skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably inspired by the similar post today doing this with Atom for Chrome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11022356
You know how I know I'll never be a CEO of a huge company like this? Because I read what you just wrote and thought, "this doesn't sound like something that 1) I could ever solve 2) it just doesn't sound remotely fun to try and figure all this stuff out"
Cool to see this featured. If anyone's interested in actually playing around with ngx_pagespeed, I wrote a pretty straightforward tutorial on my blog to get up and running (granted, I last updated it in 2013, so some things may be outdated).

https://dlo.me/archives/2013/05/14/nginx-pagespeed-cloudfron...
I had decided to meditate and watch my breath at the peak of the experience, and felt my consciousness separate from my full body, and move upward into my brain (similar to the visual in the intro to Fight Club). I felt like I was a singular point floating around the blood vessels in my brain, and this freaked me out, so I took a sharp turn, which burst a vessel at the top of my sinuses. I felt the blood rush into my throat, and then I got tunnel vision and lost the ability to talk, and felt like I was passing out. A friend of mine said something that seemed like an incantation at the time, which pulled me out of it, but I was left with the belief that I could kill myself with my own thoughts. I was in a mental prison, constantly guarding myself from thinking certain thoughts. It took me years to break out of this prison, and I'm still scarred by it.

I have taken hallucinogens since and have been fine. I've never had anything nearly this bad on mushrooms, if that says anything. Mushrooms seem to guide you to a place, whereas LSD drags you there, whether you want to go or not.
I ended up using constructors to create instances of an object, and Object.create to enable inheritance when defining the object.

function Person(name, birthday, ...) {
...
}

Person.prototype = Object.create(Animal.prototype);

See these for more:

* http://outof.me/javascript-prototypal-inheritance-for-classi...

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Intr...

* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8453887/why-is-it-necessa...
My problem isn't speed (300 down, 20 up). It's ipv6 (only). Can't reach my services from the go, because no network, anywhere, runs ipv6.

None of my two mobile carriers. Not my employer's corporate network. No network at any of my friends. And I've yet to see a public hotspot that isn't ipv4 only. Everything ipv6 is dark when I leave the house.

So.. different cause, same problem. Hosting at home is a non-starter.
Agreed. Some people don't understand the value of dialog as well. It's a pity, because that's the real value of HN.
equality requires not a loss of privilege, but an equal distribution of privilege. This means hiring/firing should give an equal consideration to both genders.

A 50/50 m/f ratio is not a statistical "proof of equality".
> it alleviated my ADHD symptoms

What ADHD symptoms did it alleviate?
Talk to your Rockwell rep. If a worse way exists, they'll find it for you.
I learned programming on a TI-99/4A which required you to enter graphics as bitmaps in hex. I've never lost the ability to "see" hex numbers as binary.

I don't know if there's still a use for such a skill, but if you care, I learned it as a set of 8 pairs: first, 0 and F are easy, right? 9 and 6 are 1001 and 0110, and a 9 looks like an upside-down 6 so hopefully you can remember that pair.

That leaves 12 digits, and they come in mirror-image pairs: 1/8, 2/4, 3/C, 5/A, 7/E, B/D. You know which hex digit is larger, and the larger binary is heavier on the left side, e.g. D is 1101 and B is 1011.
It was Facebook's motto for a long time.
WTF Just Happened at Khan Academy
When a long spitzer (pointed) bullet like those used for .223/5.56 NATO rounds changes media, they start doing a 180, that is, tumble, so that the denser rear is in the direction of travel.
Sure, i understand.
I meant my parent is complaining that clearly the women can appeal because of gender bias issues affecting them more heavily than men, as if that magically would make it okay.

Instead, the thing that seems "okay" on that point would be "let the men appeal too" (IE my parent is wrong no matter what!)
As a programmer, bu also a user, I'm very glad that "free" trade agreements don't override our privacy protection laws.
> But we've reached a point where modern web applications are pulling in dozens of dependencies in both production and development toolchains, and increasingly those dependencies are themselves built on top of other dependencies.

Um, take ANY non-trivial application, written in any language, and then follow the chain of its dependencies all the way down to the kernel, and shriek in horror. JS is not unique here, the only unique part is perhaps how obvious npm makes it just how much stuff your code depends on.
> I would argue that employees #1-4 risk a hell of a lot more than most founders

How can it more risky for first four employees?
Who are you negotiating with? Does one person own all equity or several founders plus investors?
USB cables aren't smart cables by any stretch of the imagination—not when we've got standards like Thunderbolt. A single resistor is not unreasonable complexity on top of the requirements to get the pinout correct.
Mindless Minds: An Artificial Intelligence Journal, Part 1
Maybe by virtue of being on drugs, but it's a real thing, try for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=ar+15+used+in+self+defense or substitute home for self.
New docs confirm CIA had rendition flight lurking in Europe to catch Snowden
Why Safe Harbor 2.0 will lose again
Yeah, it was extremely frustrating for actively changing code and not an issue for third party dependencies. I wonder what the trade offs between submodules and subtrees are for this use case.
Ask HN: How difficult/expensive would it be to produce this safety app concept?
Long time lurker here, who understands enough to enjoy the wisdom of others but not enough to create from scratch.

Could HN give me a rough idea about the resources required to develop an app concept. I am (unfortunately) in no position to do anything with this information.

My partner is a community midwife, meaning that she has to visit pregnant women in their homes. Her catchment area includes a several inner city neighbourhoods with high unemployment and lots of social work involvement. As community midwives generally work alone and in 'dangerous areas' or in potentially inflammatory domestic situations they are provided with 'lone worker devices'. They are credit card sized (ish) and feature an alarm button & microphone. A SIM card allows workers to report which house they are visiting to a base and if the alarm button on them is triggered someone will listen in and phone the police if necessary.

Due to austerity cutbacks, these lone worker devices are being withdrawn as they 'are not used enough' and are being replaced with a cheap rape alarm. Clearly this is a token gesture and completely meaningless if you are locked inside someone's home and a dangerous situation arises.

Midwives also have to carry a BlackBerry with proprietary health service software on it to track patient visits and schedule appointments. How hard would it be to knock up and app that polls GPS location and reports it to a central database. A simple Bluetooth button on a neck cord/keychain could be paired with the phone to act as a discreet alarm triggering an alert at a central location. A member of staff using some sort of admin panel to monitor midwife across a large area (whole city) could then take appropriate action. Data transfer would have to be very secure for patient confidentiality.

It makes me angry/frustrated that budget cuts are compromising staff safety when they already have all the hardware with them everyday for a virtually identical software solution.
I'm a big fan of colorized history over on Reddit. The old pictures become much more appealing this way.

Wouldn't it be great to colorize these classics, and also remove the title cards and hire some foley and voice artists to create a soundtrack for them?
The archive.org version still works [1]. Thank you for the recommendation!

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150101030559/http://games.usvs...
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> It is generally thought that genetics plays little role in mortality until very late life

I don't understand this at all. Risky behavior is largely driven by being male, a genetic effect. Within males, it is still largely driven by genetics. Terminal diseases that strike young people are also often genetic problems. How could it be generally thought that genetics plays little role in early-life mortality? What are all the early deaths that are viewed as not implicating genetics?
Right, once we start heavily hyper-parameterizing our models, there's the potential to overfit the hyperparameters. I think most people agree that has already happened on common datasets such as MNIST.

However, the current method of avoiding hyperparameters is just to have very few of them. This is kind of like avoiding overfitting of parameters by only having 10 parameters in your model - barbaric!

That being said, for hyper-gradients to really be useful, someone needs to develop hyperparameter optimization schemes such as BayesOpt that can condition on gradient information, to allow us to try different hyperparameter settings in parallel. I know at least one group is working on this, but as far as I know it's not ready for prime time yet.
Battling over which news org as the best app or website is a muddy and confused field and is not one in which an organization can distinguish itself -- let alone distinguish itself for very long. Do you currently use Flipboard? Current? Any of the other darling news apps that won marketshare because of the smart and sharp design ethos? I'm taking a liberty here in saying that you most likely don't.

Apps and websites and gleam are ephemeral. They are very important to people (and especially tech-world people like ourselves), but they are still ephemeral and our tastes are fickle.

What NYT is doing here is providing the continuity of news it has reported as a means of shoring up its reliability as a source and its reputation as a journalism organization.

When people search for news, or read something on a blog and search for stronger evidence, where do they go? Do they go to the app/website/organization with the best website or the best app? Sometimes, maybe; but more often no, they choose the organization with the best reputation for truth (even if leaning in one direction). You can disagree with the politics of the NYT, but I don't think people tend to dispute much outside of the Opinions/Editorials (and if they do, it's generally something other reputable sources would be disputed on).

The website experience of the NYT is great, in my opinion. The long-form, js-augmented pieces are incredible. Are you so unhappy with them that their expansion of available archives is such a diversion from what you think their goals should be?

News is about events in context, and context includes the history. If you are lambasting them over their opening up of a trove of near recent archives, then you have a blinded view of the world. "[T]he province of history books - but not of successful businesses" -- could there be a better symbol of the lack of contextual understanding than the utter dismissal of news from the last 30 years? Can we not look back at history to make determinations as to causes of current news? Is ISIS a being conceived and borne entirely out of thin air from the present on? Is the news of 10 years ago so worthless that we shouldn't have easy access to see what happened or was talked about in the days when the Iraq War was first debated or when the first Persian Gulf War happened?

The newspaper industry is failing, but the Times is still profitable. Now is not the time for them to sell stock of what makes them -- as you say -- the world's leading institution of journalism. Archives are important, and it is sincerely disheartening for the top comment about this new source lambasting them for not focusing on bettering an app.
That actually seems like a benefit to me. Pinned versions are helpful for build/test reliability.
What newspapers are you reading?
The original EEE 700 was $399.00 and the 900 was $650. My 700 for my wife had extra memory for $485 or something.

EDIT Reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC
Do What Uber Did. Empower Users and Other Stakeholders
They have a free trial available.
How do you go about obtaining such things if none of your friends do it either?
Long but worth reading:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/11/columbia...
It won't stay at its peak, very normal for most companies after IPO. BABA will continue to do okay in China as the ecommerce market is huge. The challenge BABA faces is quality rather than quantity and I don't think Alibaba is addressing it well.

But I believe the real problem is Yahoo being a media/technology company, Yahoo must improve its core business in order to be sustainable in the long run. They can sell BABA now, walk away, and reorganize the entire company from scratch. I am not saying people are greedy, but when you really have the chance to start from scratch do it. But I don't think anyone has any idea where Yahoo should fit. Content? Search? Where does Yahoo stand? This is why the shareholders are not willing to sell anything because they themselves are clueless.
It's All Text![1] has existed for almost a decade. The interesting thing about this addon is that the Vim UI is actually integrated in the browser.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
They should be commended for just linking to the previous article instead of rehashing 90% of it again.
Polygon Shredder
I'm a bit unusual here. I have never taken any drugs. I don't drink alcohol. I am also not judgmental.

There is the concept of the waking dream. That we are always in a dream which keeps being guided by our senses. Where the mind corrects the dream based on what we feel, see, and hear.

Psychedelics seem to break this process. When people say they have "Profound" experiences, do they mean they finally understand this? This sense of wholeness.

Reading the experiences people have had, I feel I have had similar ones through meditation.

Maybe these drugs are just a shortcut.
> It also showed me why I was born, which helped give me a sense of direction, purpose in life.

Out of curiosity, can I ask why you were born?
It's also a lawyer trying to make a prima facie complaint to avoid summary dismissal of a lawsuit. As long as there's a good-faith belief that this could be true, including such an allegation in the complaint will expand the plaintiff's pre-trial discovery breadth. That costs Yahoo more money to defend, increases the likelihood of uncovering a smoking gun and puts the plaintiff in a better settlement negotiation posture.
I think Guy Debord did a much better job finding the fundamental issues that give rise to these phenomena, namely, The Society of the Spectacle, it focuses on much the same dichotomies in a much more general and in depth way. To be fair to the author, Debord has 200 some odd pages to expound his views.

If anyone wants to read it...
http://www.antiworld.se/project/references/texts/The_Society...
Even better, use UBlock Origin's element picker mode to permanently block the div from appearing.
Just the 2 founders, no investors.
Why is he talking as though using objects is out, and using value types is the only valid path with Swift?

Especially during a transition phase, which we are inescapably in right now, wouldn't it be pragmatic to continue using objects when needed, even if the eventual goal is to end up transitioning to protocol oriented programming?

In other words we don't need to conflate Swift with POP, which I think is what he's doing when he talks about the purported problems of NSNotificationCenter.
A bad trip can be really BAD.

No one wants a bad trip.
DC bill would pay people stipends not to commit crimes
Do not leave such critical things under specified. If the response from the founders goes even slightly short of your expectations you run a real risk of burnout because you have obviously gone over and above for an extended period of time. Make sure that there is a reconciliation on your value add between you and the founders as soon as possible.

Try to also put yourself in the founders shoes and see how you would approach such a situation rationally. Its best to have a number in mind before you speak to the founders and have thresholds on either side representing delight / time to put in the papers.
Why do you believe that Hacker News' website looks like shit? What, specifically, do you object to?
I'd add I know several people with long term mental impairment from overuse, mostly from long term use of LSD. So while it's interesting to try, be cautious.
Microsoft Edge has an annotation feature
LSD and similar drugs somehow change your reality.

In a way that nothing else seems to.
That was my guess, too.
Sandstorm's hosting service (Oasis) is hosted on a service arguably/probably more reliable than GitHub... Google Compute Engine.

The big difference between Sandstorm and say... GitHub hosting (if the code is written for their APIs), is no matter whether I self-host or use Oasis, I can easily move my data to a different storage medium later.
For instance if they don't want to sign up, just view content; or in the case of the meteor digg-like app, requiring sign up before use is a major turn-off. Or if I am away from my own computer but want to show someone something on the bulletin board; I don't want to have to log in to the full system to get a link to view (or a link to share) when the alternative is a normal self-hosted app where I could go to forum.mydomain.com.
Ask HN: Will I get locked in a single company going into finance?
I'm looking for a job in finance as a software engineer in high-frequency trading or trading execution in general.

Will accepting a job from one firm make it impossible to work at another in the future?

In other words, will I end up learning "trade secrets" or general secret-sauce type of things that make me non-transferable, locking me into a specific company for something like the next 2 years?

I don't have a very clear idea of what's involved. I'm not sure if I should be going into finance to begin with.

Any tips or hard-earned wisdom would be greatly appreciated.
>So apparently he had been given a promotion and took a leave of absence to participate in a prestigious fellowship...

That doesn't mean he was competent.
I think some people would enjoy it simply because they like being in positions of power and feeling important.
Uber Dribbbles Up a New App Icon
Bumping into objects, living in my head all day, failure to follow up on appointments, messy room, always lost things, moved around constantly, and more.
Tesla Motors Confirms It's Developing Two 'Affordable' Electric Vehicles
> If Alibaba keeps going down in value, selling it now gives you more money than selling it tax-free in the future.

You can't possibly predict that, and thus, a tax free spin off is the only sane option. Also, you can't just dump 15% of BABA stock and expect to get the current market share price. Its value would probably decline by 30-40%.

If they succeed and Alibaba buys back that 15% stake (even at a discount) they will have returned an additional $5-7bn to shareholders by structuring it like this.

> But the value of a declining business with billions in revenue each year must be positive.

Sure, it is - it's worth a few billion. Their current market cap is $27bn and own they 15% of Alibaba (worth ~$24bn pretax).
I'll be sure and pack snacks.

/yea, me too
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I can see how that could be fun if you like big picture thinking.
Wow, I was going to post almost exactly this -- TI-99/4A and all.

CALL CHAR(128,"3C4299A1A199423C")
Dash is iOS/OS X only however there is the excellent Zeal* that uses the same Dash docsets.

https://zealdocs.org/
It sounds like you are the first employee? If so 1-2% seems to be the norm.
Microsoft Reportedly Acquiring SwitftKey for $250MM
if it was originally 60-40 men-women, and the allegation is correct that only women are allowed to appeal their results, that's more like tipping the balance 40-60

Is your assertion that every other aspect of these women's employment is equal to or greater than the corresponding aspect for the men?
Flippy Bit is another great way to practice this: http://flippybitandtheattackofthehexadecimalsfrombase16.com/
Move Your Domain Day Is Today (fundraiser for EFF)
Yahoo's finance page is very good, better than anyone else's. With one click URL I can get quotes on all the stocks I'm interested in, with a thumbnail graph, and links to charts, news, etc.

Nobody else is even close.
Then you should get those people in touch with the appropriate researchers. They are anomalies.
Not directly applicable, but elinks[0] allows ^T (ctrl-T (capital 'T')) while editing a textarea to launch $EDITOR. It's really nice.

Edit: in some instances, it's incredibly useful. For example it makes some cases of gmail more usable/enjoyable than via Firefox. I get all the power of vi and full access to my running system, so I can easily inline code segments or log files into my messages, and not lose editor focus if I bump the mouse, etc :P

[0] http://elinks.or.cz/
The same universal "rights" FDR thought it was unconscionable for them to have? Wasn't until JFK at the national level, and as I recall Wisconsin a few years before, that this ripoff of taxpayers started, public sector unions negotiating with politicians for the mutual benefit.

I, for one, want that replicated in my state, so we don't go bankrupt like Illinois and California are frequently close to, so establishing that a governor and ruling party could do this without losing in the polls was essential, my state is very much threatened.
Never need post-its again! (well probably...) but still awesome!
Not to mention it is a very popular line with volunteer fire depts and rescue squads. Mostly because they can hand them out cheaply and no one cares if the equipment is damaged.
It's still going to be a bit of a problem, as you have the Unix terminals (bash, zsh, fish, among others), and then you have the Windows terminals (cmd.exe and PowerShell).
and also for firefox on linux (centos7)
I am wondering how can japan sustains such an interest rate? Also, will this create a real estate bubble?
I actually did it live on prod boxes in last job and then used the in-place binary upgrade signal to seamlessly restart nginx. A dev who'd never touched prod and I wrote an ansible playbook for it.
To add on to this, I know mixing drugs isn't kosher, but if this is a real worry to someone taking it, having xanax on stand-by is a good idea. SWIM came very close to a bad trip many times, on high doses, and having a "break glass incase of emergency" was enough to get through it.
Or you end up writing the same product multiple times.