skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting :)

When I was gathering information about typed languages that compile to JS, I found Elm rather nice, but calling JS libs was rather cumbersome. Somewhere I read that PureScript has a better integration with JS, so I thought it was a "thinner" layer :D
Anecdotally, my sister and I had pretty straightforward births but my younger brother had a devil of a time getting out. He did seem to get the lion's share of the attention but I always chalked that up to him being the last in line and also my parents actually having the time/money to spend.
Humans didn’t wait on melting ice to settle the Americas
This is also supported by LSD fMRI imaging studies

https://www.google.com/search?q=LSD+fMRI&tbm=isch
I think it has to do with cost. Most websites are not geo-blocked. It's primarily video that gets blocked.

In the future I imagine geo-blocking will be less common as (1) the cost of video-capable CDNs goes down, and (2) the use of geo-targeted ads go up.

Ultimately it's up to the content provider to decide how to share their content. Those who want their messages to be seen will allow them to be viewed by everyone for whom the provider can do so in a cost-efficient manner.
Religion in the service of natural selection? A nice twist. (E.g. all cultures without worship of holy places eventually perish.)
Your new hit product might be underpriced
I think it's becoming a meme. Failed startups is nothing new. Failed healthcare startups is different, because healthcare has created a vast regulatory and auditing network to specifically prevent the creation of startups that will fail.
It's not incoherent, just vacuous, because most critics see the difference as nothing. There's nothing they lack.

There's no difference between behaving identically and behaving identically and experiencing it. Because if you ask a p-zombie to describe what it experiences (what you feel, etc..) and they tell you that they experience nothing, then there's indeed a difference, so their behavior is not identical, if they lie, then we can spot that with an fMRI, or eventually they somehow have extra information (so they are magical zombies, so eveything is possible).
It does with a simple jsconfig.json file: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/javascript

Has pretty decent autocomplete, param info, jumps to definitions and references.
Spelunky is a masterpiece, and testament to that is the depth of the mechanics and secrets. I must have been playing it for about 2 years before i noticed you could whip arrows from the arrow traps out of the air with the right timing.

It makes sense as you can interact with almost every object, but trying something unusual and having it actually work as you expect puts Spelunky in a different league from most games.
> Thus I'd say "the hard problem of consciousness" is exactly the sort of problem science has learned to discard.

I'd say that the hard problem of consciousness is above science, it's metaphysics, out of the scope of science. Because subjective experience is the only "thing" that exists and science is just a tool to systematically describe the subjective experience (what we perceive).

With a science-is-everything mindset, you will never "get" the hard problem of consciousness.
This passage from the article:

> Even if you’ve turned your back on an object, your cortex can still focus its processing resources on it. Scientists sometimes compare covert attention to a spotlight. (The analogy was first suggested by Francis Crick, the geneticist.) Your cortex can shift covert attention from the text in front of you to a nearby person, to the sounds in your backyard, to a thought or a memory. Covert attention is the virtual movement of deep processing from one item to another.

very much put me in mind of an unusual book: A Life of One's Own (Marion Milner, 1934) - in particular, this:

At any moment there exist in the fringes of my thought
faint patternings which can be brought to distinction
when I look at them. Like a policeman with a flash-light
I can throw the bright circle of my awareness where I
choose; if any shadow or movement in the dim outer circle
of its rays arouses my suspicion, I can make it come into
the circle of brightness and show itself for what it is.
But the beam of my attention is not of fixed width, I can
widen or narrow it as I choose.[1]

1: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ntg6OE7haSgC&pg=PA77
Looks great, when it supports caldav (or uses the calender of my android which is synced via caldav by a 3rd party app) and otherwise keeps the information on my phone I'd happily jump in.
Gamingvisor VR Headset for pc and console
I understand this. The only really interesting aspect is the Phoencians would appear to be similar to the Romans in having a cultural rather than a genetics based hierarchy. Given their cosmopolitan culture this is really not that surprising.
> Most "channel" type discussion is best done in subreddits or places like HN rather than real-time chat.

I wasn't around it as well, but I feel the types of discussions you get on reddit/HN is extremely different from irc/slack.
PCIE slots are limited so when you are talking about actual compute scale the 1070 can be more expensive considering you'll have to get another case, cpu, ram, and an PSU that can handle 4 cards at max load.
And of course the more components you have in a given system the more likely is that one of the will fail, granted if you are designing a system to be resilient against attrition a system with more lower powered components can be more resilient than a system with fewer more powerful ones based on the performance difference between them and the MTBF for each component.

But bang for buck charts don't mean much even for Gaming I never understood why people even use them, spend what you can and want to get the performance you want.
Spending 50% more to get only 20% more performance is a valid option because those 20% can mean the difference between a playable game at high resolution and a laggy mess.
Traditionally SLI setups for mid range cards could out-perform and be cheaper than high end cards but with a huge caveat - being dependant on the SLI profile for the game, if it come out to be shitty or non-existent you are just stuck with 2 cards that can't really run the game at the settings/resolution you want.

Also unless you are building a small datacenter power consumption can be ignored, the 50-75W difference in total system draw between a mid range and a high end card when the rest of the hardware is the same isn't going to have any financial impact on anyone even if we take the most expensive power in Europe that's going to come out to about 30 cents per KWh.
Terminal support is in this release ;)
Khaldoon Al Mubarak menegaskan
Electron overhead :(
Not only that but you (or I) have varying levels of consciousness minute to minute. We conflate many different states of mind and call them all 'conscious' whereas they differ massively.
Terminal is already in there and mentioned in the root link. Just press Ctrl+` and it will show up.
>Tab support is the number one User Voice request and it will take multiple iterations to fully implement.

Too bad, was really looking forward to it.
His additions to the Heuristic Squelch were always fantastic too!
The VCs might have wanted to "save" money on this, but of course they would/will spend millions (if not billions) on shitty consultancy firms.
I would've added it to (2), similarly to how (0) and (1) are each a group of related features.
I think we should halt development of voice assistants , and focus on how to make a brain implant. It clearly solves a lot of problems.
You mean those "Hater News" comments? Yeah, if you don't support the VC's narrative you're a hater. Doesn't matter if you've got legit concerns related to physical laws.
i was thinking vaguely that the successful applications might be more likely to pop up in scenarios where problems can be clearly defined and are unlikely to change.

i've worked on optimisation projects in business contexts where the requirements and the problems tend to change somewhat from month to month - this doesn't make for relaxing / hugely successful projects if the requirements changes bend the problem into territory that breaks the effectiveness of the solution approach.
> It is so esoteric to begin with

If abstract algebra is so "esoteric" for you, I'm afraid you should rather read Trump speeches instead of following HN.

> I mean really, “outlives or equals to”?

Suggest a better alternative and prove that we should throw away decades worth of papers and start using your new terminology.
Eh, the most expensive power in Europe is more at 60ct per kWh.

Average in northern Germany is already 38ct per kWh, although this is expected to change with the northern and southern German electricity market being split in the next weeks (Northern Germany has a huge surplus, Southern Germany not nearly enough).
The State of Business' SaaS Spend 2016
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on the fight for the web's future
How else would you port a typescript/javascript editor to the Desktop?
They do state they are working on decoupling the core Monaco editor but where else would you host it to make it faster?
One point - when compressing the view I care for rare events (e.g. deadlines, conferences) not things like gym. So I would do the opposite of adding counts. (The same, when I do something daily and I compress days to a single line, I DO NOT want to see it.)
Well yes, but most people won't be able to not to put their foot in their mouth.
Oddly enough saying "the debt is past this statutory limit and cannot be forcibly collected" might actually be an acknowledgement of the debt by itself.
All the laws regarding this are completely bonkers.
They do much better work with use of threads though, so it seems much faster than atom to me with no lockups.
People are spending much less time on social media apps: Report
Book Review: Age of Em
It would never occur to me to interpret it that way, rather than him moving the block closer to the trees. Wouldn't it take a human life time for a tree to grow that much?
Shadow Boxing – The missing man who'd fought Muhammad Ali
Mobbing is the most fun I've had programming in years
US Spies Are Building Software to Spot Your Suspicious Behavior in Live Video
* https://developer.akamai.com/stuff/Optimization/TCP_Optimiza...

* https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2013-press/aka...
Postgres is MD5; MSSQL(2012) is SHA-512.
Wait.. Could this law have a side effect of hurting potential YouTube competitors?

Right now we are only concerned about major players, like YouTube, Netflix, etc.

With the proposed law, a smaller video service might not be able to focus on a smaller region. Focusing on a smaller group could give a competitor the chance to build up notoriety among that group.

For example, in 2050, each town has its own website capable of hosting videos. The town videos have ads specific to the local population. The pricing of ads could be controlled by that town. For this to work, it might be desirable to be able to limit consummation of the videos to the townspeople. Bandwidth is also used to serve content.

If you're fine with YouTube/Google and Facebook being in charge of ad-pricing from now until the end of time, then this law would not disrupt that vision. But if you expect YouTube to pay different rates, or have any competition, this law might create unreasonable restrictions for new competition.
Hi Peter,

iPhone is written with lowercase "i", not uppercase. It is very worrying that wrong spelling is used on the site as well. I hope that application is much better than the spelling on the site.

Thanks.
Not exactly like Theranos. uBeam isn't selling the product, it's still in development phase. In other words, it's vaporware.

It won't be the first nor the last vaporware.

Theranos was outright fraud in a regulated market.
It probably needs to be very quiet for that to work. Which usually is not in the public space.
But most used Thinkpads on eBay have cracks, scratches or look nasty.

As a person that compulsively cleans his keyboards, I'd happily pay those extra $500 if that means I'm getting a new device and knowing nobody was eating nearby or touching those sacred 7 row keyboards after jerking off to pictures of riced Linux desktops (pardon my French).
I agree - it seems to be another variety of "nothing buttery." I don't see how locating the production of experience in attention schemas (which seem, inasmuch as they're scientifically respectable, to be indistinguishable from advanced signal processing) gets us any further with the hard problem of understanding how any subjective experience at all is necessitated or implied by what the brain does functionally.

It's often occurred to me that the very difficulty we have discussing the nature of subjective experience (inverse spectrum, etc.) points to some superfluity there - giving you a precise description of retinal state, a color code, the frequencies of light, etc., isn't enough for you to tell whether my experience of red is like yours - but what description would suffice?

On this line, I occasionally indulge in the thought that "qualia" are a necessary but irrelevant tokenisation of our experience, a bit like variable names: you need a bucket to put that data in, but the particular name you give to the bucket doesn't matter.
They are still going strong

orbo.com

You can buy a phone that has a battery that will never run out, apparently.

However it seems a lot of faults are found:

http://dispatchesfromthefuture.com/
Body on the Moor
What if a startup wants to focus on serving video to a local community, rather than making it available to the world, which would cost the startup more bandwidth?
Depending on what you mean by regeneration (renewing vs replacement), it's not clear it's a good thing. There is some indication that neurogenesis in the hippocampus is a cause of memory loss.
Isohunt lost in court, and settled while appealing.

>While intent is still important, I'm not sure the technical differences don't matter now.

I'm not sure of this either, but the "DMCA doesn't affect hashes" argument hasn't been tested, and it's sufficiently murky that I don't think it can be pre-judged with confidence.
I suppose that when everyone around is pretty much of the same genetic makeup, you've got to pick different factors to segment your populace. Modern conceptions of race would be profoundly weird to the ancients, I think.

Between all the Greek and Phoenician colonies sprinkled all over the Mediterranean, there was a huge amount of admixture.
I read in another article that U5b2c1 is not wiped out, but just very rare in modern population.
You can also carry rats with you, who will take the arrow damage instead of you. Meat shields!
Still hard to add new event
This is the one I can think of:

function sayBadWords(message)
{
alert(message);
}
sayBadWords("You scumbag and a^^hole, can't you use an older version of firefox?");
I think there is an additional interesting aspect differentiating the Phoenicians from the Romans. The Romans didn't really start spreading out from central Italy until 300BC. In contrast, the Phoenicians hit their peak around 1200-800BC

Thus, by the time the Romans are conquering places, other Indo-European or Middle Eastern civilizations have already done so. Thus, the Romans are taking less civilized (in terms of urbanism, technology, agriculture, etc) and making them more civilized. But "less" is still closer to the Romans terms of development than no civilization at all. For example, the Celts, the Greeks, the Egyptians, and the Phoenicians (the main areas Rome conquered to get their empire) were all true civilizations BC by the time the Romans got there (300-50BC) all those places had become part of the civilized world.

In contrast, the Phoenicians where bringing civilization to places that were just barely coming out of being hunter gatherer or had minimal agriculture but no cities. They were the first one to bring writing to most of those places, while when Rome showed up, they already had it (BC of Phoenicians 800-1200 years earlier).
We still haven't opened the tomb of the first emperor of China, which has been closed for more than two millennia. One of the main reasons is the presence of enormous amounts of mercury. Whole rivers of it, according to tradition. There's your poison.
Claiming that your untested interpretation of the law says something does not make precedent. This particular argument hasn't yet made it to court, but torrent cases have, and torrents are basically just more detailed hashes of each section of a file. Your argument would imply that torrent files are also legal, and yet Isohunt and others have lost in court over them.
Makes sense when the men sailing around are taking local wives (slaves?)
Tyranny of the Algorithm? Predictive Analytics and Human Rights
Pretty sure Forbes was on this same blog post more than two weeks ago. https://is.gd/5xJ4QY

[EDIT] Additionally, they accurately point out that, apart from the VP's rant, uBeam is actually persuing something more akin to cordless charging, within a few meters of a charging station.

That's still something of a pipe dream given the inverse law of power distribution. But rather than hitting the target perfectly to wirelessly charge my S7 it'd be nice to just set it anywhere on the counter. Not sure that's disruptive, but it's more possible than ubiquitous, in-home charging.
Voice assistants are the new bluetooth headsets. They are not socially acceptable most of the time.
Personally, I only use Siri in my car as a last resort (I think CarPlay is amazing; I don't use my built-in car software anymore). I think talking to a device is awkward and starting a "conversation" by yelling "Hey Siri" is even worse, it feels embarrassing.
Good point. I suppose what I meant was more that types are at the core of Elm and pervade every part of the language, whereas TS/Flow are adding types on top of a dynamic language and there are parts where it may be difficult or impossible to maintain type safety to the same degree (especially when interacting with non-TS/Flow code)
I tried to like Atom two or three times, but it was simply too slow and too buggy. Visual Studio Code is much faster and I haven't encountered severe bugs so far.
How to include live interactive examples in a clojure[script] blog post
Mary Meeker's 2016 internet trends report
2016 Hacker SBCs Comparison Table
Assuming no civilizational collapse happens.

Consider the dark ages: much knowledge from greek and roman antiquity was lost, only to be rediscovered at the renaissance. It's entirely conceivable that knowledge of ionising radiation could be lost for a similar period of time if, say, a solar flare were to destroy all telecom infrastructure and subsequent wars were to destroy printed works.

Unlikely? Maybe, but certainly possible.
While on the topic of Spelunky, I have to mention that I hope Yu or someone ports it to linux. I would love to play it on the future Steamboy handheld console, if it ever releases. I do not own a Vita, as it is saturated by Japanese titles, for which I care little. I do have quite a couple linux compatible games on steam, however. Also, if I could stream from my PC to this device on the go, similar to the Vita, that would be splendid.

Here's hoping. Derek!
Instagram's Abomination – part 3
Hey, you quit designing video games to make a calendar? Godus sucks, BTW.
BBC4 did a good documentary on this a few years ago called "Tetris: From Russia With Love". Recommended if you can find a copy on your preferred streaming/download option.
I agree with the parent on the scrolling issue, it's quite confusing and unusable to me.
But nobody said that.
... since 2015
tl;dr:

"The foremost reason was intimidation by police," he says.
"Oftentimes if you assist someone the police will assume you're helping that person out of guilt."
Apart from the fear of being falsely implicated, people also worried about becoming trapped as a witness in a court case - legal proceedings can be notoriously protracted in India. And if they helped the victim get to hospital, they feared coming under pressure to stump up fees for medical treatment.
I could see Mitsubishi scooping them up before Ford would. Mitsubishi is already developing electric vehicles, has a strong global manufacturing base, and could use the extra presence in the US. Ford is more about pickup trucks than anything else.
If the worst thing about this product is that it doesn't follow Apple's brand guidelines, then it will be an excellent app. I agree that it's a bug but it's hardly "very worrying". The demo is excellent.
Even so we are usually talking about 50W max draw difference between the mid and high end cards is still 20 hours of gaming at max load before you have 60 cents difference between them :P
Apple TVJS Framework Reference
It’s scroll-jacking to let users without a touchpad to zoom in and out. I expect the mobile/touch version to be way more sensible.
* while standing on your hands upside down and drinking a glass of water

You will notice the difference!!11
Not really - the regulatory framework prevents giving bad medical services to people. But many healthcare startups have failed. Just in the area of non-invasive glucose testing there we're probably tens of them. No shame in failing, assuming you gave an honest effort.
The Art of Closing
Purescript doesn't have a runtime, unlike Elm, so in that sense it may be a thinner layer. However, the language itself is more advanced than Elm, allowing for more powerful abstractions but also having the side effect (haha) of having the same steep learning curve as Haskell.

Also, Purescript's FFI is really easy to use (unlike Elm's), afaik this was one of its original design goals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

(I didn't know about this... interesting case study, thanks!)
Actually next time just try talking to it to complete the task.

I use Google's voice recognition a ton when on my motorcycle with a Bluetooth helmet. I've gotten in the habit of just trying things and to my surprise many have worked.

Play/pause music, mute/unmute voice navigation, ask how long until my next turn, ask it to navigate to somewhere else, call/text/send a hangouts message to a contact by their nickname, play a specific band or album of music, etc...
A school within line of sight of a smokestack burning dioxins is something that should not even exist.
Social Media – What Impact Is It Having on Business?
Startup website where users add categories of products or services they use in their online presence. iOwnIt condenses links into one page and pulls directly from Amazon by URL with real-time price updating.
That's in line with the purported "microdosing" phenomenon making its rounds in Silicon Valley: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/how-lsd-microdo...
Unusable? Really?
Different Peter Molyneux.
Seems like in SF you just need a ridiculous idea to get funding. No working product, nothing. Funny but also quite sad.
Why Koka?

This is not snark. Why Koka when ML and Haskell exist? What does it bring to the table that is new? What Haskell calls monads Koka calls effects? But Haskell has lazy evaluation, right -- and Koka is strict (like ML) and tracks effects (like Haskell). Does Koka complete this reductive functional programming matrix?

/ Monads / No monads†
-----------------------
S | Koka | ML
L | Haskell | Miranda

† No monads == Nomads?
Could you expand on why you don't like to use an auto-formatter? I'm genuinely curious.

I'm pretty addicted to them; they add consistency without me having to think about it (killing off bike-shedding in the process), and in practice it works a bit like a visual semi-linter: if the auto-formatting doesn't produce the expected pattern (and your mind very quickly picks up the pattern subconsciously), it usually means there's a bug in the code somewhere around the area where it goes wrong.
It's an excellent idea to have a calendar that can be zoomed without steps. You just got to think of a way to make it easier for user to know how to scroll and zoom. Maybe two finger swipe should be scrolling and one finger swipe zoom? I don't know, but please keep up the good work.