skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Physicists may have just found dark matter while detecting gravitational waves
I was taught to 'buy a second hand car and drive it till it's junk'
Isn't this the plot of for a horror-thriller movie?
I'm quite disappointed that they nixed the second column.

- Two columns meant more information to show off and to glean about someone else.

- Two columns forced people to have short descriptions for their projects, just like commit titles.

Would it have been that hard to just make it "pin 10 repos" or "pin 5 personal + 5 external"?
Your whole reason for being, the thing that gets you out of bed and searching for food, is your in-built desire to recreate and nurture life. Intentionally rejecting that is a massive commitment to make, given the very long term consequences of it.

In short, go have some kids, bring them up well and enjoy the benefits. Our biology is tribe-based and ingrained, so it's smart to work with that and be part of a tribe.

We all die alone, but those that die surrounded by love feel less lonely in all the decades up to that final point. That's your Dna rewarding you for a job well done.
There are not enough natural trees to do the job because we have taken most of the really productive land to grow food. While there is some potential to use biochar in some locations, it is not going to be enough to get the CO2 levels down at the pace we need.
I think the difference is you didn't have closed door meetings with the inventor of the jet ski and almost enter into a licensing deal to build jet skis.
Rich U.S. high-tech firms blunting innovation
We say co workers. Not family.
If you don't think the vast majority of people there are real and genuine supporters then you don't understand this political movement. To you it looks like a bunch of trolls, but that's expected, you fundamentally disagree and/or do not understand their POV. As is so common, you cite no examples. Sure there are trolls, there are entire sub's devoted to trolling r/the_donald.

For example, they don't like Saudi Arabia. Do you? Should we allow one of the most oppressive and rich governments on the planet influence our news and politics?
No, you're not ignorant.

Yes, if the earth were an unstable system it would have destabilised in the past.

Yes, it is a combination of factors poorly understood, like the work only now coming out of CERN.

Yes, the ROI of the various treaties and tax plans are beyond negative.

Yes, this type of comment is verboten.
Organized crime is pretty well purged from Colorado (and likely Oregon and Washington as well). Prior to retail taking effect, the DEA and Colorado law enforcement flushed out anyone with even a remote relationship with, call it, persons of interest. Since then, all participants have been subjected to background checks, where the thoroughness ranges from cursory (for, say, an hourly employee) to proctological (for a license owner). There are currently strict domesticity requirements for all "owners" (broadly defined by the state enforcement agency as anyone with "control"), i.e., at least two years of residency in the state of Colorado. Then of course there is the standard clean background check. New laws under consideration would open the market to out-of-state investors as of Jan 1 2017, but those laws are awaiting the governor's signature.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines by calling names and by baiting others into downvoting. Please (re)-read and follow them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Is it possible the data schema is poor? Honestly I may be misunderstanding your description, but 1 collection with 13 indices and 16 basic type fields seems out of balance to me. And misplaced, misused indices can be a huge issue for any database. You may not see the issue locally on a laptop because of the lack of contention based on the small number of concurrent requests.
Thank you for understanding this point.

I do not want my children to love me because I'm their father, or because I took care of them (along with their mother) when they were growing up.

I see it as my job, if I want a relationship with my children, to be bringing value to them in the here and now.

Sure, we have good memories of the past, but good memories are not (in my view) a sufficient basis for an ongoing relationship.

Even worse would be a sense of obligation on the part of my children towards me, simply because I'm their father.

You summarized it well: "I hope my children will hold me accountable for my actions, and vice-versa."
As a company, why should you care about keeping low performers? Just hire new ones.
You have to make an effort to find something that excites you or you look forward to. Preferably on a regular basis, daily would be the ultimate goal. Just think, waking up to something you look forward to every day! Jumping out of bed every morning, looking forward to the day.

What do you like to do? Do you have any previous hobbies? Start a side project (that you can finish) and look forward to working on after work. Join an online game community (Team Fortress, Overwatch, Call of Duty, etc). Don't like games, what about a book or movie club?

Do you have any recreational sports leagues you can join? I used to play ice hockey, but wouldn't mind joining a roller hockey league where I am (Austin) or maybe flag football or kickball even.

Is there something you want to do or experiment? I've always wanted to build something with Lego Mindstorms and program it myself.

When was the last time you went to a meet up or hung out with some friends?

When were happiest? What were you doing? Who were you with?

Is there anything you can do at work to make it more enjoyable? Can you ask to be moved to another department? Take on new or different challenges? Do you feel challenged at work? Can you tell someone you want to try something new?

Maybe just try and take things less serious. Don't be so defensive and perfect about life. Have some fun and relax. Do you like comics, movies, anime, books (fiction), video games? Maybe you can try one and experiment. For me, I want to go back and try and play and beat all the old NES and Genesis games I never finished as a kid because I was too impatient.

These are just random ideas. For example, I have a backlog of video games, anime, comics, and side projects. I also have just found a new friend and we already made plans to go out. I'm moving into a new apartment that's an upgrade from my current and it has Google Fiber, I'm super excited for that. My parents are bringing me a couch and TV in a month too and I look forward to sitting in something besides my bed or desk chair. Not to mention look forward to seeing them for the first time in a year. I'm joining a new gym and look forward to meeting and seeing new people there as well as partaking in a class or two for fun, it's a good way to meet other people. I try and attend meet ups when nothing else is keeping me busy or I'm bored.

Bottom line, you have to try and stay busy and you have to make the effort. It requires work if you aren't use to it. You can't dwell on the negatives like you seem to be doing. Good luck, I hope I sparked some ideas for you.
This isn't a patent troll and this isn't Google independently inventing something.
This is Google meeting with the company, getting closed door access to their tech and then deciding to copy large parts of their product. We can argue whether that should be legal in all/many/this case(s) but it's nothing like your jet ski example.
Yeah, though jQuery has helped a lot to make some sort of "standard library", requirements in the browser (small file size) makes it really hard to bootstrap a "standard library for JS".

I would love for browsers and other VMs (well, Node) to aim for Python-level standard library that would be integrated into the VM. We could get a bunch of functionality without having to ship 3 Meg files to everyone.

Here's a proposal: FF starts building a "standard library for Javascript". Developers can start using it, or provide polyfills for the bits they use through a special script tag like:

<script src="std-lib-poyfill.js" standard-lib-polyfill></src>

So FF would know not to pull it in but other browsers would know. Maybe a version number/point release in there too.

There might be a bit of competition between browsers but I think we could quickly reach a consensus on most things.

... Though I guess this is what standards are for. I would like to see a browser try this anyways, though. That would be the fastest way to get the standards bodies to acknowledge the problem.
Rich countries with efficient and abundant energy have the lowest population growth rates and the cleanest and best preserved environments.

The solution for environment degradation is the same as for poverty - the two are obviously linked.

The solution is efficient energy and rejection of superstitious nonsense.

Alas the majority of the world is trying to unwind the first and positively going the other way on the second.
What are gzip and Zip? How are they different and how are they same?
Quite probably not, though the fundamental problem's been apparent since the late 18th century. No, not a typo.

Fossil fuels, population, pollution, mineral resources, topsoil, water. There are numerous problems.

You might want to look up the WorldWatch Institute who have done a lot of basic work here. Pick up a standard ecology text (say, Odum), and you'll find this discussed.

Figuring out how to run fast and hot for a long time is difficult.
Losing 1 in 4 is a lot cheaper than losing 4 in 4, and these numbers will only improve.
A foolish remark.

The shooter spent his time in different rooms, each full of people, many of whom could have overpowered him. At many times he was within arms' length of people. There are no reports whatsoever of anyone trying to "over power"[sic] him. They were likely frozen by fear, alcohol, drugs and wounds. I'm not blaming them, simply noting that they were unable to react. He had free reign.

Under such circumstances a serious shooter with a 12 gauge would generate far _more_ casualties. LOL all you want, the 12 gauge is way more destructive than an AR, especially at the short ranges involved.
This company claims Google stole the balloon Wi-Fi tech behind Project Loon
Estonia had a school shooting last year. Sweden had a mass-stabbing at a school[0] last October.

Canada had a school shooting this year[1].

Australia remains free of murder sprees since that one that convinced everyone to trade-in (or bury) their guns.

0. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/world/europe/western-swede...

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/canada-school-shooting-s...
This whole movement seems strange to me. It's like these are statically linking the entire OS to run a single app. Why not ditch the OS completely? I'd say this is taking the whole container concept a bit far, but who knows what will come next!
Fair enough, I don't think it's appropriate to call a company a family.

I do however think taking zero pay is a signal which, under the right circumstances, is worthy of inspiring loyalty greater than the average company.
I think the time frames for returning to pre-human levels is longer than a few thousand years [1, 2].

1. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/03/how-lo...

2. http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0812/full/climate.2008.12...
Edison's light bulbs were also derivative of many other efforts. Being derivative doesn't exclude you from being able to patent something.
Thanks for initial feedback! Work/life – which for me are tightly connected. Emailing people whose work or attitude I admire has worked for me too put its very hit or miss. What I was wondering about are people's techniques of getting more of them or actual mentor/coach programs that can deliver more consistently.
Till the very end it seemed that is almost made it.
Banking. But there was a standard policy, regardless of department - HR, Operations, Technology, Sales, everything. What was important was the scope.

I may have read the article wrongly, however. On second reading, it seems audit in the sense of check. Not audit as I assumed on an institutional level. In this case, certainly not everything is checked. Tires are kicked in the first couple of days, and if something seems like it has a leak, an extremely deep dive will be taken, for example checking thousands of records by hand (well, probably in Excel) looking for something missed - a signature, a verifier, etc. Non-cooperation results in the audit being extended in time until the auditor is satisfied with their findings.
There is no way that would have any weight in court.
Nice! Another "trick" is to take the buffer with the impulse response of the body of the instrument you are modeling, e.g. a piano soundboard or violin body, and filter the excitation (noise, or ramp, etc.) before putting it in the buffer. You can hear this so-called commuted synthesis[1] being used here [2]-- not exactly Stradivarius but kinda sounds like a screechy violin.

[1] https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Commuted_Synthesis.html

[2] https://youtu.be/U8wjFmLQJT4?t=21s
It's utterly pharmaceutical. The consumer market thinks of marijuana in terms of whole strains. The federal government, or more precisely, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which directs UM's program, thinks of marijuana in terms of constituent cannabinoids, with a special focus on THC and CBD. Their marijuana product is distributed in a homogenized form that's mixed to spec, so if you were to place an order from their menu[1], you'd ask for X marijuana cigarettes with "Medium THC / Low CBD." Of course, what NIDA considers high THC (5-10% by weight) doesn't compare all that well with today's products in the legal markets. In Colorado, 16-20% THC plant material is pretty common.

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/researchers/research-resources/nid...
" I didn't see a huge push to ban pressure cookers after the Boston bombings."

You may not have noticed it but they were effectively banned from sale by all retail stores. I was tasked with buying a new pressure cooker not 3 weeks after the Boston bombings and I simply could not find one locally. After visiting all the local retail stores, I finally gave up and ordered one on Amazon.
The way I've heard it described: McMurdo is a drinking station w/ a science problem.
Every previous civilisation met its doomsday.

They weren't, however, globe-spanning comprehensive complex and ultimately fragile systems.
This is interesting for a couple of reasons.

It appears to have been built by ElemeFE, which I'm assuming is the Frontend dev team of 饿了么 (eleme), a food-delivery company based in Shanghai. I'm happy to see Chinese startups embracing open-source contributions a bit more - feels like a very positive development, especially given the scope of the tech ecosystem there.

On the UI side, this feels very un-opinionated. This could be a good thing or a bad thing. Personally, I'm more drawn to something like Bootstrap or Material UI, where the design choices have already been made, and I can throw together a prototype that looks good enough without actually writing much CSS at all. With this, I feel like I'm going to need to write a lot more CSS to get some kind of reasonably cohesive UI in my application.
The Complex Case of the RMS Lusitania (2015)
It is amazing that the people making money from burning carbon are denying anything is going on while the companies that have to take on the risk won't insure against it. I have always wondered if we could just merge Exxon and AIG and let them fight it out internally.
But, does finding out that you're in the top 2% change your salary or lifestyle, or is it just learning something about what already is?

Finding out you're in the bottom 25% is also just learning something that already is; but in this case, it's empowering information.

Note that we're talking about somebody who just learned about something that already is.
I googled this because it sounded sort of weirdly plausible; there are a number of stories about it. http://www.today.com/news/are-researchers-antarctica-thin-ic...
Has SpaceX actually cleaned out and reused any of their recovered rockets yet? I'm guessing no, they're still analysing them, but it'll be interesting when they do. (Damned if I'd want my payload on the first recycled rocket...)
Mindfuluness Meditation
Of course, and I was jokingly pointing out a slight similarity between Somerville and the famed Kowloon Walled City, which was demolished because of its extreme density (3.25 M inhabitants / square mile vs. 18K inhabitants / square mile for Somerville).

Basically, is it possible for the mores to change so much (as reflected in the zoning codes) that not only would the city be illegal to build now, but that it should be demolished? What happened to Kowloon suggests that it is.
Well, that certainly makes what came before the Big Bang a little more interesting.
You're correct. And the ordering guidelines are...extensive.
https://www.drugabuse.gov/ordering-guidelines-marijuana-mari...
this got me looking into vue.js where I found this

demo of hacker news built with vue.js using real up to date data from the api

http://vuejs.github.io/vue-hackernews/#!/news/1
They don't fire "assholes" though, they fire people with "adequate performance" (you need to be a "star").
Does anyone know if decorators made it in? I can't find them via the search at first glance. I'm guessing they're listed under a different name/section than I thought?
That seems a bit of a stretch... There's no inbuilt point to life, but people try desperately to find one because evolution gave us some kind of drive for meaning, whatever that is. Don't mistake reproduction for some kind of divine purpose, it just is.

Don't mistake anything for purpose. Purpose is a concept central to goal directed planning, but it is a construct of the mind. Since humans give purpose to things, humans cannot be assigned a purpose except as a way to use them for some other means.

You are right though -- finding cuties gets me out of bed, but believe me I'm using birth control.
Is LinkedIn Worth $1B? (2008)
Better (2008)
The wikipedia article goes into more detail (with less storytelling): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Jesus%27_Wife

The short answer is, the manuscript has no traceable history, seems to have come from someone with motive to create a forgery whose story is inconsistent, was presented along with a forged papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John, and is physically questionable -- the handwriting, shape of the piece of paper (probably cut recently), the quality of the ink, and even the grammar are suspect. It has some grammatical weirdness that appears in a particular, modern, translation of the Gospel of Thomas and nowhere else.
The shadertoy was an attempt at doing the algorithm without a delay buffer (making it stateless). The real demo is the wav file and the C++ that generated the wav file (:
there is a c++ implementation of I2P[0].

0. https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd
I love the MattRach version - I tell people that that's what it's like inside my head!
> Yeah, though jQuery has helped a lot to make some sort of "standard library",

jQuery is mostly a better library for dealing with the DOM though. It has support for making network calls but those don't work in node without polyfills.

> Though I guess this is what standards are for. I would like to see a browser try this anyways, though. That would be the fastest way to get the standards bodies to acknowledge the problem.

I mean fetch exists and is an HTML 5 standard that's fairly decoupled from the DOM, unlike XMLHttpRequest. But it has to also work in node.js. I wrote a set of HTTP methods in my msngr library that works in both node.js and the web browser but it feels like a hack. I want my language to have first class networking and file io.
Subsidiary for startups
My cofounders want to establish a subsidiary company to spin off a new service. The only reason for doing that is to satisfy existing investors because we used their money to build the new service. I want more opinion about this issue... Personally, I don't think that is a good idea because the subsidiary will be controlled by the parent company (to let investors to have a cut of it) which might affect followings;
1. No investor is willing to invest that kinda subsidiary company especially the parent company is only Pre-A without a clear growth.
2. Early employees might have less motivation for this subsidiary startup. (because it loses part of the fun part of being a startup: doing the way you want)

We should either stay at the same startup or spin off an independent startup but not to make a subsidiary. Existing investors can still have better term to invest in the new startup. Anyway, I am trying to let members know this isn't a good idea but it seems the knowledge I have isn't enough for them...

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Or when the site gets a DMCA takedown request. Or when content is blocked in your country.

There seriously needs to be a Youtube killer, and this would be a good starting point.
It wasn't okay for priests to marry, but rather it was/is okay to ordain married men – subtle difference, but important.

As one goes further back in time, the issue isn't so much about celibacy but about the obligation of sexual continence for those ordained to the ministerial priesthood. In the Christian West, the obligation of perpetual sexual continence (= husband and wife not having sexual intercourse at any time after the husband is ordained) was eventually safeguarded by the obligation of celibacy (= can't be married). In the Christian East, the obligation of perpetual continence was more or less put aside for all but those ordained to the episcopate. Note that Christian monasticism in the East and West entails/ed "evangelical chastity" (cf. the life of Christ and the Apostle Paul; Matthew 19:12, 1 Corinthians 7), so it's a somewhat separate consideration that monks don't marry.

Interestingly, in much of the Christian East periodic sexual continence is still an obligation for married priests, i.e. for some period of time prior to their celebration of the eucharistic liturgy. Such periodic sexual continence (or abstinence) of married clergy is sometimes referred to as "levitical continence" while the perpetual variety is referred to as "apostolic". Some of the early Church Fathers maintained that after Pentecost and the birth of the Church, the Apostles of Jesus dedicated themselves in a total way to the spread of the gospel and their ministry, such that they no longer had sexual intercourse with their wives. The lesser form of continence is then seen to be modeled after the obligations of the levitical priesthood of ancient Judaism. A greater share in the apostolic ministry (bishop vs. simple priest) thus entails a greater obligation of continence. To safeguard that obligation, it is the general practice in the Christian East to only ordain to the episcopate men who have already committed themselves to a life of perpetual continence, i.e. monastic clergy.
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