skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is "Amy G Dala" a fake name? I put it in google and got

"The amygdala is an almond-shaped structure in the brain".

Coincidence?
StackExchange updates ToS to restrict scraping profiles without permission
We may be coming back to the "old internet" mentality where we don't write anything we wouldn't want on a poster stuck up in a public place.

I'm perplexed that anyone ever left that mentality. As an internet user in the 1990s, that was drilled into me pretty hard.
It was easier to develop, but hard to pass reviews. It started the review process on April 2 & ended it on April 18 after submitting 2 more builds to comply with Apple's terms & conditions.
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There are different types of indexes that mongo supports within a document that are more complex than what PostgreSQL can do. Or at least that is what I remember last time I checked.

I mean that this persons code is not production-ready. As in there is no chance it emulates all of the features of mongo or has been performance tested etc.
What makes it so Common? What great event occurred on the year 1 CE that we decided we should start marking our years from that point? Ovid writing "Metamorphoses"?
Yes! Do use reddit and craigslist. Vote up some stories. Peruse some comments, maybe collapse the threads you don't find interesting. Do a search and see craigslist fill in potential matches for you. Hunt for places to live and notice that it gives you a nice map you can zoom and pan with.

Oh, weird, that stuff uses JS. Huh.
If you don't want to turn-off a finicky set of science geeks please flip the stock image at the top of your web-page. It screams that you don't know the normal handedness of DNA [1], (and calls to suspicion what other basic structural genetic facts you-all might be unaware of)

[1] http://users.fred.net/tds/leftdna/
It didn't "layoff off [sic]" engineers; they quit.

It could be argued with that much revenue they could afford a better work environment for their employees, but it's not as bad as you make it out to be.
> the keyboard is great once you get used to this

I tried the keyboard but after a decade of using MacBook chiclet keys, the abbreviated keystroke was frustrating.
Hahahaha. I'm picturing HBO Silicon Valley 'doors go like this' guys look of disappointment if he funded a film for $200m and nothing blew up.
Have you considered that maybe the reason we don't have single payer when so many other countries do is precisely because our government is corrupt?
No, but I never use CDs. I use USBs and SDs and extra monitors fairly often.

How am I expected to write apps for an iPhone if I have to choose between having my iPhone connected or having electricity?

Oh, I can just by an adapter? I'd rather buy a new computer.
Not a joke: I communicated 60 minutes each way for a year and thought about all the ways you could know which lane would travel faster than the other, and when.

For information to input into that way of thinking, I got in the habit of reading primary sources (Fed PDFs, company announcements, etc.) as much as possible. At the time I had a subscription to a service that aggregated primary sources in the sectors that interested you. That service has pivoted a few times since then and is now useless for gaining a real information advantage.

Edit: yes, commuted is what I meant. :) Leaving for posterity.
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This was an insightful comment. It's about time we take advantage of social platforms and synergy to better our platforms against predatory users. Publishers absolutely need to unlock their strategies and adapt to a framework more suited for modern global information warfare and social engineering trends. What I'd like to see, in my opinion, is a mechanism for identifying and purging spurious content with zero barriers to exit in an old-style curation mode of operation. Without that, I think most social networks will be doomed to repeat history.

/s because I mean really honestly
I don't actually own a mac, but I can see where he's coming from. For me using a laptop with a single USB port would be very difficult. That being said my current setup has 3 ports and I still end up using an adapter so perhaps I should just give in to reality and accept that I need one either way..
Has anyone done that and produced a fully open source app to connect to whatsapp?
I just came back from a 10 day solo vacation to Europe. Rather than post updates on Facebook I sent postcards to close friends and family each day. It was a lot of fun taking time out of every day to go find a few nice postcards and send a handwritten note. I think the recipients really enjoyed it as well. I'm surprised postcards are around still-- but maybe they'll make a resurgence as people seek to rebuild stronger connections than social media facilitates.
Apache Flink? http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/11/getting-started-python-apac...
"we" have lived thru a major cultural shift where 30 years ago when I was a starving student, we didn't have loans (or high tuition) and we did starve. All of us, pretty much. Entire generations went to uni unable to afford junk food because a meal at the restaurant was like one weeks groceries, its unaffordable. I ate a lot of salad. Even pizza delivery was kinda an investment to be budgeted and rarely experienced.

Economic changes over the last couple decades mean college students today are poorer than ever on the balance sheet with $100K of college loans etc, but have wealthy people level cash flows. So when your tuition alone is $30K, you can squeeze the bank for an extra $6 for a big mac at any time. Or all college students today have new iphones, new macbooks, etc. But this is a very new phenomena and has lead to weird cultural beliefs among the very young (say gen Y and younger), like "all poor people pig out on junk food" because modern college students think they experienced real poverty in school when they used the same macbook for two years instead of upgrading every six months like the rich kids (LOL).

There are weird statistic warping exceptions, like homeless people have no where to cook or eat, so they disproportionately eat at McDonalds. Also, for very poor people, an occasional trip to the McDonalds for a value meal is like my occasional trips to the $200/plate steakhouse, so their intake skews junkfood, but its very low. And there are the struggling addict types where the money is getting spent in the next 5 minutes and if its not food in the belly it'll be injected death so they skew toward junk food as a preventative.

There is some truth to poor people are often poor because they find ways to waste money, and junk food being a very expensive way to eat, it is in itself a minor status symbol in that culture. My class level would show off the expensive watch my aunt bought me when I graduated, even though my people never wear watches anymore, but they'd show off they bought an entire 2L bottle of corn syrup soda, because, thats what they can afford and their peers can't afford.
> Loads of rubbish. It should be free far all to spur innovation and get companies involved.

You need some sort of legal framework, still, because there will be conflicting claims and other problems.

Plus, when it comes to planets, it's still worth trying to keep them as isolated from Earth life as possible - otherwise, you may ruin the chance to discover new types of life and advance science.
It's okay to just say Billion instead of trying to enhance the statement.

Also that's revenue and not income, which was $596 million. Quite a difference.
I don't even know what it stands for and I live in it! I'm declaring all calendars crazy.
Probably not helpful to you, but I originally learned from my grandpa when I was in middle school. He was quite the stock market investor and broke down for me the way the market worked at a basic level so that I could understand. However, I didn't really learn about the fundamentals of the market and the basis of all the derivatives/options/leveraged investments, etc. until I took an Investments class in college.

What's your end goal here? Do you just want to be able to make some good personal investment choices, or are you trying to be a day trader or algorithmic investor? The materials will be different depending on your intended path.

In any case, I definitely wouldn't pay for a class. There are more than enough free materials out there like this MOOC from Stanford GSB: http://online.stanford.edu/Stocks_and_Bonds_Fall_2014
The main problem in my mind is not where to store the compressed air, but the poor efficiency of compressing/using the air. Compressing air produces quite a bit of heat, and you have the opposite problem when using the air. For Thermal and other storage methods while the storage part might be more lossy, they are less lossy over all because they dont toss away 80% of the power before it can be stored.

If it was more efficient, than we would see air powered cars (not the scam that surfaces every other year).

Industry only uses it to power things because you can have simple & compact actuators and high rpm motors.
Gold is based on something tangible and useful. This minimizes it's maximum drop. A safety net if you like. Bitcoin does not have this, so when/if it crashes it can hit 0.
Putting the affiliate links in the main body of the blog posts rather than in the sidebar suggests that the technical content is less important than accumulating clicks.

It does not make for a good reader experience and may optimize against return visitors. Sure readers who come to your site might buy a watch from Amazon, but they did not come to your content to buy a watch from Amazon. People who place I high priority on buying watches from Amazon go to Amazon.com.

Good luck.
It's actually amazing how many people don't understand that many languages (particularly java) are single dispatch. None of my peers going through university even know what the term means and I have been docked marks because the prof computed the answer to a problem as if java supported multiple dispatch. I had to convince the professor to actually compile the code before she believed it. I wonder where this is best taught because it's a really interesting decision of languages yet very few people learn about it.
Can I send a GIF?
We don't have the technology to print GIFs yet. We have some interns working on it.

Hilarious!
Small comfort to the victims of WWI, where enlightened individual would have told you just months before the war started that war between great powers just wasn't going to happen because they were too economically intertwined, the outcomes too unimaginably deadly, etc.

The deadliest conflicts, in fact, do seem to be those that involve the two wealthiest great powers in a region who have far more to lose in war than they have to gain. Wealth may make wars rarer, but they make them far more deadly.
I'm not sure everyone believes that. I seem to remember one of the biggest things they talked about when Planetary Resources was first announced was the mining of water for use in space.
OK then maybe that's not a computer for you and your kind of work. I think it's personal. As a nomadic front-end developer, I'm really happy with it. I would be equally or more happy with one port more, no doubt, but it doesn't feel like a problem to me.
Of course it's not a coincidence. It's some pen name of some author trying to be clever while chuckling to themselves about their high-brow inside joke.
> I've stopped scrolling through my timeline because it's mostly filled with bull crap that I don't care about from random pages that paid to be in my face or random pages that I liked 5 years ago

You can unlike things, you know. You can also mute things.
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Video:Bogleheads%C2%AE_inves...
I own the new MacBook and have been surprised at how little impact the single port has had on my day to day life. I use it for work, and it's actually nice to come into the office and only need to plug into one port instead of the three I used to plug into (power, HDMI for monitor, usb->lightning adapter). I don't understand the outrage over fewer ports, it's an easy trade-off for me given how thin, light and portable this laptop is.
Hi, author of article here.

I tested -ffast-math on clang and it won't reorder the additions to omit the conversion here.

I'm actually VERY wary of -ffast-math due to a bad experience some years ago where it just totally messed up my calculations and I couldn't avoid it messing up my calculations.

Even a 1ulp change (not accounting for the round down) in the final floating point comparison changed my compression results; so I'm not entirely confident about using -ffast-math without a huge test corpus -- but turning it on does improve the run time.
Got Users? How About 100M of Them?
Sure, but you have to concede that it is much more convenient having a small sun in your basement than having to deal with concentrating the energy from the giant ball in the sky. Especially if your halfway to Alpha Centauri. In which case the giant ball is little more than a bright star.

But, I'll be happy with your scenario too.
There's an unwritten rule here on Hacker News that says that you are supposed to bash any piece of technology that received praise when it was originally introduced on HN, but is now 3 years old or older. The moment in time when something transitions from new and shiny to old and unfashionable is generally characterized by a comment of the lines of "Why would anyone use x when you can use y?".

Conversely, the more recent a piece of tech is, the more likely it is go into production right away, with people only starting to question their decision after the 3 year new-and-shiny barrier is broken (but usually not because of its faults, but because something newer and shinier can now replace it).
Until they switch to single-port across all their devices this is a non-issue. You still have other options in the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines.
ha! This is exactly the kind of out-of-the box thinking that jet cycling needs!
Effective != successful. It's considered an Off Label use for very good reasons.

Second, people take a lot of unnecessary drugs with bad side effects. Sure, that's profitable for drug companies, but so is flat out robbing people. Considering how useless many widely prescribed drugs are robbing people may actually be better for society.

Finally, your flat out wrong on the drug numbers. Drug discovery is very different from bringing drugs to market. We get ~50 drugs per year, but we discover vastly more than that.
I'm heading there in a month or so, then onwards to St Helena - I have a penchant for wanting to visit weird and remote places. Taking a drone, I might post footage here.

Getting permission to visit is a laugh, I had to write to the governor and explain why I want to come (last sailing of last mail ship).
I'm around to answer any questions you might have :)
I just wanted to echo this sentiment. I also had a similar "aha" moment when a colleague introduce me to React, whereas prior to that I had invariably hacked interfaces together with very ad-hoc jQuery code. Since backend code is my bread and butter, my intuitions never had a chance to develop beyond "this feels error-prone and wrong" on their own.

Further paralleling your own journey, I now reach for Mithril first too, and I can't recommend it enough.
I started when I was a kid with my brother as we wanted to make money for some reason and learnt very slowly over years.

Don't read The Intelligent Investor, it will just put you to sleep. Realistically, you shouldn't be picking stocks on your own. You should just be putting money into ETFs that track the market and can help you diversify your holdings cheaply.

Look up a few of the key terms in investopedia like stock, bond, etf, etc. Then, either create your own ETF portfolio via an online brokerage account, or go with a robo advisor like Betterment.

Good luck!
Weighing the Benefits of Developing Apps with Xamarin
> But that only exacerbates the pollution issue, regardless of where we obtain the resources.

Factually untrue!

Obtaining resources on Earth generates pollution that stays on Earth. If we move mining off-world, the byproducts of mining don't go into streams, soil, etc.

Furthermore, generating energy in space and beaming it down to the planet means not having to burn coal, reducing the risk of nuclear accidents, and eliminating the need for dams that disrupt ecological systems.

Yes, we'll need to burn more fuel to get there, but that's the nature of progress. The other alternative is to fall back to a pre-industrial lifestyle limited to only those parts of the globe where the temperature is mild year-round - unless you want to keep burning wood for heat in the winter.
Cray Retools Storm Supercomputers for Deep Learning
Maybe, someday. The current course will only allow for statically typed languages, and does not allow direct dom access.
Well you don't just need the dongle with its generous one USB port, you also need a USB hub to connect to the dongle.
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Right so in reality this works for small applications that have a decent amount of traffic, but your site will soon crumble under the server side rendering of things and you might have to spin up more servers to handle the load. You're implementation is perfect for personal blogs and small applications, but at scale it's going to turn into a hassle of managing the monkey patches and scaling issues while still keeping the solid performance you began at.
Uber Partnering with Communication Service for the Deaf
Still, it's not quite the same. I want to press my pen to the paper. I want to screw up and scratch it out and remind whomever I'm sending my postcard to that I am a real human being that dares take an extra five minutes out of the day because I care about them.

But maybe if you're sending the same postcard to a lot of people, I could understand why this would be useful. Then again, I would probably just buy multiple postcards and write something different for each person.
Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
I've had similar experiences with Bing, which I used inside IE on a fresh Windows install to search for a few programs/drivers (was just to lazy to type in my own search engine).

IIRC when I searched for FF or Chrome, the top 4-5 results were links to third party sites, but when searching for nvidia drivers the official site was the first non-ad result. Definitely seemed suspicious, and also made me realize how much I missed apt.
If all targets have a relatively high DPI, does that still hold? Wouldn't it be more correct to say "it isn't trivial to rasterize vector images for low-DPI displays?"
That would sell really well.
FDR was a tyrant. He jailed thousands of american citizens for no reason other than their ethnic heritage (over the objecting counsel of his wife) , tried to swing his dick and pack the supreme Court, and at one point, closed the banks for several days and at the end of it, everyone came out poorer (screwing over the poor the hardest even though ostensibly it was for their sake). In all his actions Roosevelt was the epitome of hubris, never stopping to think as president, "should I really be doing this?". Don't worry, gwb is not that much higher than FDR - FDR is the worst because of the magnitude and unprecedented nature of his executive overreach and the fact that it served as inspiration to future presidents.

One of the better presidents was William Henry Harrison; didn't last long enough to mess things up.
dataset https://dataset.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ is pretty good and for most scenarios as easy as tinydb, but backed by a real SQL database.
When this was originally released I was sure a usb-c cinema display was right around the corner. That would make sense as a product strategy: monitor = docking station.

I was wrong, obviously. Presumably when there is a usb-c capable laptop from apple that can drive at least one 5k display we will see it come out.
HN changed their algorithms in recent months to allow resubmissions if original one didn't get traction
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The long term value of gold is based on the price of mining new ounces of gold. Likewise, the long term value of Bitcoin is based on the price of mining new coins, which is based on the mining network.

The only way Bitcoin would go to zero is if a fatal architecture fault is found, which is quite unlikely.
Except there are a bunch of services that print gifs to lenticular prints for an animated effect.

Here's one, but there are others: http://gifpop.io/products/patakk-six
How to launch better products in 5 days: Part 3 of 4
Twenty four days is pretty arbitrary, but the main takeaway is that it is a very non-volatile period in bitcoin's price history

Unfortunately extremely boring
IMHO investing is more an art than a science. It's a chaotic game that can be played with several focuses and sets of rules but always with the same goal: make money by predicting his evolution. Which focus is better? I don't think there is one, at most, it depends on your personality, investing time frame, amount of money to invest and how much time do you want to spend.

The best actionable advice I heard from somebody making a living from it, paraphrasing:

"Imagine you are a mouse. Investing is to learn how to steal the cheese without being caught."
Sometimes CDNs seem like a scam to me.

I have been building "insanely fast" apps based on HTTP/2 and everything local. My experience is that every DNS lookup you add is a chance for somebody's web browser to go out to lunch for an unbounded interval. (Back when we got DSL in my neck of the woods, web browsing often was slower on DSL than dialup because the DNS service was so bad.)

As for the back end it is a matter of having a framework that works.

Unfortunately Sun, Microsoft and most legacy vendors have a history of hiring systems programmers instead of application programmers to develop frameworks, so the average back end framework is seriously flawed. For instance, Web Forms in .NET were a great idea, but had the fatal flaw that they did not work in an MVC environment where you might want to load a different template depending on the outcome of form processing.

Instead of fixing this, they build a new MVC framework that didn't learn from the mistakes of the last framework...
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But isn't there a maximum number of bitcoins to be mined? Eventually the price of mining new coins becomes infinite.
I think its a great idea to consider, a fresh perspective, especially when you consider how slow some sites can become for mobile users. Offloading trivial JS to the server and leveraging CSS/HTML, which would be better optimized on those devices, could be something to look into. Especially when you consider how slow some sites get on mobile just because of the JS they run.

I'd like to see a trivial app implemented in JS and then re-implemented using Dala's method.
The idea that upzoning decreases property values is a pernicious myth that keeps being used to bludgeon these people as greedy NIMBYs.

Upzoning in response to demand increases property values. It's very simple: you can charge more people high rent on the same plot.

This isn't guesswork, we have the numbers. Upzoning is financially beneficial to existing home owners.
I'd recommend http://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Guide-Investing-Taylor-Lari...

I've recently been trying to learn more about investing and this book has been right on the money.

Basically, the advice is don't buy individual stocks, you can't pick them and outperform the market consistently. Instead, get an index fund or ETF that tracks the whole market, like https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0085&.... Vanguard is the best for index funds as they have the cheapest expense ratios.

If you want to learn more about the basics of economics, which are important as well, I've enjoyed this lighthearted youtube series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPNZwz5_o_5...