skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the reply, but unless I've completely missed your point somehow, you didn't actually answer my question there. What I'm looking for is something akin to

watchify src/index.js -o dist/index.js -t ...

or

sass --watch src/index.scss:dist/index.css

that handles new or removed files within the source tree gracefully, not just modified files that are already known when you run the command.

Whether it's monitoring for changes like these examples, or hot reloading and browser sync'ing, or IDEs that rebuild incrementally in the background so they can give immediate feedback, modern tools that actively monitor for relevant changes and respond to them automatically are noticeably more efficient to work with than traditional tools that run once on demand. Make belongs to a time that has passed, and we could be more productive by retaining the concepts that are as relevant as ever but incorporating them into tools with the more dynamic behaviour that we enjoy in other tools today.
> Any thoughts on why we, a subset of the population that tends to be defined by priding itself on its intelligence and rationality, can be so egregiously head-up-its-own-ass like this?

Hi, I think about this sort of thing often and have come to the personal conclusion that humans' chief vice is stubbornness. Please allow me to explain because the stubbornness is more of an effect than a cause.

Humans couple identity & belief very tightly. For example, people say things like "I am Republican", which doesn't imply that there is a subspecies of humans called Republican as an alien might think, but rather that they generally believe in the republican party's views. This is the start of it.

Somewhere along the line of growing up, identity becomes a very big deal and puberty hits you with "Shutup mom & dad, I believe in [this] stuff cause that's who I am!" This is actually rather healthy as the teenager is becoming autonomous and self-reliant, but is accompanied by the damaging effect of My Beliefs = Who I am. For a teenager that does not know not to believe in self-debilitating thoughts, they can quickly wind up on the road down to depression.

Furthermore in this world, specialness is generally coveted. A lot of the nerds around here might know Enders Game in which a kid kills a civilization that is arguably more peaceful than our own -- the society worked like a bee hive and did not understand personal dogmas or behavior that centered around the individual. While it's scary to imagine a queen bee ruling over all of us, there's still something to be said about if we focused on working together.

However, that's not this world so what you end up with is people equating their specialness (and therefore value, and therefore self-value, and therefore self-esteem) with their identity, which is defined by their beliefs & physical appearance. If they only could stop caring so much about special, it wouldn't matter if you were right or wrong because you would be on a natural hunt for goodness and knowledge in all its forms. Yet, from the competition to be special comes this behavior.

It's not that people want to be stubborn, but in linking their identity with their belief & thought, they now feel literally attacked if they are wrong. Nerds, who many already suffer with self-esteem issues, thus feel good to be a mental champion because it reinvigorates their self-esteem.

For some of us, we hold our identity in spirit and therefore feel detached from the human existence and do not let it bind us in this manner. I'm not perfect and saying everyone should follow me, but generally speaking, I do believe if people truly evaluated where they get their feelings of self-esteem from, they might be a little startled to see how much of it revolves around petty things like the need to be right.
fit2rule said it a little brashly, but there's truth, beyond the fact that commuting in a car is just a drag. Cars have ruined the city, in very profound ways. There's the noise & pollution of course, but cars also made the city unsafe for children and seniors.

The difference between a city that's been given to cars, and a city that has resisted it is incredibly stark. Even America's "walkable" cities, like SF, NYC and so on, are ever so inhuman, due to the cars. The young and poor tolerate it, and the rich can buy nice things to make it tolerable, but a city where cars have taken over pretty much half of the public realm is profoundly flawed.

Required anecdote: I've lived and worked in Europe for a while in a city that's mostly pedestrian, and whatever traffic there was, was incredibly slow. It was basically an environment that was fully build-up, no nature-proper for miles, but it felt natural, human, and, well, "cultured". I stepped out the door in a place that was made for me, a feeble 6ft meatbag.

Looking back at it, I find the feeling incomparable, and I miss it. I live in a US city now, in a verdant, central area of town. Mobility is never an issue. It has many of the same qualities you'd attribute to attractive urban neighborhoods, like stupendous architecture, lush gardens, good walkability, a variety of things close-by. But the streets are for cars. And it is jarring. They don't belong. They are too fast. The asphalt ribbons are ugly. The noise is out of place.

Cars do have their place. They're very useful, for longer trips, hauling things, having a fun leisurely drive in the country. So I get why a family would want one or more. But cars are poison to cities, and it's been a terrible mistake to either have them take over our older cities, or design our new cities around them.
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Bad drivers take on a whole new meaning outside of wealthy countries where the dangerous drivers routinely end up disqualified from driving. Just by providing a predictable vehicle everyone can trust will stop and stay stopped at red lights, stop at stop signs etc AI will bring a lot to the world.

Seventy-four per cent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income
countries, which account for 70% of the world’s population, but only 53%
of the world’s registered vehicles, burdens for 74% of world's road
deaths. In low-income countries it is even worse. Only one percent of the
world's registered cars produce 16% of world's road traffic deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
It's not about what one "deserves", it's about protecting infant startups from high turnover. One year is extremely high, potentially fatal turnover rate for companies with <30 employees.
As it does working in most of these inexplicably popular open plan office environments for any length of time.

So in a way, it's excellent preparation.
> They are talking about how the internet, which was once seen a conduit of 'truth', is just a conduit which also spreads bullshit

That's what bikamonki was saying.

jerf's comment was tangential to the central thesis of bikamonki's post, and stated "There were things that claimed to be streams of pure, refined truth. Those claims didn't become false. They always were false"

> You are talking about education and scientific rigor as a means of talking about truth

No, I'm stating directly that there exist educational institutions that, through educational programs, transfer truth from one person to another.
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It is also worth reading Apple's motion in this case: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2722199-5-15-MJ-0045...

Actually I just noticed something about the title of the case: USA vs Black Lexus IS300. Is this actually a criminal forfeiture case?
Which exactly proof are you talking about? I briefly looked at the paper (I've seen it before, but it's been quite a while...), but it seems that they pretty much use a previously known approach, and the only proof in it is simply "replicated for convenience of the reader". Also, this would certainly be neither the first nor the last paper that ignores transaction costs, and their omission does not really invalidate the argument (even if you cannot profitably trade on an anomaly, why is it there in the first place?), so I don't think you can accuse them of bullshit just based on that.

Non-stationarity is a problem though. Still, you need a bit more to call complete bullshit on this imo -- e.g. say something like "after switching to a different bootstrap method that works in presence of stochastic volatility the result suddenly disappears". Perhaps that is what you do in your paper :) I should take a look.

All that being said, not many people believe in technical indicators working in equities these days, or anywhere really (FX was a bit of a holdout -- not sure if it still is?), so perhaps science has kinda sorted itself out in this case :) I've seen far worse cases of snooping and non-replicability though, and some are still going strong.
This conversation could be had about any abstraction. They help with some things and hinder other things.

In this case, a purely functional transformation from application state to HTML means you don't have to think about every possible transition between states like you would in a normal jQuery application. However, since you are not thinking about transitions, implementing transition animations will be harder.
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Does a feature such as making account content a git clonable repo in the background ? Then all changes and revisions are easily maintained where ever a user wants.
I know what you mean, but London is a poor example — the well known "black cab" service has been heavily regulated forever, but cheaper "minicabs" have been available to book (rather than hail on the street) since the 1960s, and subject to a little regulation¹ since 2001. Most operators were tiny companies with a few cars servicing a local area, until Addison Lee started running a London-wide service about 10-15 years ago — they had nicer cars, better availability and marketing and so on. Uber set up in London under the same regulations.

¹ Additional car inspection, criminal record check on the driver, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom...
I really doubt whether that would work. The loans aren't necessarily "short term", as the term is pretty much not known, the shares are the lowest on the totem pole when it comes to payout and you have absolutely no control over the company. That's a lot of risk, and if the cost of exercising options is so high as to be difficult, the shares probably don't have the upside that might be required to make it work.
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How good a deal is this? I have heard that the response for this product was underwhelming. Can we use it for anything useful today?
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You could require both reproduction & novel work for the PhD. Or you could require reproduction for the MS, as a stepping-stone to novel work.

Today the MS & PhD are both supposed to prepare you to do novel research & science. Since reproducibility is a core part of research & science, it would make sense for you to reproduce another study as part of your learning process.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11199169
No idea. Work email doesn't go anywhere close my smartphone.
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"As explained below, after reviewing the facts in the record and the parties' arguments,I conclude that none of those factors justifies imposing on Apple the obligation to assist the government's investigation against its will. I therefore deny the motion."
> For example, it's often MORE expensive to go on vacation from a cheaper area because the airport is smaller and there aren't direct flights to as many places (granted, not an issue in Atlanta).

I live in Cincinnati with one of the most top 10 most expensive airports in the country (CVG). I also spend a lot of time traveling and searching for flights.

One strategy I've used to avoid this is booking Kayak-style "hacker fare" for a domestic ticket to a hub like LAX/ATL/etc. with an international flight out from the hub, then a return ticket from destination to home (with connections of course).

It doesn't sound like it'd be that significant, but it made a recent trip to New Zealand & Australia about 40% cheaper, though it does take some extra effort.
I've seen a lot of doom and gloom about the current state of the US government all around the internet, but I have to say that this kind of thing helps me remain optimistic. A judge is free to make his or her decision without fear of coercion or some fanciful Tom Clancy-esque story unfolding as some people seem to believe things to work. The system may be flawed, but it's not broken yet.
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It wouldn't help very much.

We need visual processing and heuristic logic to handle a kid on the side of the road chasing a ball unlikely to intersect and catch it before he enters traffic. Given that mandatory ability, reading a speed limit sign is pretty trivial.

Given that its very unusual for an oncoming car to swerve into your lane, and a giant pothole in the oncoming lane, and the car sees three cars swerve into your lane taking turns, what are the odds of the next car hitting you head on? Compared to this puzzler, interpreting a stop sign is pretty easy.

Also the human drivers presumably will not understand the weird behavior of an enhanced self driving car, unless the human infrastructure matched the automatic infrastructure. Of course you could analyze the human data visually to predict the human behavior, but then why bother with the automatic hardware sensors?

I guess a bad automobile analogy is if you must design this pickup truck to safely haul a 8000 pound trailer, then a 300 pound trailer will not overtax it.
Ok, I gotta ask: how can you be both trans and even a little bit socially conservative? Economically conservative, sure (Log Cabin Republicans do exist after all), but socially? Social conservatism these days seems to center on being anti-gay, with a big dose of evangelicalism, so I can't imagine how you can support that and be trans.
It's been a bad month for tech layoffs
I wonder about this too. If you are new to CA, at first it seems crazy how aggressive people are about splitting the right hand lane to turn right... who would have the right of way if the bus was already stopped at a light, but the AV split the lane to turn right and passed the stopped bus? I like the idea of splitting the right lane to make right turns, but IMO, if you've done so, you no longer have the right of way for traffic in that lane.
I serve on the evangelism team at Twilio. Technical writing is a big part of our job. We also spun up a Developer Education team last year which writes in-depth tutorials and the docs.

I think you may have been asking if it's possible to live off of freelance technical writing, in which case, I can't answer that based off of personal experience. But there absolutely are jobs out there that require a competent developer with exceptional communication and teaching ability.
What if you published monthly dumps of (public) Svbtle content and distributed them by bittorrent? Then in the event of an acquisition, someone else could host the content. Much like how Geocities was mirrored.

You could even set up a separate legal entity that would have a trust set up to keep these backups alive, or partner with e.g archive.org.

Edit: looks like you're already doing something like that :)
In relation to how modern and competitive the dev community is. As far as the 'off shore taxing', bear in mind that media exaggerate a lot, it can be done, but you MUST have a good support team of accountants and lawyers.
Being a "read-only" Twitter user, I don't think it's about the technical difficulty of posting to Twitter (definitely if you're posting to Hacker News, you're not going to have problems knowing how to post to Twitter), but rather, the futility of it.

Twitter, to me at least, seems like a platform for relatively influential people / people who have a pretty unique insight on something happening real-time to post. If I post on Twitter, I get maybe a few likes and retweets, and nothing else. On facebook, or reddit, or even here, I'm far more likely to feel like a part of a conversation rather than a lone voice yelling into a sea of a million people.
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> so they can suggest specific brushing plans

For me that's a hell of a stretch. Just seems hellishly complex for checking the preferred 2 mins of brushing. Timer sure, especially for the kids. But, if people see real benefit...

> thermostat that they can regulate during peak use

OK, that's a benefit that's difficult to fault. Wasn't aware of any doing that.
Explain in more detail why code isn't conversation? You are communicating a set of expectations about what a computer should do to both the computer and other humans who either read it or interact with it.
The FBI needs some legal basis for forcing Apple to develop and cryptographically sign a less-secure version of their operating system. This order, assuming it's not overturned by a higher court on appeal, removes one legal avenue the FBI had.

I haven't seen any other avenues. (In fact, Apple cited laws on the books that expressly prohibit the FBI from making this type of request if it concerns a phone manufacturer.)
The cool part of town where the new billionaires live is The Mission. Note that it is a transitional area with a more crimey side (east) and a more gentrified side (west). This is also the area where anti-tech-worker sentiment, violence, etc. is most common. The Castro is a nice, vibrant gayborhood in the south. The Tenderloin/Civic Center/Western SOMA are pretty gritty, but other than that the entire northeast quadrant is nice and walkable. The western half of the city has a more suburban flavor and worse weather, but it's cheaper.

In general, I'd recommend you take a short-term rental to explore the city rather than trying to lockdown a long-term rental from afar. Especially because the open houses are often open for an hour or two and result in waiting lists (dozens of would-be tenants) in length.

Also, just be aware of rent control. I think the market prices aren't any different between older (rent-controlled) and newer buildings, but after a couple of years of 20% pa price increases for the non-rent-controlled place, the rent controlled unit will be much relatively cheaper.
From Kha website http://kha.tech/ :

Kha: Portable Multimedia Framework

The coolest way to develop your software application, 2D or 3D game for desktop, iOS, Android, web and consoles.

True Cross-Platform:

Build your games natively to desktops, tablets, phones and consoles. Implement once, run everywhere: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, HTML5, Flash, Tizen, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360 and even Unity 3D.

Features:

- Great performance on each platform.

- Generational graphical/audio API design.

- Hardware accelerated 2D and high-end 3D graphics. Fallback support (i.e. html5 canvas).

- Can run on top of other game engines (i.e. Unity3D).

- Write shaders in GLSL and cross-compile to target specific shaders.

- Kha apps can also be compiled to C# or Java libraries
Flexible and robust backend system. Adding your own takes little effort and is straight forward.

- One API for all platforms!

- Support for VR technology (W.I.P).

- Networking multiplayer support (W.I.P).

- Dedicated IDE : Kode Studio.

YouTube video about Kha at Haxe WWX2015 conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGQjlfq7BwI
Yeah, that's what I prefer at all times. Haven't figured out a good way to share feature branches with that model yet though. Sometimes you need to work on a feature together with other people without checking it in to the main branch, and doing force pushes isn't pretty...
From the writing in the article, I found it extremely difficult to get a good visual of exactly what happened in the accident. I wish the description was a little more, uh, descriptive.
Any ideas how to get a refreshing sabbatical, reboot, invest in myself and seek new friends when the child support and alimony payments are due? anyone? anyone? Bueller?
My bad, misunderstood the nature of these type of options. I was making the assumption that the options could be exercised and then sold straight away. Eg, employee has option to buy during this window at a strike of 1.1, current value 1.3. I presumed the issue was raising the initial (options x preferred price) cash plus any taxes/fees involved.
This is one of those times I really wish we had a functioning legislative branch. They could write and pass a law describing companies' obligations and law enforcement's powers when dealing with strong encryption on smartphones. Then people who disagreed could take it to the courts, and a Supreme Court with an odd number of justices could decide whether said law was constitutional.

Unfortunately we do not live in that world, so we get to creatively interpret centuries-old laws written by people who could not have imagined encrypted smartphones. And that interpretation may end up at an evenly-divided Supreme Court.
I've seen a site completely made with reveal.js (and maybe pandoc).

http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/
All these were some sort of win win, not hard sells, low resistance. SDV are rotating the notion of driving and the economy around it, car dealers, oil companies. It won't be the same game at all in my view.
Facebook, for one.

The audience is definitely different, for sure. But if I post a question or thought to Facebook, I'm way more likely to get some response and an interesting conversation. Granted, it's just within my friend base, but if anything that just proves the point that actually posting to Twitter is a futile exercise for the "average user".
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I suppose I'm lucky to live on the edge of a gentrified neighborhood in the midwest.

There's a "cheap basics" grocery store in a 5 minute walk, a farmer's market in a 10 minute walk, and a Whole Foods in a 15 minute drive.

I don't really care about organic produce, but that flash pasteurized OJ at Whole Foods is really worth the extra $2.
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This author doesn't support the technical claims they're making with technical fact.

They point at the NAND chip and just say "pull off the encryption key, then decrypt the device" but without supplying any fact as to how the key was stored in the iPhone 5S, what kind of resources reversing it would take, and if Apple has employed any kind of anti-reverse engineering means.

For all we know Apple could have thrown different elements of the decryption key all over the device, the A7, the NAND, and elsewhere. Without more technical specifics it is hard to draw the conclusion this article draws.
In fairness, I think the best way to fix (a), (b) and (c) would actually be by automated buses or trains, that would enforce reasonable limitations strictly, without the possibility of negotiation.

i.e. the passenger would be prevented from boarding the vehicle without a valid ticket and provided there was sufficient capacity for a speedy and comfortable boarding.
It almost sounds like a type of insurance company. While the actuarial tables would be horrible on startups, the cost of keeping relatively small amounts of data alive could be easily spread across lots of startups.

Besides, you wouldn't have to buy the servers until the startup died.

I wonder if this would work as an add on for a backup company? Calling @backblaze!