skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, can i just ignore the article for a second, and say that i love the Markdown.. meta thing going on? That is to say, the Markdown is totally visible, unchanged, but still rendered as bold/header/etc.

I'm going to have to use that i think. Looks great!
An Apple Store worker tells us what it's really like working for Apple
12 Life Lessons We All Can Learn from Spongebob
Not sure, but it sounds like he might be:

> That and a series of articles about his friends and others that he said “ruined people’s lives for no reason” drove Mr. Thiel to mount a clandestine war against Gawker. He funded a team of lawyers to find and help “victims” of the company’s coverage mount cases against Gawker. [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/business/dealbook/peter-th...
The Possibility of a Post Antibiotic World
If you wanna have some fun with async/await, I recommend you try Dart.

https://www.dartlang.org/docs/tutorials/futures/

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/await-async/

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/beyond-async/

I have done simple multithreaded chat a few month ago, that was interesting (:
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>Indian corruption is rent-seeking unlike some high growth nations where corruption is more like profit sharing

This made curious, and interested. Could you please expand more on this?

How are they different? Why this specific kind happens more on India than other countries?
Because IE 9 is still (unbelievably) a top 10 browser. But, it won't be for much longer, at which point I'll start converting. (https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php)
Alexa only has an audio output at this time. We'd love to bring Alexa to all Pebble watches! Tell amazon to add the api :)
Presumably instances of `MyObject` can be accessed by functions which are running while this function is suspended, waiting for the network call. It's single threaded, as in only one thing happens at a time from JS's point of view, but other functions can be invoked (by a request coming in, or a UI event etc) while an asynchronous operation is awaiting completion.
Core runs Android, while Pebble watches don't.

That said, it would be a great partnership for Amazon to connect with the Pebble app on people's smartphones to allow for this. As another poster has suggested, Amazon could even buy Pebble at some point. While as a Pebble owner I'd be sad to see them lose their independence, some solid financial backing wouldn't be a bad thing.
This is impressive but I imagine at this point the profit in minecraft is in the brand, merch is everywhere, there is minecraft lego, etc.

It's pretty impressive how much of a cultural icon steve and the creeper have become, in the long run I think this will be a good purchase for MS.
>You're never more popular than you are at age 25.

>Researchers analyzed one full year's worth of cell phone call records for 3.2 million customers of a European telecom company. They found that the average number of people a person calls (or is called by) in a given month peaks around age 25. After that, your number of regular social connections nosedives until age 45 or so. Take a look.
Adding Support for User-Defined Classes (2009)
It's not about what it is today, it's about what it can become. Minecraft is firmly in the trajectory of becoming absolutely massive, and if nothing stops its pace in the next few years, it's not crazy for Microsoft to bet that it will become profitable at the price they paid in the next 5 years or so.
Why are we obsessed with theranos?
These are extremely useful, thank you for your work and the currently low price...
Imagine company A, which has no operation, only $1B in cash.

How much money do you need to buy this company?

The answer is zero.

You borrow 1B.

Buy the company.

Use the cash to pay back the debt.

Cash has no influence (with exceptions and edge cases) on a company's enterprise value.
How is it different from, e.g. hashing or fingerprinting an image a la tineye?

Does your system require metadata along with the image? If so, what about once an image escapes the metadata?
That doesn't seem to be true. Bollywood is thriving. So are Mexican telenovelas. Chinese influence in culture and technology is on the rise - witness the attempts by the west to clone WeChat. Japanese influence on western movies is so common as to be unremarkable.

Maybe the problem with Gaelic, Welsh and French language movies/etc is that they just suck.

People learning American alongside their own language, while Americans (and Brits) don't learn another language: that makes the cultural exchange more one-way. Americans don't have to worry about French culture seeping in and erasing American cultural values...

Americans and British are both worried about external cultural influence - just not French influence. The French are now culturally irrelevant, but that doesn't mean the Anglosphere is somehow a global monopoly.
Are real agents signing these? "Mr. Freese" and "John Strong" read like character names. Are these aliases?
The OP's post is ambiguous - replacing an Apple Watch with a Pebble Core doesn't make much sense, but replacing it with a Pebble watch doesn't make sense in this context either as it doesn't have Alexa.
Would this be a good time to plug the Macintosh Garden?

http://www.macintoshgarden.org/

The Mac Garden is an archive of old Mac games and abandonware. Most run on one of the pre-OSX emulators. Not all games are there, as many commercial games have been taken down, but there is plenty of nostalgia to be had.
> Maybe what you are suggesting is that a company with no history of issuing dividends, that starts to issue dividends, will see an increase in the stock price?

Exactly!
> Note that the only entities complaining about this are themselves journalists. They're just closing ranks

It would have been hilarious if someone had similarly casually dismissed the uproar software engineers were making over Oracle v Google: Note that the only entities complaining about API copyrights are themselves developers. They're just closing ranks
Seems the parent used "off-brand mattresses" and you used "unbranded products", which is quite a bit different
How Apple lost its way: Steve Jobs’ love of simplicity is gone
That's not true. You could return (either the promise being used or a directly awaited value) and that value would be made available through await / promise as well.
By the same logic, you should regret the time spent eating, but the food ingestion provides you with the fuel to actually get these brain cells to work. Sleep is similarly important: During sleep, mandatory maintenance is performed on the brain cells (both on the biochemical and on the informational level), as far as science knows (or conjectures).
Congratulations on figuring out how a BHPH dealer works.

Buy cheap economy cars that aren't upscale enough for a "real" used car dealer to have on the lot. Have your mechanic fix anything imminently wrong and put a GPS tracker in it. Require huge down payment (usually close to enough to break even) and/or absurd monthly payments. Hopefully you screw the customer out of a few months of payments before they can't pay, at which point you repo the car immediately and put it back on the lot for the next sucker.
I wonder if Uber allows multiple drivers to use the same vehicle? I'm sure the lease company wouldn't like it...
They're Blizzard. They're bigger than you. It's like all those exceptions that Microsoft made in Windows for different legacy software programs.
Should Apple make a much cheaper version of the iPhone?
The point is that the physics would be heavily approximated in obvious ways. E.g. you would observe artifacts of 3d rendering, which we shouldn't expect to observe at all.

However a sufficiently clever simulator could cover that up a bit. By say altering the results of physics experiments that would detect that.

However there is a limit to how far they could go. We couldn't have computers too big, or it would break the simulation. So at some point they would have to intervene and prevent us from building them, or just reset the simulation.

Either way, you can't have "turtles all the way down". Each nested simulation would only have a tiny, tiny, fraction of a percent of the computing power required for the parent simulation. After just a few levels it would inevitably reach 0.
That's good to know. A lot of what we hear about European opinions are by way of France.
Color theme is more than adequate. For business applications there's very little reason to change the design style, but strong reasons to be able to change the colors.
> This complex and hollow structure could not have been made with anything other than a 3D printer

Eh? What about die casting? That's how we usually make complex shapes out of metal like an engine block.
Apple should be starting to get worried. They had a good lead in innovation but it looks like "everyone else" is catching up again. If apple isn't bleeding edge anymore, is it relevant?
Idea is good, but search does not take into account language specifics. I mean same keywords do not mean same things in different languages. For instance, for and foreach are one and the same in Python (actually there is no for, just foreach named for), so if look for Python version of C#'s foreach I find nothing.
The Greener Grass on the Management Side
Hopefully that picture was an early prototype. I can't imagine bicycle-grade parts passing any kind of safety inspection for a vehicle that's supposed travel at traffic speed.
Yes but that guy over there says he's 110% certain you're wrong, so I'm going with his answer.
I haven't tried to work around that problem, but I see at least Firefox appears to allow you to change it from white: browser.display.background_color
After reading the bug report I am surprised so many people are using a remote package repositories for their build machines builds... then again I'm not too surprised I guess.

I'm not that familiar with Docker but I am of package/dep management (from deb, jars, npm, eggs etc) and you most certainly want to use a mirrored package repository (jfrog, sonatype, or whatever) for this reason and many more other reasons (bandwidth, security, control, etc).

So if you did have issues with the outage I would look into one of those mirroring tools. At the minimum it will speed up your builds.
Right now it's only Java, C, C++, C#, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Swift, and Go.
I agree, it looks great. Funnily enough I didn't even notice until you mentioned it.

However, I have to pedantically point out that the Markdown is not 100% visible. The author made the correct choice and just showed links as links instead of the raw Markdown syntax.
Correct but once you get some functions returning promises and other functions returning actual values then your own code base can become confusing. I constantly find myself in these types of code bases trying to find function definitions so I know what it returns.

You can try and make 100% of your asynchronous methods return promises but what happens when you need to work with a library that can't use promises? Do you write a callback for that? Now you have a mixture and sure a few of these no big deal but when the code base balloons and you start having one offs all over the place now you need to figure out what returns what and code specifically to that.

Maybe if promises were in ECMAScript from the beginning then everyone would have used them and it wouldn't be a huge deal but right now it can get a bit frustrating, in my opinion. The stack traces of these nested promises are never fun to dive into as well though that likely depends on whether you're using a polyfill or not.
How is it that weeks have gone by and the css on Reuters mobile site is still broken?
I had the same opinion, but that may be just our perspective, given the people we know (and follow on youtube).

Maybe it's more accurate to say "most old players have moved on from vanilla Minecraft".

Frankly, Minecraft does not need mods. However, Mojang took too long to add content to the game. Heck, even Dwarf Fortress seems to add new features faster.

Today, vanilla feels... "bland". "Oh right, I have no fluid containers nor pipes, have to move stuff one bucket at a time". "Right, let me build this redstone flip-flop for the umpteenth time". "Oh yeah, there's no way I can automate crop replanting, just harvest". Every game start is grindy in the same way, the only thing that keeps it interesting is the random terrain generator.

But that's after playing for a while. New players still get the "discovery" experience, redstone learning curve and so on. That can take months to wear off.

Also, many people are using mods without even knowing, depending on which server they play on.
Hey HN, I'm the developer behind SyntaxDB. This feedback is good and I encourage people to keep it coming!

A lot of responses will be about "there's no result for x". You're right, there isn't nearly as much content on the site as I'd like there to be!

The content is actually hand written, and as of right now focuses on the very basic programming fundamentals common across all of the languages. The plan is to triple the amount of content in the database (adding DS, special classes, parsing, etc.), and eventually open up the database to outside contributions.

Additional languages are coming too!
If you don't want to read further than the headline then don't read further than the headline. But you seem curious to know more so maybe you should read further than the headline.
He's not pulling those numbers out of his ass, he's reporting the results of a paper Nick Bostrom wrote: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf.

You might agree or disagree with Bostrom's paper, but one of those is a high-schooler/tripper/moviemaker's _idea_, and one is a scientific paper, which is meant to be repeatable, experimental, etc.
I raise News International as an example of the worst kinds of media behaviour, an example mirrored by the Gawker illegality in publishing Hogan's private videotape.

The two events are part of a larger narrative (for me) in which Thiel is attempting to redress. That narrative is inspired by his own negative treatment in outing his sexuality.

You also said something disturbing..."voicemail hack ...almost universally condemned because it targeted victims and those with almost no power."

Why on earth do you think it becomes morally justified for for-profit media entities to hack and invade the private lives of citizens simply because they have achieved a fame or some power in some sphere?

That is mind-boggling. You are saying that if your father or mother or sister or you became famous you would consent to the public destroying your private life through illegal actions in order to sell papers or generate clickbait.

Seriously, how can you reconcile that?
See the answer I posted above.

Under certain conditions, the same is valid for debt. Capital structure of a company (under certain conditions) has no impact on the value of the company.

This is the Modigliani-Miller theorem, it got Modigliani (but sadly, not Miller) a nobel prize.

Fine print: there are a bunch of conditions in the case of debt, due to tax, and so on.
I don't really like await. It seems to be a syntactical fix which acts in a quite magical way. Not sure if introducing magic to a language syntax is what we want. Rather, we should think about data flow of our async apps differently. I believe Observables are the future of async code. Once you grasp the concept that everything in your app can be transformed into streams of events, and you work with these events using chains of .map(), .filter(), .reduce(), etc. you'll grasp the true power of this paradigm and how well it fits async and/or concurrent apps.

I suggest anybody that doesn't quite swallow the await syntax, to have a look at this presentation about Observables at Netflix as it's quite mind changing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYN2xt11Ek
> promisifyAll is _blazing_ fast

I'm not sure I'd necessarily call ```promisifyAll()``` "blazing fast" but in all fairness it's a cost incurred up front and that's it so it's not that bad.
One of the demos on the EQCSS website is a responsive grid where the breakpoints are based on the grids own width, not the width of the browser. This seems to be what the parent comment was talking about.

Element query grid demo: http://elementqueries.com/demos/element-query-grid.html
The media sees Silicon Valley as a competitor. A natural enemy.

The Valley after all deals with distribution of information on a massive scale. Traditionally this was a position held by either the Government or the Media. The state is still in the game for the usual reason of having access to unparalleled force on demand. The media on the other side has been much diminished by the Net, which is not what you'd expect if you thought they were information gathering and disseminating organizations. They deplore it!

In fact their power stems from the ability to form opinion and synchronize the mood of mass numbers of people. If the world is the Middle Ages then the Media is the Witchfinder General. If the Witch is a person, the tabloids typically deal with it. If the Witch is an idea, the broadsheets do it while congratulating themselves on their distinction to the tabloids.

This is all natural behavior of people, but it becomes focused like a laser on the whims of the opinion making classes. Sometimes journalists, typically of the Harvard School, sometimes those paying them to direct the faucet like advertisers or 'secret source' officials. The media has a similar role to the owner of a military garrison at a strategic river bend. The river and its traffic are wholly natural but the garrison is used to regulate it.

Suppose that the media were not the opinion forming organs of the people. What then? Chaos? Anarchy? Dogs and cats living together? No.

In fact people would naturally talk to each other on the new medium of information. We'd continue to develop tumblrs and 4chans. Thousands of small communities gossiping away about whatever they believe concerns them. Sometimes they would go overboard, but groups have an instinct for self preservation and mostly self regulate.

What would be diminished is the synchronization of opinion. Themes would still exist, perhaps more strongly than before, still a left and a right. Notice how the social justice advocates and NRX formed themselves organically. Neither of these groups can be integrated into the mainstream politics today. It's not that they are too extreme, it is that they evolve too quickly to be controlled at the same rate as before (it's like biology, smaller entities evolve faster). The connection between low church and high church is severed.

Gamergate is some evidence for my hypothesis, just in microcosm. We see a smaller community with one narrative crushed by the larger one with a different narrative. The Media does not like competition.
Elon Musk: There's only one AI company that worries me
Bluebird's `promisifyAll()` is just a way to generalize that pattern, so that you don't need to write it yourself. And if you care about performance it's substantially faster too. If you want to learn about the pattern then fine, but personally I don't want to write that for every single `fs` function I use in a project, it's much more convenient to just `Bluebird.promisifyAll(require('fs'))`.
It seems like they would want Alexa on every platform, so owning a platform (other than the Echo, which they needed to launch it) may not be advantageous. Though you might say the same for the Kindle, and that didn't stop them from making their own.
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Safety Check: Streamlining deployment around the world
Xen or KVM can help you do the reverse.
Are You Spending Enough Time on Your Startup's Go to Market?
>As much as people talk about "callback hell," it's never clear to me what problems they actually think they're having. It seems that as often as not, it's just a visceral dislike of indentation.

It's surprisingly hard to articulate the problems. It's one of those things that you can experience but hard to explain. I tried to explain it[1] by going through the example of implement a vending machine[2] in various concurrency patterns in JS. Starting with callbacks and ending with async/await. I still don't think I did a great job.

[1] http://amasad.me/2015/10/31/javascript-async-functions-for-e...

[2]: The vending machine example is inspired Tony Hoare's examples in the CSP book http://lass.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/courses/summer04/readings/H...
> The question should be why you need a billionaire to fund a lawsuit to get some sort of justice.

Exactly. You shouldn't need $10M to sue someone for a grave invasion of privacy.

It's also true that groups such as the EFF are funded in large part by corporations and billionaire foundations (although not exclusively).

However, there is a crucial distinction between the EFF and what Thiel did. The EFF is an issue-driven organization. They issue position statements and operate in public. Their lawsuits are specific to the issues they advocate. The public has the ability to debate these issues and ultimately evolve the law around them. They have that balance of power.

Thiel's objective was simply to run Gawker out of business. He pursued a variety of lawsuits on a diversity of claims that were united only in their goal of censoring a publication. That is not principled philanthropy. Operating in secret and without a principled issue focus, he does not face a balance of power from the public.

If Thiel funded a privacy-advocacy foundation that gave legal aid to victims and engaged in principled public debate, that would be one thing. But that's not what he did here.
It would be nice if they greyed out the Markdown symbols, though
it appears you are insisting that regardless of a simluation existing the laws of physics must be the same for those inside and outside the simulation.

that doesnt make any sense to me.

If i create a simluation in my computer of a world without gravity, to the inhabitants of that simulation, gravity does not and never has existed.

similarly - what we understand to be the laws of physics could have been laws that were designed for our simulation but have no bearing on the laws that govern the world in which the computer simulating us exists.
"Most young people now see what a catastrophe that can cause in the case of student loans, a whole generation or two facing a very grim financial future short of massive inflation or winning the lottery."

The problem with student loans is that you can't bankruptcy them out of existence.
I actually have something in place which handles some cases of differences in keywords across languages. For example, searching for "dictionary in java" would return a HashMap.

I guess I didn't account the specific "foreach" keyword with C# (I have it as "for each"), good catch!