skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that it's new technology and the applications that could make use of this don't exist, I think you have to give them a little more leeway with their marketing material. I agree that most of the "apps" are likely custom-built just for this demo (I'm basing this on the appearance that the apps are interactive rather than just canned videos projected into space) but that doesn't mean it's invalid to showcase those as possibilities.

What would have been really neat is to have the Everest map fixed in space and the user could walk around it and lean in to zoom. Sort of like how many sci-fi movies have 3D mapping projections (Avatar, Prometheus, etc. etc.) that the characters can walk around and sometimes physically interact with. That would have been a good demonstration that it's not just canned video.

A few decades ago, someone would have been considered totally correct to say that no one is going to be streaming live video over the internet as it's just not efficient or practical. As bandwidth, storage, and processing power tend towards infinity, all those impractical ideas suddenly become possible. Imagine being able to search the entirety of the internet instantly as you type each keystroke. Impractical? Maybe Google will crack that some day.
Glasgow is notorious when it comes to poor life expectancy:

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

"Equally deprived areas of the UK such as Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester have higher life expectancies, and the wealthiest ten percent of the Glasgow population have a lower life expectancy than the same group in other cities"
The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome (1999) [pdf]
I've always found this odd. Declaring the last 2000 years the "Christian Era" seems much more offensive than a couple of letter standing for some fairly arbitrary latin. Added to which, even in countries which could be described as being in a Christian era, it just didn't get going for a couple of hundred years after 0AD
Yeah, I have a feeling that the only reason that the new generation will be on it is if their parents make them lol
I didn't see anything about ToroDB dealing with sharding/replication on their site - It looked like it was only client protocol. If it can handle the replication elements, can you help me find a doc for that part?
Ask HN: How did you learn about stocks and the market?
I find it really hard/confusing to understand stocks and the market from the investing perspective. I'm a beginner in this domain. So, I keen to learn about it so that I can understand the technical details too. I did a search and found out that everybody is recommending "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham. I'm kind of person who likes to watch videos, so I also found couple of courses (paid) on Udemy but those aren't good and just wastage of money. I also found that Investopedia is an excellent resource. It contains a lot of good tutorials [0], guides [1] and videos [2].

You might have already learnt what I'm trying to. What's your story? It would be really nice if you can also share the resources that proved really useful to you.

[0] http://www.investopedia.com/university/stocks/
[1] http://www.investopedia.com/university/
[2] http://www.investopedia.com/video/
Or you can take less salary, buy your shares when you leave because strike price is 1/3rd of fair market value and they are going to have an IPO 'any minute now' Then you can wait 5 years until they are bought by Time, Inc. Then you can get a polite letter explaining that you get nothing because only the senior stock shares were in the money.

I'm glad there will be more scrutiny. Currently seems like 'heads I win, tails you lose'.
I think I understand that this article was trying to represent an interview of someone who is successfully creating complex web applications without JS, but it was written as though all of the readers already understand how to do this. Where's the "why" and "how" behind this? What's the advantage of leaving out JS? How do I do client-side interaction without it (the interview seems to imply that we do everything server-side)? I don't see the actual argument...just an interview. Too bad, because I think that this is a very important discussion in the industry today.
So his solution is, to do everything on the server.

Great.
No doubt she is a bright well-educated driven person. Zuckerberg-esque, no doubt. But zuck pulled it off because Facebook didn't need any next-gen tech to launch and get big-- just elbow grease and investment/marketing connections. You can't wing it to launch a new blood diagnostics.
Luigi does decent job. It is relatively easy to start with and powerful enough to do almost anything
Tabulate is also a good alternative, and more recent: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate
Smoking Cannabis Associated with Dopamine Deficits in the Brain
Show HN: First test chamber constructed, experiment data available
I'd be curious to hear how the 10 hour benchmark with Safari compares to using Chrome.
Why do you need pay after you sent the text? A lot of TV shows make you pay for the amount as part of the charge for the text for example.
From what I gathered, the gripe is not with the JavaScript language itself, but the "thick-client" web app.

The thick vs thin client trend cycle has already happened twice. When your network and servers are fast enough so everything can happen on the backend, it becomes a philosophical debate.
That realization doesn't do anything to alter the calculations that the bulk of investment dollars will do.

(the point being that changes to the cost do impact those calculations)
The page loads, then, afterward, you tell some scripts in the footer to observe the presentation in this pristine state, then to go around and mess about with it.

This is why with React-style views[1] I feel like I'm finally learning how to write web applications. The DOM is always in a pristine state.

[1] Specifically I'm using Mithril, but the architecture is the same in React, and similar now in Ember.
What is the value of a startup accelerator? A retrospective look
Body, bag (A comedy sketch I made)
Interview: From a no-cloud space to founding a cloud-born company
Have we ever done that? Maybe the AI will remember their grandparents if they don't commit suicide from existential angst.
Huh, good catch. I guess I default to using single-quotes for dictionary keys, and double quotes for text strings
Looks like there will be a reasonable bridge to get your angular2 code running like a react native app. I wonder how this compares to nativescript.

This, I think, is going to be the reason I finally go and port my big legacy codebase (hard to think of a two-year-old project as "legacy", but here we are in the javascript world) over to angular2. It'd be nice to get a decent mobile experience for my users (in the absence of iOS's mobile safari improving some of their progressive web app style features like service workers and so on) without having to write code in swift.
This seems to me like someone realizing they've been using JS in really terrible ways and trying to stop that by just forcing themselves to not use JS at all. It's not JS's fault that people use it in terrible ways.

One page web apps aren't inherently bad, and neither are sites that don't use JS. It depends on what you're trying to accomplish. You can write a bad site with JS you can write a bad site with no JS.

I think the problem that this developer's "No JS" approach is forcing her to solve is the problem of not thinking through your architecture enough. By saying "I will not use JS", she is forcing herself to put more thought into how things are implemented and that's always going to result in something better than if you just slap something together.

But I think it's a mistake to think that JS is the problem.
That depends on the discipline. In general, track sprinters are heavyweights, kings of the mountains are flyweights.
> it seems to me that big government backed projects in India don't quite work out

> The great thing about solar is NOT depending on government

We have these theories on the one hand, and the evidence of solar's success in India as a government program on the other. I'll take empirical evidence over hypothesis.
Every tiny acceleration derived from a pedal stroke has to be transferred from bike to rider by hands and back. It's not "work" in the physical sense if you look at the bike as your frame of reference, but it requires biological effort nonetheless. As long as you don't need to brake, more storage in the wheels is better. This effect would be strongest in a climb, but there you certainly only want heavy wheels if you can compensate with a lighter frame or parts (and if the inevitable braking on the subsequent descent does not call for less storage).

But there's a catch: even on a track, lighter wheels will _feel_ faster, because you get stronger feedback from oscillations I'm your pedal stroke.
Is Bitcoin Becoming More Stable Than Gold?
Magic Leap Demonstration
No support for multiple returns, for one
I am not on facebook, and yet i don't see the internet being "eaten" around me. Maybe it's a good thing to have a wall behind which all the trivialities occur. If something great happens, it will jump out of there. Facebook is apparently "eating" the social networking world. To me, that's good, i would like to see companies innovating in other, more exciting areas.
I love python, but I wish this was a web/webgl app. Is there no way to run this in the browser? :(
"It's not what you know. It's not who you know. It's who trusts you to solve problems." Is the advice I've been giving to people.
That is why I have a professional twitter account. I post interesting news and tech articles, I give my opinion on things in tech, and am careful about the language I use, even when being critical (no swearing, polite but firm, correct grammar, etc.) I use my full name on this account, and tie it to my LinkedIn and my website. This way, when employers or whomever are looking for me, they find my professional twitter that is relatively active.

I trim my Facebook friends once a year. If I wouldn't stop in the street and have a 5 minute conversation with you, you are not my friend on facebook. Yes, this means I can't spy on my old HS Quarterback, but I don't care. I also use facebook more as a way to see what is out there about me and to monitor that than to actively post content. The last 15 posts I have made have been "go team" or "we did this fun thing today."

My last rule is to avoid politics as much as possible on all platforms. The only political stuff I engage in is tech related, such as drones, encryption, etc. I won't touch on hot button issues that can burn me.
The envy is actually directed at your co-workers/employees: they get to work on something that has almost completely no hope of becoming commercial :).

I understand why you did it with your VCS, but with a scripting language? I would have made it open source sooner, too. Then again, as the business owner, there are always other angles that need to be considered.
> Also, on many projects I've worked on, single quotes were for strings that were not meant to be shown to users (keys etc), and double quotes were for strings that would eventually be shown on a screen. It looks like that's what they're doing here.

Interesting, I've never seen that convention before.
I have noticed a mild resurgence in postcards now that we are all officially sick and tired of text and email, and it's far more personal than asking someone to look at your Facebook photo album.

But...

Why do we send postcards? Is it for the pretty image? Is it for the message? Yes, but ultimately it's because you want to share an experience with someone that matters to you, and you want them to know that you are thinking of them as more than just a fleeting thought. Otherwise, a text message with an image or video suffices.

Bottom line: Simple Postcard would be a lot more interesting if we could physically write in them before they are sent. Just don't take this as a suggestion to use AI to put pen to paper and mimic our handwriting from samples, because that's plain creepy.
TV shows are integrated with carriers.
Glad you liked the book. Even though I'm not an economist :)
I think a significant amount of interaction has shifted to Instagram and Snapchat. There is little reason to share anything other than a random political post on facebook. The only places on facebook where sharing actually helps, are Open/Semi-open/private groups.
I have no idea why I'd do that in Python.

In Ruby, I use single-quoted strings for things that can't possibly, by their nature, contain any string interpolation, to indicate that this is so; and then double-quoted strings for more arbitrary text that either contains interpolation, or might, in the future, get interpolation added. The coder here might be used to Ruby programming.

Though, also, it occurs to me that—since this is a dictionary that will become JSON—its type is {String => Object}. The single-quoted strings sort of read to me as indicating strings that couldn't be any other type; while the double-quoted strings are strings just because strings happen to be the response there, but could be any other object.
There was a similar thing years ago on HN that was like $4 for a postcard with the image you uploaded. It went defunct, though. I really liked the idea and did try to use it, but it was already in the process of being shut down by its creator.
I suppose though, the wrinkle being the "verified by a layman" means "verified by a layman in a very presenter controlled environment".

The outside observer doesn't necessarily get to see if the results have some big limitations. That could be cost, environment, etc. Maybe the whole room is rigged with hidden tech that makes it possible, but not practical in the real world. Maybe there's a zillion dollars worth of compute farm running real-time behind it.

Certainly, plenty of laymen, and even experts, bought into telekinesis when the demo was in a highly presenter controlled environment.
That is how it works at all. The company took in $107,000,000,000 dollars in 2015 but were just forced to layoff off engineers. Right, no despotic dictatorship banana republic stuff going on there.
Here's the worldwide data: http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/90/8/BLT-11-09737...

and artile: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/8/11-097378/en/

Short version: low income is worse for everyone, but (not surprisingly) more worse for men than women. For high income, men and women have almost achieved parity.
Would it need more pixels if all it is doing is scrolling up and down a virtual monitor though?
Interesting. I thought that insurance regulations varied from state to state in the US and that each state requires their own license for sales...anyway, I wonder whether monetization via sales of insurance create a tension between neutral financial advice and the business strategy of the platform.
WebAssembly will support multiple-return functions, just not in the very first version.
OT: Who is Jeff from New York that is being quoted three times in the website?
Ofc make your own benchmarks before taking PLV8 into consideration.

In my case PL/pgSQL FOR loop was particularly slow; lack of builtin data structures like map or stack (though stack is emulated in V8 via array) caused performance problems – array operations are really slow in PL/pgSQL (compared to V8), instead of using map I've use indexed temporary table (creation of such is quite costly).

Still you might have a point here – PL/pgSQL stores execution plans with the function, so there is a chance of being more efficient here.
A lesson on Instructional Design: training with prototypes
From what I know about Express Scripts, it's probably more about money than market share. ESI has over 1/3rd of the market and is a huge player. They are notorious for driving down costs in a very aggressive way. I would imagine they wanted to cut way back on how much they paid PillPack and PillPack said "no".
Loads of rubbish. It should be free far all to spur innovation and get companies involved. This is what will get the dormant space industry going. There has to be great profit prospects to drive it.

The sheer amount of resources in the asteroid belt makes an obsession about possible conflicts an overreaction.

We fight for resources on the earth because we are billions of people with limited resources. That is not the situation in space. It is the opposite. Vast amounts of resources but with nobody to argue over it.

"Space as humanities common heritage", that just makes me wince, what arrogance. We are a tiny insignificant spec in the universe. Space is not our heritage. That is a nonsensical statement. I wonder what the aliens on Alpha Centuri thinks about being labeled the heritage of some bipedals down on Telus.
(Not using javascript) This is a terrible move, consider this:

Your web stack has many moving parts that can be adjusted on both client and server side. Now from what I'm getting from the article, all my websites are server side apps. This means I must run a server that I need to factor in scaling and performance. I need to know what my bottleneck is, which will likely end up being what I'm rendering at almost live time. Now consider that we use a client-side application which only lives in the browser and contacts an API to confirm authorization to x, y or z. We not only decreased the load time of the site, but also allow everything to be done on their machine and not my server. My bottleneck becomes the my clientside logic and then the CDN I'm ruining my site thru. Mind you I can now have my CDN cache my site because everything is done on the client.

There might be problems and flaws with javascript, but disregarding a language just because of the server side pattern isn't right.

I'd like to see some implementations you've done that are better alternatives to using javascript.
When I first got into promises, they were annoying for certain tasks.
Something as simple as download a list of 1000 files was hard to do since you didn't want all the calls to fire off at once.
After a long journey with various techniques, I found out Bluebird map had a concurrency parameter.

return Promise.map(arrayOfUrlsToDownload,downloadAndParseFunction,{concurrency:1})

One line for all your basic scraping/parsing needs.
For Firefox users, I recommend the Toggle Animated GIFs add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...

Other useful config settings: image.animation_mode, media.autoplay.enabled
We can only hope more people lose javascript. Please ?
It sounds like there's not yet any published details on what the crypto Viber's using is. Can we withhold judgement until we get that? I'm fine with closed-source, but not with no technical documentation.

Most people who try to implement cryptographically secure messaging get it badly wrong.
If the bike breaks mid stage, you either switch or you are DNF.

Except when you allow riders who did not finish one stage to continue on the next, which would be totally ridiculous in an endurance event. In that sense, The Tour very much _is_ a single race (for the rider, not for the bike(s)).
However the socioeconomic class of the neighborhood as per the linked graphs depend on employment status not hospital bills, and thats constant across US, UK, etc.

For example. Take a senior airline captain. Toward the end of their career they're almost as well paid as us IT people, maybe 90th percentile. That relies on a 1st class med cert, updated every six months. The day after you fail, you're unemployed (more or less). Suddenly his income, and inevitably his neighborhoods social class, starts dropping. Perhaps he works in an office as a clerk. Optimistically maybe 50% percentile income. But he didn't fail that med cert for fun, its because of developing heart disease.

Now you can pretend to be surprised a 50th percentile file clerk has a lower life expectancy (due to his heart disease) than a 90th percentile airline captain. But its not an elaborate conspiracy. Its just that higher income jobs assume health.

Its even worse, in that most employers have low tolerance for employee illness, but even lower tolerance for employee family member illness. A mother who's kid has some terrible disease is much more likely to get poorer and downwardly mobile, than the opposite. Shouldda started that startup, but dad was dying of cancer at that time, and kids of cancer victims tend to become cancer victims, so "mysteriously" lower income people seem to be at higher risk of cancer. Not to forget the destructive effects of mental illness on employability in stereotypical higher income jobs.
I haven't seen any examples where the entire field of view is basically a giant Windows or Mac desktop, which is what I'm talking about. Most of the stuff I've seen are just like the video linked in the parent thread.
Rock is a pretty good insulator.

Anythhing exposed to fluid isn't. Groundwater flws, tanks in air.

I'm not sure about possible ignition explosion risk from residual methaane or hyrogen, say.
> Look at the paradise that is Iraq.

Iraq was held together by a strongman of one of two secterian factions on the country, who when the country collapsed went right back to killing each other.

I don't think any such analogous situation exists in North Korea, it would be much more like East Germany, the economy would be horrible for decades, but I doubt it would come to perpetual civil war like Iraq.
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/10/7_remarkably_cruel_instances...
Just a friend and beta tester with lots of good ideas!
> Every country puts their economy before others. So expecting another economy to help you is a foolish assumption.

Wealthy nations have been helping poorer ones for generations. Major institutions are devoted to it, such as the World Bank, World Health Organization, UNICEF, PEPFAR, and many, many more.

The world isn't entirely altruistic, of course, but there's a trendy notion these days, a sort of Ayn Randian (or Objectivist) idea, that it's entirely, unavoidably selfish, which is just as unrealistic.

Also, note that India is offering to help poorer nations with solar power, for free.
If you, or more likely, your organization, does NOT want to learn / use Javascript, then this probably IS the way to go.

Not my cup of tea, but for many real world organizations, they have to restrict the scope of what the group will do to avoid chaos. Yes, this makes me sad, but it is what it is.
I suspect it has the features I mentioned since I developed my definition by using Hacker News.
Express Scripts does a few things. They are a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM). PBMs sell pharmacy plans to other insurance companies and employers. They basically say "Pay us $X and we'll handle all of the pharmacy insurance work for you".

They are also a specialty pharmacy and a mail-order pharmacy. I'm sure there are a few other services they offer as well.
Interesting. Japan's done a lower baisin trial.
>It's still Facebook's fault partially for laying out the groundwork for Facebook to become total garbage.

The moment I stopped using Facebook - hell, the moment I stopped enjoying Facebook - was when they published their findings that they could manipulate people's moods by what they show them.

Ever since I've felt like a rat in a cage, being prodded and tested not as a human being, but as a user. And so if that is Facebook's way of looking at me, then as far as I am concerned, Facebook is just a website. A website I barely use.
I do this too, single quotes for simple/static strings, double quotes for (potentially) complex/dynamic strings. Nothing wrong with that as long as you are consistent, though I suppose it's a very subjective thing.
Err because things like this didn't even exist until 10 minutes ago and aren't production-ready. I don't really understand people who keep saying this. Postgresql supports JSON, but it doesn't have all of the code to go on top of it so that you can use it like mongo. As in, so you can do projects.find or projects.insert instead of a bunch of sql.

Then there are all kinds of other issues related indexes and the differences between mongo and PostgreSQL and so on.