skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We fucked up, but we don't want to admit it."
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Is this Web site accessible (say, via screen-reader)? Scanned PDFs can be a huge problem for people who are visually impaired.
I used ® as my password during (what Americans would call) middle school. Alt+numpad works on the Windows XP login screen. It never caused me any trouble.
Are slack histories indexed by google, like mailing list archives or large IRC channels?
Small correction: It was the 10th man's duty to *disagree with the other 9 and prepare for that outcome.
Bonds are government debt. When you buy a bond, you are giving the government your money now in order to receive a return on that money later, with the expectation that the government will do something useful with the money in the meantime. So if the government is allocating its budget well, then yes, purchasing bonds is a good thing. If it is not, you are making a bad loan to someone who may not be able to pay you back in the future.

Government stimulates demand by investing in sectors that have huge up-front costs but large positive social externalities over time because the lifespan of a gov is much greater than that of an individual or corporation. It invests in infrastructure - the national grid, highways, roads, prisons, the post office, mortgage lending, insurance - most importantly though, wars, education, and healthcare. Many of these industries have become increasingly privatized over the past 30 years. This is not inherently bad, but it changes the profit time horizon and shifts incentives away from long-term investment towards short-term profit maximization.

iPhone would not exist without the development of the internet during the cold war on gov grants, the affordability and draw of public UC Berkley where Jobs and Wozniaki met, people alive and well-fed enough to buy it, etc. You can't point to a single innovation without looking at the entire fabric of the society that produced it. Gov spending has huge impact on social fabric. iPhone is also only one half of equation. If no one has the disposable income to buy one, it doesn't matter how good it is.
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> Putting behaviour in HTML is a bad idea

This is not what I'm doing. JSX is JS. I'm not putting any logic "in HTML". If I were able to express what I'm doing in mustache-style syntax, it would be:

Blah blah <a onclick="{{ callback }}">Click me</a> Blah

Where `callback` is a reference to a JS function (rather than a string holding it's name).

What's your ideal way of registering an onclick callback?
Wingsuit!
“All I Want for Christmas is You” through MIDI then MP3 converters
It's naive to think that the Fed just uses some simple Taylor rule or Philips curve model in their policy decisions. Along with having a full staff of economists and research assistants doing econometrics, they have sophisticated microfoundational computational models like the NY Fed's DSGE model[1] (that they recently open-sourced in Julia[2]). There's a lot more to macroeconomic prediction than just "adding another variable."

[1] http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2014/09/forecas...
[2] https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl
It has been way less than 2 hours on Chromecast, but that isn't a scientific test. My anecdata is that they seem to do it when you least want them too, yet keep playing episode after episode when you turn things off and Netflix didn't get paused for whatever reason (see this on Roku as well which doesn't seem to detect that the HDMI receiver is switched to standby/off).
How does it work for GET requests then?
How not to flink up your App Store page A/B test
Very much so, it was the first consumer device that had push-email, Danger was very much ahead of their time. You can see lots of things from it that influenced Android when Andy Rubin went over to Google.
Q&A with a Former USPTO Patent Examiner
The same thing happens on the Sony Blu-Ray player I watch Netflix through (via "apps" or whatever). Usually after more than 3 episodes maybe, with no interaction from the remote.
Incidentally, I think applying for YC is one of the best ways for those without connections / pedigree. The nature of the application process is such that partners and YC alum reviewers usually look most closely at what the team has actually done, not merely what school they went to or what fancy startups the founders have worked at.

(I no longer work at YC, so I'm just speaking to my time working with 10 batches there.)
I use PDFScanner on my Mac. Works great at scanning time or post-scanning. No, it's not free but it's worth it. Pay the $15, ya cheap bastiches! :-)

BTW, how is this news?
>alerts those in your chat thread that you have indeed grabbed a ride…instead of you lying that you have whilst still in your pajamas

Is this actually an issue for anyone?
> Rising interest rates also mean that house prices should drop (or deaccelerate), right?

Compared to without the policy change (not necessarily compared to before the policy change, though implications of the latter type are frequently treated as if they were of the former type) higher interest rates should mean (with the common assumptions about the dynamics of the rest of the market) both lower prices and fewer sales (buyers can afford less, but there's no reason for sellers to seek less, so the best any property can sell for will be lower and there will be fewer cases where any buyer will be able to offer what a seller would accept.)
I'm not sure which xhr module you're referring to but the `xhr` package doesn't have this problem:

$ npm install xhr
$ browserify -r xhr | wc -c
11147
$ browserify -r xhr | wc -l
390
$ browserify -r xhr | grep Buffer
$
LEED has a really wide scope.

People care about $ so they care about energy costs. If you just show them people will make informed decisions where now it's all up in the air.

EX: Heating and cooling costs for the average 3 bedroom hose in this area is X to Y$ per year, this house is estimated at: z$.

Another advantage of this approach is most savings shows up at the low end of the scale. Where LEED and other green certifications focuses on the high end of the scale which has diminishing returns. EX: Over 100,000 miles 10 vs. 11MPG saves 909 gallons, where 40 vs. 60 MPG only saves 833 gallons.
What about socks for truck drivers to detect if they are dozing? Have them set off a phone alarm, etc. Better yet, can FitBit, etc. detect dozing and use the vibrating alarm to alert?
Even if that's the case, I still think it's a poorly written article.

Scientists have reached a very interesting finding. You can either write an article about how such finding was made(actual experiments, data collected, curiosities along the work, oppositions against common sense, etc) or what such finding means (what I already made a point).

If the article is about the finding (and not what it means), as I believe it's what you're saying, note that there is nothing meaningful about the research at all, just the conclusion.

Great articles tackles both points. Good articles tackles one. This article tackles none.
Could you explain, if possible, how do you get six figures revenue from 200 visitors?
This would suggest that zoning codes represent a substantial constraint on development, and form a substantial driver of rising rents.
>1. Electron. Simply awesome - I copied 90 % of my app, changed Sequelize ORM to have it's storage to sqlite and boom. I have a webapp as a OS-packaged app.

And your users get to enjoy awful performance and insane resource usage for their app. How generous of you.

Also, the hate for NodeJS is because Javascript is a terrible language, no matter how many things you put on it (TypeScript, Babel, etc.). It's also because V8 performance is laughable.

Everything you mentioned is also mentioned in http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/751 , which I believe does a nice job of explaining why NodeJS is terrible.
But it would seem like a 2% rate would still have pretty bad consequences. The average interest rate on federal debt is 2.4%. [2], and interest on that debt is about 7 percent of outlays. [1] (Yes, I looked up those figures for my previous HN comment, not trying to plagiarize myself.)

I couldn't find data on average maturity, but if it's slanted toward shor-term debt, then that average could go to more like ~3.5%, which would be a ~40% increase in interest spending, and (assuming no increase in revenues) a 3-4% cut from the federal budget, when pretty much anything is hard to cut.

Debt at these low interest rates makes spending very vulnerable to even small (point-wise) increases.

[1] http://www.cbpp.org/research/policy-basics-where-do-our-fede....

[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/files/2013/10/debt_interest1.png
http://www.pewresearch.org/files/2013/10/debt_interest1.png
I do so when I inevitably rip them off in the night with no lucidity whatsoever I have a fun little scavenger hunt in the morning.
These symbols are so successful. I'd like to to see sets of symbols for some other areas.
Ember GraphQL Adapter
My theory (based on 0 facts) is that they will ask you if you're still streaming on shows that experience a high load and want to save the servers streaming that particular episode.
Stained Glass Making (if you find a good shop) can be a close knit group of people and help you get good. I found it very easy to pick up it just requires a steady hand, and a good eye to figure out what piece to cut form where in the glass.

Gardening is also something I enjoy. Learning about plants and keeping them healthy year round. It is very satisfying to have a harvest of your own plant (I grow a decent sized Tabasco pepper plant.) Though this turns into a more solo task unless you do it in a community garden or something like that.
I argue my ideas only need to hold water for another 10-30 years, depending on if technology advancement keeps up.

Given that the AI community's prediction making skills have been just slightly better than those of Nostradamus, that's a very tough gambit to rely on.

Japan's been running structural deficits for decades, and still has a very high quality of life.

Except for the aftermath of the whole Lost Decade thing and aging population taking tolls on aggregate productivity. I'm not qualified enough to say whether causes were monetary, fiscal, sociological or some combination thereof, but listing Japan as a positive example here doesn't strike me as wise.

As basic minimum income solves this without the messy politics surrounding it.

UBI would theoretically handle a minimum transfer of purchasing power for every individual. We're talking about public programs and initiatives unrelated to that.

Though, if you're idealistic enough to think the UBI is a prospect soon realizable, I wonder why you're advocating minimum wage increases over say, stronger collective bargaining? Denmark for instance has never had a minimum wage law.
Not just one of the largest: it is the largest, and by a large margin too. http://www.cityam.com/205546/uk-has-most-valuable-online-sho...
No one's suggesting using Node.js in the space shuttle. These are mostly disposable web apps we're talking about.
Username checks out
C is for Car?
To modify Andrew Jackson: "The Fed has raised its funds rate; now lets see them enforce it."
> For instance if you have a GC that compacts then by definition you cannot guarantee object relative layout. This object layout is critical in making sure that your traversal order is cache and pre-fetch friendly.

You do that in GC and non-GC environments exactly the same way: by embedding your objects in arrays.

> AFAIK struts+arrays in C# are the only construct I've seen that lets you get close to explicitly control ordering of objects.

And Java's upcoming value types.

> If you work in that manner you're throwing away 90% of what makes the language useful and paying the cost of not working with the objects in their native form.

I disagree. Even without value types, working with byte buffers in Java may still be significantly less work than C++, depending on how much of your application requires this kind of work. And the GC saves you a lot of work when you deal with concurrent data structures.

The main disadvantage (good) GCs have is their significant RAM overhead when good performance is required.
Barnes and Noble is dying to me because of their idiotic website.

When you check to see if a book is available in your local store, you have to enter a zip code.

Then when you check another book, you have to enter your zip code again. You have to enter it for every damn book you want to check.

Have these people never heard of session cookies?

You can login to the site if you have a B&N account (and they remember this...so they DO know about cookies). When logged in you can even set your location, and they remember that...but as far as I can see that is only used to determine what to show you when you ask for upcoming events. It doesn't help with checking to see if a book is available at your local store.

B&N as a web seller of books has nothing that tempts me to use them over Amazon (especially since I have Prime). Their sole draw is that they have a big store full of books 15 minutes away from my home, which means that if my store stocks a book I'm waffling about buying online I can go in and take a good look at it. And when I do that there is a good chance that if I decide to buy the book I'll buy right there, both for the convenience of having the book right then and because I do want offline bookstores to stay around. I'm willing to eat the price difference over Amazon for that.

They need to have a way on the website to tell it "I'm here because I'm interested in what is in stock in my local store right now...do not show me anything else". If they did that, I'd buy a much larger fraction of my books from my local B&N store.
> changing corporate taxes so it behooves companies to pay employees more

"Corporate" is perhaps too restrictive, but shifting the relative tax burden from labor to capital, without changing the overall share of the economy represented by taxes or government spending, would probably be pretty powerful here.

There are, to say the least, political difficulties involved.
You only sleep for one hour? It's more like the difference between 10 minutes and 9 hours for me.

If you leave Netflix running for 9 hours straight it will be pretty difficult to find what time, let alone what episode you fell asleep on.
Medieval Mythical Creatures
Actually since the "driver" had not left the car, it would be considered "standing" not "parking", at least by MA law.
Oh it's horrible, you've seen whole cycles so know how even the good things you could do next go bad in the end. It's easy to fall into excessive cynicism, plus stop learning new stuff because of the 30s lesson of how hard it really is to learn in full.

To be honest, I recommend faking to yourself that you're in your 20s still :) Much healthier attitude.
I agree. But still quite an interesting article, one of the more entertaining reads I've had in a while.
A huge percentage of net market moves happen on the days around fed announcements. Your interpretation of the reaction needs to be rebased onto that history. Today only looks like a big move compared to an average day in a week without a fed announcement. You can see this here: http://slopeofhope.com/socialtrade/item/19476?__share=52402
low rates have spurred demand and inflation RELATIVE to where they would have been at much higher rates.
Hah. Someone should write a bot that evaluates trite simplistic aphorisms (regardless of sarcastic or whatever) and replies with something like "real life is more complex" or something of that ilk.
FSF announces fundraising support for GNU Guix
OK, so it's not competitive for some use cases today. Nothing prevents implementation of any of those features, or an evolution away from needing those specific features and replacing them with other features. You mention ODBC, which is a cool feature for some folks, but desktop spreadsheets can't readily hook up to a form on the web, which Google docs can. There are powerful new functionalities provided by web-based apps, and in many cases, those new functionalities trump the old ones.

To argue that what is true today will remain true effectively forever is to ignore the entire history of computing. Desktop applications won't win in the end. Every time a credible web-based alternative has arisen, it has won and destroyed the old way of doing things. So much so that we forget old ways even existed. In a decade I'll be surprised if there is still a desktop version of Office even still in development. There will be web-based versions that work without Internet access, but there won't be a version you "install" on your client machine. I'd bet it'll be sooner for most people, but there will remain outliers for several years beyond which there is a good business case for sticking with Office installed on each users machine.
> Fed raising interest rates 0.25% and setting a goal of "normal" 2% by 2018 means little to nothing. Market already priced the miniscule rate hike in as the move was widely expected

The second part is true, but doesn't support the first. The fact that move was expected and priced in doesn't make it meaningless, since if it didn't occur as expected, the fact that it was priced in would mean that the market would then have to adjust to the inaccurate expectation that had been priced in.
We can include an emergency bike in the trunk so you can still get where you are going.
How a blond American kid became a huge star in Saudi Arabia
Has to be sarcasm.

People who actually believe that wouldn't say "politicians", they'd use some other euphemism, because they believe in some abstract trustworthy organization that's always being hampered by those damn politicians.

Statists love their euphemisms:
“investment” instead of “government spending”
“shared sacrifices” instead of "wealth redistribution"
"government officials" instead of "un-elected bureaucrat"
and lastly,
"public sector" instead of "The State".
A domain expert on an Internet forum? Prepare to be corrected!
> And, you've made a joke comparing that to someone wanting to be treated like royalty.

It's not a joke: it's a serious example. You are not (I assume) nobility in any recognised peerage; a man who believes he is a woman is not in any recognisable sense actually a woman.

Or maybe you are actually a peer, or maybe she really is a woman. In which cases yes, I'd like to see proof which outweighs the evidence to the contrary.

> And, I've mentioned that many trans folks find that kind of response hurtful.

It may be hurtful to the theoretical you-of-the-example to note that you are a commoner; it may be hurtful to a man who believes himself a woman to note that he is a man. But, y'know, you are and he is.

It's hurtful to me when folks point out my errors and mistakes, but I can't change reality to match what I think it is or want it to be.

> Do you sincerely believe the two situations are comparable?

Yes, they are exact analogues from my point of view, for the reason that neither noble titles nor sex are subjective: they are objective reality.
https://github.com/tblobaum/git-rev
> > I argue my ideas only need to hold water for another 10-30 years, depending on if technology advancement keeps up.

> Given that the AI community's prediction making skills have been just slightly better than those of Nostradamus, that's a very tough gambit to rely on.

That's a weird comment; "technology" is a lot broader than "AI".
Yup, that's totally fair. I'm a big fan of a solid C++ core + wrapper language that maps to the domain I'm in. Very common in the games space to see C# for all tooling/editor with the core engine in C++ for portability/performance.
Funny, someone came in to prove my point by downvoting me immediately. (feel free to skip upvoting because this is funny :)
Dumb question from non-physicist - if the 'Standard Model' is a good theory, why don't we have a good idea of where to find particles [ ie. predict their mass and other properties ]?

Is the problem that its just hard to compute these values ?

Or does the theory not predict particle masses ?

Or do we need a fully unified theory of all fundamental forces, before we can predict particle properties from first principles ?
Have you looked into ocropy[0]?

Here's a nice intro[1] that later talks about how it achieves higher accuracy using an LSTM model[2].

[0] https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy

[1] http://www.danvk.org/2015/01/09/extracting-text-from-an-imag...

[2] http://www.danvk.org/2015/01/11/training-an-ocropus-ocr-mode...
I don't think it has a traditional filesystem. It probably just writes all puts sequentially as fast as possible and stores the location and then replicates. The easiest way to append would be to read the object, append, and then write to a new object. If they did that internally there would be no transfer out and no revenue although they could probably charge for the internal expense. Another reason is that people would probably think that appends are no big deal and try to append continuously to multi-gigabyte files. If this is the case then it is best to let the client handle appends where costs are out in the open.
Ask HN: Why do sites make me log in after changing my password?
I forgot my zappos password, so they emailed me a link to change it. Upon successfully submitting the change, they provide me with a link to the login form where I must retype my credentials.

Every site does this so I'm thinking it must be a security measure, but what could that possibly be? When I submit a "change password" form, why can't that form also log me in right then and there?

Surely the reason 99% of people use a "change password" form is because they want to log in immediately.
Isn't the fabric of spacetime itself the carrier for gravity?
Conclusion: Techdirt is full of shit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=10747359
Women Who Play Games Shun ‘Gamer’ Label
Awesome work, best write up of this type of project I have seen yet.
But its been done before:
https://github.com/OpenSeizureDetector/OpenSeizureDetector
Practical javascript can now be typed very easily (TypeScript or Facebook's flow). Any "serious" JS shop is going to be using typed-JS in the next 12 months.
If you don't care about shutting everything down, there is no such thing as a "must-pass" bill; at least, the fact that not passing a bill would lead to a shutdown doesn't make it must-pass if you don't care about shutting everything down.

But I think you are agreeing with what I said, that its more attractive to attach riders to something you think your counterparty sees as "must pass", but you do not.
My Love for Functional Programming in Iambic Pentameter
Unlike Backblaze's other products, this one supports Linux through their command line tool.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/quick_command_line.html
Why can't we just have a boom?
What do you think would happen if his contraption caused an accident with multiple fatalities?