skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is style of substance. The presentation,the design of the website is great, but the content feels like a bunch of random incoherent stuff put together with a catchy name.

Yes the webpage is beautiful, there are nice animations, but that's it, there is nothing else. It's an nice portfolio though, but there is nothing to discuss when it comes to UX/UI itself.
> It was 12 centimeters long and the heaviest flightless stick insect in the world.

So there are bigger insects around, and they can fly?
Assume one is not, what would the top three solutions be?
> This is the broken window fallacy. The idea that creating jobs in and of themselves is a good thing.

Well, insofar as human happiness is somewhat intermingled with a sense of purpose in life, yes, jobs are a good thing. But that doesn't mean society owes everyone a job. That would actually remove the happiness utility of the function.

> Going to mars creates jobs, so it must be good. Not considering the opportunity cost of all the other ways those resources could be spent.

Um, the investment in Mars to date is substantially less than the investment in poverty. If you consider the military as a jobs program, or public infrastructure construction as a jobs program, then we spend a ton of money on poverty.

> You use the example of ditch diggers ... spoons.

Are you countering my example by extending it?

> AI won't even create jobs. If anything it will take more of them and increase poverty.

Sure it will, but they'll require more education, hence my recommendation: stay in school.

> The benefit of AI is that it can create more wealth than it takes away. AI would be incredibly useful, and so many things could be automated or improved. If the AI is much smarter than us, it could even advance science and engineer things we couldn't dream of.

I think a lot of people probably agree with you, but I wouldn't get too excited quite yet.
Casual tossing of flamewar material: "I could not care less when violent criminals like Michael Brown get shot by the police".

Tedious ideological posturing: "Bring on the disdain because I don't agree with the shallow indoctrination of, "WE NEED TO LOVE EVERYONE.""

Please edit such drama-mongering out of your comments here. It's unsubstantive and lowers the signal-noise ratio of the threads, both by adding noise itself and by evoking it from others.
I'm pretty sure you can't host it yourself. If you want to use their framework, I'm pretty sure you have to host it through them. At least, I can't find a download link anywhere.
If I recall correctly also if you can believe that you can beat the polygraph then it won't work on you.
I can sort of see that as a concern, but... why on earth would you wear your Fitbit to a police interview? If I ever got hauled in for questioning by the cops, then guilty or innocent I would definitely not be wearing something that tracks my heart rate!

In any case, I don't think this would be admissible evidence. As far as admissible evidence, polygraphs are only just scraping by on the skin of their teeth, and wearable devices don't come close to their level of accuracy/depth. The main reason these devices can be sold with none of the regulation that accompanies "real" medical equipment is that the companies state up front that "to be used for general fitness only, not intended for use to treat any particular disease", etc., and their accuracy reflects that. The heart rate measurements of Fitbits and other wearables aren't awful, but they're sufficiently inaccurate that any decent lawyer should be able to get that thrown out without question. Edit: Not to mention JTsummers' point about there being no baseline/control measurement on this data, if it existed. Definitely not admissible.

If you want something to be worried about vis-à-vis wearables and the privacy of health data, worry about your health insurer getting a hold of it and jacking up your premiums for not taking enough steps every day. That, to me, is the real worry here, not the cops.
Corporate -> Customer Communication

Dear Customer,

We are sorry for improperly sending out the "Broken
Heart" alert to you on January 21, 2023. We should
have sent you the "She's Pregnant" alert. In the
future, please ensure both you and your dating partners
are running the same OS version. Thank you for your
understanding.

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When we say that we should engage with the moderates in Iran, it all sounds nice and dandy. But when we get to the nitty-gritty of the matter, it becomes more difficult to identify when we're engaging with moderates and when we're getting the fleece pulled over our eyes, since the moderates are systemically beholden to the Ayatollah and his 'guardians of the revolution'. I wish the Obama administration had done more to support the Green revolution protesters in 2009, but those days seem to be over, and ever since the regime has worked hard to disempower, co-opt, or placate the protestors and/or their supporters.

I don't actually think that the Rouhani administration is any more moderate than the hardliners - just more strategic. Their goals align with the conservatives goals, but they are more willing to take a conciliatory tone with the West, even if it is only tone and not strategic realignment. So, then if it's just a matter of how to achieve hegemony - whether by direct conflict (hardliners) or subversion and manipulation of the West (Rouhani), does it really benefit the West to empower the moderates? Obviously, I think not. Besides, the Rouhani government is also just acting as political cover for Iran's other operations, whereby Rouhani and Zarif play good cop, while the IRGC and alike play bad cop.

The Sunni status quo powers (which does not include Qatar) are in de facto alignment with Israel because the biggest threat to both is the Iranian destabilization (mostly via proxy forces). Iran understands that if its actions empower Sunni radicals to the detriment of relatively moderate Sunnis, Iran wins, because then it positions itself as a bulwark against radical Sunni Islamism - even if its actions help create the environment conducive to those forces gaining strength.

As for 'meddling' in the Syria conflict being pro-Sunni, I just disagree. The Assad regime is the biggest draw for Sunni violent extremism, and the longer Iran enables Assad's slaughter of his people, the biggest the problem is going to be for the West.
I like your style. I have started an open source project [recently](https://github.com/SacredData/COMPUTER) which allows users to execute such commands with voice commands. It's incredible that after all these years, window managers, even those as powerful as i3, still require users to think.
From my recollection, just before the invasion, meth and one other drug that I've forgotten the name where real popular, not the H.

So you may be on to something, but I'll need to see real data before I subscribe.
> "We now use smartphones and tablets most of the time, since they are much easier to use."

Interesting. I have the opposite impression. I think _customization_ is the key for real productivity. The more customizable the system the more productive I can be with it.

Phones and Tablets are easier to use as long as we deal not with more than two apps at a time. The Neo GUI is an interesting idea but what productivity for? As for me, I prefer a window pager where I can address any window instantly with just one mouse click. Swapping between several pages all the time would confuse me.

> "Windows are now inefficient and incompatible with modern productivity interfaces. ... "Window Management is Outdated"."

No, surely not. I would always prefer a PC with a customizable GUI (KDE and OpenBox for instance). I barely use my phone and pad because they are only useful for basic things.
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s/so its only fitting/so it's only fitting/
Recently had a French colleague do this to me in New Zealand. Was nothing short of hilarious. I made a warning sign for his desk.
The point was that this is pointless, as wealth cannot be distributed, it can only be destroyed.

I don't really know what your reasoning behind this is. I'm pretty sure we redistribute money all the time through taxes.

And that assumes you distribute it equally, and not by the area that wealth was primarily generated from. IN which case all the people that consider this amount "staggering", get around 50 cents to $5.

If someone were actually magically redistributing that sum of money somehow, then I'd hope they'd do the opposite of that. What you've described is the status quo, where people continue to get exploited by being rewarded comparatively little for the amount of work they do/hardship they experience.
In fact, the history of 32-bit OS/2 is more complex than that, and involved MS a lot more than this. It used to be my favorite topic.
AFAIK everything in your Google account can be exported via Takeout[0]

[0] http://google.com/takeout
Wow, didn't know that, thanks, though I'd read some Bugs Bunny comics as a kid.

What's up, Doc? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up,_Doc%3F
No moderator touched this post. It doesn't say [flagged] because we only print that when the thread is dead (closed to new comments) and the software doesn't kill threads when there's an active discussion.
This paints with an overly broad brush. It almost sounds like you're comparing Rails with the alternative of using no framework at all, but that's not the right comparison. I would probably agree with you if you had admonished people against bothering with any framework that hasn't been influenced by Rails. But most of its best ideas have filtered out into all the other ecosystems, and there are now very credible alternatives for lots of different stacks and some of those alternatives even perform better than Rails for different common use cases.
Suggest looking into the work that the PennyArcade guys have done with Microsoft to make the Surface Pro good for illustrators.
Except it wouldn't work. If Fitbit is collecting my data, and I'm not intending a breakup, then my heart rate now is independent of what my partner will be doing or saying in five minutes when they break up with me. It'd only really be useful if it collected your partner's data and fed it to you.

However, you'll see similar spikes from your partner before any major relationship event. They want you to meet their family. They need to tell you they can't stand your mother and her overbearing nature. They want to move in together or propose. All these would likely look the same (modulo degree) to Fitbit.
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Those types of comments are downvoted to hell 99% of the time. I'm actually surprised that thread wasn't.
Also see the Adam and Eve statues at the shops at Columbus Circle[1]

[1] http://nypost.com/2010/10/22/time-warner-center-statue-attra...
+1 for a Chuck Traeger reference on HN. I'm also a double bassist. Agreed about instrument modifications. It's common in the bass world for a big-sounding instrument to be described as a "cannon". That doesn't speak much for having a singing tone! Maybe in the world of violins and cellos that's more important, though.
I'd like to add my own data points for low-carb/ketosis and exercise. In the beginning it was very hard and I felt extremely lethargic (typically 3 to 4 days after switching to < 30g carbs a day). My exercise at the time was 2 miles on the treadmill and 20 minutes of full body weight lifting (squats, etc).

The worse I ever felt was during that time (3-4 days in). After that I would slowly improve and within a few weeks could almost reach my normal max, though never exceeded them. The bonus part was that I was melting off pounds of fat.

This was just my experience. I found that salty drinks (such as chicken stock) helped a lot when first beginning low carb to prevent the lethargic feeling ~3 days in.
The Automation Paradox
> We need to learn from successful open-source technology projects such as the Linux Foundation, which is thriving largely because it has proven its worth as a neutral body to govern all manner of open-source projects that grew too big for small groups to manage in a casual manner.

The Linux Foundation is a particularly bad example of a good citizen. Here is how it is not neutral: it gets lots of funding from VMWare. The Linux Foundation used to be a large donor for Software Freedom Conservancy. VMWare and Conservancy are engaged in a GPL lawsuit. End result: conflict of interest, and the LF pulls Conservancy's funding.

VMWare has managed to manipulate the Linux Foundation into fostering a GPL violation.
My solution for this is to never specify gem versions in my Gemfile and once a month or so do bundle update. Much easier to fix one gem update problem at a time than to try to fix 6 all at once.
It would be great if you or OP could do the analysis again on HN Reads, but with the larger dataset.
It's the Department of Computer Science, not the Department of Programming.
Why throw out some catch phrase without providing specifics?

We all adopt certain amount of implicit choices in our lives because if we had to be explicit about everything, we'd be bogged down in choice-making and not really get anything done.

Why care about choosing the right ORM, Logger, templating engine when there's real business problems to solve? If there's a true business advantage to choosing an alternative, then substitute, but eventually you have to get on with the show and make something meaningful.

Strong defaults and conventions are a feature and Rails nails it better than any other framework out there.
Upvoted. I am tired of getting the "uncool old fart" looks every time I propose similar stack. You CAN do cool stuff with established tech plus have a peace of mind that you will not run into any "surprises".
Do you have data to support this. Also is Afghanistan the lone producer of heroin? You have to be careful in making inferences like this without considering the multitude of other factors such as how easy has the process to create heroin become over the last decade, was there a drop in other drugs and why.

To your point however, I wonder if the war has enabled Big Phrama to get easier access to make there own opioids. To me it seems like the growth of Opioids for pain lead people to seek heroin and other drugs when there prescription runs out.
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I have. Last year I wanted to buy a 2015 STI. I emailed the dealers within 25 miles or so, replied to the one with the best price and said I wanted the car. He said 'just put a sold sign on it, when do you want to pick it up?' A few days later I walked into his office, signed the paperwork, and drove away. He didn't pester me with add-ons, didn't insist on showing me how to operate every little part of the car (he offered, I declined, he simply said 'no problem'). It was a great experience. Good dealers do exist, find them and then give them your business when possible.
What derivative are you using?
Another part of the problem was using the same colour packaging for food-aid air drops and cluster munitions. About 10% of cluster bomblets don't explode.

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/arms/cluster-bck1031...

http://www.landmineclearance.org/page2.html

http://www.rawa.org/cluster2.htm
Yes, I was surprised they weren't downvoted into oblivion either.

edit: as bradfa pointed out, this comment is the exactly the kind of noise we want to avoid. shame on me. I'll leave it as an example of what not to do.
I think there was a conspiracy theory that the Taliban had eliminated the poppy plants rather successfully in the region, and this threatened to destroy the world economy as the opium trade provided global liquidity or something. Anyway, with the current war on drugs it is hard to prove or disprove since all of this trade is clandestine anyway. I think there was also some proof the big international banks were doing a lot of drug laundering work as well, but really all these theories do is raise more questions. If we redirect the drug trade to be out in the open, I'd hope that sunlight would be the best disinfectant.
According to the article, when computers start doing the work of people, the need for people often increases. I simply cannot take anymore the doom and gloom of the supposed AI revolution and how it will make us all jobless.
What do you disagree with? I'm not saying computer games have no place in education, or that educational games shouldn't be fun to play. I just don't understand why Minecraft, a game that's basically just a better LEGO simulator than LEGO could ever come up with, is being re-purposed for education.

It's much like the arguments that often come up here on HN where the flavor-of-the-week framework or language is being inefficiently twisted to fit a purpose it wasn't designed for.
>> An implementation of ChakraCore interpreter and runtime, no JIT, on Linux.

You should update the wiki if you work on the project then. The stated roadmap goal seems fairly clear and aligns with a typical Microsoft strategy to ensure Windows remains the premium platform for its "open source" efforts.

Not being negative that is just the way it has gone in the past so you are fighting an uphill battle.

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Would you start to use heroin if it were legal? In 1955, the UK had 48 registered heroin addicts [source 1]. Today it's a lot more -- 33,000 seems to be a reasonable figure [source 2]. The UK prescribed heroin to addicts in the 1950s.

But those are just two numbers, you really need good evidence before claiming that regulating heroin, possibly by prescribing it through doctors, would necessarily increase the number of addicts. "Opiates are much more addictive" is a true statement, but not evidence of that.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4647018.stm

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27235470
Certainly an immensely challenging task, but hopefully not impossible. We have hardly begun to apply new technology to the problem - drones, new lures, mesh networks, low cost cameras.

Also we've stopped those pesky Victorians from introducing new species. Its a good thing they never introduced wildcats to control the stoats, weasels and ferrets - which they introduced to control the rabbits - which they introduced to give them something to shoot at on quiet Sunday afternnons.
Cool. Though your linked article still states that peak fat burn output is still lower than peak carb burn output and that high intensity still is best served by carb rich diet.
Honestly, as a customer, I appreciate the honesty and clarity of this CSR. Ideally, the CSR would just do something to quickly resolve the issue without divulging details. But if they can't actually fix it, being honest about the reasons is the best they can do. Then I can at least empathize with someone, feel like someone is empathizing with me, and not feel like everyone there is jerking me around.

The actual screw up at Tesla is that this kind of problem should literally never ever happen, and that CSRs should never be put in this situation.
Unfortunately it seems like the argument is mainly semantic then - I find it reasonable to think that "pedantically instructs the programmer how to properly do what’s requested, even though it obviously know what is meant" is pretty much a detour to say it's not good, it's implied.

I just don't see why DHH needs to do this - ruby has so many things that make it stand on its own.
Meditation made simple, like a raindrop on the window
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I wish I could get billion dollar funding for my hobbies!
I don't care that some ignoramuses will take my self-identification as a hacker the wrong way, and I refuse to stop because you and others don't think it's "fine" for me to do it. It's my choice, and trying to convince me otherwise will get a downarrow click in return.
I think some of the core concepts would work well as a Gnome 3 shell extension.
Slightly OT, but I have been looking for a live streaming / transcoded solution.

IE, webcam in, and streaming video out that doesn't use FMS/Flash/etc. Is it possible in HTML5 yet? Dash seems promising - but is there a totally OSS solution available ?
Seems like too much unnecessary features to be honest.

Windows + Mouse with hotkeys is still the most comfortable set up for most people including me. I don't need an optimized experience.

I've tried Metro, I've tried i3, I've tried bspwm, I use Vim with split screen, and I still prefer the concept of draggable windows at the end of the day. It feels more free to be able to drag windows and take ownership of the layout than having a computer dictate what my layout should be.

At the end of the day, I feel like I'm more and more preferring simple UI's rather than these multitouch optimized experiences
This is a terrible form of argument. Success does not mean you're correct. Many successful people and things deserve criticism. I don't think DHH or Rails is among them, but that isn't because they're successful.
I have seen aliens.
> After a few decades of globalization life sucks for rural poor whites in much the same way it sucked for inner city blacks in the 70's.

That may be interpreted as, live for inner city blacks is now better than for rural poor whites. Otherwise, we should be seeing the same OD death rates across both populations.

Or there's something that's not being reported correctly regarding this issue in the black community.
Yeah, the two 6 finger gestures are certainly not ideal. I imagined a much larger touchpad, between the size of the Apple Keyboard and Apple Trackpad, so that might make it a little easier.

It's also important to note that these two gestures perform features (fullscreen / minimize) that can also be done by just resizing the panel (either with 3 fingers, or by going to App Control).
Does it matter? If V8 deoptimizes code with try/catch, then I as a developer need to account for that.
"Working on something kind of similar:
- vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing
http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934

http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e

- unlimited* levels of zoom
http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...

- draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web
http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab

A bit like if google docs had a baby with OneNote"
That makes sense. So basically as long as you don't run more than 20 miles or equivalent, the benefit of low carb training is less noticeable.

One more question: what about proteins as a fuel source?
I like the concept and hope it will get built, hopefully for Linux.
Maybe don't have the link in the last callout section ("meet us") be only visible on hover. It doesn't match the other sections and i'm not sure it offers much. Also you probably don't need that callout section on the "Meet us" page.

Otherwise looks rad!
Well that is because humans perceive value of owner ship of resources same regardless of geographies. If your brother had a ranch while making $30K/year. While you are barely struggling to pay rent at $100k/year, you would feel the same.
>Not their customer
They're not selling (or offering, for that matter) you anything. This is a design concept not a product.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10909612.
Or you create a new compression scheme just for Mersenne prime numbers where store the exponent. You'll be able to compress the entire number into just 32 bits for several decades at least!
This has always been a pretty cool project. While some have said Araq has a case of NIH (probably true), I've found it very nice that Nim and the whole ecosystem around it is as polished as it is. It also means there's a good amount of example code out there.
The roadmap for ChakraCore includes getting it to run cross-platform. Additionally, as ChakraCore is Free Software, you're more than welcome to fork it and/or submit patches as needed.