skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed...a worthwhile goal...

Gates was heavily influenced by Feynman, and for good reason...

One of my favorite Feynman quotes: "The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."

As we practice acquiring true compassion, the more difficult of the two to master, we can easily try for everyday laughter....life ought to be fun...
Custora (YC W11) is hiring engineers to help build the future of marketing
Stephen Wolfram Launching the Wolfram Open Cloud
They've generally dropped said love in the newer framework versions.

Also - don't judge MS' love of XML too much, without it, we wouldn't have gotten XMLHttpRequest. :)
Preventing XSS Attacks Using Content Security Policy
Old Parse user here - any plan to provide a swift SDK?
Urban Logistics – The Megacity Rulebook
Must have been really hard shutting down your baby. Do you wonder what could have happened if you hadn't sold?
There will be no singular panacea for corruption. However, I'd rather put a camera on every officer on their own terms now, rather than pray for them to magically cooperate with some all-or-nothing plan in the future. If nothing else, it will make a strict plan easier to move to later.
Thank you, DrScump. Both of these have been fixed. Users will be warned to change their security question if they're using an old, insecure question type, and no one will be able to select those questions beginning immediately. I was using a standard list of security questions, but I absolutely see the value of avoiding such info.
In principle the solution is trivial. You raise the bar for becoming a teacher (supply will grow as well if salaries are much higher and there are these benefits like respect and autonomy). And then if some bad teachers do get in, the institution uses personalized oversight (in the form of "good" teachers observing and critiquing "bad" ones), and any problem teachers are given a smaller load with additional training. In other words, you invest to make all the teachers good.

The question is whether public schools have the funding to do this, and that's a more political question.
My results: Preact 2.7.3 took 864920;
React 0.14.6 took 435580

There were some benchmarks where Preact was faster, but overall half React's speed.
How is living on Antarctica advancing humanity? That would just be living in barren cold for kicks. Building and sustaining a colony on Mars would pave the way for future space colonization and possibly prevent the human species from going extinct if a catastrophe happened on Earth.
Circuit City is returning with retail stores targeting millennials
The number of significant characters in an extern symbol was only upgraded to 31 with C99... prior to that, it was all of 6.
Barbie Has a New Body
This is my stool of choice, and it's never done me wrong. Cheap as can be, perfect height.

http://www.presalesinc.com/store/media/catalog/product/cache...
Wasn't there a question regarding React Clojurescript usage? I don't see the results for that.
I have to disagree. The inherent nature of open source is forking projects just to make some small change that you really want. Sometimes those changes make it back into the original project and improve it. Code diversity is far more important than "developer fatigue".
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had parse slow down development. It was very...janky especially the REST API.
In part it's that in China your network matters a lot in life. There's somewhat of a subdivision into friends, family and strangers, and university is viewed as THE place to broaden the first group, preferably with influential people. Tsinghua, Beida, Renda are the places where future party functionaries, intellectuals and businessmen go, which is why there's such an obsession with getting into these few universities. If the only thing students cared about was an education, any of the 101 重点大学s would do just fine.

Then there's this cultural obsession with investing into your offspring that stems back to the Imperial Exams. Hell, the words that are used for the student rankings still harken back to those practices.

Further pressure is put on the children of academics, where admission to one of the top 10 Chinese universities or an Ivy League university is used as a measurement of parenting prowess.

I've experienced the insanity from a bystander perspective, and it's not without cause. I would also like to differ on the point that Chinese people go to great lengths to prove that they're not one of the peasants. They may go to great lengths to show that they're wealthy, or for the old cultural families, to great lengths to show heritage, but there's plenty of things very well to do Chinese will do that wouldn't really go for class abroad.
You mean main FB data-centers? The reason can be as simple as security standards used in both services may not be compatible.
Asmjs/webasm are orhogonal to TS - they even have to manually manage memory
Well I would say reconsideration is always right but it's expensive (nosql->sql is big deal) when you are a fast-paced startup and don't want to spend resources on non-critical things. I know it will get critical someday, so we are slowly finding a solution to it.
“Bitmap Graphics” by Pike, Guibas, Ingalls (1984) [pdf]
>As a startup founder, if you have a choice between telling people about your startup and not telling: tell.

I really can't agree. It might help your startup, but at the cost of reputation and goodwill. I could choose to start a company and tell people about it by mentioning it in hundreds of posts on message boards and news aggregators, but even if I contributed intelligent discussion and content along with it, I'd still likely be downvoted, "thumbs-downed", and lambasted the vast majority of the time.

Mentioning it is fine in some cases, where it's actually very pertinent to the discussion ("actually, my startup happens to be solving exactly this problem!" or "for a great example of X, check out https://startup.com [Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder]"). These are sensible cases of promotion. But blasting the link when it's barely relevant seems sleazy and disingenuous.

>if you have a choice between telling people about your startup and not telling: tell. This is incredibly hard for engineers, but you just have do it.
Getting publicity is easy, especially if you have no ethics and/or a lot of money to spend. Getting well-deserved and organic publicity is much harder.

Your post was in response to a minor-ish announcement about a programming language that's been around for 4 years, one very similar to the most popular one (JavaScript), and which definitely isn't some kind of unicorn or barely-known gem.

If you just wanted to show that real people are using TypeScript in production, why couldn't you have said "my startup has been successfully using TS for X amount of time and we've been loving it" and nothing more? Anyone who was genuinely interested in what startup it was could look at your other posts, or message you, or click the link from your profile if you had it listed it there. You didn't even link to any source code to show people examples of practical TypeScript.

The exact startup that's using TS doesn't matter in respect to the nature of the comment you made. Perhaps if it were something really notable and unexpected, like Twitter or Google suddenly using TS for their frontend, then mentioning the company makes sense. Here, it just seems like shameless self-promotion.

As a result of your post, I think a little more highly of TypeScript, but in turn, I also think less of your startup. Which is a shame, since it seems like a good idea.
No, most of the US economy is service and office based. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ocwage.pdf (see chart 3)
"Just the facts, ma'am."

I often see writing (especally from engineers) that is meant to be informative that is overwhelmed with irrelevant information. That is difficult to parse. Sometimes you want to pick out just a few relevant facts and leave out anything that isn't strictly needed so your audience understands the point.

It depends on your audience and you reason for writing what sort of information is needed and what is not needed. Its not an easy skill.
He did the same with the Da Vinci notes if I recall correctly.
Yeah, with SSD's I wonder how much that really helps to improve performance vs. just no cache. Most SSD's have a lot of caching implemented internally, so disk cache can often be self defeating.
Ansible and CloudFormation here.

Cfn has many more drawbacks than I'd like, but there will always be edge cases and new features not supported by the transpiled alternatives, and some form of cfn is really the only way to go for small/early AWS deployments.

Ansible is, of course, just awesome ;)
Has anybody studied the outcomes on American Indian reservations from having basic income guaranteed for generations? I'm not an expert or well-read in this field, but I think anybody advocating basic income would be interested to visit a reservation and observe the lifestyles, dreams, goals, and successes found there.
Yelling is domestic violence. I think 20% is a bit low.
No one has mentioned http://www.evodesk.com/
I wish I could physically compare the EvoDesk to the Jarvis but they're likely both very similar.
Do you also believe that your employer should read all your email?
I'm not sure how I didn't realize this before, but gitbook is certainly usable locally, that is without having it served on the public Internet...
City of San Francisco kicks out another free soccer group from using public park
Interesting, I've only ever known about Emscripten based asm.js compilers. TypeScript + LLVM have the benefit of being actively developed with a strong community backing.
> what is _____ anyway?

I feel like that's a relevant question I have for most HN posts
No problem. Sorry, I didn't realise English was your second language. Nice work on the library.
You're absolutely right. I will edit my comment. Thanks

edit: It appears I've waited too long. If you have the power to edit the profanity out, I wouldn't mind.
I'd recommend the VARIDESK: http://au.varidesk.com/
Yup, I like it too.

Besides being clear w/o having to dig into references or source, it also makes 'oops, wrong variable order' bugs much less likely to occur (e.g., swapped width and height is obvious using the above, not so much if using positional args).
How is the Parse shutdown affecting you?
Is it? I really don't know.

And that's reason #5 I don't hack high-profile servers; if I'm going to do something illegal, I damn well wanna know what happens when I get caught.
Researchers Weigh Risks of Zika Spreading at Rio Olympics
Absolutely. But imo most of us (including myself) find it difficult to spend a token amount of our earning or net worth for a public good.
> If Firebase closes tomorrow there will be no migration strategy for people who built their infrastructure around Firebase.

To be fair, the same thing could have been said about Parse yesterday. Thankfully they've done as good a job as can be expected in releasing an open source implementation.

But indeed, I might have stuck with Firebase had there been something like that available. Instead, we switched while patiently waiting for a js implementation that supported offline sync.

Any updates on the availability of that?
Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management
What do you use for cloud hosting the server?
What on earth leads you to think that I expect free OS updates for life?
Only wrap the functions for libm now, but most of libc functions have been implemented.

And will call them if some libc functions are not supported in the current toolchain.
I think the messenger lectures are different from the Feynman lectures on physics
“Small-town America is primed to beat Silicon Valley in innovation”
Compared to what, though? To paying tens (up to over a hundred for top schools) of thousands of dollars for the same thing but without practical skills? Ideally, people would be leaving school with something to show for it: open source code, launched projects, co-authorship on research papers, stuff like that. Or better yet, leave as cohesive teams, ready to rip in the public sector. Or even better: leave as a part of a startup with their own product (accelerator model), while school would retain minority interest.
Can lawyers (or anyone, really) do that without being liable themselves?
API naming is hard because of the conflicting goals:

1. You want to make it easy to type/read.
2. You want to make it descriptive. (conflicting with #1)
3. You want to make it consistent and unique.
4. You want to make it compatible with older APIs. (conflicting with #3)
5. You want to make it unambiguous.
6. You want to make it flexible/amenable to future changes. (conflicting with #5)
...

etc, etc. It's just impossible to meet all these requirements with developers that live in a different time and space.
I'm on the West Coast. I knew about the snow predicted 36 hours before it hit.
Download Google webfonts on the Linux desktop
I think you'll find this already happens: http://www.inc.com/john-mcdermott/teacher-makes-1-million-se...
Life hacks put to the test
About 5 months now. I raise/lower mine probably 2-3x/day 5 days/week. Others are adjusted less often.
I'm not sure which of the two cases you're addressing; I'll respond with one comment assuming each.

If you are talking about case 2 (fixed UBI, fixed tax rate, making up the difference - when there is one - by printing money or borrowing), then when one individual stops working the UBI payment does not decrease. If productivity falls when that worker stops working (presumably the case for most workers), then we would expect to eventually see some
inflation. It may work out to 1%, with the proper assumptions; I'm not certain.

Still I don't see why it follows that "a rational actor would stop working" - some may, but only if they decide the small decrease in UBI and large decrease in earned income is worth it.

At sufficiently high UBI level relative to earned income, that's pretty likely to be the case. At sufficiently low UBI level ($1?) that's pretty unlikely to be the case.

> Similarly, if 95 out of 100 stop working, then the other 5 have little incentive to work, because their income is basically funding everyone else.

The same chunk of their income as ever is going directly to fund everyone else. A bigger portion of their income is being diluted by the money printed to make up the rest of the UBI. But as the currency devalues, presuming they are doing things people want, they are able to demand more money for their production. The UBI is diluted toward meaningless. At some point, other workers decide to get back in the game, because the (nominally constant but really much lower) UBI will not fund the lifestyle they want, slowing the inflating.

This is a negative feedback loop.
A few more thoughts:

1. This effectively poisons the well for any other BaaS providers out there. If two of the biggest companies in this space (StackMob and Parse) can get acquired and shut down in less than 5 years, what does that say about the future of the smaller companies in this space? As a developer how could you possibly trust any of these companies going forward, based on this track record?

2. Syncing is notoriously difficult to get right. Building a generalized syncing solution is even harder. Bugs in sync code tend to lead to data loss, which leads to angry customers. These types of bugs are hard enough to track down and fix in your own code. Trying to track down and fix bugs in complex third-party code can be damn near impossible.

If you decide to adopt a third party solution that purports to do your syncing for you, do your research carefully. Not just by looking at the toy samples which look easy to set up and work perfectly, but experiences and reports from actual developers who have tried such solutions. What kind of problems are they having? What are the limitations of the current implementation? How mature is the product? How responsive are they to bug reports? If something goes wrong and data is lost, how much insight do you have into the system to figure out why?
Haha, anything's possible. When I bought my road bike, the guy at the shop fitting me said, "you have the torso of a much taller man." What else to say but, "thanks!"
I was unaware Typecatcher was available on GitHub until just recently. I wrote a blog post about it in 2014, wasn't on GitHub then:

https://longren.io/install-all-google-web-fonts-on-ubuntu-ea...

I've always found it very useful and is not widely known about, apparently.
Do you have a link for the one you bought?
Also, big companies tend to be older and change their tech stack less often.
How is invading Afghanistan against the constitution?

>even though neither country attacked the U.S

Afghanistan attacked the US by allowing an terrorist group who declared war on America plot an attack on the United States from their country.

>and therefore attacking both of them was a U.N. Charter violation, which we are of course signatories to.

The UN Charter allows for self defense AND the UN authorized the attacks. In fact the ISAF is a UN operation.
Sturdy isnt a problem with mine, moving it might be though, 48mm steel scafold tube and a 28mm structural birch ply top is stable but not light,last desk I'll ever need though :)
The title is "Apple AC Wall Plug Adapter Exchange Program"
In what world is using a damn airplane to get the location of mass numbers of people by exploiting their cell phones considered reasonable? It's ridiculous that people aren't in jail over this kind of bullshit.
I'm also really purturbed by apple's 'version ratchet' (great term btw). In my case it's the infuriation caused by the 'notifications' to upgrade ... Which you CANT DISMISS! It's either install, or 'remind me later': tonight..tomorrow, but explicitly not 'never for this version'. I've turned off notifications altogether on Yosemite. Ios9 is the icing on the cake.
> There's no reason not to have full disclosure.

...especially when this entire conversation thread is all about requiring disclosure from other people.
It's actually incredible that they didn't position it that way.
So basically the cloud model removes power from the consumer. Nothing new here, but a good reminder.
Preact is using implicit dom recycling, so it heavily breaks use cases like "tree/[*]/render". Just hold mouse over its time and it will display "max" time, it will be much closer to reality.

All other libraries either don't have any form of recycling dom nodes, or it is disabled for this benchmark.
We have tried but the author has not gotten back the few times we've tried. Tried again today, check the issues there.
Not sure if you'll get an answer from OP but I have a Bekant at home and I've had it for 3 months now or so, and I raise/lower it probably once or twice a week (it spends most of it's time raised).

I've had no problems with the motor and the legs, it raises and lowers quickly and smoothly. The motor and legs do come with a 10 year warranty for what it's worth.

If I have one complaint, it's that it has a tiny bit of wobble, but it's a very minor complaint and not any kind of deal-breaker for me, especially when comparing the price of other motorized sit/stand desks.
You guys are awesome. Thank you.
Tim Poston – Keynote: Data Comes in Shapes
biodiversity is a good thing.
You can find the Messenger Lectures with subtitles here http://www.cornell.edu/video/playlist/richard-feynman-messen...
These are all library/SDK functions, can you just call anything an API nowadays? What application is my application interfacing with when I call an android SDK function?
arent there an infinite number of domains?
If you wanted to maintain C++03 compatibility, a dispatching macro might be useful to select the appropriate Signal template arity:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16683146/can-macros-be-ov...
Useful! Crazy how quick the community responds.
Netflix blocked by Indonesia’s largest telco
>The idea was to get a little telescope (like Dragonfly it's pretty much just a telephoto lens with a detector attached) and then have it look at ~1/3 of the sky every night.<

That part--"every night"--is so important to the science (and art) of astronomy...dogged determination (read as regular viewing) has led to countless insights and discoveries...

One of my goals is to incorporate an R-Pi 2 (minimum) into my viewing...program it to look for changes when I can't spend time at the telescope on the deck outside my house...

I'm strictly an amateur at astronomy, but my interest was piqued, in 1994 when I spent a summer volunteering at a youth camp which included, as evening programming, a once-a-week visit by an astronomy club from a semi-major metropolitan area...

That year, as most amateur astronomers will likely remember,
the year the comet Levy-Shoemaker broke apart and impacted Jupiter...we were able to watch this maginificent event as it unfolded ...it was something to see...

Images here: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/top20.html

The kids at camp were more interested in looking at the moon for a while then heading off to the Tradin' Post for evening snacks, but the astronomy club members always stayed until around 1:00pm, and let me share some peeks...wonderful...
Note that the US-style plugs (with two vertical blades that plug into the socket) are NOT recalled.
Medical research is currently a clusterfuck. It is an absolute non sense to create throw away data for the purpose of verifying or falsifying one theory. Fucking morons. Sometimes I think I'm the only sane person on this rock, but I used to think that maybe I was just arrogant. Nope. Now I am older and wiser now and I realise its just true.
Can you just call anything an API nowadays? These are all SDK/Library functions. What application is my Android app interfacing with when I call android SDK functions?
Can the signal cross threads as in Qt's implementation?
Y!'s global CDN is based on this as well.
Get/Set First Slide Number and Improved Animations Support in Presentation in Java
Ask HN: Is there a game that teaches IP address subnetting and routing?
I'd love to play some sort of game that really bakes into me how to set up networks, routes, gateways and subnets, through repetitive but presumably entertaining gameplay.
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Thank you. People think they're doing double advocacy by tying the issue to race. What they're really doing is framing the issue in a way that makes it seem completely irrelevant to the median self-absorbed voter.
Shopping Airplanes
You need to be very careful if you are too deep into the Apple ecosystem. I have a Mac, iPad and iPhone. There was a feature of iOS 9 I wanted (blocking ads) but when I did that, I was no longer able to connect my iPhone to the Mac, and I pretty much lost a month to that. http://boston.conman.org/2015/10/04-31
Redis as the primary data store (2013)
Future of Work: Why Learning Code Is Fundamental
Hm, well they have someone in the comment thread answering questions. Seems like a promising first move, at least.
So many viruses yet this https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dracos-may-be-effective-a... could only raise $60k to for the next stage of research. So sad.
Even Ballmer called it out: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ballme...
This wall of text was unnecessary. A community member self promoted. If you don't like it down vote
I kinda need one of these. That video sold me. My config came out to about 1k (I had to have the space grey finish for 60 bucks)
Intelie Pipes is a language for filtering event streams
How about a recall of the entire adapter.

I have 4 or 5 of them, all which have disintegrated cables.

Either the famous problem where the cable/sleeve detaches at the adapter or the plug end, or on a couple of them, the entire plastic cable housing has disintegrated and sloughed off, leaving bare shield wire.
This after just a year or so in every case.

Absolute disgrace, Apple.