skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> sometimes it doesn't record tool tips or contextual menus

Welcome to the abysmal implementation of interactive controls. For some awful historical and technical reason, most standard UI controls - such as dropdown menus - are laid out on top of your application's window by the operating system. That UI control is not part of your application; it is implemented as a separate window by the operating system which positions it on top of your application window in the requested x/y location.

The screen capturing is designed to capture a single window, and so only captures your application without these separate windows that display elements like a dropdown menu. It really is a disgusting hack. In any reasonable implementation, these controls would be inlined within your application, not outsourced to the operating system.

This is the same reason why it took so long for browsers to support styling of form elements, such as changing the background color of a dropdown. The operating system simply provided no way to allow for this. I'm not sure if the modern browser implementation with styled form elements still works with the operating system, or if they are required to bundle their own controls in order to have full control over their rendering.

My Google-fu is failing me. Does anyone know why standard operating system controls are laid out by the operating system, rather than by the application using a standard library that keeps them inline to the app itself?
This attitude works right up until the kids want to start their own families... Then they realize they can't possibly live near the grandparents and having one home worth $1.5m doesn't do anything to help you buy two unless you're already making or have a lot of money.

You can see this split hitting out in sunset, as former NIMBYs flip toward pro-housing as their kids return from college.
You're presuming people like living in big cities. In reality it could be they are only there because of the jobs and the reasonable commute. Lose a job? Can find another one without moving. And of course, there's the night life, the concentration of museums, art galleries, performance arts, etc.

But most people I know still go (or at least try to) for their vacation to some tropical paradise. They would live there if they could. But most people can't.
We start our apps with mongo, and design them with a migration plan to postgres. We've found it's very easy to rapidly develop the application with mongo due to it's flexibility. Once we understand where or app is headed and what our relationships actually are, we pretty much pull the plug out of mongo and stick it in postgres. If you build a reasonably intelligent query wrapper it's fairly effortless. That being said, we're thinking of moving our early prototyping to Rethink now that it's made some strides.
I'm so sorry that you seem to do your job in an elegant way and that the other humans can't seem to respect that.
I think it's a pretty nice option when you don't have the time and resources to develop native applications for a few platforms, or for enterprise apps that are mostly a web front end with a few nice to haves.
I use FB groups all the time and have never had an issue. Something like lyft/uber seems difficult, but they fit many other use cases just fine.

You're basically saying "I'm amazed that anybody can organize anything via <every forum software ever>
Honest question: can you explain how Linux does a worse job with colors?
> Increasing traffic on your street is going to be a fact of life if we insist on building out and out rather than up.

Its also a fact of life if we insist on building up. I've never seen a suburb that could compete with NYC on traffic snarls.

> Densifying existing areas doesn't create the same problems

Yes, it does, though it tends to be limited (at about the level where traffic is frequently slower than walking) by lack of parking spaces limiting the number of cars.

> as with increased density comes other transit options

Other transit options are necessary to allow densifying existing areas, because of the point above; you rapidly hit the point where you can't get more people in and out with existing infrastructure. That doesn't mean you don't cause the same traffic problems with density as with sprawl -- you do, and in fact you maximize them that way.
Hidden language for voice assistants
Because Uber/Lyft can scale, a Facebook group can't. The group is just a last minute fix.
From the words of my professor who was around at the time, there was nothing quite like Bell Labs[0] when AT&T was still a monopoly. Because as a monopoly they earned a fixed % of their spending, Bell Labs had essentially unlimited funding, and a lot of their work really paved the way for all of the amazing technology we have today, especially the Internet.
You could, I dunno... explain?

I guess you mean a world just like today, but coal power instantly evaporated? There would be mass chaos and death, but again I don't see the relevance.
The ones I know of are proprietary and used on AAA console games.
We don't handle that case right now, but it's a TODO. Will be an interesting problem to address.
Thanks. You can install JDK.
So the implementation breaks the inertia scrolling we all come to expect from our touch devices. That wasn't clear from the gif (I have actually never seen these in the wild).

I hope that is just a result of bad implementation rather than being a design feature.

Thank you for deeper insight.
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Yes: DP runs at 1/32 the rate of SP on GP104: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(microarchitecture)#Per...

However it is uncrippled on GP100 (ie. Tesla P100).
Absolutely. It's all about the $/kWh stored. A "worn out" electric car battery might have only 70% of its cycle depth/capacity remaining compared to when it was new, but if the battery packs can be acquired for very cheap, that doesn't matter so much.

There is a guy with videos on youtube who has purchased battery packs from crashed Tesla Model S and retrofitted an old volkswagon bus for 100+ mile EV range.
Really, the best way is to find employment (somehow), preferably in a highly collaborative environment, -- or perhaps with important, competently-managed volunteer project -- and you'll find out very quickly how you compare to others.

Another option (while not as fun) are the various coding portals (Hackerrank, etc).

BTW frameworks (while useful in the bigger picture sense) do not necessarily make one produce "faster" (and in many cases can have exactly the opposite effect). It's really about quality, after all -- especially in the sense of making one's code easily understandable by others. And that's a skill you can practice (and most likely, practice better) "in the small", i.e. within the core language you specialize in, even on fairly routine programming tasks.
Search YouTube for some knitting machine videos. You will quickly get an understanding of the basic operation. It is knitting fabric from a spool of yarn, a sewing machine is joining two pieces of woven fabric using thread off of two or more spools.
I'm hoping that other cities start regulating uber/lyft and they are forced to stop whining, and come back/follow the law because of the money they lose.

sometimes it's good for there to be consequences
When I lived in a high-rise, I chose one that had quality construction with decent soundproofing between units. I rarely hear neighbors in any direction (above, below or to either side).

Unless you're a prisoner (or someone else is paying for your housing because you can't afford it), you can always choose quality of construction -- it may not be where you want to live, or might be more than you want to pay, but it's still your choice.

You've just chosen to make a tradeoff and accepted the noisy building (and you've rewarded those that built the thin walled, noisy building by paying to live there).
it might be hard due to HOA/condo rules; and if you rent the place than good luck trying to change anything there.

and given the way condos built in the US/canada it's just impossible, i was pretty surprised when i saw a six floors condo built with wooden frame, something like that:
https://imgur.com/usO1i9r
I started with Mongo too, had some performance issues and started used RethinkDB when they first released it. It does get better with every update.
Sat watching that video and wondering if you could first lay down a layer of black plastic with holes punched in the right places, it would eliminate 95% of the weeding chores.

http://www.amazon.com/Plastic-600ft-Embossed-Growerss-Soluti...

Course it would help if the garden was on a slight incline with holes punched in the frame boards on one end to deal with draining off the occasional two inch rain.
> most people don't have to deal with growth at these types of numbers over their lifetime.

I used to live in Houston, and my parents still live there, and the growth (in construction, not price) they'd dealt with (and enjoyed) puts anywhere in the SF Bay Area to shame.
It could have been a lot more impactful by doing a trial with Intuit

Given Intuit's checkered past with QFX, If I were writing a nascent API for FX, I wouldn't want them anywhere near it.
I live in Austin, and at this time there is still a void, but it's being filled faster than I expected. Fasten launched last week and I've used it four times already and there's not much to say other than it works just like Uber and Lyft.

The price is $1-2 more per ride and a I have to wait a few more minutes, but it does the job. The drivers I've talked to also prefer the compensation structure more than Uber and Lyft. Fasten's cut is fixed at $1 per ride (vs 20-28%), or $12 for the day. And like Uber, they get paid every Wednesday.

It's not available at the airport, but there's a city bus that drives from the airport to downtown (where getting a rideshare is easy) in 30 minutes for $1.75.

EDIT: Clarified Fasten's commission.
As the article mentions, UK agencies have always conducted intense snooping under the 1984 Telecommunications act (spying suggests some target or objective in mind when what's happening is really just hoovering up data on people, 'just in case it's needed'). The 1984 act was a useful fig leaf to cover what had been a long-standing activity (as witnessed by the preposterous Wilson Doctrine to supposedly protect MPs from the snooping that everyone else was subject to).

The UK Government loves making supposed legal rules for what is essentially a no-holds-barred snoop-fest. Any legislation which would limit what are, in effect, unrestrained powers, are neutered. e.g. The Data Protection Act has blanket exclusions for "prevention and detection of crime" (handy for snooping employers too!) and the Protection From Harassment Act specifically permits law enforcement bodies to harass people without the ability of people to seek redress [that bill itself was initially a device created for Huntingdon Life Sciences to have a way to deal with animal rights protesters (which was a real problem - no matter where you sit on that issue); it's since been usefully pivoted by those being harassed by debt collectors to turn the tables and gain compensation, so it's not all bad.[1]).

This new law will do nothing to protect UK residents, nor anyone unfortunate enough to have any data transiting UK routing nodes, where their data is recorded by bulk surveillance.

The pretense that something is being improved or balances and safeguards of peoples liberty are somehow being created, is insulting.

[1] http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/torts/49567.fullarticle
It was the hottest thing a 2-4 years ago. Hype is probably the biggest association anyone who lived through that and didn't drink the coolaid has.
Wow, even better than the Nintendo Knitting System!

(Nintendo should bring that idea back and make patterns featuring Mario, Goombas, etc. available in the eShop. They'd make a killing off the hipster market.)
What do HNers think of the Third Manifesto? [typed relational database]
How do you think that decisions are made under uncertainty? You can't always wait until you have very solid numbers to come up with an analysis. It's not "ridiculous" to come up with an order of magnitude estimate when better information is unavailable, it's a critical step in solving new problems.

A more productive criticism would have been to offer an improvement, rather than to just point to the imperfections in an attempt to estimate the future impact of a new technology.

edit: added second paragraph
An aside:

Tolpin and Toft designed an extension to the functional language ML which used region based memory managed instead of traditional garbage collection for ML.

This lifted the lifetimes of variables into ML's type system (!!!) while the underlying implementation IIRC could achieve O(1) memory behaviour except when an exception occurred.

While this sounds amazing, there were draw-backs on the implementation / theory as certain optimisations were near necessary to get good performance. I.E. word sized integers had to live in the heap as opposed to registers. Another issue was that loops had to be restructured from idiomatic ML style to a slightly different one, other the region inference logic would cause O(N) allocations in a loop which would otherwise use O(1) allocations.

http://www.elsman.com/pdf/retro.pdf

or "Tauplin and Toft region based memory management retrospective" should lead you to the paper.
This is the problem with quoting studies and not understanding what the stats actually mean with their relation to each other. It happens a lot with the studies themselves, also, but is pretty prevalent in pundit style presentations.

I'll give an interesting example from my twitter feed: "State records show that [Mr. X](1) claimed that his combined income in 1978 and 1979 was negative $3.8 million, allowing him to pay no taxes. A few years earlier, he had told the NYT he was worth more than $200 million."

This is combining two factual statements with the intent to link them when the linkage is actually not there. People pay taxes on income not net worth(2). You spotted a stat that is closer, but actually still not directly comparable without further information and fixing the wording to indicate the same action in the same way.

This doesn't even add the cases where studies have different basic facts about the observed and people trying to tie them together in problematic ways.

Their starting wall example is also pretty foolish given the actual destruction of vibrant black neighborhoods in urban renewal projects starting with 1949 and the Housing Act. Why build a wall when you can take the land?

1) yeah yeah, we all know who the quote is about, but I have no wish to argue with BOTH sides again. 1800 here we come.

2) well, ok, there are some specific stuff, but its not really relevant to the setup.

Also, yes, the graphics are horrible to the point of having a minecraft / 8-bit fetish is getting in the way of actually indicating what the information is.
>Everything is easy once you learn how to do it.

Which you still have to do. Again, this literally does nothing but plant seeds for you, which is a pretty easy job.

>I'm curious which of the things I listed aren't significant issues?

All of them. The only harmful interaction between plants anyone is going to experience in their garden is beans and peas getting slowed by onions. And that doesn't even matter much, it just takes a little longer for your beans to be ready to harvest. Acidity is largely irrelevant, some plants tolerate or even prefer acidic soil, but almost all plants grown in a vegetable garden do just fine with neutral to slightly acidic soil. And watering is a non-issue, use hugels or at least ghetto it up with "lasagna" beds.

>but the maker community will surely expand upon the platform.

To do what? Solve problems that are already solved and do not require any sort of mechanical solution?
Although that's a benefit I didn't think of, my charitable interpretation is that it allows for the use of terms that plug in to a social setting. Of course this all derives from Moldbug's political philosophy. It's technology that's engineered for a certain set of behaviors based on his framework.

The terms put the technology in the context of the philosophy, giving hints as to how it solves the problems within it. I can see why that would turn some people off, but for its purpose I believe it's effective. It grounds previously ephermal concepts in metaphors that are tight, like land = server + addressing space or code = law. A lack of good metaphors (rather than an abundance of poor ones, as is the state of things) may be a part of the reason we've become so disoriented with how we handle privacy. When you think of privacy issues as, "my identifying documents are on someone else's land", suddenly it becomes more clear as to what the problem is. By contrast "The Cloud" is a shit metaphor: the cloud is just someone else's computer. It isn't public, universal, or neutral, like real clouds are. And where in the cloud is there a network?

If one were to derive Unix in terms of, say, the operations of an anarchist society, as opposed to problems that are mostly mundane or technical, I would be saying the same thing. Arguably the last time this happened was during the Mother of All Demos with Doug Engelbart's models of the knowledge economy. Since then we've either been footnotes to Xerox PARC's visions, or have been otherwise haphazard.

As for the Proof/Type/Category equivalences, you're right, they're only equivalent for some structures in all three theories. So they're only equivalent up to locally closed cartesian categories, or wherever. But moving between those three perspectives even under this constraint still leaves you with distinctions, like syntax vs semantics. So in that sense they maintain the notion that different views lead to different nuances even if they cluster around the same space.
They do care about privacy - which is why so many people use snapchat instead of posting to their facebook walls
>> "a historic commitment that trade union activities cannot be considered sufficient reason for investigatory powers to be used."

Which is roughly equivalent to giving a terminal
patient aspirin and bragging you cured their headache (the patient being the unions).
Uber has a review system, yet lots of stories about low quality drivers. They may be low in overall % of rides but get lots of new coverage overtime somebody has an axe to grind. I think you need to consider this more carefully.
Here’s the thing about debt: It’s not nearly as bad as everyone says it is
So every time you want to note something important you have to add it to the index? Denormalization at its finest, I suppose. The index reminds me of a page table.
As a guy who works on ACID database internals, I'm appalled that people use MongoDB. You want a document store? Use Postgres. Why on earth would you use a database that makes so little in the way of guarantees about what results you get from it? I think most people have really low load and concurrency, so things seem to work. When things get busier you're in for a world of pain. Look I get that's it's easy to use and easy to get started with, but you're going to pay for all of that later.
There is nothing grey about it. Read it here: https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement

Federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type
of jamming equipment, including devices that interfere with cellular
and Personal Communication Services (PCS), police radar, Global
Positioning Systems (GPS), and wireless networking services (Wi-Fi).

If you use the device in this story to jam Wi-Fi you're a felon and the FCC will seize your equipment, bury you in fines and/or put you in prison. The "accepting interference" requirement does not immunize anyone from prosecution for jamming. Unlicensed != unregulated, and the FCC is perfectly capable of distinguishing between legitimate Part 15 operation and jamming.
Wells Fargo allows me to create Read Only credentials! They should get credit for this feature. I wish all my financial accounts had this.
Depends on where you are in life financially, the market you're in, and whether this is your first purchase.

If you bought recently, you probably had some sense that the market was a bit out of whack, but may have decided it was the right decision for other reasons. That doesn't make most people any less concerned about the future value of their house, particularly if they know they are not buying into their "Forever Home" and will one day need to sell and move elsewhere.
No, it has never been turned off since it first went to full availability [1].

[1] http://www.gps.gov/support/faq/#off
> personal circumstances should be a factor in making managerial decisions

Promoting someone (deserved or not) because they are having a kid or have a family issue would be a bad idea. If it is something temporary, then a loan or a place to crash might be in order, and that should be a personal decision not a company one.

Knowing what those circumstances might have a massive impact on what you do next. A boss of mine once told me "tell me your interviewing so I can fix your tie". As a manager on two occasions I have encouraged staff to find a job that would no longer limit their growth. At the time we simply didn't have enough money or a role for them to continue to develop. Helping someone move on, and doing it in the most constructive way possible might actually be in the best interest of your fellow employees and investors, and the person involved.

In a more personal case, I was instrumental in a good friend taking a lower paying job and relocating to help support a sick family member. It worked out in such a way that the "on paper" pay cut, turned into them having more disposable income.

I think that knowing those circumstances can lead you to a better managerial decision, and it has for me in the past, provided your open minded about what you can and can't do!
ConnectorDB – an open-source platform for Quantified Self
Oh, how much do I like the German HBCI standard... nice to see that at least some non-German players decide to follow the API trend.

However, it is disappointing that this is just a single bank and not a group of banks developing this - and especially, that a battle-tested standard was not adopted.

edit: in Germany, actually, there's for commercial use the DTA standard (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datentr%C3%A4geraustauschverfa...) since 1976 (!), which has been replaced only recently by SEPA/ISO20022. Meanwhile, US banks decide to follow xkcd #927 (https://xkcd.com/927/)...
The battle will be fought where the money is. Right now, that's online advertising and stock trading, two shining beacons of the modern U.S. economy.
OK, but in 2016 we don't have to guess how many cars Tesla built in 2015. It's historical fact.
Just for clarification, Tesla's initial estimates for Gigafactory production was 35GW/year at the cell level and 50GW/year at the pack level (with some cells produced by other suppliers). At the shareholder meeting they speculated they could 3x those numbers with the current Gigafactory. This is at full production, which is years away.
To say that consciousness does not "actually exist" is the same kind of statement as saying that a car does not really exist. Certainly I drive something I call a car to work every morning. I have direct experience of this too. And yet, cars don't really exist at fundamental levels of reality, they are merely aggregates of more fundamental types of matter.

And so it is with consciousness. We certainly have consciousness, but to then immediately assign consciousness special ontological status distinct from matter, ie. dualism at worst or panpsychism at best, is a huge leap that requires justification.