skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Complaining about something doesn't mean that you're not disconnected from it, at least in the sense of feeling like you have any personal responsibility about it or agency to change it. People complain about the weather too.
I have read that cloudflare uses nginx lua a ton. Apparently so does taobao (via tengine?).
Golden Rice is an excellent case study for one solution to this problem. If the public were more accepting of GMO's we could take the existing best crop lines (bred for looks and supply chain) and insert additional nutrients. My companies technology (www.taxa.com) could easily do this if the regulatory and public acceptance issues weren't so big that we are focusing on non-food applications (glowing plants, blue roses etc).
And do you have any research to back up your claim that those vegetables and fruits are less nutritious than ugly ones? That the amount of nutrients differs in a statistically significant way to produce negative health outcomes? Saying it doesn't make it a fact, we need good research to get to that. And, from what I can see, the research just isn't there. If people were just plain better at eating less processed sugars and better at eating more whole foods like fruits, vegetables, and even meats there would be greater improvements in health. What good are the super nutritious vegetables if no one eats them?
Yes you see this already for long time in forced induction cars. If you drive like in the cycle you will get good fuel economy, but it you drive like regular people and for example the turbo spools, fuel economy suffers at the expense of performance. What is particularly egregious here is that NOx levels were gamed to 10-40x, not fuel economy (and directly CO2) to something like just 5-10%. In my personal view it is not German government directly so much as for the tax incentives to keep the unrealistic cycles in place (which then the gov gets involved partly for votes and partly for large industry to be able to still easliy sell more reasonably priced cars).
The floats in the structs are unboxed. Float arrays and all-float structs have a special representation[1] in the compiler so they are stored unboxed. I believe the developers of OCaml have expressed some regrets about this, but in this particular case it's likely to be a win.

Within functions, the OCaml compiler can assign floats to registers, so those would also be unboxed at least for the duration of the function.

[1] https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/memory-representation-...
Mobile phones are the greatest poverty-reducing tech ever (in Africa)
> Billionaires are prescriptive. "I will solve this problem".

That's good, and that's sort of the point of getting money, is it not? We should encourage those who are rich to pursue goals beneficial to everyone. They have the ability to achieve things no "democratic" groups (and countries) can, because the latter are plagued with coordination problems.
lua compiled to asm.js is 64% of the speed of lua native

https://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/lua.vm.js.html
Wait, which one is emitted by diesel engines?
> Prices like this will likely drive me, and others, to piracy.

Especially since ebooks are small enough that you can download them in seconds.

I love getting juiced for out-of-print books, especially ones that are in that gray area where the author and his direct descendants are dead and buried, but copyright lives on.
Those terms are very material to a candidate's compensation package; maybe they should be made known. (Honesty and transparency?!)
I guess everyone has their own experiences, but nearly all of the reviews and anecdotes I have heard -- and my own experience -- is that the Apple Watch can get through a full day just fine. Of course, you do have to charge it every night.

(And this is coming from someone who returned it and hated it for lots of reasons).
Atlassian does something pretty close. Once you've successfully passed the first step (automated online assignment), you receive a maven project by email 15 minutes before the interview and then use Skype screen sharing to show what you're doing. It starts with writing a unit test to show that some method is misbehaving, then fixing it, and it goes on.

I really enjoyed it even though I failed miserably, and I believe I would have done much better if it hadn't been done in one hour. The exercise was really novel to me after having interviewed with a dozen companies who think Google-style coding questions are a silver bullet.
That's right, and this system seems perfectly capable of that.
Aren't there also legitimate use cases for these things? E.g. a password manager loading itself into a confidential memory region to prevent infiltration?
The problem with critiquing political correctness is that there's no definite definition of what "PC" is. A lot of what's criticized as PC is merely leftist activism and liberal policies taken to extremes. Is multiculturalism and diversity PC? (and what exactly do those even mean in terms of specific policies?) Are sexual harassment lawsuits? Is affirmative action? Tort cases? The War on Christmas? The war against the War on Christmas? Is media censorship in favor of Israel, or media censorship in favor of Palestinians, PC? Public safety regulations (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmsV1TuESrc)?

Why is being anti-Trump considered pro-PC? What specific statements do you consider disrespectful? I'm sure there are equivalent criticisms of Obama on HN, at least in terms of civil liberties as it relates to hackers (anti-NSA surveillance, pro-Net Neutrality, anti-drone). They can be found.

How can something be even called "politically correct" when one lives in a society with multiple parties and political viewpoints?

Is online shame culture inherently PC? Why is Cecil the Lion considered PC, while the online (and other media) campaign against Planned Parenthood, or ACORN, not considered PC? All include using the internet to create viral outrage.

If you want to be against online shaming, sure be against it. If you're against excessive actions done in the name of leftist or liberal beliefs, then by all means be against them and be specific. I would be in favor of either of that. But don't try to call it under some nebulous bugaboo, a caricature.
This is very weird tbh
I mean you just shipped thousands of people something
And now you announce something which makes that look old.

It's scary to own something from a company like this. Am i to understand that I wont be getting updates on my Pebble Time in the near future because there is a new kid on the block ?
Does anyone know how the test was detected? I'm thinking they noticed either the revving of the engine without the wheels turning or just one set of wheels were turning.

Hopefully the EPA will test in a real situation, by attaching the test equipment to the car and actually driving it. That should foil the cheaters.
I think the argument is that while the basic features are nerd only, they enable a better overall ecosystem.

Much like rules around financial disclosures are largely only cared about by finance nerds, but the halo allows everyone to have a better finance ecosystem.
> We then could inspect the query stream to estimate how many queries might be well served by HTML tables.

Hmm.. humans are inspecting the query stream?
>did they feel like they were getting away with something?

I think that's the entire point of $1000+ bottles of wine. They don't taste especially good, but you get a rush from being so mindbogglingly wasteful.

I guess it could feel nice to drink a glass of wine that costs as much as a week's income at minimum wage.

I'll just get drunk off Yellow Tail though, because I'm not so wealthy as to afford such stupid things.
Some Dell business laptops and HP's older EliteBooks have touch pointers - though I seem to remember they're concave instead of convex (perhaps due to patents?).
There's also Lapis, a really great and reasonably feature-full web app framework for OpenResty: http://leafo.net/lapis/. I wrote a website in it recently and was pleasantly surprised at how cool it is. It reminds me a lot of Rails, but everything works faster, especially on LuaJIT, and I actually like MoonScript (the compile-to-Lua language I'm using) for its expresiveness and aesthetics. Definitely recommend checking it out.
I think it's gotten better due to recent LLVM changes in emscripten, last I heard, but maybe maybe not. Can't wait until it's just trivial.
> Of course, one can build rings of bot accounts that upvote each other to gain karma before operation, but this takes much more determination and skill than an internet hooligan usually possesses.

Also, ISTR mentions that HN employs voting ring detectors, and punishes detected voting rings to avoid exactly this phenomenon. So, its not just the passive difficulty that is an issue with this approach, there is active opposition.
The usefulness of this is not to turn nginx into an application server. Although there are already frameworks for this using ngx_lua (http://leafo.net/lapis/), I don't find them very interesting except for the technical aspect.

The point is to make nginx's configuration dynamic and prevent bloating applications with stuff that belongs at the (lets call it) devops level.

Now, I also don't think nginScript is such a good idea. But because they seem to be building their own JavaScript VM for it. I believe this is a waste of effort and more of a JavaScript-all-the-things than anything else.

Lua is a very simple language, the VM is small and fast and for the "dynamic configuration" scenario one hardly codes more than a few lines (I've done quite a few things and the total line count is in the low 100's).
> By having most of the capital in passive funds, active management gets easier, and so more valuable, so you want to pay for it.

I'm not sure I follow. How does this make active management easier and more importantly how does that make it a better investment?
The cost between GM and VW here is two orders of magnitude, the stock did not drop by a third, and the EPA and CARB were not involved.
HAProxy can do the SSL termination, reverse proxying, and compression jobs quite well by itself. Though vulcand's etcd-based runtime configuration looks friendlier than HAProxy's.
I have tried so very hard to outsmart the market, read so much stuff and this is the result compare to S&P500: http://i.imgur.com/fEZvLod.png , for all my time & energy I could have just dumped all my savings into SPY and call it a day.

I am now solidly convinced that anyone who beats the market is either win-the-lottery lucky or has illegal insider info.

P.S., that falling blue-data in 2nd half of the graph is WholeFoods falling from about $65 to $31.... =/
Let's see: opam as you mention. Loads of new libraries[0]. Lots of small evolutions in the language in OCaml 4 [1] [2]. Lots of work on optimization in ocamlopt. Aarch64, POWER7 & POWER8, replacement ARMv7 backends.

OCaml is totally a practical language for writing real world applications. As I usually point out in these threads, Red Hat pay me to write OCaml programs[3], that are used by thousands of customers and many more free software users worldwide. The advantages (over other languages, not C++) are: easy linking to C libraries, and builds a native binary with no extra dependencies, speed. Advantages over C++: safety, robustness, compact source code size.

[0] https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/

[1] https://ocaml.org/meetings/ocaml/2014/OCaml2014-Leroy-slides...

[2] https://ocaml.org/meetings/ocaml/2013/slides/leroy.pdf

[3] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs
I imagine the ebook is the one both providing greater value, and having a harder time competing for production resources -- while paper may be overcapacity now.
It's worth noting that this device, unlike any of the previous Pebble devices, is not waterproof. I was smitten until I noticed this - not having to worry about getting it soaked while cycling or swimming is a rather nice feature of my Pebble Time and it looks like I'll be sticking with it for that (even if I do love the new design).
If you're going to use something that is permanent and unchangeable for authentication (which is itself dumb), wouldn't it make sense to store one way hashes rather than the fingerprints themselves? There are multiple layers of idiocy at work here.
I mostly agree, except...

> The other approach is to say they died too young from injury, starvation, or infections. Had they lived longer they too might have contracted more of our degenerative diseases.

This is a stretch. Those people who were lucky enough not to die of communicable diseases or predators just happened to be the ones genetically superior in the sense that they didn't suffer as much from degenerative diseases? I doubt it.

The lifestyle (plenty of exercise, and not eating too much, or too much processed/extracted foods like sugar and hydrogenated oils in everything) theory is much stronger.

I don't doubt, though, that some nutrients have been bred out of crops inadvertently while domesticating them (making them easier to grow, breeding variants that produce more food, making the color or taste more appealing). And some less common varieties of crops are probably closer to the pre-domesticated varieties and are therefore healthier.
These are NOx[1] species not N2O. They do not get into the upper atmosphere, like the ozone layer in the Stratosphere. They are instead constrained to the Troposphere, where we live.

NOx emissions are highly reactive and in the presence of sunlight turn into O3, Tropospheric Ozone [2] the same chemical compound as that in the Stratosphere, but very different in it's effects.

In the Troposphere, Ozone is a highly reactive oxidizing agent and can have serious negative health effects.

You can look at a map of daily ozone generation [3] from pollution. Peak production of ozone occurs at the part of the day where sunlight is most intense following the highest levels of traffic. It then mostly reacts and then levels drop again at night.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_ozone
[3] http://www3.epa.gov/airnow/2010/20100929/anim_aqi_sanfrancis...
Model year vs production/purchase year probably doesn't help.

As far as I understood, "model year 2015" cars (made/sold in 2014) are unaffected as of yet, because of the urea injection.
RadioLab did a podcast on the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly at http://www.radiolab.org/story/goo-and-you/ . It might help in giving additional background on the topic.
Same price as the Moto 360 with half the features and twice the bezel on top.
How reliable/discrete is this process? Can I select particular nutrients and decide I want a plant to have them? Can you tell us more/provide some interesting references?
I wonder if the bezel allows for a normal square display underneath?
According to [1]:

"Volkswagen hasn't explained exactly why it cheated, but outside analysts have a good guess. The NOx emission controls likely degraded the cars' performance when they were switched on — the engines ran hotter, wore out more quickly, and got poorer mileage. Some experts have suggested that the emission controls may have affected the cars' torque and acceleration, making them less fun to drive. (Indeed, some individual car owners have been known to disable their cars' emission controls to boost performance, though this is against the law.)"

So basically, they wanted the cars to have acceptable performance in real-world conditions, which pushes the emissions up.

[1] http://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9365667/volkswagen-clean-diesel...
Your post reads like a satire of SV mindset - overly literal, overly self-assured, totally ignorant of how the world outside of a logic system actually works, and consequently choosing the libertarian or technoanarchist "throw it all out" approach.

Laws always have some room for interpretation.
Isn't the humorous part of all this in how the system is running Windows 10 anyway and collecting far, far more data than this poor CustomerFeedback thing is doing?
The background in broad brush strokes is that a number of wealthy families are fighting (two of them immensely powerful in particular) as well as a union and state. This is what you see publicly of this private battle now.
I bet they did and as soon as they saw why just decided to wait to see how long it took for them to get discovered.

That or they decided to implement it too. Only way to know is to test car emissions.
Don't involve "belief", just run the numbers and show your work, unlike the Twitter guy! :-)
I don't understand why when we are mimicking analog watch design, can't we retain the proportions and the aesthetics?

Eg,the ratio of strap and the width of the watch face and the super wide bezel.

I hope they up their game as competition in this space is getting heated.

[Hopefully constructive criticism from a Pebble owner.]
As far as 401k money goes, there is no measurable difference between robo advisor investment allocations and target date maturity funds.

If you have more complex investment goals, or constraints, with your money (e.g. mix in taxes and estate planning), I can see where robo advisors would add value. Of course, increase the complexity level too much and the algorithms might not be able to handle the assignment.
The Pebble watch will work with both Android and iOS, for starters (but then again, so does Android Wear devices now too... leaving just the Apple Watch to only support Apple products).

It's SDK is in Python or C, and it makes it really easy to write up basic apps for yourself or others (no special hardware, licenses, or fees necessary to start developing your own apps).

Battery life kills all other smart watches. The always on screen is very nice too (makes it usable as an actual watch, for instance).

So called "Smart Straps" allowing 3rd parties or the OEM to produce different wrist straps capable of different functionality (sensors, additional battery, etc...) - And they are swappable/upgradable.
> Seems reasonable to me.

Why? Gathering usage statistics without opt-in or clearly notifying users beforehand is unacceptable.
No, this doesn't replace the Time or Time Steel, it's just another option on the same "Time" platform. The hardware comparison shows many of the same internals: http://developer.getpebble.com/guides/#hardware-comparison

Outside of the round screen, there isn't anything majorly different.
"E-paper", not "e-ink"; the former is just Sharp marketing for a specific type of low power LCD, the latter is a totally different technology.
Buried paragraph at the end of the article that discounts the entire piece (as a piece about readers rather than as a piece about publishers):

"It is also possible that a growing number of people are still buying and reading e-books, just not from traditional publishers. The declining e-book sales reported by publishers do not account for the millions of readers who have migrated to cheap and plentiful self-published e-books, which often cost less than a dollar."
actually, it does work. a template is a pretty clear concept, a fill-in-the-blanks form that is sent out en masse. an email becomes a "template" when it is used as a template.
5 Tools, stories, and more that made me a better creative this week
Army top brass warn there will be a MUTINY if Corbyn becomes Prime Minister
Ah thanks, I was not aware of that. Also, unless they code nginscript to specifically support googles V8 api, there's no reason to expect node or any of it's packages to work with it.
Agreed. Same with cold virus vs. atypical pneumonia. I've actually been trying to figure out how this could be done for quite a while because it could save a TON of healthcare dollars, sick days, etc.
We use the lua support in openresty to build our authentication layer for admin tools outside of those admin tools. Very easy to integrate it with a third party authentication platform and just provide auth for free to our app developers.
This is what is really frustrating about the article. It spends the entire first half boosting print books like there is something magical about them that prevents them from being disrupted like movies and TV were.

>E-books’ declining popularity may signal that publishing, while not immune to technological upheaval, will weather the tidal wave of digital technology better than other forms of media, like music and television.

And only until near the end of the article does it reveal the actual reason why print is far from dead.

>Higher e-book prices may also be driving readers back to paper.

The publishers put print books on life support by artificially inflating the prices of e-books. They are just delaying the inevitable in my opinion.
I don't know anyone who works 60 hours a week and also participates in the kind of community that Oakland has. People actually know each other there! They talk to their neighbors and strangers on the street, and it brightens everyone's day to have that little touch of human connection. They go to parties and talk about things other than their jobs. They paint and draw and play music and plan events and fundraisers that are good for the community. I know techies who aspire to that kind of life, but thinking like you want to do something and actually doing it are very different things.
> Just out of curiosity, how would turning on a web cam determine if a visitor saw an ad or not? I'm missing the logic.

Well, at a rough cut, it could verify that there was a client system with a person in front of it.

With more work you could maybe use eye-tracking, reflections, etc., to get a more reliable indication of whether the ad was visible to the user.
Here's the breakdown betterment has me in for 90% stocks/10% bonds allocation:

https://i.imgur.com/IEcWuYC.png
Is the software actually designed to "dupe" regulators?

Might there be many legitimate reasons why the emissions vs performance tradeoff might be tailored to driving conditions? Of course when the car is idling it would make sense to minimize emissions as much as possible, just as an idle CPU can utilize a lowered clock speed.
Wealthsimple here in Canada.
>This will probably get me hellbanned here, but here's a bit of gold:

Oh can we please not start adding this bit of meta to our posts? It's in the same category as "I know I'm going to be downvoted..."
To me, this is the best news I've heard all day.

See, used books made me - my local library as a kid was heavy on Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, and decades-old travel guides, not so much on other subjects. I very distinctly remember wanting to find Catch-22 and not only was it not available from my local, it wasn't available at any library in the county.

But used book stores didn't have that problem. I found my copy of Catch-22 in the back of a Goodwill store. Tolkien came out of a Salvation Army. Scores more came from library sales and yard sales, each a quarter or a dollar at a time.