skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought an Android tablet last year. I was holidaying in South America for six weeks and did not want to carry a full laptop with me.

I basically used it as an Ebook Reader / Mp3 player /way to upload photos from my camera to cloud while travelling.

Since I returned to Australia it has been gathering dust there is no use case for it in my day to day life. As a cheap almost disposable laptop for travel it was great for anything more then that I don't see the point.
I'm okay with that as well. I'd be just as good as throwing darts.
Bumping into Stallman, again
Yeah, dang is really strict. He or she, I don't know what it is, maybe transgender, moderates with pride. Protect the "boys club" and all.
I'm sorry it didn't work out! Permanently breaking a website when removed is very surprising, since if you uninstall the module it's not there anymore to have an effect. Would you be up for explaining more?

(I work on mod_pagespeed, and if we're breaking sites on removal that's something I want to look into.)
You don't fix inequality over there by adding "balancing" inequality over here.
I know a woman who was a junior at Dartmouth. She came home for Christmas. She went to a concert with friends. She allegedly took LSD.

She woke up the next day, and didn't recognize her parents.
She didn't recognize her boyfriend whom came running over.

She finished her degree 25 years later, and she still has trouble functioning in society. She never got back to that high functioning individual. She's still very smart. She can't wake up early. Can't function in a unfamiliar work setting. She basically falls to pieces if slightly stressed.
She would be homeless if not for a caring/understanding financially well off family

(This is a true story. She might have had an underlying mental illness, but mental illness is not in her lineage.
I'm just passing this story along.)
> For about 5 years, I volunteered with the elderly in rest homes.

Your personal experiences of the elderly in rest homes are probably not a representative sample of the elderly in society, for all the usual reasons that personal experiences aren't representative, plus the fact that elderly in rest homes themselves are likely not representative of elderly in society.
Can you compare this to org-mode? Any advantages / disadvantages?
This is the best solution proposed so far.
I've been using PageSpeed in production for over 3 years. It's definitely not a replacement of manual optimizations, but in some use cases, especially when you don't have full control over the generated assets (such as third-party WordPress plugins), it's better than trying to fork those, or do transformations in PHP.

It requires you to get how it works, the specifics of filters, and so on; it's not so user-friendly, but once you figure it out, it's performing great. Also, the lead developers are very friendly and responsive!

One of them (Otto van der Schaaf [0]), who's not employed by Google, ported PageSpeed to both IIS [1] and ATS (Apache Traffic Server) [2]. I greatly respect Otto! He's such a hard-working, friendly, and dedicated developer! Jeff Kaufman [3] is also an amazing talent!

[0]: https://twitter.com/oschaaf

[1]: https://www.iispeed.com/

[2]: http://www.atspagespeed.com/

[3]: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JeffKaufman
I do find it shocking that 'kids today' really do not appreciate knowing a little bit of 'hex' and how that relates to 1's and 0's. Numbers like 384, 768 and other common multiples should be understood as computationally significant. Same with numbers like 255, 16383 and so forth - people who work with code should mentally have an image of lots of '1's with these numbers, but they don't. One should not have to explain this stuff except to people, and, this article kind of sums that up, there are a lot of people out there that just were not brought up on the cusp of 8/16 bit computing!!!

For me this has been the case with images in particular. Why have some Photoshop operative spend all day cropping images to (say) 2000 pixels square when you could have Imagemagick just do all of them to 2048 pixels square in a lot less time than it takes to have a cup of tea?

Many, many micro-managers prefer the former option, thinking that the Photoshop operative will not have the ability to type '2048' on their Wacom tablet. Sure, those images are not going to be OpenGL rendered but they might be shown on a web page with OpenSeaDragon (what?) and those 8x8 pixel tiles in the JPEG will survive making the thumbnails better. What is not to like? Why go for the computing equivalent of 'imperial measurements'???

The odd thing about these scenarios is that these micro-manager types get hung up on things like image dimensions whereas programmers just let the computer do the work, to 'abstract out' those little details and let the code do it.
she needs a financial class to learn how to save money - much more than money itself
I did say "jokingly imagining" above. "Emacs is a great operating system, lacking only a decent text editor."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
He or his editor probably did so merely for the acronym (L.ife S.aving D.rug). Not very cool
Some people do like my style of comments. I think it's only the people like you, with their nose in the air and a sense of duty to protect the "boys club," that don't like them. Don't talk about HN? Fuck HN and fuck you too!
Hello from the PageSpeed team.

Image compression and device-sensitive transcoding are important for mobile and emerging markets, and are somewhat challenging to deploy on your own. For larger sites we acknowledge there is some tuning & thought that must be applied, and we'd be happy to help via the discussion groups (mod-pagespeed-discuss, ngx-pagespeed-discuss). We are also working on a new release that will make this easier. For smaller sites, things should work out of the box. As with all PageSpeed issues, please let us know if they don't, or you think there's something specific to improve.

We've heard user concerns about SEO, and are happy to report that this should be improved with our latest beta release (1.0), which adds 'link canonical' attributes to image response headers. This allows search engines to point back to the origin image.

Please give us a shout on our discussion group or bug-list and we'll try to help sort through any others issues that you see: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/issues?q=is%3Aope...
Lots of people's drug histories are in the SF-86 and got clearances. The Fed would rather you be truthful on the form and say "never again" than lie. Lying on that form is the best way to not get a clearance, let alone a host of other consequences.
compiling your own nginx is not trivial and I would
not recommend it for everyone

Yes, this is frustrating as an nginx module developer as well. Apache has a loadable module system and we can ship binaries, but to add a module to nginx you have to recompile.

Nginx's developers have been hinting that they're going to add support for loading .so modules, and I really hope they do!
> He bought more to find out:

I don't think so. From TFP:

"Here are some pictures of the torn down SurjTech 3M cable that fried my Pixel."

Cable, singular. :)
The Five S's:
(S)ource: Know where you got your stuff from, so you know it's what you think it is
(S)elf: Know yourself, what you need to be comfortable and have a good time, what your demons are and how to deal with them
(S)ubtance: Know what you're taking; dosage, duration, effects and side effects.
(S)etting: The place you are when you take it. Put some thought into it!
(S)set: The place your mind is when you take it. Your intention for the experience. Your internal setting.

Tripper 101:
Bad trips happen because you get stuck in a bad place inside your head. Want something to change? Change something else. Easiest thing to change? Where you are physically and the music (or ambient sound) that is playing.

Reality Mantra:
Cars are hard, fire is hot, and if you think you can fly, start from the ground!
Marissa Mayer doesn't know shit about this either, most CEOs probably don't.

There are probably 50 different consultants, lawyers, fund managers, industry experts, etc, etc, that are all feeding her options. Plus all the other investors and board members who are all shouting out ideas.
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>By adding 100 more people to your study, have you increased or decreased the likelihood that your results were due to statistical chance? Counter-intuitively, the answer is that you have increased the odds that the result was due to chance. You cannot add or remove people to a study while it is in progress, based on preliminary results in the study, without impacting its statistical validity in important ways.

You might have a specific experimental setup and statistical test in mind where this statement is accurate, but in general it is false.

For example, imagine that you have a collection of 200 marbles all of which are either red or blue, and you wish to conduct an experiment to estimate whether the total number of blue marbles is greater than or equal to the number of red marbles. If you randomly sample 100 marbles without replacement you can arrive at some estimate of the fraction of each population (the exact methodology doesn't matter for this discussion). Having gained some confidence that your preferred hypothesis was true, you sample another 100 marbles without replacement, at which point you know the exact answer to posed problem (the statistical argument is trivial). It is also worth pointing out that you don't necessarily need to count every marble to arrive at this kind of result (if at some point you have determined that there are at least 101 red marbles you know the exact answer of the proposition).

The experiment described above is obvious academic, but it serves as a basic example of adaptive experimental designs that hone in on exact answers by way of pigeonhole principles. There are also statistically flavored extensions of these designs that allow one to assign subjective degrees of belief for different outcomes.
> Someone "on the inside" thought there was and attempted to whistleblow

No, all evidence points to it being done by a breach from outside.
Ah, "you have no idea" as in "that is more correct than I think you realize", but maybe you do. Not meant as an argument; more as hyperbolic.
For all you fraidy cats read about "micro dosing" there is a whole community around it with some fascinating observations.
Cool. Many languages allow 0b11110000 style notation, though. If that's available, it's much preferable to hex when the bit arrangement matters. One should not ever force the reader to do the mental work of this quiz if it can be helped.
I think this puts the TypeScript build 3rd smallest GZIP behind Webpack/Babel/Uglify and Closure.

Knowing barely anything about Typescript, does this include TS's ES6 features in the same way as the Babel build?
Reference to LA Times article and discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11022097
> Currently Y! is literally less than the sum of its parts.

Or, at least, its market cap is worth less than the market cap of things it owns times the share it owns of them, meaning that (assuming the consistent utility of market-cap-based-valuation) that it is either worth less than the sum of its parts, or that some of its other parts have negative net value. The latter offends lots of people's intuitions about what those parts should be worth, but those people don't seem to be putting their money where there mouth is and buying up the undervalued Yahoo! stock, so maybe either simplistic market cap to market cap based value analysis is wrong, or those other parts really do have negative value, or both.
I dislike anti-discrimination laws in general. I think a good compromise would be to limit to manual labor jobs and the like which the laws was originally designed for.
I'm still skeptical. I suspect meditation can give something similar, but not the same, as something like heroin, just like running can get you a "runner's high". But the brain just can't produce arbitrary chemical formulas.

A fun passage from http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/07/dispatc...

"The serious heroin aficionado, if still functional, lives his junkie life surrounded by poor dumb muggles who believe they're getting "high on life." Bullshit! High is spelled heroin. Your muggle can't even imagine high. It's like trying to explain electricity to a blind man."
> It makes things more expensive than they have to be.

Consumer electronics are -generally- ridiculously cheap these days. I welcome more "overengineering", even if it drives up the cost somewhat. :)
We used this a lot when we had a old project to maintain and it's great! Today, having a new version where everything is optimized before we turned it off.
No HR had a quota to get rid of x% and took what they thought was the easy target.

Its incompetence in Yahoos HR function
If you have the app installed I would suggest turning off auto-update from the store so that you can keep the keyboard as-is before Microsoft starts meddling with it.
well in honestly he does sound entitled just because he has money. The original complaints were that he elon was late and he should have served lunch at the event. Its like going to a Mcdonalds and not wearing a shirt or shoes. If they don't want to serve you they don't have to. If tesla, feels like this guy is being a prick, they don't have to sell him a car.
Now I can't use the cursor keys anymore to scroll, they will move the timeline in the background. The j/k keyboard shortcuts are broken as well, only the Space key scrolls the replies.

I thought Twitter would have resources for some testers.
> Honestly G+ is amazing for technical discussion.

If and only if you're okay with the horribly limited formatting that Plus offers. There's no way in hell you can ever post code snippets, for example.
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In what way is it better/different, compared to the default Google keyboard (which is not too bad, either)?
I'm new to the whole webpack / browserify / etc. stuff, but this seems like a supremely weird build pipeline to me.

> When using uglifyify you should generally also use Uglify, to achieve the smallest output. Uglifyify provides an additional optimization when used with Uglify, but does not provide all of the optimization that using Uglify on its own does, so it's not a replacement.

Why doesn't Uglify just do all the work and not require a separate component to do extra optimisation? Or is the extra optimisation specifically tailored to browserify?
Seattle tech leaders scuffle over proposed change to non-compete clauses
How did it affect these things? I have a hard time imagining how it could all of a sudden fix ADHD symptoms like that.
Taking PHP Seriously (2013)
Ask HN: At what point does it stop being a program and start being AI?
Accelerating Deep Learning at Facebook
>> This is good advice. However, realistically you will have to rely on their kindness in the end.

I agree. Maybe one way to go about it, organise a one-to-one coffee, talk about what you've been through, basically what you've told us, and tell them how you feel about equity, and what you're worried about. This will build the rapport that will make it easier for them to be kind.
Human society, culture advances when zero sum scenarios are replaced with win/win variants.

Where's the joy in having material wealth if I have to step over the homeless while going about my daily business? Or require additional security measures to feel safe?

I very much advocate a more equitable society for very selfish reasons. I want to be left alone.

The math and logic of reciprocal altruism directly challenges the zealotry of Freedom Markets(tm). But it's just a different kind of selfishness.
You can, but you'll have no idea what you're actually getting. It may or may not be LSD, and it may or may not be mixed with something else.

You ideally want to develop a trusted source, probably through someone you know
I'd like to know as well. I used to use SwiftKey a few years back and loved it. I switched to a Windows phone for awhile then back to my Android. After using the stock Android keyboard for a few months I thought I'd try SwiftKey. Without question, I found SwiftKey required far, far more corrections than the WP or Android phone did. I had to stop swiping at least twice as much to fix an incorrect word.

I just thought that other keyboards had sufficiently caught up since I stopped using it, and SwiftKey didn't improve. What did I miss?
I'd like to chime in with a personal anecdote relevant to what you've mentioned. The TL;DR is "Having Xanax is incredibly comforting when a trip goes sideways; it worked for me and friends, it worked fast, and it was quite effective."

The day before yesterday, a friend and I took 2CB nasally for the third time, for both of us. Quick note: 2CB is roughly similar to LSD.

As it turned out, the previous two times we had been losing quite a bit of 2CB during the snorting process because we where basically pressing our faces against the surface then inhaling. This led to some 2CB stuck on our face, some stuck just inside the nose, etc. Because such small amounts of 2CB are so effective, this loss meant we where experiencing an order of magnitude fewer effects.

So, it's our third time, but this time we decide to use a straw. Using a straw meant we got the full amount instead of losing the majority. The net effect was we found ourselves in the middle of an experience that was orders of magnitude more than what we where emotionally prepared for. If we'd been aiming for the experience we where having, we'd have been fine; but since it was so unexpected it felt very uncomfortable.

After about an hour, my friend was lucid enough to get a Xanax for himself and offer me one as well. The Xanax stopped that trip in it's tracks. 15 minutes after taking, lucidity solidified and I was back to being able to hold conversations. Within 30 minutes, we where down to only very subtle visuals, and within 45 minutes, the trip was effectively over.

To reiterate, Xanax worked for me, and I'll be keeping it around as a safety feature in the future.
Although the OP posted himself, one thing I try to explain to people who don't use Emacs very much is that instead of thinking of it as an editor with a Lisp extension language, it's better to think of it as a Lisp environment with a built in editor. And although people jokingly refer to it as an OS (and even the kitchen sink is included -- as an icon), it's really more like a shell. You have a windowing environment, you can integrate other programs including terminal shells, debuggers, etc, etc. Finally, because it is a full Lisp environment, you have 30+ years of accumulated Lisp programs that you can run (some of which have no equal on any platform).

I used Emacs for 20 years and while I've strayed away from it (got interested in Vim), I'm slowly making my way back. Not for the Emacs keybindings (which are fine), but for the entire elisp ecosystem. So in a way the OP's imaginings are not so far off (although I don't think you can actually run vim inside emacs -- you will need to use Evil mode instead ;-) ).
I tried it on the iPhone and gave up on account of its sometimes rather imaginative interpretations of what I was trying to say. I think it can be quicker but a bit unpredictable.
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Yeah, another entry for ourincrediblejourney.
UK scientists receive world’s first licence to edit genes in human embryos
>HTML email that was composed and edited in Markdown

I never understood the appeal of markdown. Why would this be beneficial to you?
A couple suggestions:

http://phish.com/tours/

http://www.widespreadpanic.com/tour

Also, pretty much any large multi-day music festival with a campground, especially reggae. Suppliers are way less discreet at these kind of venues. You'd typically either get lucky and get whatever they say it is, or not and get something that has no effect; chances of something dangerous are low.
I'm not sure if there are many devices which actally follow that spec to the letter (in either direction). Usually the USB ports will just allow 500mA (or whatever they're designed to provide) plus some fairly generous overhead, regardless of what the device has asked for, and assuming they bother to implement overcurrent detection at all.
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Smartwatches, sure. I have one and it's definitely an improvement over my phone alone when it comes to email and messaging. Still, I think there's potential for a Glass like device to be even more convenient.

I'm not too familiar with Cardboard, but I don't see how it's related.
Uber Drivers and Others in the Gig Economy Take a Stand
> If this happens here, where there are no consequences, what happens in academia, where the penalties of being sceptical are so much more serious, even career-threatening?

Looks like some of your points were restored, but I'll note I downvoted you for the above. It's ridiculous to assert some relationship between this message board and academia, or that downvotes are responding specifically to a single cherrypicked idea from that post.

It ends up being complaining about downvotes with a not so subtle insinuation that the subject wasn't given a fair shot (when it was actually widely and very publicly investigated) and you're begging the question by asserting that any dismissal of the question is evidence of dismissal of the question for a specific reason, when it could just be that some questions have already been addressed and so are no longer worth more time than it takes to give a downvote.
Okay, here's $135,000 a year, some stock options we'll dilute to hell, a probable tax burden, and a team of demoralized developers. Produce working software for my startup or be fired. And maybe be fired anyways if other things don't work out.

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