability to change everything about the currency?

This is a nuanced topic, we could go in depth about "what does 'decentralized really mean", or even worse, "what does 'bitcoin' really mean" but I find this too hard to think about.
That the data he chose can be expressed as a range is utterly inconsequential. The values are never even used. In all likelihood, the author just wrote

for (auto item : {})

and then filled in the first sequence of numbers that popped into his head.
ISIS makes the Nazis seem reasonable but for some people anyone that opposes the West is good.
Bitcoin startup funding soars as value dives
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037157
I've had a few compiler bugs where, adding an if false or changing the order of an if test 'fixes' things. And the complement changing the code exposes a compiler bug. And also, new improved compiler results in code that's broken.

Other issues I run into a fair amount is dealing with hardware/naked interrupts often involves a lot of subtle timing and read/write access issues. Sometimes this happens in code you don't own.
This is why people don't go into science.
What effect will this have on the mono-repo debate?

http://danluu.com/monorepo/
Could This Be a New Instagram Guys?
I really don't understand the whole "hate," in particular on the internet, for people who eat Gluten free food. Who really cares?

The same argument can be applied to crystals, or fortune tellers, or homeopathy, or any number of other examples of more or less harmless pseudoscience adopted by the public as a result of a poor understanding of science and a weakness regarding the latest fads.

I view the gluten-free fad as just another instance of mindless herding. "A friend of mine told me their aunt's cousin's friend went gluten free and it cured their diabetes and their lazy eye!" It's simply further evidence that people, in general, aren't equipped with the harsh skepticism required to operate in a world where the internet makes it so easy for this kind of BS to spread like wildfire. Fighting these fads is a (largely futile) attempt to try and educate folks, to make them possibly a little more resilient to being duped in the future.

Of course, it rarely works out that way, which is why you're better off expending your energy in more productive pursuits.
Google morphs into Alphabet Inc in bid to highlight new ventures
Ask HN: Contracting firms in SF/BayArea?
Hi all,

I've been trying to find contracting gigs but haven't had much luck lately (been mainly looking via my network, meetups, and a few startup message boards). I've been considering reaching out to firms that place candidates into contracting gigs.

With that in mind, does anybody have experience with these sort of firms? If so, would you recommend it? Also, any recommendations on firms would be appreciated.

Background on myself: BS/MS in CS (MS thesis in computer vision). Was a Data Engineer at AdTech company for 4 years (a lot of AWS/Hadoop/Spark/Scala/Python).

thank you!
What is the hardest of hard takeoff scenarios you can imagine?
Business Loans
I thoroughly doubt that Apple's endgame here is to make their users the product – given that the operating system is only available to people who have paid them money in the first place.

A much more pragmatic conclusion is that they think this feature is something that users want. And in Apple's case, as well as others, it probably is.
Reader was the living kernel of what could have potentially been a successful Google social network.
Yeah... back in the day, us kids would try to find the soda with the highest cane sugar content. Now, I try to find the lowest net carbs in everything I eat or drink. Arguing about 33g vs 40g in a soda does seem non-productive.
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/own-disp?action=getowner&CIK=0001...

He started out with 22,203,018 shares and before the latest purchase had 21,888,416 shares, for a total of 314,602 sold shares (or a mere 1.4%). If anything that's a surprisingly little amount of shares sold considering it is the bulk of his net worth. Note that he's a billionaire if you count the equity in Square, his Twitter holdings come out to $645M (counting a cool $54 net gain on his TWTR holdings today!).
Re-post here, true, but this is one of my favorite Atlantic articles. Has it been 22-years already?
This example from the article still has a hamburger menu, just in a different location:

http://deep.design/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/B82uUMQCcAE4Eo...
Here's the thing. Both with the religion argument and in general: even if you're right, your logic is unassailable, and the other person is provably wrong, you will still benefit from not assuming stupidity/broken thinking/etc, and instead seeking to understand the other person's position as thoroughly as possible.

At one extreme, you may discover a flaw in your reasoning. Even if not, you may find that while not entirely sound, there are valuable aspects to the other person's point of view, which can make your world-view more nuanced. Or perhaps you will simply confirm your initial perspective... but even then, you're much more likely to inspire the other person to think on the subject than if you come in with the perspective that they're provably wrong (and perhaps a bit pitiable for it). By seeking to really understand someone, you inspire them to do the same for you.
hah I like your endless cycle analogy
I agree, he doesn't. However, I wouldn't discount somebody as being a lifter because they are pudgy. This guy[0] (the really large one) was the first person to bench over 1000 lbs[1].

[0] - http://static1.sfd.pl/1/images2004/20040721160457.jpg

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxtkUI5Wsnw
This is Google moving into a structure akin to Berkshire Hathaway, which is something the Google founders have admired for a long time. They're changing into a conglomerate, run with a thin layer of management at the top. Their talk about empowering strong CEOs, and having the subsidiary companies operate independently, is an exact copy of what Buffett does in regards to businesses owned by Berkshire.
Facebook’s Laughable Data Shows ‘LOL’ Isn’t Funny Anymore
I appreciate that they archive their online articles with the original 1993 html.
I wonder what foreign governments such as China and Russia are going to do about this. How are they going to secure their networks from surveillance?
This author needs to remember that Japan was the war-bringer in WW2. Brought it right to Pearl Harbor.

And that justifies the murder — yes, murder — of hundreds of thousands of non-combatants ... how, again?
Spotlight suggestions is the issue, and there are settings for both Safari and Spotlight to adjust so searches are not shared. This article shows the steps to disable:

http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/spotlight-suggestion...
Why do they care what Carl Icahn or any other investor thinks? Page and Brin control the voting shares. The biggest risk is bad PR or a public perception of failure, not any substantive challenge.
I was too hard with my review--sorry! I was doing some yard work and felt really quilty. I know getting across computer science concepts/theories is terribly difficult.

Part of my anger is I don't have a good grasp of CS theory, or why we do someting a particular way? I can get things done, but I'm missing the bigger picture--in many instances?

My education into CS has just been following many steps, and listening to videos. I will go back to this free book, and give it a full read. Sorry to the Authors. I was in a bad mood?
It could end up like cable TV. Initially you just pay for the service, eventually you keep paying but also get sold.
Larry and Sergey never had anything to do with Google Ventures. It was intentionally kept separate and managed by Bill Maris. It operates on a $100m+ a year fund.

Alphabet, Inc will be operated by the two Google Guys with billions in funding.

> We will rigorously handle capital allocation and work to make sure each business is executing well. We'll also make sure we have a great CEO for each business, and we’ll determine their compensation.

They're venture capitalists in all but name.
This looks pretty neat. If you want another choice with different layout options, try Sketchy Notebook [0].

[0] http://sketchynotebook.com/
I was thinking the same thing; the difference is that Buffet & Munger bought existing companies that were already financially strong/had proven business models, and tried to leave their existing management (with a proven track record in that industry) in place.

This seems more like Sergey & Brin going to play in non-Google industries with unproven business models that they are experimenting in. (I'm likely being very naive & unfair; obviously they're very smart and wouldn't do this on a whim.)

Either way, Alphabet definitely sounds fun. It will be interesting to see how it works out.
Quick background - the damper controls how quickly the flywheel comes to a stop. A typical rowing stroke is mostly a leg exercise. You build up momentum by driving with your legs, and then finish off the stroke with your back and then (at the very, very end) your arms. By the point that you're using your back and arms, however, there is enough momentum in the flywheel that you don't put much load on them. During the recovery, (when you're bending your legs and preparing for the next stroke) the damper slows the flywheel back down. Wash, rinse, repeat. The load is repeatedly taken by the legs, with the back and arms adding a little extra at the end of each stroke.

Putting the damper at 10 knocks this all to hell. The damper removes enough of the momentum during the stroke that you're putting a significant load on your back at the end of each stroke. At best, this will tire you out early. At worst, it can injure you.

You want the damper to be between 4 and 6. I usually row with it halfway between 4 and 5. If you want a more intense workout, drive harder and pick up the stroke rate.
It was very polite of you. :-)
Two points:

One is that I'm tired of both the congratulatory and the flagellative uses of "Western." Feminism is no more a western tradition than it is an Arab, Chinese or Congolese one. It's a modern cultural movement. Similarly, simple good vs evil plot settings are not western. They exist everywhere. They're often from propaganda, naturally occurring hero worship, morality tales and depictions of a culture's own history. GRRM (mentioned here) is as western as Tolkien and is definitely a modern example western literature.

The complicated moral depictions in Game of Thrones are not new, but they are definitely strong in the current zetgeist. It comes and goes and has often reached the point of cliche. Hercules (and his analogues like Samson and Cuchulainn) are often depicted with character flaws, often involving women and madness in some way. We've been through a period when it was out of fashion. I think hollywood film tradition is very largely to blame, their perfect hero classics. The awesome comedic writer like Adams, Pratchet, Joseph Heller or even Franz Kafka earlier on mock this constantly. Humour is great for this kind of thing, satirising the current literary cliches.

That brings me to my second point. Today's storytelling is taking this stuff to a whole new level. The complex morality tales and decompacting of group decision making dynamics that we see in everything today is really awesome, in my opinion. I think it's great art, or at least to my taste. Playing with moral perspective and depicting the complexity of people acting in groups is an awesome thing to explore. There's a ton of depth there and a ton of artistic flair required to bite into it. In my opinion, it hits the best notes when you have been wrenched so much that your sheltered sense of morality breaks down. It still exists, but its grim rather than fiery. Evil gets demystified, banal and sad. When a bad guy gets a just end you take on the role of a reluctant but dutiful executioner rather than a hot blooded cheerleader at the gallows.

Walter White is awesome because he's complex like a real person. His angst isn't just a flat "he's angsty because X." That's very hard to do. I think the only way to get that stuff across is the moral grey areas and the "shit happens" unfolding of a person. Long format TV series give writers time to do it.

This stuff is really fantastic in modern art. TV shows, books...
I go for walks and let my mind wander aimlessly for an hour or so, heading back when the thoughts in my head finally start turning towards work related stuff and I want to engage with it.

I also tend to keep a few tasks on top of the stack and try to keep enough room before deadlines to let my self switch to something else when I feel blocked or unmotivated.

Also helps having a boss that is well aware of ADD tendencies and can work with them.
I did not like the name, it remembers me the Amazon original copy (from A to Z).

But I like Google company, really well administrated, it's easy to see on the annual release reports. Despite the not so good name, they are doing a great job and the right next step.
Practical Benefits of the Haskell Type System
Want to unlock your door with your face? Windows 10 for IoT Core
The self-driving cars appear to be staying with Google for now.

It would also have been nice to see Drive/Docs/Mail split off from Search/Advertising, but that's definitely a pie in the sky dream on my part ;)
This is really an awesome article, thanks for sharing!
You might be interested in this ted talk, it touches upon this subject 6+ minutes in, but the whole thing is interesting.

http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_ph...
On the Internet, nobody knows that your dog doesn't drink coffee.
MAJOR SPOILERS!!!
wtf! no spoiler warning at all.
Grave of the fireflies was one of the few Ghibli films I hadnt got around to seeing yet.
Plot is totally spoiled in the first few sentences.
fuck you author!!
Emacs has also plugins, and I would argue that it's way easier to write your own plugins for emacs than for eclipse.
When dropping a rom in the window, i get this error in my browser :

> Uncaught ReferenceError: extesion is not defined(anonymous function) @ build.js:3
Yes, that's exactly what I was asking.
If they buy data from Yodlee, I wonder how long they'll still be able to get it...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/provider-of-personal-finance-too...
Humans should be able to marry robots
its cool man, my all my accounts are throw away, so even if they get down votes it does not refrain me from speaking my opinion.

voting on comments is stupid, and should be removed.
Frequentism and Bayesianism: Model Selection
Applications that don't mark themselves as explicitly handling High DPI correctly will be autoscaled up by default in a way that does look pretty blurry (basically their GDI canvases are being bitmap scaled from much lower resolutions for final display) because blurry is better than unreadably small as a default.

You can opt out of this on a per-app basis (right click app icon, Compatibility tab, select "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings") and have them just display everything really tiny if you prefer that. This is actually a decent option if the app has its own scaling but doesn't properly interact with Windows to enable it. I still run Sublime Text 2 and have it set to disable High DPI scaling and then just use a bigger font point size to make the text readable; also used to do the same with Chrome back before it had proper High DPI scaling on Windows (disabled DPI scaling, then just used the normal web page render scaling).
Yes! Both FB and now G are organized this way. Warren Buffet is really something else.
Hmmm, interesting. If I understand correctly this is a breakthrough in our understanding of the underlying physics related to superconductivity. Which could potentially lead not just to an improved understanding of superconductivity and toward new kinds of superconductors but also to new electronic phenomena in metals which might possibly be equally as interesting. This is a significant breakthrough in condensed matter physics, which may end up being one brick of a foundation of theoretical models which form the basis of a vastly superior understanding of matter compared to what we have today. Which might potentially enable uses that we cannot even envision today. Pretty exciting stuff.
For one thing, they're specifically keeping Labs as part of Alphabet directly, rather than as a sub-company. That seems like recognition that experiments shouldn't have to immediately pan out or immediately become self-sustaining.

For another, they've said nothing about how they plan to handle IT and infrastructure. Though that'll certainly be interesting; they'd be foolish not to take advantage of the Google datacenter and cloud services to accelerate new projects, for instance.
Most of the contradictions arise as epistemological forks in the context of molecular spectroscopy with nuclear decay events. Thusly, it is a question of whose theories to use, and the Born rule is moot when the distribution of particles is not gaussian.

DeBroglie himself states that matter waves propagate according to a defined distribution; whereas Copehagen interprets that they are probabilistically distributed. In the former case there is a stochastic process, whereas it is only a random process in the latter case.
This behaviour bit me in the ass in work today. Had a new Mac, just installed Polycom (our video conferencing program), typed Polyc<enter> out of habit in spotlight to launch it, ended up on the wikipedia page for polycystic ovarian syndrome...
If you learn something while writing it, and it sits and earns a little bit of money without much work, then it's not really foolish. I bet you learned more doing that project, things that probably helped get you that Wall Street job, than you seem to estimate now.
I've seen a lot of comparisons to Berkshire. Not every large conglomerate is Berkshire.

Berkshire is composed of pre-existing businesses that were themselves successful before being purchased. They are not experimental ventures that need to be subsidized. It is exactly the opposite: money is plowed into the strongest businesses. They each generate excess cash, and it is easier to reinvest that cash in some places than others. The conglomerate structure makes it possible to put the cash where it gets the best returns without having to pay taxes or transaction fees.

Alphabet has none of these properties, except the ability to allocate capital tax-free, but they already had that as Google.