skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's the industry.

>is almost entirely paying for what someone looks like.

No, not nearly. There may be some aspect of that, but no, people aren't looking for long-term commitments here. Anecdotally, I've known people who will not mind dating westerners but would never commit nor have any intention of marrying them (Social conventions).

That said, my point was more about the dominant society (Japan) where men express preference superficially based on "race" over another where the compared ethnicities include non-native. But I'm saying this preference may not be based on perceived racial ranking, but rather on other reasons, rarity (exoticism) a social signal (more disposable income), etc. And so I'm saying I don't think it's certain that the (preferential) treatment of "whites" in Africa can be strictly assigned to some racial ranking.

I'm also interested to see how Chinese might come to be viewed in the coming decades in Asia as they become known for their economic prowess and as their power and influence is felt in the African continent.
I think that Dropzone [1] on Mac has similar functionality. Not free though.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropzone-3/id695406827?mt=12
None of the above.

I look at who has contacted us lately, who has visited the website, who has signed up for a trial, what ads are running where and who did they target etc. It isn't about where you advertise so much as what they are doing for you. Also, who has asked for support, who has sent us an email and who is likely to convert.

Marketing is about keeping existing clients happy, finding the channels where new clients will be and experimenting. I will experiment in various places, but honestly, I rarely will check the results other than weekly.

I have 20 years of development and marketing, and one thing has held consistently true. It takes time to see what works and what doesn't. I don't mean it takes months or years, but you can learn nothing in an hour or two (generally), as it will take a week or more of testing and experimentation to see any patterns.
"We estimate you will live until age 66.8 years"

Do they seriously apply life expectancy at birth to people who was born 30 years ago and did not die yet?
I would also say dated life expectancy at birth, data from five years ago probably.

Kind of okayish infographic, but data should come first.
An Observable Pattern Implementation in Swift
Part of the article was railing against Facebook for censorship.
No. It still is. Just look at the comment you responded to.
If you want a full modular synth to play with, with a built-in tracker and an outstanding UI, I suggest trying Sunvox[1]. It is free (as in beer) for a huge number of platforms.

[1] http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
Well, I'm the NaN person alive!

I think they have some debugging to do.

(To you non-computer programmers, that means "Not a Number")

The response I got was:

"Do you think you belong to the young or old? You are the NaN person alive on the planet. This means that you are older than % of the world's population and older than 80% of all people in Israel."
Copywriters: Key ranking factors to watch out for
HELP US HELP OTHERS FIGHT CANCER WITH MUSIC AND DONATIOINS
"The Alto hardware was fairly simple, most stuff was done in software."

It was pretty simple. I've used and programmed an Alto, back when Stanford had a few around. It was basically a reworked Data General minicomputer in a small rackmount case. 16 bit word oriented, programmable in BCPL or Mesa at the low level, Smalltalk at the higher level. The removable hard disk was the same as a DEC RK05 cartridge disk. The Ethernet interface was very simple, and coax Ethernet was electrically simple. Alan Kay referred to Ethernet as "an Alohanet with a captive ether". The CPU was microcoded, and cycles were stolen from the CPU's microcode engine to run the peripherals. None of this was pushing the state of the art. The CPU hardware was a minimum viable product.

The keyboard, mouse, and display were all new, and nicely engineered. Most of the hardware effort went into those. The keyboard had nice key switches and a massive metal casting. The display was the first good black-on-white display, with a big portrait-format screen. The original mouse wasn't that great.
I think Evernote is too expensive for it to be worth buying. Sure you get a bunch of users, but how valuable are those users really? Few are paying.
I'm sitting on my couch shaking my head because I fell for the bait and wasted five minutes of my life reading a few paragraphs of attention seeking nonsense.

Know what would help this person with whatever problem that they are having? Getting to the point.
To be fair, some number (15% or so) of Type II patients aren't obese.

I think Obesity Induced diabetes should have a different name, like "Gluttony Glucose Syndrome".
It's a very odd style of communication - extremely passive aggressive coupled with feigned incredulity.

Has anybody on HN ever brought up Eric Schmidt's quote to do anything other than bash it? Like "hey this guy is a real thought leader, we should listen to him."
Show HN: Solved first 10 Project Euler challenges using Clojure
>But there's still the occasional person who avoids me like the plague.

It's hard for me to believe this, but I don't want to believe you.

>For those who can't imagine anything worse than losing your sight

I don't think it would be the worst, but I have trouble writing code as it is; don't kid yourself, you're a bad ass.

>Not having to look at yourself in the mirror anymore can actually be liberating.

I solved this by ignoring the mirror while in the bathroom even though I can see. It just seems to cause vanity.

As for your son, I wish you the best. I had a type 1 roommate in college, and he had some 'interesting' episodes that caused me great concern (i.e. failing to maintain awareness of his glucose levels). Keeping active skiing, hiking, and fishing seemed to help him a bunch.
should have taken her insulin
Purely functional datatypes that can be rendered
Google could afford to offer evernote as a free service, and use it as a source of labelled data.
I've been working with rust for about a week now and I've found it a mirror of go in several ways.

Go aims to be simple with the aim of being 'easy' to start writing idiomatically within a few days of jumping into the language. Comparatively, rust is a behemoth in terms of complexity.

There's the completely relevant compilation speed difference: if rust could compile within 5-10x the time go does, it would be much more pleasant to work with. Being able to compile within 2 seconds on large projects is crazy for iteration speed; having to wait upwards of 10 seconds on toy projects is not.

However, rust is stupid fast while also being safer than go. Also, generics; that's a flamewar for another day.

Context: I've been working with go for around 2-3 years now. I recently decided to pick up rust because of the guarantees it provides along with the crazy performance.
how do you know what gender pronouns the writer prefers?
;)
As I said, it was on grounds of general inaccessibility, not inauthenticity - the point was to make far more thrilling and relevant music by abandoning the overwraught playing, equipment, and production which had become the norm from the mid 70s. At that point, synthesizers were largely associated with millionaires noodling away in expensive studios and not part of the equation for a bunch of teenagers starting a band. The minute these bands started doing albums and synths started getting mass produced by Japanese firms, they began to pop up in the music from about 1978, just a year after the first crop of UK punk albums.
How to build a DIY satellite ground station
I hope you are right. I lost 24 pounds this year. Another 15 and my weight will be in normal range. So far, no change in my diabetes but I am still losing a couple of pounds every month. If you are right, I will be cured by next year.

I say this in all honesty. If losing weight cures it I will be so thankful. The strange thing is that I have never been one to eat lots of sweets and I exercise. Many people who weigh much more than me have way better blood sugar. So is it all weight or is there something more? Personally, I wonder about environmental factors. Also now they are finding some medicines are linked to diabetes. Like Seroquel (which I took years ago) and Lipitor.
The best thing for your purposes would be a site that attempted to optimize for the appearance of idiomatic code, which you could then secretly use to gauge the performance of code that's idiomatic to each language. In other words, entirely remove performance showboating as an incentive. Rosetta Code (http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code) may be the closest to what you want, though I can guess that most of the Rust implementations were written prior to 1.0 and won't even compile anymore, let alone represent idiomatic code. :P
Ctrl + Shift + 4 is built into Mac for capturing regions of the screen.
I've had tinnitus since a bike accident. Hurt my left jaw, and the tension spread through my neck and low back.

Depending how I open my jaw, clench it, or move my neck, the noise will increase. Hearing is fine, been tested.

Fortunately I mostly don't notice it. The only real permanent effect is that earplugs, for example on a flight, actually make noise worse.
Shocking:Company punishes sales staff by making them crawl around lake
The one thing I can say for Docker is that before it launched, it seemed most companies using container technology were not that open about it. Docker appears to be the company that spoke about the unspeakable and caused lots of software to suddenly be developed in the open where it was all behind the scenes previously. Maybe I was just clueless, but the more Docker pushed their releases, the more other companies suddenly had all this code to release.
"Today the Google algorithm is much more complex and, frankly, better than it was just a few years ago. Google doesn’t rely on such a simple measurement as “keyword density“ to determine search relevancy. But, if keyword density is over, how is Google determining what your content is about?"

I often see these, "lets hack google agorythms" to improve listings. I can see the purpose, but why can't they improve their product? Is google that dominant your sales suffer compared to competitors?
> So I've wondered if the Intel x86 instruction set also has this accident and, thus, can run operating systems that use privileged instructions but not know they are running on a VM. Or maybe the ability to run on a VM was from some extensions to the Intel instruction set. Do you know?

No, originally x86 was very difficult to emulate in a virtual machine. User-mode can be run directly on the processor but, for kernel-level code, binary translation was necessary to dynamically re-write the code containing privileged instructions. However, these days nearly all modern x86 processors now have extra instructions specifically for virtualization.

> Does the Microsoft CLI/CLR software have some security features beyond just any native program

There are a bunch of sandboxing features available in the CLR but most applications run with full trust and can do anything a native program can do.
"A good segment (30%) of the world barely works" - and behaves exactly like disgrunted arabs in poor muslim countries?

I.e. radicalize, want to blow up the world, ready to take arms for $150/month?

Another role model for those people is 1st world ghettos. We're not doing it better than that yet. "The cost of subsistence has been driven down significantly", that's nice if you actually have some independent source of income. Otherwise you're a slave of someone who has it.

"Solar panels are everywhere" - making electricity out of rain, darkness and misery anyone? Not every country in the world has enough sunshine (however, most do)

Not a world of explaination why India is superpower. Not a word about Europe.
Just curious, was erlang.mk around and did you use the bootstrapped release / cowboy_http template [1] when creating your first application? Based on some things you mention, it makes it sound like you were writing from scratch while referencing the docs. :-)

I also got started from the cowboy user guide (with prior Erlang experience), but found it relatively easier, as I used the template, then cross-referenced the idiomatic template with the docs as I worked through them (tweaking 'knobs' as I went along), which worked well in helping me understand the design.

Along with the Erlang mailing list you've mentioned, I would also like to mention #ninenines (and #erlang for more general questions) on freenode. Very helpful communities!

[1] This page describes the setup: http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/HEAD/guide/getting_starte...
Anyway, that's not "future". That's more of "now". Can we please have some real future sometime?

With, I don't know, space travel, teleportation, telepathy, nanoassembly, digital democracy, aliens?
Qwikrazor87 releases his bubble method for the PSVita FW3.52
I don't lean super social-justicey, and your point has merit, but I downvoted you for the gratuitous "he/she/it" slur. Why be mean for no reason?
A lot of people are recommending Nooelec but I'd recommend starting out with the RTL-SDR blog SDR. It'll have a low PPM receiver and an SMA connector. A lot of the cheaper RTL-SDRs you get (including Nooelec) can have high PPM, non TXCO oscillators. If you're working with weak signals it can kill. There's software to allow you to tune the SDR and eliminate the PPM error but most of the oscillators with high PPM vary by temperature so if you have the SDR in different or changing environments, your calibration can cease being accurate. The SMA connector is a huge help with antennas because the built in MCX connector on many of the SDRs can be pretty fragile (I've broken a couple by accident so far). If you do get a Nooelec anyway, get one of the 0.5PPM models (I think they call them "Mini 2+" with the "+" on the end).

If you like the RTL-SDR after playing with it a while and have a bit of money ($300) I'd strongly recommend the HackRF One. I only started with SDR a few weeks ago and the RTL-SDR was great (especially for the price) but the HackRF One is a whole other level. The amount of bandwidth you can get out of it is amazing.

If you're hoping to handle weather satellites and such, you'll need to build your own antennas. They can be kinda big and you'll need line of sight to the sky most of the time so it'll work best if you have a large open area you can frequently visit. If you own a house your back yard might be good. If you're in an apartment building the roof or parking lot is probably best.

Something else that's fun to play with is ADS-B. It allows you to pick up air traffic position/altitude/speed/heading broadcasts.
Thanks! Can you also share the answer of how do you manage your $5,000 online ads budget?
Awesome to see this on here. I had pulsatile tinnitus for almost two years. I would wear soft headphones to bed so that I could listen to white noise (pink actually) to drown out the sound.

During that time I saw at least five different doctors: general physician, two ENTs, hearing specialist, and a naturopathic physician (I might have even seen more that I'm not remembering). I even got MRIs. Nobody could fix it or tell me what was causing it.

Eventually my wife suggested I get a craniosacral treatment from her yoga instructor -- she saw on the website that it could help with tinnitus. To say that I was dubious would be putting it very mildly. But, I was willing to try just about anything at that point.

Long story short, craniosacral therapy is body work, and it's sort of like chiropracty. The practicioner noticed that my jaw muscles were very tight and did what she could to get them to release.

Over the course of the next week, my tinnitus steadily decreased and has not been back. That was over a year ago.

tl;dr: My specific case of tinnitus was definitely caused by head/neck muscle tension, and was cured. Hope others can find relief as well.
This is pretty close. Benedict evans did a more accurate calculation , and got ,for electric self driving cars, 14-19 cents/mile:

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/636684338352951297

One thing he forgot - what about shared transport - say sharing with 3 people could offer ride time relatively close to a car. That gets us to 4.5 cents/mile. That comes about to $50 a month/american-person(avg 13.5K miles/year) , less for a kid, surely less for people in dense cities(say $25) .

EDIT:and if you're willing to ride an on demand bus/minibus , maybe it could go to 1/2-1/3 of that , so maybe your monthly transport demands could be met by less than $10.
Google Keep works offline.
Mark Zuckerberg vs. neigbor dispute gets weirder
You'll be happy to hear that compilation speed is the foremost priority of the Rust developers at the moment, and is the result of a technical-debt-laden codebase (having survived four years of traumatic language evolution) rather than any intrinsic property of the language. :) Huge improvements are in the pipe.
"Many people live throughout their life in campus environments similar to college campuses of the early 21st century. These campuses were seeded from the ruins of cities ravaged by crisis (Detroit), the transition of festivals to sustained existence (Burning Man), and around the headquarters of major companies. These mini Utopias on earth are small, high density villages with everything a person wants. A high density of friends, intelligent people, exciting activities, all in walkable or bikeable distances. Importantly, there is high mobility between these campuses (changing companies, new research projects), but little mobility from outside to inside."
This one got me because this is not the future, this is the past, a lot tried it in the 60s and 70s, I tried it with the punks in the 90s, it didn't work, I still don't want it to work, this concept goes against the privacy feature these cultures want to provide so it fails in the end.
Ask HN: How do you manage your online ads budget?
Let's say you have $5,000 monthly budget and campaigns. How do you manage your bids, campaigns on Twitter, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn? How do you monitor them? What are your goals?
Though not as polished as ShareX, Shutter (http://shutter-project.org/) is available for Linux and works pretty well.
since this is a techy website, I can tell you the impact the Forum had on me (formerly known as the "Est" training) is it probably healed me of the NIH syndrome far more than anything else - or I should say, NIBM (Not Invented By Me) syndrome, because I really felt I was God's greatest gift to programming up until that point.... and it was all based off a premise that I had to -prove- this over and over again to everyone I ever encountered, all my peers, all my superiors - to a point I didn't realize was beyond annoying and in more than one instance damaging to me...

It showed me the 'grey' area of being an effective, or rather -pragmatic- programmer, who doesn't have a black or white approach to everything. Yes, the solution, when put to the paper (or code rather :), is indeed a binary, black/white kind of ordeal, this is usually the least contentious part of software development and the most is probably working with others...but the approach up to that point is not black/white as nothing is black white when dealing with people.

It (the Forum) is definitely not something one would regularly attend unless they start hitting a brick wall and a plateau in their career ... as I did. Since then I'd been promoted and given salary increases regularly - never really had the courage to start a business even though I'm a regular lurker here, or pitch an idea/prototype (yet) to some vc like PG.... but nevertheless, certain aspects of my behavior completely unravelled (for the better) as a result of this 3 day event.

Can't say it worked for everyone - but for me, it did wonders.

I'm pleased to see some of its blueprints so omnipresent in corporate America - hopefully it humanizes us more.
I don't think I understand your point.

Google Keep works offline, it has seamless syncing when it is online and I can access it from all my devices (including my phone).

I guess you don't consider a Chrome App to be a "real" native app and that somehow makes it different for you, but I don't see any meaningful distinction.
my biggest complaint is the harassing update notifications.
So in general, we manage a 5 figure/month online marketing budget. That is split between Facebook, Google, display ads and retargeting. We focus mostly on highly targeted display ads, retargeting then Google and Facebook, with Facebook being the place we spend the least amount overall.

Why we choose this, is simply because while we see the most traffic from Facebook, the least number of conversions come from those ads. Retargeting and Display Ads do the best, outside of direct emails and follow up from on site visitors.
Of course. I'm describing the state of the world not proposing a solution. Deluding ourselves into believing in Equality is probably the best possible, although imperfect, solution. I am simply addressing this imperfection and using it to explain why discrimination still occurs in a world that largely finds discrimination abhorrent. After all, this is a forum for intelligent debate.

That being said, posting a topic on genetic or racial superiority tends trigger extreme reactive responses in people. Under normal circumstances I would have been voted down and attacked by multiple negative comments remarking about my character. Nobody would have tried to understand my logical view point and they usually automatically dismiss me as racist.

You'll note that none of that is happening in this thread. A lot of people are quite accepting of this idea or addressing the issue in a friendly way despite the controversial nature.

It is because I had to spend deliberate effort to craft the language and structure of the post to present truths in a way that is self evident and extremely unhostile. So while I believe there is really no need to pull humanity out of this delusion of total racial equality... in a sense this thread is proof that the world can probably handle the truth... you just need to present the view in the right light.
Whether you sympathize with her plight or think she's ridiculous, one important issue remains for all Facebook users. Even if you quit using Facebook, there's no assurance that Facebook will stop collecting data on you, and there's no assurance that Facebook will purge data pertaining to you from their database and website. In fact, it appears that your absence does nothing to curtail their data collection, nor their fictional representation of you. That is extremely problematic. Ideally ending one's account would end the data collection and the data profile. Failing that, at a minimum, one's personal data should no longer be displayed. Unfortunately Facebook's "security" policy seems indifferent to the real-life well-being and personal security of their current and former users.
Yea, what is also fun is that you already are running nonfree microcode when you boot any x86 processor, making skipping microcode updates useless.
Only commenting to say you are not alone thinking about this.
" A person weighing 300lbs has roughly the same neurochemical hunger/stress response as a person weighing 150lbs,"

Not sure about this. Will depend on the type of (over) eater. Do they over eat because of psychology (stress reaction), do they over-eat due to some hormonal imbalance (lower gut hormone despite eating) and subject keeps eating. Then there's binge eaters. Each of these three types of over-eating have a different "neurochemical hunger/stress response" to a normal person who has eaten enough and stops. [0]

[0] BBC Food, Gabriel Weston MDBS, Truth about Fat ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9dDlKI623E
Bottom of the page in the footer: "Add your Date of Death
to your calendar".

Creepiest feature I've ever seen on a site. Interesting nonetheless.
He put a link to his R code in the blog post: https://github.com/minimaxir/reddit-bigquery/blob/master/red...