skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already mentioned this in another comment, but it's also relevant here: I don't understand why it's assumed that contact and identity isolation should lie at the service provider boundary.

People are able to manage multiple email addresses and phone numbers for work/personal/whatever without too many problems, and despite being against Facebook's terms of service many individuals already create more than one Facebook account to keep stuff separate ("I don't want my boss to see photos from that party last weekend"). In a standardized IM interop utopia I'd imagine that juggling multiple identities would be even more common.
It's neither, it's a joke.
Settle down, Beavis. PHP's a tool. It does a certain kind of job. People are allowed to use it. Bitching about it is like bitching about a hammer. "You can't even screw in a screw with it!" Indeed.
A 5-step guide to data visualization
It is kind of religion - sort of classical American Yankee machine-worship. Even the Puritans/Pilgrims thought that organization - essentially a technology - could save them from the swamp gases of British life.

And I can't say it didn't work, but I'm probably a fanatic at this religion anyway.

I think Mark Twain more or less says this outright in "Connecticut Yankee." Speaking of Twain, he grievously injured himself financially chasing the dream of a typesetting machine far ahead of its time.

If it's religion, it's religion that (mostly) works. <insert Panglossian diatribe here>
BTC/CNY instantly up 2% after the crash / circuit breaker just a few hours ago? Maybe it is just more speculation...

https://bter.com/trade/btc_cny
Food is not just food — it is information used by the body
It was challenging trying to explain to my parents that firefox was complaining about an anti-virus maker's man-in-the-middle certificate under the heading "Safe browsing protection" which, oddly enough, only really tried to spoof Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Microsoft domains.
> so must they contribute.

A tremendous swath of people have been born or published works since 1928 and have since died, whose works remain under the perpetual Disney copyright.

So no, we have had generations die now that never contributed back to the commons because Disney said so.
Life Hack: Put the "pin" in the Uber app, near the airport (where there is no fee). As soon as you get a driver, call and let them know you're at the airport, which terminal/exit you're at.

This avoids any fees, and also gets around the "We do not service this area" blockers.

I've never had a driver complain about it.
Roger Penrose's Road to Reality makes use of Clifford Algebra and Grassmann Products, so at least some serious physicists are using it seriously.

Even though I had come across it before, I had a real revelation when I read David Hestenes short paper on it (from Bret Victor's website) http://worrydream.com/refs/Hestenes-ReformingTheMathematical...
It is indeed beautiful to see how complex geometry and vector fields are connected via GA. I found especially revealing the relationship between electric and magnetic fields. I agree with the article that whatever its absolute merits, it would be a good way to teach new physicists. I have already ordered my copy of "Clifford Algebra to Geometric Calculus".

Whether it is actually more practical to do work in General Relativity or Quantum Mechanics, or indeed Quantum Field Theory etc., I'll have to leave for the experts in those fields. From an outsider's perspective, it is a delight to understand some of the connections between different disciplines in a more intuitive way.

In any case, I would imagine that GA is exceptionally useful for computer graphics and physical simulations.
>This is in fact how I read HN.

Out of curiosity, why?
> Why would they? Why would a studio decide to reduce their gross and therefore their net by going with a less profitable model?

I don't think the bigger ones will in the short to medium term. But if the gross is lower, then they're also paying less to actors and marketers (streaming services will "freely" market what they think will be popular titles), reducing the overall budget, and reducing the risk profile. The studios themselves may end up making more profits. In any case, that's why I mentioned the smaller budget films transitioning to such a streaming model may force the bigger ones to follow suit.

> No more than Honda and Toyota put an end to the "scam" of American automakers.

Scam was the wrong choice of word here, but do you understand the point I'm trying to make? A similar analogy that works in my favour is Steam as a distribution channel, undercutting physical disk distributors. Games became a lot cheaper, but the AAA titles still ask for and receive quite a high price comparatively.
Wraps are off Faraday Future car, but questions about company linger
ZenQ offers support to Chennai flood victims
Only one of these generates "String up the manipulative bastards who stole all our money!" headlines.
I find my distractions are more an internal impulse to check things than an external perturbation by someone else. Having a tool that offloads that from my brain would be useful.
The economy didn't crash 7%, just the valuation of public companies, which might have been overvalued in the first place.

If China's GDP crashed 7%, then the stock market would probably crash 95-99%.
Make LinkedIn to convey your growth and success story, not be a record of your past mistakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HON-9Z1Greo (ignore the comments, as usual)
Fixed, thanks for the report!
+1 for scrapy, very easy to set up while remaining powerful enough to actually use!
If markets drop enough the losses could trigger a negative feedback loop where financial institutions automatically begin liquidating positions in order to obtain the liquid assets to cover their debts in case investors see the losses and decide to withdraw in a panic. This floods the market, driving prices down further, and potentially triggering even more automatic liquidation, leading into a death spiral.

Conversely, there is no mechanism that can push the market increasingly higher, other than hyperinflation or a collapse in, say, the bond market which might theoretically drive investors into equities. But if the bond market collapses, the world has much bigger fish to fry and the stock market will probably come down right afterwards.
Why is people selling a problem? For every seller, there is a buyer. (Or, that is, for every sale there is a buyer.)

If something serious is happening in the economy, it seems unfair to me to simply halt trading, forcing everyone who has stock to be stuck with exactly what they've got, leaving them unable to sell and other people unable to buy. If people want to trade their property, why prevent them?
Modern applications using composer for dependencies give you this error information for free by virtue of the fact that `composer install` will fail. Most (all?) PaaS solutions take this into account and install those extensions. I know heroku does, as dokku uses the heroku buildpack :)
The Chevy Bolt might be the affordable EV you've been waiting for
> HN has been in decline for at least 5 years...

I find it curiously amusing that EVERY online community is "in decline" at all times.

I discovered Usenet and IRC back in September, 1993. An epoch known in Internet cultural history as Eternal September (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September). The Internet has literally been in decline since I discovered it!

Back in the day, even in its prime, every other comment on Slashdot was a meta discussion of how badly Slashdot was declining.

Reddit started out as a site for top-level post content only. When they added support for comments, 10 years ago, the VERY FIRST comment in Reddit history was a claim that Reddit was going downhill! (https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/17913/reddit_no...)

I believe that the "sweet spot" for on online community is one to three months after you've discovered it. Just long enough to get comfortable with its internal cultural cues and quirks and in-jokes, and feel like an insider. Once that point is reached, familiarity immediately starts shifting into contempt. You're never quite able to recapture that novel feeling of initial discover and inclusion, and so it feels like decline whether it is or not.
Πfs: Stores your data in π
Hezbollah is starving a Syrian town to death,in the ‘80s it did the opposite
> Would the 1998 Starship Troopers movie have been released based on the 1959 book if copyright had been at its original 14 years?

Certainly, and it might have been made sooner, but not having to pay royalties to create a derivative work would definitely not stop someone from making it.

> How about a lot of the "cult classic" works of today that only became really popular and earned money tens of years after their original release?

These later creations would attract new audiences to the original authors newer works. Its not a void where your public domain creations are gone and no longer influential.

> we'd have the same state of affairs if the incentives we can gave people to create creative works automatically expired after their death.

Can you find any evidence of independent IP creators exclusively working under the pretense of being able to will their IP to descendants for profit?

The vast majority of writers, musicians, photographers - any creative profession - are never in it for money. Because very few people can make money from these professions even with draconian IP, because its a popularity contest. You get one in a thousand that become popular successes, while the rest create out of passion with no expectation of profit. When the vast majority of creative IP is being made without profit motive, obviously copyright terms are uninfluencial upon all those except the successful - it goes as far as the existence of IP hurts the hobbyist creator because they have to navigate a minefield of how derivative their ideas are.
That's because it's the wrong question. Adding features is easy. It's making them work well together that's hard.
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> "life's amplitudes are greatly magnified by little ones."

Is it a given that magnifying life's amplitudes is a good thing?
I could certainly imagine them doing a much better job of news coverage where all the "Stories" would be available independently and when things changed you got an indication of new data so you could, if you wanted to, watch from the change forward, or the whole piece. Sort of like the NY Times pushing and re-pushing an article as the available information gathers texture.

Since most of the news channels consist of rehashing things with the assumption that this is the "first" version you are seeing, they could provide a much better viewing experience that would certainly feel more curated and much more efficiently inform.
Google adsense today is not what it was 10 yrs ago.
You're not losing lifetime opportunity to use Google.

You gaining clarity to discover better options.
Unfortunately, the usefulness is limited – the size of all Vects must be known at compile time. While this does prevent a large class of bugs that arise from incorrect compile-time knowledge, the size of the class of runtime bugs affected by this is a lot smaller, as for each differently-lengthed Vect, a distinct instantiation of the Vect type needs to exist at compile-time.
Why does this need to be an app? What does it do that a website can't?
I had a carrier locked phone that one day demanded that I log into Facebook. It would repeatedly launch and I ended up having to flash the phone. Drove me nuts.
I was under the impression that the Chinese stock market has a circuit breaker that applies in both directions. Not an expert but random googling does seem to match with this:

"when it goes up or down by 7%, it usually means that sharp volatility has taken place in the market, which is likely to face the extreme systemic risks. Therefore, the market needs more time to calm down so as to prevent the spreading panic from intensifying the market fluctuations."

http://english.sse.com.cn/aboutsse/news/c/c_20151207_4019977...

"Meanwhile, a 7 percent rise or fall in the CSI300 Index will prompt a trading halt in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges for the rest of the day"

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/07/chinas-latest-step-to-curb-sh...
Am I wrong in thinking that a majority of extinct species are gone for exactly the same reason (insufficient adaptability)?
I absolutely love my child and I would never say that I regret becoming a parent. I wanted to be a parent, and now I am, and it's amazing.

But to follow on my other comment above, I also have a pretty clear idea that I gave up some things to become a parent. And I think people who skip having a kid, and then feel doubts later in life about that decision, are really just feeling the other side of that coin.
Okay, it's fine. But face the fact that a lot of people use applications and there is a reason for it. It's not fluff. The situation on mobile browsers and their capabilities in comparison to native applications is quite straight forward. Web browsers can't compete. Yes it is getting better. But it's hardly a replacement. We're not there yet. Not even close.

A relevant article from a Mozilla developer, James Long: http://jlongster.com/Radical-Statements-about-the-Mobile-Web...
Found this regarding that:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/13/results-lab-experiment...
Good to hear. The few times I've called a cab in SF it never showed up. I've heard there is no penalty to them if they just pick someone else up instead on the way. So glad their company got the penalty for poor service in the end.
Well it's about push notifications to your phone, so it has to be an app.
What advantage / possibilities would finding such cold places on earth open up?
This, absolutely.

Communities can be healthy without a CoC, or unhealthy with one. But having a CoC sends a big, clear message to women and other groups frequently marginalized in the tech scene that your project is healthy and welcoming.

Here's why that's a big deal: joining an open source project is an investment. If you are a woman, or black, or trans, or god forbid, some combination thereof in tech, you really don't want to become invested in a community that will at some point treat you like shit. And let's be real guys, many, many communities do treat women and minorities like shit.

A CoC, and just as importantly, the discussion surrounding one, is a simple sign that a community is a place where you can be a woman or a minority and contribute to open source without fear of harassment, abuse, marginalization, and other dangers faced by non-white-dudes in tech.
Please please please let Austin's Taxi companies be the next to fall.

Between shitty customer service, not showing up on time (or at all), and having drivers that will always try and take the slowest shittiest way to get anywhere to inflate the bill... I can't wait for them to go out of business.

Spot the cab driver with a passenger... he'll drive 50 MPH in a 65 zone. Spot the cab driver without one... he does 90. So not only do they rip the passenger off, but they fuck up traffic for everyone behind them. Fucking cunts, they all deserve to be put out of business.

Can not count the number of times I called a cab to the airport in the last 10 years, only to have the cab not show up on time leaving me in a spot where I'd have to beg a neighbor to take me to the airport, or drive myself and pay for week-long parking my company didn't cover when I had to take a business trip.

Uber and Lyft... they may not be perfect, but they're infinitely better than taxis. Infuckingfinetly better.

Taxis going out of business... 1) natural selection, and 2) good riddance.
I'm on the west coast and I'm an expert (Ph.D + Ivy postdoc) in mathematics. I've played a little bit recently and my feeling is that the low hanging fruit has been largely harvested - Large variations and playing against mostly experts means it's very hard to beat the 10% rake, without doing a lot of time-consuming tweaking. I'm more interested in doing this for the challenge and to test some data science tools in a tangible way (Kaggle gives a different kind of feedback)

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When I first used it, I got overexcited and configured way too many alerts. But I've been trimming it down heavily, and now a fair percentage of the pushes I get are relevant to me.
Actually i'm not so sure that happens by itself. Housing is governed by public policy. It's not like affordable housing couldn't be built in the bay area for physical reasons. It's just not possible under current zoning and political arrangements.

If the political will were there; we could drop a pair of Hong Kong style residential apartment towers every couple of miles all the way around the bay for less than will be spent on road construction in that area over the next decade.

But the political will for that sort of thing is literally inconceivable to anyone who lives there. Why is that?
Ask HN: How do you build pre-launch landing pages?
I'm building an concept web app at the moment and I'm looking to launch a simple pre-launch landing page to start gauging interest in the concept.

What are some tips that you've used successfully?

NB: I have done plenty of research on the topic I'm just looking to hear from the community here.
You're assuming that the driver will use their knowledge of the city's streets to save your time and money, instead of to make them more profit.
ChuckMcM has got it.
Hey make up some cool stuff with interesting ideas so we can change terms and steal your entire business, thanks!
I thought the same thing. There could've been more scientific tests, maybe an infrared camera to see the heat distribution rather than the burn marks on the parchment paper.
See, the nice thing about Uber/Lyft here is that you just have to rate these drivers poorly, and you won't be matched up with them again, and after too many bad ratings, they'll be kicked out and won't be driving for anyone. This wasn't the case with the cab companies; there was no incentive to get rid of bad drivers.

The best thing you can do is give truthful ratings, and for really bad ones (or ones where you weren't able to rate them) complain to Uber/Lyft. They seem to care a lot more about their reputation than the cab companies ever did. After all, they don't have a monopoly.
The story, if I recall correctly, is that the programmer Edwin Brady had a previous project that was a proof engine, and lacking a suitable name for it, named after an older British children's cartoon called Ivor the Engine.[^1] When it came time to name a newer project, he decided to name it after another character from the same show: Idris, the little red Welsh dragon. This, incidentally, is why the Idris language's logo is a stylized red wing.

[^1]: Ivor the Proof Engine is here, although apparently not actively updated any more: https://github.com/edwinb/Ivor
You know what, I've found it immensely valuable to get acquainted with Haskell, even though I've never used it (and likely never will). The concepts are timelessly beautiful, simple to understand, and can feel enlightening to run-of-the-mill imperative/OOP programmers.

What's more, it seems to me that Haskell syntax is the lingua franca when discussing anything related to data types and functional programming these days. Those ->'s are everywhere, it's useful to know what they stand for.

Just skim a few chapters of learnyouahaskell.com; you won't regret it.
The long march to mobile game release and its incredible complications
Not nearly as much if you use a payment method like Bitcoin or cash.
Want to thank you for the great reply.
> The heavy copper and the light aluminum pans produced evenly toasted heat maps. The stainless-clad aluminum did pretty well, too. But the cast-iron pan scorched a small area, and the pattern was familiar.

Two paragraphs later in the article the author talks about the heat gradients of the different pans.
I thought all the cool kids left reddit for voat.co anyway.
Let us hope he patents the crap out of this and no one is willing to touch it.
That is not true. [0] [1]

[2] is my crappy push notification service mostly built for my own usage because PushBullet started getting more bloated and annoying.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API

[2]: https://github.com/thefinn93/EasyPush
That horrifying moment when you realise you're a Belieber
Or extinction events
GPS directions are only ever ridiculous due to a lack of information. In many cities (Sydney Australia, for example) data is good enough and the roads straightforward enough that chosen routes are always either ideal or sufficiently close to ideal.
I will research more affordable RFID readers, thanks a lot for your feedback! Everyone else on the team has more knowledge about RFID in general than I do (I'm the newest guy on the team).

Hopefully, I'll be able to come back here later on this year with a beta product for people to try!
Oh yes, please. The current state of cinema for me means that I have to put the name of a film on a list and check back in a year or two to see if it's actually available to me by then. Particularly for more obscure releases or documentations: When I see a movie website and the screening section shows ca. 5 cinemas in New York and L.A. I have to wonder who the hell are you trying to reach? Just offer a digital download for a fair price and let me watch the movie.
Stock prices have a floor but no ceiling. Just like we worry about accidentally dropping eggs, but not about accidentally throwing them infinitely high.
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Nice work - looks like a cross between IFTTT and Pushbullet.
What are your differentiating factors?
Well not an exact advantage, but researchers have made a metal that can superconduct at -70C. (near to the lowest recorded temperature on earth.)

>The researchers found that under the pressure from their diamond anvil it transformed into a material that superconducted at temperatures as high as -70 °C, breaking the previous record of around -110 °C.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28058-warmest-ever-su...

As the tech may improve, soon we may be able to build superconductors which will be capable of functioning on earth temperatures.
Free Basics, if legalized, sets a precedent for ISPs to offer zero-rated plans which affects everyone. You don't want a huge market with more than half a billion users (by 2020) where zero-rated plans are commonplace. Everyone loses out in such a situation except the ISPs. Netflix was just launched in India, and Reliance (the carrier that supports Free Basics) has a similar offering called Bigflix, which they can zero-rate to eliminate Netflix. Airtel, another huge operator can zero-rate their messaging application Hike to eliminate WhatsApp/Snapchat. Their music offering can eliminate Spotify (if they do come to India) or any other music streaming startup. Flipkart, an e-commerce player can eliminate every other niche e-commerce startups in India by zero-rating their services, which they tried last year.

Sadly, all the campaigns are focused on Facebook/Zuckerberg and people calling for a ban on Free Basics when they should actually be campaigning against zero-rating.

Free Basics might be a great gateway drug to the internet, but what good is it if the internet as we know today will not exist when the poor decide to get a "complete" internet connection?
I fail to realize how facebook itself would be a "basic" service for poor people. Haven't seen a single person who has benefited from using facebook/whatsapp to uplift their social status, that being said, what India needs is a change at a fundamental level, NOT free Internet.
Not quite. Types can depend on runtime values. This can in effect _force_ the programmer to perform the required validation when accepting foreign data.