skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent last week in SF and used a lot of Lyft Line. I had 10 $5 credits for joining Lyft, used them all and only paid about $5 for the week of getting around the city thanks to the credits and the Lyft Line discount. 10/10 would use again.
Use of 囍 in discussions of the character 囍 can be reasonably considered nominal use (that is, use within a name). The use of a concrete object to directly represent itself isn't really the same thing as the use of language to refer to a concrete object.

edit: I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts about "it does seem to have a more figurative than literal reference than most characters, in a way that I am not sure how to translate into English", in Chinese if necessary. (No guarantee I'll understand it, but I'm interested.)
Indeed. The thing I find surprising about laptops that one has basically choice between a HiDPI screen, or a 1366x768 "Everything is blurry" screens.
Plus Yahoo Finance makes it super easy to download historical closing price data in CSV format to do your own analysis.
I think you're right about FOMO and the internet. Stuff like Meetup, Tinder or flash mob facebook groups only really work in cities, the bigger the better. OTOH, you are not totally isolated from stuff with the internet playing such a big part of culture. It's hard to argue with the economics, I guess. Cities have been drawing people in for a while now they haven't lost their pull.
Edge allows extensions now.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensi...
Yes, that's precisely the point.
Your post says lots of untrue things about Chomsky without any references, so what kind of response did you expect?
It's great meeting you, and wonderful getting some honest feedback from somebody who's used it. Thank you! I also hope Alan has a chance to answer your question, and my four.

Could you please tell me more specifically about what made it unplayable for you? What was the nature of the problem? Did you remember to disable disasters? ;)

Please don't blame it on Sugar -- the user interface was based on a 1993 version of TCL/Tk, so it looks pretty klunky since it was designed to emulate Motif, whose widget design (according to Steve Strassman) is from the same style manual as the runway at Moscow International Airport [1].

Here's a demo of SimCity running on the OLPC [2] -- does that show any of the problems you had that made it unplayable?

Once it passed EA's QA regime, I didn't put any more effort into the TCL/Tk user interface, instead refactoring it to remove TCL/Tk and plug in other GUIs. Have you given the pure GTK/Cairo interface a try?

What was totally unplayable was the X11 based multi player feature [3], which I removed from the OLPC version, since no child should be forced to wrangle xauth permissions on the command line, and David Chapman's MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 tutorial isn't suitable for children [1]. I also disabled the Frob-O-Matic Dynamic Zone Finder [3 @ 3:35], since that was a prank I played as a tribute to Ben Shneiderman [4].

Again, thanks for the feedback, which I appreciate!

[1] http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpKhh10K-j0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fVl4dGwUrA

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X8XY9430fM
Lack of offspring is already extremely apparent among highly educated women. My university is full of them. Most have no children or at best one.

Feminism is sometimes seen as an evolved reaction to overpopulation.
All the better for Apple to make $30 from + licensing others to do so. As noted above the Floppy disk was removed from Macs because no one was using them and they were dying. It was simpler to just not have them and little was missed. Removing the 3.5mm jack is purely to offset their declining sales...
The Amount of Money Senators Received from NRA Who Voted Against Gun Reform
Also this: http://inchoo.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/MAGENTO_v1.3.2....

Too big to make sense of when you can only see a screen's worth at once, so you really need a physical copy. But it's way too big to fit on anything you can get out of a regular office printer and still have it readable. So you really need to go to a print shop and shell out the better part of a C-note to have it done at 36x24 or larger. Ask me how I know.

(Before I paid, I asked our architect client if she wouldn't mind me doing it on their large-format drawing printer. She was not amused. You thought consumer-grade first-party inkjet cartridges were spendy? You have no idea.)
What is Phoenix (in this context)? Since it took me a few clicks to figure out, I'll share:

> A productive web framework [using node] that does not compromise speed and maintainability.

CORRECTION:

> A productive web framework [using elixir] that does not compromise speed and maintainability.

Apologies for incorrect info, I saw the "npm install" content in the instructions and assumed it meant phoenix used node.
Thanks for the kind words Zeeg. Please let me know anytime we can help with anything.
9-10am
At this rate, in a hundred years, we're going to be naming spaceship parts silly things like 'blip-blooper' because all the cool names for things will have already been taken by tech start ups.
http://imgur.com/lDXqBBm
Does anyone know of something similar for TypeScript?
Yes. But try getting that enacted into law in California.

Public sector unions are strongly against that sort of arrangement. They prefer that the taxpayer guarantee them a defined level of pension benefit (no matter what the investment markets do).

In other words, it seems that public sector unions want the taxpayer to insulate them from the real world shocks which the other 80% of people have to endure. It's a very valuable benefit and it's understandable that they fight for it. But it is super expensive for the cities and states.

In LA there was an attempt about 5 years ago to gather signatures just to put a measure on the ballot to transition city workers from defined benefit to a 401K style defined contribution pension plan.

But certain public sector unions made it known that they planned to send their people out to sign those petitions with unverifiable, fake names and addresses. This would increase the likelihood of a failed signature verification process, meaning that the petition would probably not succeed at getting the measure on the ballot. So they dropped the whole effort.
Or they just ignore normalization, since it's for PR and not an actual scientific study meant to withstand scrutiny.
Six figures is a huge exaggeration. You can reasonably find a one bedroom apartment for yourself in west San Jose for $2000/month, likely less if you shop around or are willing to live in a studio, and live off $1000-1500/month for everything else. Even if you're making payments of a few hundred a month on, you don't need to be anywhere close to six figures to have that lifestyle.

Granted, the level of income you'd need for this is still hard to achieve without a tech job. But you don't need six figures.

Unless by the Bay Area you meant living in San Francisco. Then all bets are off.
In general I object to the line of thinking that good things are only good if done for purely altruistic motive. I'm not sure if that's exactly your line of thinking, but your comment seemed to me like it was in that direction.

One of the reasons capitalism works is that it converts customer wishes into tangible economic benefits for a company. If Tim Cook had PR as 50% of his reason for taking on the FBI--wouldn't that still great?

It was good that he took on the FBI. And it if he was responding to his customers' wishes, isn't that good too? So why would combining those be somehow bad?

Sure, Apple is undoubtedly aware of how privacy is a marketing advantage. But since we like privacy, let's not find convoluted ways to dislike Apple for trying to please us.
How would you define "most prestigious"? In the academic context: Best at the grant hamster wheel? GPA maximization at $x university? Best politicking? Number of papers? Actively solving relatively trivial problems for little economic value for people who are `Best at the grant hamster wheel`? :P
Another short video by the BBC about the same incident with an interview with Sasha Lazutkin, one of the Cosmonauts on the station at the time but not the one controlling the cargo ship: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p028l07k
They do measure that, and they also measure +/- for a similar purpose.
You don't like using pytoolz? Pseudocode:

result = pytoolz.pipe(values, map, flatten, compact, uniq, value)
# or
func = pytoolz.compose(value, uniq, compact, flatten, map)
results = func(values)
After 1.0 is released our two highest priorities are to handle high cardinality data sets (on disk and in memory inverted index) and continuous queries that are more automatic (downsample everything and give users the option for query results that scale automatically like Graphite)
One occurence was to calculate the GCD of a list of polynomials.

In fact I had "reduce" appearing in the names of some of my variables so I used it less than 32 times, about 20 times in that project.
Node? I thought Elixir was the underlying language/platform?
There are more stats than this, average points participated, win participation, time with ball, all of those are normalized for amount of games played and time on court.
But at the end those stats you've mentioned matter, hoops scored, rebounds caught, penalty shots, and score passes/assists are what "wins" a game.

An important part of a statistical model is to also be simple and cheap enough to implement to gain actual statistics, the chance that there is some magical player that doesn't score high on stats but somehow has a meaningful impact on the game that isn't somehow scored is very very slim and in Basketball specifically probably non-existent since it's only a 5vs5 sport which means that every player handles the ball.
While not anything huge it is very interesting to see it coming from Go.

Thank you!
This is like the "Java is slow" myth that will never go away :-)

In 2014 federal civilian workers had an average wage of $84,153, according the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis [1].5 By comparison, the average wage for the nation's 111 million private-sector workers was $56,350.

In Las Vegas, the average salary and benefits package for firefighter union employees was $199,678 (in 2009, I think) [2]. The average salary alone was $128,026.

Please also note that federal government pensions are in a league of its own - 80% of your last year salary - and there are stories in newspapers every year about, for example, street cops working overtime and making $120K+ in their last year.

[1] http://www.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=9&step=1#reqid=9&...

[2] http://lasvegassun.com/news/2009/dec/30/cost-cutting-ideas-c...
Several asked to be transferred to other departments. That's what prompted his demand to be the sole point of provisioning. He had final say over Finance, Analytics, internal reporting tools, if he didn't like you it didn't get a server.

I had been with the company for four years at that point and I knew a lot of other old timers. Overnight it went from a flat organization with a progressive expectation that "No one is going to tell you what to do. You are here because you kick ass and we expect great things." to a strict hierarchy with several layers of management and influence.

Everyone who had been there as long as I had was equally unhappy with the new direction. This was all done under the guise of, "Getting the budget under control." when we all clearly saw the budget was fatter than ever. Where we had a diversity projects and research going on before, now we had 1 or 2 large money making projects. Where we had an expectation that we needed to be competitive and lean and every aspect mattered before, now they were hiring more and more management instead of workers.

We were doing so well that many former co-workers contacted me and other old timers during this time and we warned them off. Many simply didn't renew their contracts because they saw the writing on the wall.

Only one other person outright quit and that was really heartbreaking to watch. He had just transferred from California and the bullying was so bad he told me he was going home to stay with his sister and start going to therapy. He couldn't stand the idea of working in tech anymore.
I recently switched from Opera to Vivaldi and have been pretty happy with it.
I was always super disappointed they didn't use Mode-X by default.

As a result, even though you could set Mode-X explicitly, it wasn't optimized so it went slower than plain 13h and wasn't even page-flipped. So there wasn't a compelling reason to use it, except for the square pixels.
Only if you're Norwegian.
You are correct. Node is just an optional dependency.
I had previously submitted the Japanese version, which Nintendo has now translated.

The English version already has both secret items unlocked by default, but not Toad, which can still be unlocked as mentioned in the comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11016646
HN has a culture of pointing out that obvious, boring jokes have no place here. There's a constant struggle by people to introduce them, but (amongst others) those of us who watched Slashdot flush itself down the toilet of shitty humor are going to police the site because it's what we want.
I don't think so - plenty of employers offer free cafeterias, and provide dinner to people working late or weekends.
One of those is Perl - in Klingon! https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun
The Future of 4D Home Cinema: A Haptic Effects Track
The previous Spot robot was also all-electric. Hydraulic power was needed for the bigger machines. (Also, Raibert liked designing hydraulic systems; he has a patent on the valve/actuator combo used in BigDog.) Cube/square law - mass increases with the cube of the size. This is why insects have tiny leg cross sections in comparison to their length.

Battery life will be a problem, but it's clearly agile enough to plug itself in for a recharge.
Boxers have oil starvation problems.

I have had two friends kill BRZ engines on track simply by putting slicks on the car...
I would say prestashop. Successfully using it on a couple webshops.
> being downvoted in HN for publishing this? Crazy

The HN guidelines specifically ask you not to do this. Please reread them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
DNSSEC is considered a joke by a pretty broad chunk of the software security field. It's supported by people involved with the standard and by people who operate DNS infrastructure. Very few other people really understand it. It gets ambient support from a lot of netsec people who assume anything+SEC must be better than anything-SEC.
I think everybody is; it looks like whatever CMS they're using eats newlines out of content pasted into <pre>s, because there aren't any in the source.

Maybe it's a cavil, but I'm not overjoyed at the thought of doing global search and destroy on my codebases with a tool I heard about on a website that messes up something that basic.

On the other hand, apparently jscodeshift itself comes from Facebook [1], and they tend to do good work (on a technical level, at least); perhaps it'd be worthwhile to change the HN link to point to that repo, not least because the code samples aren't munged to unintelligibility there.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift
I think even HeavenCo would have one disgruntled employee. And all it takes is one. This is chilling.
This is why I race SCCA spec Miata too.
Since we both have anecdotes, anecdotes are clearly not going to "solve" this.
FYI "+/-":
A metric that looks at how teams perform with a certain player on the court, how they perform with a certain player off the court, and calculates the overall impact that player has on team success.
I think he has a point.
Jeep Grand Cherokee’s recalled Monostable transmission shifter explained
I’d like to add connection timeouts and device restarts to your list. It is hard to keep the Bluetooth gods happy.
Hi there. I am that "someone". CBT is coming along very nicely. It is growing into a nice little community. We are working on getting the last bugs out and establishing the basic range of important plugins right now https://github.com/cvogt/cbt/

CBT is very developer friendly, fast, simple, easy to use. Join us on gitter https://gitter.im/cvogt/cbt or check out my Scala Days talk about it :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5COKEp7ItZk
An extension doesn't have to be popular to be significant. 1% of people accidentally installing some spyware crap that slows down the browser by 50,000% is going to move the needle.
The tagline is definitely not about using node :) We include brunch.io, a nodejs asset builder, for our css/js building/bundling. Phoenix is first and foremost and Elixir web and distributed systems framework, which is where we get our productivity, speed, and maintainability.
I'm soooo happy right now! :)
Being profit-seeking and altruistic to their users are not mutually exclusive.
Crispr Wins Key Approval to Fight Cancer in Human Trials
+1 to rattray's questions. Some more questions: do you think Django is showing its age? Should new web projects be started in new frameworks like Phoenix, or is Django still good to go?
I have the feeling the reporter doesn't know what they're talking about:

"For example, if the Raptors were measuring college basketball prospects, Watson could quickly crunch the numbers and display a comparison of their stats on shooting, assists, and rebounds."

One most assuredly does not need Watson to do this.

Moreover,

"Compare that to drafts of past years, in which the Raptors would use whiteboards with player stats printed on magnets, and call up statisticians each time they wanted new information"

Does not seem it could be remotely true, given...

"Even before Watson came along, the Raptors were tech-savvy. They have access to one of the NBA’s leading analytics teams, and have developed a wide range of tools, including a way to use data from the SportVU camera tracking system to model the best moves a player could make."
I am always amazed by the continuous creativity around Mario after all these years. Truly amazing.
How long until we see the go equivalent of pinvoke.net ? http://www.pinvoke.net/

Ideally this sort of platform import should be automated so that Win32 specific apps could import the more advanced GUI stuff (comdlg et all).
CloudFlare's Origin CA was created exclusively for communication between CloudFlare and backend servers. I haven't seen any kind of announcement mentioning that CloudFlare has plans to operate a public CA and apply to root programs.
But isn't Magento versus WooCommerce like comparing a mosquito to an elephant? We've been wormig with Drupal Kickstart Commerce for a couple of commerce websites and it's been a terrible experience. It's without a doubt the worst CMS I've ever come accross. Drupal in itself is something of a beast, but with KC it just maken you want to cry.

SAAS solutions seem the most elegant, but we don't want to become a reseller and want to retain fill control for oud customers.

Prestashop looks interesting and not as bloated as Magento.
Show HN: Dynamic drawing application in Swift, inspired by Bret Victor talk
I see where you're coming from, but I don't agree. The Constitution specifically protects the people's ability to maintain the force necessary to be a credible threat. If not to maintain the threat of armed rebellion, what purpose would it serve?

Obviously actually engaging in insurrection against a constitutional government would not be constitutional. Anyone taking arms against the government would presumably believe that that government was not operating within the confines the Constitution provides; the act of insurrection would be seen by them as a remedy to an unconstitutional government and therefore neither party would be subject to it.
Very nice. I've not always stayed true to this advice, but for commercial products it is recommended to build software in the native language of the OS. Something like .NET is available but this is supported by the creators of Windows.

Why?

Less bugs, better examples, community support.
Ohhh I see. It's similar to how vegans generally consider all non-vegans immoral lazy unhealthy fat poison-eating murderers. The informal sociological clustering is efficient since the generalization is ~80% true. Nuance wastes too much time.
Wow, I have almost the exact same memory. Think mine was a 3dfx-branded Voodoo 2 (released after the Voodoo 3 came out, but I couldn't afford it). The switch from nearest-neighbor to bilinear texture interpolation was amazing, but it was the yellow cast light from moving rockets that I remember most clearly. Q3A and UT were soon to follow, Rainbow Six, it was a good time for PC gaming.
Thanks, I'll have to look into that. I didn't really expect them to be in a centralized public place but had a sliver of hope that they might be.
The net profit numbers by themselves don't tell you much about the health and prospects of the company.

One big issue is that customer acquisition cost tends to be upfront whereas the life time value lags behind. E.g. you have to hire sales people now, it takes X months for them to become productive, and another Y months for those new customers to fully onboard.

So to put those numbers in to context, you would have to look at revenue growth, margins, customer churn, cac, ltv, etc.
Specifically how do you make these categorizations? Why are hotels "public" but airbnb is not?
Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer
The real reason we won't solve it is because gun control has no teeth and the NRA has too much money. And neither Democrats nor Republicans can piss off the NRA. The one thing that could be done is to repeal the outdated and useless second amendment, but nobody is willing to commit political suicide to do that (if that is even possible).
Zuul and Ansible in OpenStack CI
To be clear, you took the relo package, waited the minimum number of days, then jumped ship?
Let's start smaller then - let's get rid of the Dickey Amendment so that the CDC can actually conduct public health studies involving firearms. Then we can stop making gross generalizations based on nothing credible and have a real conversation.
Well, the strange polarization and subsequent gross generalization of democrats and republicans aside, this argument can be applied to almost every controversial issue.

Pro-birthers argue for the rights of unborn fetuses, pro-choicers argue for the rights of mothers.

Anti-vaxxers argue for the rights of parents, pro-vaxxers argue for the rights of the general population (ie. the right to a reasonable expectation of herd immunity).

Pick any controversial topic, both sides are arguing different angles that they believe are for the best.
In Utah they found out that just providing the homeless with a place to live was the first step to making a host of changes. You are correct, it is a difficult hole to dig oneself out from.

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...
BoiledCarrot
Before the internet was a thing, cookery programs used to end with the information that the recipes featured in the program could be found on Ceefax, or you could send a self-addressed envelope into BBC TV center and they would mail the recipes out to you. It seems like an obvious and natural use of the web for the BBC to provide the same information on a web page that it used to provide.
No, you can't, because lambdas.