skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here you go: http://arxiv.org

No javascript needed to make a perfectly functional, efficient and useful website. Maybe it doesn't fit into your description of a "real" website?
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Incidentally, I found a nice list of upcoming Chrome/V8 features and status here: https://www.chromestatus.com/features
It makes sense that the general crime rate would be much lower, but people planning terrorism aren't trying to get away with it; this reduces the government's capacity to control them relative to people violating other laws.
Game dev here.

Speed. Oh and memory - if I could optimize it so that all our vectors, matrices and logic code did only stack allocations I would be a happy camper.
A hard drive is a set of magnetic platters that's spun by a motor inside a casing with a circuit board. A read-write head rides each platter atop a thin boundary layer of air. The platters are the expensive bits that have QA/QC problems.

There may be 1-5 platters fit in conventional drives, or up to 7 in helium-filled drives (thinner than air).

To build these, it costs the hard-drive maker a given amount for the casing and circuitboard and motors and such, and then some other amount per precision-manufactured platter. A drive that has 5 platters will cost a lot less to make than 5 drives each containing 1 platter.

Hard-drive builders like to work with the same basic parts, so when they switch to a 500GB per 3.5" platter mark, they'll tend to have drives at 500GB, 1000GB, 1500GB, 2000GB, and 2500GB.

The smallest HDD in a form factor tends to be set by the smallest platter they still bother making, and the price for it tends to be remarkably high per gigabyte because there's less data to amortize over the parts needed to make a drive. Generally it will cost them about the same to make a 500GB platter as it cost them to make a 200GB platter a few years earlier.

The cutting edge pushes HDD areal density. A 2.5" platter is smaller and will hold less data per platter than a 3.5" platter.
Hurricane Katrina's Danziger Bridge shootings remind us of the most unpredictable and dangerous of predators, humans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danziger_Bridge_shootings

BTW doesn't the UK have zoos, animal sanctuaries or wealthy residents who own predators?

In the USA thousands of lions, tigers, cheetahs, cape buffalo and other non-native predator species reside in zoos, animal sanctuaries or even back yards. Subplots of apocalyptic movies/stories sometimes depict the ensuing confusion/mayhem should these predators get loose.

Hunting African game species is significantly more difficult than hunting North American game species. Indeed the African species may be hunting you! Larger-caliber firearms are recommended, larger than most firearms commonly used in North American. The .223 (e.g., AR-15) is a varmint cartridge designed for coyotes and stretched to hunt deer and men, the 30-06 (.30 caliber) a military round intended to kill humans. Hunters of African predators typically use larger calibers, .375" and up.

A true SHTF scenario in either the UK and USA would result in some interesting inter-species encounters, to say the least. But they would still pale in comparison to the intraspecies encounters.
"Put shortly: a computer that doesn't understand human society will not be able to make a significant independent impact on human society."

Just like early humans who didn't understand animal's societies didn't have any impact?

You're equating two different things which aren't necessarily equal - intelligence (in the sense of being able to achieve goals) and "agreeableness" to humanity. We could have one without the other. To use your analogy, an employee that is great at being given a goal and achieving it without explicit instructions, but doesn't necessarily have the same wellfare in mind as their boss.
This kind of article is interesting, revisiting predictions.
> I think you misunderstand what WebAssembly is about.

I don't, WebAssembly is about C++, primarily. Every design decision has been to support C++. Everything else is an afterthought that will come later. WebAssembly isn't about minifying your JS.

Read this: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md GC, DOM access, etc. don't exist in WebAssembly code, yet.
If you say blatantly racist things, you aren't a victim.
Nationwide, illegals are Five time Less likely to be in prison than native born US citizens. Also, immigration violations, not violent acts account for most immigrants in federal prison.

http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/anecdotes-eviden...
Show HN: Cordova plugin to list/play/pause audio tracks.
You can donate to the EFF or support open source encryption technology like Signal and GPG.
Can you quantify "crushing"?
Would giving them access to the source code even matter, other than morally speaking?

Meaning, just having the code won't let them crack a phone and it won't let them patch the OS so that its subsequently crackable would it?

When the FBI is worse than the terrorists they need to take a step back and think about the bigger picture a little bit.
Never underestimate the dark powers of an incompetent HR department. Not saying this is the case here, but sure has the looks of it ... The person that interviewed was a programmer. The follow up to an interview is usually done by HR. As stated earlier, this is simply an observation I made throughout the years when being in contact with various HR departments. Your mileage may vary.
>Sadly there is no other tokenizer as smart as standard and as permissive as whitespace, if you feel like writing one, be my guest!

The only good thing that could come out of that article and it's missing...
Are you sure you've been using a good form? You should easily be able to get over 50WPM on qwerty if you use a reasonable form and have been doing it for a while. Taking a keyboarding class as an elective in high school brought me from maybe 50 or 60 to 120. I didn't follow the part about keeping your fingers over the home row at all times though - they'll generally hover in the middle of typing when not hitting a key.
Google is now shaming sites that don't use HTTPS
This article sounds pretty good, we need more people like you, but I think the next step for DigitalOcean is not hire for resume, or at least giving a chance to make one of those coding tasks
This is a cautionary tale on why it is so often a bad idea to start a relationship with someone at work. In addition to that, though, it really shows how terrible management was (maybe still is?) at Squarespace. I would not want to work there based on what I've read here.
You could always argue what "a level well beyond humans" means, but I'd say if a computer can consistently dominate the best human players that would count.
Is there really a need for blistering-fast WPM? Outside of transcribing/typing up documents (and how many people really do that anymore?) is there any real point to it?

I don't know that I manage more than a sentence a minute - the limiting factor there isn't my typing speed, it's thinking through and editing what I'm going to say. Programming, it's probably on the order of 10-15 characters a line, and unless I'm doing mindless boilerplate, that line takes a minute or two to think through.
Linden tea, orange blossom tea or mix of both. Have a nice deep sleep.
`"it's hard to find good developers" line is a lie`

Indeed, I agree
Be careful about the arguments here.

Google is manifestly too capriciously selective in their interviews. They are infamous for turning down people who go on to do excellent stuff elsewhere. Watching acquaintances navigate their process makes me believe the infamy is well-earned.

That's an argument that is separable from the question of how best to design the Google interview process. I think Google's interview process should be work-sample based, like I think every tech company's should be. But you could argue that either way. We can both agree that Google's challenges are sui generis. We're both reasonable and might disagree on the rest of it.

Where I don't think reasonable people can disagree is on the question of whether Google overpays for engineers. They do. They pay a tax for the luxury of being capricious about who to hire. They can afford to do that, but most companies can't.
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What a coincidence, I also have an Embody at home + use the Steelcase Leap at work. I can confirm that both are outstanding (and better than the Aeron).
Study finds U.S. visa security weaknesses, system slow to modernize
Another Colemak user!

I had switched from QWERTY to Dvorak but it never felt quite "right" and my WPM had decreased from 130wpm~ to 110wpm~. After about 6 months of being comfortable with Dvorak I made the switch to Colemak - much better. After becoming accustomed, I type at 150wpm~ comfortably and also keep that speed on QWERTY layouts which I still use at work.

The largest benefit of re-learning how to type on a new keyboard is it can make you aware of bad habits you had before and you can unlearn them.

Increasing WPM wasn't necessarily my goal - as I was focused more on the comfort of typing. I don't necessarily attribute the comfort to Colemak, I think it is closer to "learning how to type properly leads to comfort".

I highly recommend learning Colemak or even Dvorak - then switching back to QWERTY before making a final judgement. I don't think Dvorak is in any way superior to QWERTY, in fact, I think it is worse. Few people know how to type properly [0] and I think they find Dvorak to be better only because learning a new keyboard allows them to relearn how to type, break existing bad habits, and focus more on their ability to type leading to improvements in their typing. They then attribute their improvements to Dvorak rather than them learning how to type.

Dvorak "for programmers" being an exception as it was designed around programming and makes sense for such purposes.

[0] I consider "typing properly" to be 120+wpm with errors being uncommon. The average being 40-60wpm tells me that most people simply never learned how to type. (Should go without saying, but my "120+wpm is proper" doesn't include those with disabilities that affect their ability to type.)
I use Signal daily with a couple of contacts and have used 3.77mb of data in the past 24 days of my data's billing cycle.

edit: I don't use voice
What is this a robot for ants? It has to be at least 3 times as large!

I'm curious how much electricity did the robots use to move the car?
How much distance over what amount of time?
Can we get a video of these robots dragging away a human so that doomsayers can panic more?
Figure of speech.
Well that's simply because they don't know any better. If they were privy to the security and policy briefings Obama received then they would SURELY support the president and senator Feinstein in securing their own liberty and freedom. All they would have to do is submit a FOIA request and wait 10 years...
wow super cool.
This is why I commit with username@users.noreply.github.com
Signal for iOS desperately needs a new maintainer to replace Fred.

Here is the tracking issue for data usage.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/866
I hear this argument a lot. It may have been true once, say 5 years ago.

Today I can already do that -- look at the output of the Google closure compiler with advanced optimizations turned on. Sure it is javascript and not binary, but all comments have been removed, all variables have been given short and meaningless names that are frequently reused and all the structures have been turned inside out.

And those optimizations are only for speed.
AlphaGo's battle with Lee Se-dol is something I'll never forget
When I read news like this, I think: this is the cool stuff you should be doing, not maintaining a lousy e-commerce shop...
Julia would still require the garbage collector but I don't think the downvotes here are fair at all. If there was a language that would be a natural transition to people used to javascript but wanting native speed, julia would be it. In a way it is a glimpse of what javascript could have been given a lot of experience and much more design.
Pull the developers (or poll them) from V8 and ask them what they think.

All of the "just-in-time" optimizations can be done ahead of time. Which saves [that much run time x that many users] in computer time.
Reneging on paying for interview expenses is the most scummy thing that companies regularly try to get away with (well, OK, no it isn't, but in this industry it is, mostly).
At what stage should your product be before you launch your campaign?
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Their food was largely gross and very unhealthy. Mac and cheese daily, often with ranch and/or bacon?! And that Korean dish?

I don't know where all they were located, but it felt more appropriate for dorm delivery than SF. Where's the kale man?!
Does it support code syntax highlighting? (I'm not already familiar w/Jekyll).
Am I the only one who's mind immediately thought about the ocean's eleven style heist capabilities these ants could provide?
I am honestly not worried about collateral damage. If someone is shooting at you, you shoot right back at them regardless of whether they are standing behind a hundred babies. That is not a problem.

When we talk about collateral damage in case of unprovoked attacks, we are minimizing the issue. If we are not willing to risk our soldiers to capture people who are not firing at us, then we should not try to capture or kill those people. I think it is pretty simple. If they are worth killing with a drone, they are worth sacrificing the lives of our soldiers in an attempt to catch them dead or alive. Whether there is any collateral damage is not the issue.
I guess GP's point is that it can be statically determined that the given expression evaluates to null.
Most of QE existed only as propping up reserves in various banks. The Fed then paid Interest On Reserves (IOR) as an incentive.

For static measures - balance sheet type things - it was huge. For dynamic measures - increased M3 or GDP or what have you - it was a non-event.
Love this!

Feature request: Ability to see information on podcasts not currently in the RSS feed.

Sometimes podcasts start to discontinue old episodes and being able to see this information is a pain point for me.
Well, it's all of a piece -- the prominence and attention terrorism and preventing it are given over all sorts of issues varied and sundry is completely disproportionate, whether that's shredding the Bill of Rights or lighting piles of money on fire to appease the terror gods.
100% agree... My old age tells me that politics are a necessary evil...
I very much like how the recommended Hyperscript looks, but the package was last updated last December, and it doesn't even list React 0.14 in the compatibility list: it stops at v0.13, which was released in May 2015. Half a year before the last update of Hyperscript.

It's arguably a small package that you could just rewrite if things go wrong, but is it a smart idea to base any project on semi-abandoned code?
They had essentially the same stuff everyday, all of it super heavy and NOT healthy. What other competitors are you even referencing?
I think you win today's "I need guns for a ridiculously unlikely scenario" prize.

There are zoos and suchlike, and there have even occasionally been escapes, which are usually recaptured with a tranquiliser dart gun.
I don't know why you refer to V8. V8 isn't doing AOT compilation of general JavaScript.
Are you guys taking a look at Intel's ISPC language? I haven't seen anything even come close as far as SIMD speed goes. It is open and compiles to LLVM -> .o + .h files.
Class Casting Is a Discriminating Anti-Pattern
I can see how these businesses rationalize short term losses with a bet on a long term play that consists of one of the following outcomes:

1) Monopoly - If they can get enough lock-in on customers, they can outlast their competitors and then eventually move the prices up without losing customers (since there would be few viable alternatives).

2) Economies of Scale - In many businesses, the marginal cost does go down once you scale up significantly. They probably expected to cut the cost of food production significantly with volume pricing on raw materials and perhaps more automation of the cooking processes.

I think all of these services understand that this is a low margin business so you have to make up for it in high volume and short term losses are acceptable if you will win out eventually and increase the margins.
Similar in Australia, farmers are allowed to own rifles.
Or `git shortlog -se`
$100 pre-tax right?

Also, it may take 10 min but it won't require 10 minutes of unbound attention

On a personal note cooking dinner is just relaxing, it's good to get off the screen sometimes
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It's not legal to do so. You have to be a licensed commercial kitchen to do this stuff.
The order isn't quite as you put it -- it was only the earlier originals that Netflix couldn't afford to buy out. They aren't looking to license their originals back out at this point (exclusive + global is still the strategy going forward). They've even gone back and worked to pick up expanded rights in more countries for the ones they've missed (e.g., HoC).
But guns aren't about entertainment. Or, at least not to a large portion of the population. Even among gun owners, many own out of a sense of fear, not because they enjoy visiting the range or plinking cans.

I think you're previous comment really sums it up. The risk/reward analysis just doesn't make sense to many people. To the extreme anti-gun population, the only possible outcome of owning a gun is somebody dies. And that is almost never warranted.

In many cases, it's the classic "This is why we can't have nice things." A few bad apples don't store their guns properly, causing some deaths, and it doesn't take long for the general population to shift towards an anti-gun stance.
Just to alleviate your confusion, Acevedo can survive an election, because Chief of Police is an appointed position in Austin. He isn't on a ballot anywhere.
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Fourier transform of arbitrary functions from R to C works fine with whatever units.

Fourier series of functions from R/Z to C (i.e., functions of period 1; i.e., functions f from R to C such that f(x + 1) = f(x) for all x) uses specifically cos(2πNx) and sin(2πNx) for integer N; you can't replace 2π here by any other value (since then you don't get the set of cosines and sines of period 1).

That's the special connection between 2π and periodic functions: every function of period 1 decomposes into the sum of a series of functions whose 2nd derivatives are square numbers * -(2π)^2 * themselves. [Or, more cleanly, into the sum of a series of functions whose 1st derivatives are integers * 2πi * themselves]. Again, you cannot replace 2π with any other value in the statements of this paragraph (well, except its negation...).
So how do people get added to this site?
What OS/version do you have? Will be interesting to investigate!
Stateful container reduces replica recovery to ~1 min no matter dataset size
What are the pros and cons of crowdfunding, vs. self-funding, vs. VC-funding for a hardware startup?

When should I be using which sort of funding?
> Just out of curiosity, what deeper truths?

For the Christian bible? Well, ignoring any theological points for their own sake, I suppose it's generally accepted as attempting to imply that seeking power, riches, and glory for their own sake is futile at best if not evil and wrong, and that instead the noblest path consists of approaching the world using humility, self-sacrifice, and respect for the intrinsic dignity of one's fellow man (even strangers, foreigners, and one's traditional enemies) and one ought to pursue what is right regardless of the persecution and oppression one faces for doing so.

It supports these ideas most obviously through the headline New Testament events of the Incarnation, which puts a supreme omnipotent omniscient Divine Godhead who is purportedly worthy of all glory and honor into a dirty barn with the animals as a helpless infant, and the Passion, which flogs him brutally before crucifying him as a sacrifice for what the theology represents as the crimes of others.

However, there are also attempts towards these deeper truths in books like Wisdom and Ecclesiastes:

"I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem as well - the delights of a man’s heart. I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun."
Did you make your own videos or work with a video production company?
OpenCL? https://www.altera.com/products/design-software/embedded-sof...

There are even vendors marketing PCI FPGA cards as "OpenCL FPGA cards": http://www.nallatech.com/solutions/fpga-accelerated-computin...
This may be true, but as an embedded developer my world is quite different from the fullstack work many of the rest of audience here.

I could have phrased it more delicately, but I assure you I wasn't being a smart-alek. There is a steady stream of new/unfamiliar tools discussed here and I find that I'm frequently clicking just to find out what it's all about.
(I'd send this in email, but I can't find one in your profile)

What company are you talking about hiring for? I'm looking for work as a programmer, and I'd prefer to apply to places with a hiring process like this. You can find some code I've written (a server clone for www.stockfighter.io/) at https://github.com/bcoburn3/forex

My email is bcoburn3@gmail.com if you'd prefer to respond that way
"Content" is to a large extend marketing shorthand for "text which improves our conversion funnel or sells CPM slots by being well optimised for search queries and/or social clicks".

I guess that's the disconnect. I see that some people use it that way, but to me it's far more broad than that. I would certainly refer to blogs and other such things as "content" too.
Everyone on V8 would disagree with you :-)

Type tracing in particular is the big win, and with a dynamic languages you simply can't prove enough to do it ahead of time. There's also startup time that you're paying with AOT and avoiding with JIT.
This is a straw man argument. Content providers who believe their content has value should build a pay wall to generate revenue.
We moved to Skype because of the end-to-end encryption, the group chats feature, the ability to talk and the network effect from others using it and us not wanting to use two clients at once. Oh, and with Skype file transfers would just work, while no ICQ client would ever let me initiate a file transfer to another person, or if it did, it would go though servers on the other end of the world.