skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does every creative genius need a bitter rival?
The timing of Google's AMP project is especially interesting considering the recent attention ad blockers have received.

By limiting the functionality of pages, AMP makes them load faster, but also allows publishers to include ads. The ads however, can't run JavaScript (or Flash) and so should be a lot less obnoxious.

There's no reason to only use AMP on mobile though - AMP content renders equally well, and fast, on the desktop. These extensions for Safari and Chrome will redirect to AMP URLs for content that has them.
I don't think "accidental complexity" means what you think it means.
Is cloud computing a teacup pig?
Twitter is actually becoming quite popular in science. It's a great tool to hear of new papers, find out about new findings reported in conferences you can't attend, and communicate in a public forum. Don't think you would have had much of that in MySpace...
Half a billion but...

People are expensive, office space in their 30+ offices is expensive, hundreds of thousands of servers are expensive...
That's ignoring the network effect and centralized environment that Twitter provides, without which GP might not have those 20k followers.
I am pro drugs. I actually feel most drugs, except antiboiotics, should be available over the counter.

That said, the one drug I have seem people injest, and come back slightly different people is LSD. I have never taken the drug, but I had two close, intelligent friends in high school go off to U.C. Santa Cruz and literally come back different people. We were all so young, and still finding ourselfs, but the differences in their behavior was stark, and didn't go away like I thought it would. I still like both individuals, but we don't hang out anymore.

One friend asked me why we don't hang out any more, and I never told him the truth. The truth is I didn't mind he was different. I didn't hang with the guy because it took him 30 minutes to review a movie, or offer to work on my computer and screw it up; it was this--he didn't have a verbal filter anymore. He would say weird hurtful things, and I couldn't predict when he would say something beyond weird. I just couldn't overlook what he said anymore.

He's actually doing well in the computer industry, and has a family, so maybe it was just me?

(I'm am probally the last one who should comment on Psychadellics, I've never tried them. Even when I went through a reckless stage--Psychidellics scared me. Hell, even marihuana has brought on slight panic attacks. Maybe I'm not psychologically adjusted enough to fool with these drugs?)
That's called life, it's not unique to Twitter. How would one "leak" such information?
Facebook's token user API system has now created the billion dollar juggernaut that is Tinder. That app is now irrevocably linked to Facebook.

You are completely right, there is a huge strategic reason for promoting OAuth API's as a large company.
RSS is subscribed :)
Male Engineering Student Explains Why Female Classmates Aren't His Equals
Ack, no. Bind caps lock to Ctrl, and escape is now the trivial chord C-[.

As an added benefit, getting used to this layout will help you out with migrating out of vim to emacs.
Why everybody knows CEOs are overpaid, but nothing happens
"Assume each person based their vote solely on how the people they know would vote"

This is misphrased, they vote based on their friends opinions, not the way their friends would vote. Otherwise it becomes a chicken and egg situation.
Facebook's API gave birth to the billion dollar juggernaut that is Tinder.

Tinder piggybacked off of Facebook OAuth logins in a useful way, and now Facebook has further cemented their permanence as it will now be very difficult for that dating app to sever themselves from Facebook OAuth.
Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry [video]
The Problems with Mario Maker's Metagame
What utter tosh! Layoffs just inspires the remaining staff to update their CV and start looking around.

Layoff are the result of incompetent management, and nobody wants to work for a company staffed with incompetent managers.
While Rand isn't the most likeable of charachters and her argument is often persented as anti-povery, on a high level contributing to society through your work is an amazing privelege. Financial contributions to society may not need a large monolithic arbitrater to handle all of the granular details with limited oversite.
When are you visiting India? Which cities would you be visiting.
I strongly recommend visiting Powai Valley(Mumbai). It is a very small area highly dense with great startups. The ecosystem is insane here as almost 90% of the start up are founded by IIT-Bombay alums (I am also one) which is just 2 km away from the area. Many people from SV who visited here have said this is better than SV in terms of eco-system.
AWS IoT – How it works
That shows the company is stagnating.

Google's stock price would not be at where it is now if the company "just" stopped at search. It's everything else they kept pursuing that's allowed the company to reach stratospheric valuation heights relative to its real revenue.
Well we can't have any choice over there, can we? It's Hillary's turn god damn it.
Definitely a fantastic read. Terrifying, but incredibly interesting. The author seems like an otherwise fairly well-adjusted person now - but it must be incredibly weird to look back at memories from when you were that completely out-to-lunch.
> Eh this sounds like exactly what was wrong with the early LSD promoters. Psychedelics are the mythical "love bomb"? I do not think the evidence supports that.

We really don't have that much evidence - at the one Uni they'd done what, 500 trials with mushrooms over 10 years?

It's obviously not guaranteed to bring world peace, but I honestly think it could make a huuuuuge portion of the public wake up and start asking questions of their leaders.
Why police could seize a college student's life savings without charging him
15 year old creates the next big thing
15 year old, self-taught UI/UX designer, Simone Simmons from Perth has assembled a team of 6 to build Comblie - one app to rule all your social networks.

Comblie will be released December 1st, but the exclusive private beta will run from 1st of November - 30th of November.

Sign up now to get an invite!

www.comblie.com
I use 'jf' instead of 'jk', so I can type "Dijkstra" occasionally, not to mention they're both on the home row, under your index fingers, typically have physical nubs on the keys, and no words in any language I can find contain the letters 'jf'.
You're seeing this from the wrong angle. Twitter's problem is NOT the lack of "real revenue" or "real profit." This is the sort of thinking that stagnates the platform.

Google's original investors were FUMING that the company didn't pursue ads earlier, following with what Yahoo did. In retrospect we now see the insight of that approach.

Twitter's problem is one of product. It's not innovating, it hasn't changed it's core formula in many years. Compare that to Google and Facebook which both made many bold improvements to their platforms after booming into success. (Though facebook one could argue has slowed down in its innovation.)
You may personally be more efficient but as a team or class our overall efficiency drops by being different. Now I'd argue that the class is more important than you personally.

We can agree that it matters a lot less what your own personal setup is as long as it saving stuff in the same format but I wouldn't say it doesn't matter at all.

As soon as someone asks you for a bit of help you're going to be slowed down by understanding each other system. If we conformed, teaching a junior how to profile code will be easier than showing him how to do it with your vim setup, for example.

Finally I'm never going to buy the efficiency of keyboard shortcuts when coding is generally worth the time sink in learning them over clicking a mouse in an IDE. Sure, they will make you faster, but I'd rather most people took longer and delivered solutions that weren't actually worse than the problem. All too often the quick people land me with stuff that pisses me off.
> What are these people (politicians) even doing the whole day?

Adding rules, regulation and loopholes that will only be read by a low level data-entry clerk and their new Artificial Intelligience.
I'm not sure I understand the superpower you've just assigned HFTs. If a value trader does a ton of research and decides to adjust their position in a stock, exactly what is it that an HFT can do to capture "a substantial portion of their profits"?
The solution to that is what they're already doing which is moving everything online. I watch movies all of the time and I still have yet to watch a single thing played off of a BluRay and I know nobody who uses them.

Fortunately there will likely never be a way to stop people from ripping video and audio from a display.
Nah, I change back and forth between Mac and Linux. It's bearable.
Money talks, and China's in serious trouble and it desperately needs to cooperate with US. That's why the Chinese president came to US to resolve issues with cyberhacking.

- $141.66bn capital left China in August http://bit.ly/1jh7E7z

- "by 2018 all of China's excess reserves — cash that it has on hand to use immediately — could be gone." http://read.bi/1jkK6hv

- "actual Chinese GDP is probably a third lower than is officially reported" http://bit.ly/1JsjaC0

- "The exodus of factories moving out of China in search of lower-cost options in southeast and central Asia is accelerating, as manufacturers face increased pressure to reduce unit costs." http://bit.ly/1hw8Zp3

- "average new home prices in China’s 70 major cities dropped 6.1 per cent" http://bit.ly/1jh9eGp

- "Total debt has reached 282 percent of GDP" http://bloom.bg/1evYSQ5
>Seriously, we're on a site that has news in the name. You read tech news and have been on the internet for a while, right? How is this still a confusing phenomenon?

We're talking about comment sections. Obviously your "creepy stalker ex" already knows you who are in the first place.

But you DO know you can use a handle and NOT use and advertise your real name and address in CNN (or any other place) comment section, right? To quote you "how is this still a confusing phenomenon to people?".

For the rest, I'm not from your parts of the world.

For 96% of the world's population, getting "SWAT team to your house that shoots you" or "creepy stalker ex" who somehow doesn't know where you live (because you've changed states or whatever), is not a thing. The same way we don't get much (if any) police shootings, or much (if any) pubic shootings in general for that matter.
I agree. It's wildly accepted the winner in most sports contents is the one the pushes the rules the hardest - i.e. push the line as hard as possible, without "breaking" the rules.

I've not read the EPA rules, but I'm sure it says something like x amount of y gas under whatever conditions.

At the end of the day, VW meets those rules.
my guess this worldview on for-profit companies is google's fault.

google ads is funding the other google, which behaves like a non-profit. and it works, as their ad business is amazing.

but, it sets a really bad example to follow. twitter thought a long time they could operate like google it seems. time to bring back reality.
I still can't get this particular website to load.
The most innovative technology to have come out of chat programs is Slack's feature that let's you EDIT chats in real time, and leave reactions.

This is such a crazy innovation to the structure of chat programs, that it blows my mind other real time communication platforms haven't incorporated it. Even Facebook Messenger and GChat feel inadequate now that I'm consciously aware that they don't let me edit my chat messages after sending them. It's such a no brainer innovation that nobody has ever done, likely because when you're building a chat program the idea of letting people edit chats after they send them makes the brain of any engineer hurt -- but there's an untapped value to allowing it that many products haven't realized yet.
Is that article serious? I appreciate that GP's post is atrociously misguided but that article can't be serious can it? Are there really people out there who believe this?

I had a look at this guy's other articles and it looks like the trashiest of linkbaits. "Reddit's Terrorists Have Won". "How MRAs Killed the World". "The Big Business of Internet Bigotry".

Author might be overcompensating for something...

Edit: Took a closer look at his articles. I generally appreciate opinion pieces, but this guy is either writing about women/feminists (neither of which he is), or about gamers (which he quite clearly isn't either), in a way that lets him just talk without the "threat" of opinions opposite to his own, which he heavily bashes. Wow. I need a shower after this.
Mozilla changes Brotli encoding “bro” to “br” due to worry about gender problem
HBO doesn't show advertising, but they have incredibly lucrative DVD/BluRay/streaming distribution networks. Also they have HBO Now gaining significant steam, and people will gladly pay just for Game of Thrones.
We can't guess as to how the NN is preferring images, but it looks to me like it's preferring images with a high entropy in certain regions
> I found the disabling the arrow keys in normal mode was the point of no return!

Is there any reason to do this when you have a keyboard that has easily reachable arrow keys? (Kinesis Advantage, in my case.)
They kicked chess players out of Market and Powell? As a chess fan this interests me. Please link me to more info.
The elected politicians spend all their time raising money for the next election. Might be time to rethink the two-year terms for House members in the US.
What about IKEA names?
The difference between chat and email
"Microservices"

They grow up into complex systems that no one was expecting.

/s
Automated forest cutting
Instead of marketing jargon, you should focus on actual facts and ideas. It's plain stupid that the "next big thing" is still going to have to go through a beta phase, not to mention that the idea itself is implied by the person who is the author of the product.
I believe the claim is that David Einhorn, Steve Cohen and other super rich hedge fund managers are providing incredibly valuable information discovery services to the markets. By by forcing them to suffer the price impact of their trades, we then reduce the incentive of such people to provide more information discovery.

tl;dr; Joe 401k should pay more for his retirement savings because by indexing, he's freeloading on the valuable labor provided by prop traders. HFT is bad because it makes this freeloading cheaper.

(Weird to hear argument lionizing hedge fund managers and calling out workers as freeloaders coming from left wing types.)
No, the half billion plus user base, consisting almost entirely of non-Facebook users, is what justified that purchase to Facebook.
New Book: Swift Code Cookbook
The source of this game is the game itself
You don't even have to go back that far, just a few years before Zynga.
If you think profits are still the driving force of what matters, then you will never build an Instagram or WhatsApp at the exit values they achieved.

This sounds like 90's bubble talk, but "eyeballs" do matter. Investors and the market care about the current social value of a product in terms of the value / growth of their user base.

Ask many millenials/teens and they say they more meaningfully interact with Instagram than Facebook. That fact about social trends is worth its weight in gold in terms of its user base.
Show HN: Try, the art of repeating tweets like Guy Kawasaki
You have to be skeptical of psychological screening after Lisa Nowak passed some of the most stringent screening out there and still did her diaper drive:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak
How in the world do they have hundreds of thousands of servers!
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"It's not even a climate change problem, it's a health problem": NOx being extremely dangerous for humans doesn't make it less of a problem for global warming.

Nitrous Oxide (N2O) has a Global Warming Potential 265-298 times that of CO2 for a 100-year timescale. N2O emitted today remains in the atmosphere for more than 100 years, on average. [0]

[0] http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/n2o.htm...
I'm a fan of 'C-c' for escaping.

That keybinding works to go from insert to normal in most filetypes (looking at you sql) without the binding so unconfigured vims are still usable with it, and it's really easy to reach.

I will admit it's a little more awkward than caps-lock, but I use my caps-lock for ctrl and thus can caps-lock-c instead.

Escape isn't really useful anywhere else in the system, so capslock as ctrl or super makes more sense to me.
I don't think this is strictly true: if your parser module also implemented the iterator/iterable protocols[0], then you could compose them that way. That may or may not be good enough for a particular use case.

In order to get my head around all this stuff, I made a trivial little toy library using generators for basic lazy sequences, and providing some basic stuff from the lodash/underscore library for them.

I found it was enough to make a kind of wrapper class that would hold a reference to the generator function, but lazily initialise it only when client code consumed the iterator, or explicitly forced evaluation. At that point, clients are aware only of the iterable interface, and not at all of the implementation details. (Or, they wouldn't be, if the particular implementation details didn't require you to use a polyfill on 90% of browsers and VMs ;-) )

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...
I wonder if the newly announced[1] federal takeover of WMATA will do anything to address this, or the water leaks in general?

While the fact that this happens is interesting from a botanical perspective, it's pretty indicative of a larger problem with the infrastructure that allows it to happen, IMO.

[1] http://wpo.st/cB5g0
This is basically a spamming tool. Downvoted.
7 Guidelines for Entrepreneurs to Do the Right Thing
Thankfully, a circuit for dropping the 5v input to 3.3v is really easy to build. It only requires a pair of capacitors and a 3.3v regulator, only about $2 of materials total.
I agree. If you're on Mac, the tool Seil will allow you to map Caps to Esc. And I use SharpKeys when on Windows.

The downside however is when you're stuck using someone else's computer or don't have root on Mac and Windows. I don't find myself on someone else's machine often though, so for me it's worth it to not have that half second delay.
Ask HN: Can Vim rival SSMS; if so, what's the setup?
I'm switching away from IntelliJ (it's more accurate to say away from the JVM) and the obvious choice is MS-VS + SSMS (I mean only obvious in this situation, due to our infrastructure and sys admin). I'm a contract worker and have no clue what the dev environment or infrastructure will be like at my next job, so I prefer to have a portable and compatable dev environment.

I actually really like MS-VS, and so have thought about trying out their open source offering, but want to have the ability to hack/contribute to it, should I need/want to, and (just personal preference) I prefer not working on MS code in my personal time (no hate, just preference; MS is actually on fire as of late). Regarding SSMS, well, most any DB IDE under $2k, I just find them, not motivating.

Is there some Vim setup that would run the whole spectrum from text editor to diagramming up my schemas? I'd consider Atom solutions, but my experience so far with Atom has left me with the impression that a lot of the non-core tech/plug-ins are half baked. Production ready is one deal breaker feature/must have. That goes for both the current release and the project's release process for future versions.

Last thing worth mentioning, I program applications and DBs, so looking for a solution that lives in both worlds without requiring me to be a mental contortionist.
I agree but that applies to pretty much every change
At some point you're so big cancer will mutate to death before it can kill you.
But I don't see anyone on the internet writing articles rebutting any of the points. I.e. I'd expect someone to write an article where they negate each point on that list e.g. "Illegal immigration - I think Trump is crazy to bring this point up because there is nothing wrong with illegal immigration. The reason we should not be against illegal immigration is because ..." and so on and so on, for each point. The wall is an implementation detail. I see people focus on that but then it's almost like they're trying to avoid the topic.

Trump seems like a very pragmatic reasoner. Keeps things simple. His way of reasoning seems to go something like this: "Illegal immigration. Are you for it, or against it? Against it? Ok. Would a wall help? Yes or no. Yes? Ok but you seem apprehensive about it. Why are you apprehensive? It's going to be expensive? We have a trade deficit with Mexico. I bet I could force them to pay for it by using strong arm tactics and adding taxes onto things they like exporting here. I'm good at negotating shit like that. Are you still apprehensive?" And so on.

I just simply can't find any coherently written rebuttals other than articles that go "Trump is crazy. He's an narcissist. He's a racist" basically just ad hominems. No one is being critical about any of his points. So it's very weird when I see all the hostility against him but no actual counter arguments.
If you don't have the cable, an arduino uno also works as a usb to serial adapter.

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoToBreadboard

To make 3.3V out of 5V you can use a voltage regulator.
Realistically, what justification is there any more for working on somebody else's machine, being force to use their config? Ok, if your machine explodes and you need their's for a bit fine. But in the long run, the amount of times where you need to actually edit some code by typing on another person's machine should be vanishingly small.

I'm all for standards when it comes to collaborating on code. But when it comes to text editors, vim configs, even using emacs (get out your crosses, holy water and sliver bullets), it shouldn't really matter from my perspective.
Ask HN: Dell pricing of XPS 13 developer notebooks
I am not sure how many people know this, but Dell's pricing is a little skewed when it comes to Ubuntu XPS 13 laptops. The highest end hardware you can buy is roughly >= $2000 but exactly the same hardware with Windows 10 is selling for $1450 at Adorama. Does anyone know why this discrepancy in price?
I don't understand why you'd want to map leader to anything but space.