skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We learn counter-steering subconsciously, right? It's intuitive in the sense that it's muscle memory, but not in the sense that it's conscious and obvious why. A lot of people who've ridden bicycles initially refuse to believe counter-steering exists, I think that demonstrates that it's not completely intuitive. If the counter-steering part is obvious to you, then you're probably ahead of the curve, and you can certainly ignore when coaches harp about it.

Counter-steering is said to be important to learn consciously because it's unintuitive, and people have crashed and died on motorcycles in panic situations by turning their handlebars toward their escape route only to have the bike go the opposite direction. Or at least I heard a rumor about that in my MSF course.

I do think it's valuable to know this fact consciously and not rely on body intuition, but I'm also sure it's much more important for motorcycling than for bicycling.
Mozilla needs to do outreach to the porno industry to get them to convert.
None of these points matter when the three pizzas are already in front of you, on three separate plates, which is why I brought up this particular scenario twice.

I think it is obvious that we (including the other participants in the thread) have vastly different points of view on this topic.

To me, the "pizza" example is simply about the end result: what you shove in your mouth.

To the other participants, the pizza is much more than that. For example, you mentioned "atmosphere" with restaurant pizza. To me, that has nothing to do with the pizza; the dining experience is an entirely different product itself (a service), and applies to various non-pizza dishes as well.

To emphasize why I believe this, and as food for thought (no pun intended), here in Austria, virtually all pizza delivery services are operated by pizzerias. In other words, in this particular case, the restaurant pizza and the delivery pizza would be identical. The difference would lie only in the mode in which you acquire the pizza -- the service product.

While I obviously still favor my point of view, I can also understand why you favor yours.
I envisioned something like this some years ago. What's the excuse of the browser for not preloading page content with JS to minimize loading times, in a progressive enhancement fashion? What's wrong with wanting a less frustrating UX if you're not sacrificing basic functionality when running without JS? This is beautiful, keep going. Hope to use this myself.
Er... catch errors?

(Available for hire as copy editor...)
Keep in mind that the larger you make lithium-ion batteries, the scarier they get.
No profit means no value creation, the company is doing nothing.

This part isn't true. If you take inputs and combine them into something the market values more than the uncombined inputs, the process of combining them creates value, regardless of what price tag you put on the end product. The question then is who gets the value you created. If there is very little competition among producers, you might be able to charge a price well above your cost and keep most of the value for yourself in the form of profit (the buyers will still get some of it or they won't buy). If there is brutal competition, you might have to sell at cost just to avoid losing money from fixed costs (ex: property tax) that would have to be paid even if you sold nothing. If you combine the inputs into something the consumer values more than those inputs but charge the consumer the cost of the inputs, you DO create value by combining the inputs and ALL of the value you create goes to the consumer.

Profit isn't inefficiency, it is the incentive to remove inefficiency.

This part IS true. Profit is an (if not "the") incentive to remove inefficiency, though profit is not an inevitable consequence of removing inefficiency. If your competitors also remove the inefficiency, the extra value may not stay with the producers in the form of profit but go to the buyers.
"We have £1bn destroyers trying to sort out pirates in a little dhow with RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades] costing $50, with an outboard motor [costing] $100”

Where can I get one of those $100 outboards? If it can move a rowboat with five guys faster than a container ship cruises it's good enough for me.
I have Windows PCs with anything from 2GB to 8GB, and I'm just about to upgrade one to 12GB, so I'll have a look when I get some free time. However, the browser putting a cap on RAM usage would seem a sensible approach....
I think the appeal exists for exactly the same reason: the affectations of the medium.

Both vinyl and VHS are obviously inferior as a medium for high-fidelity playback compared to modern digital formats. Both impart their own artefacts and types of imperfection which may be aesthetically desirable for what they evoke. Consider the recent "Alien: Isolation" game- the developers made extensive use (and abuse) of analog video playback equipment to recreate the battered, lo-fi feel of technology in the other Alien films.
I don't know where I hoped for any kind of wall. I was asking for an internally consistent criticism of Trump's proposal so as to understand the logic behind it -- ideally, a worldmodel under which Trump's proposal is atrocious, but which doesn't generalize to criticism of all expenditure on border protection.

Can you help me with that point? I'm not interested in getting into the woods of what is or isn't "a wall" or what people can or can't call a "cordon".
Thanks for that answer, that lead me to learn and understand more about standard streams and file descriptors than I ever cared to before! That's a good thing. :)

So then, what about this approach: since the de-facto standard streams are STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR using file descriptors 0, 1 and 2, respectively, are there three more reserved numbers (I couldn't find any in my google-glance) that could be used for, say, JSONIN, JSONOUT and JSONERR?

I think the heart of the matter is: unless it becomes part of the POSIX standard, is there any hope on agreeing on an informal "UNIX philosophy" sort of approach that would allow coreutils and shell built-ins to accept and pass structured responses in any kind of object form?
> I mean, if the engine tried matching from the second space, what would be matching the first space? Something has to.

Some regex engines provide an API call that puts an implicit `.STAR?` at the beginning of the regex so that the semantics of the match are "match anywhere" as opposed to "match only from the start of the string." (This is in fact the difference between Python's `match` and `search` methods.) Assuming the OP was using this type of method, then this difference exactly explains why you can't reproduce it. I can:

>>> import re
>>> haystack = (' ' * 20000) + 'a'
>>> re.match('\s+$', haystack) <-- is wicked fast
>>> re.search('\s+$', haystack) <-- chugs a bit

indeed, this chugs a bit too:

>>> re.match('.*?\s+$', haystack)

So technically, the OP left out this little detail, but it's a pretty common thing to find in regex libraries. In fact, Rust's library treats all searches as if they were re.search and provides no re.match function, instead preferring to require an explicit `^` to remove the implicit `.STAR?` prefix.
I appreciate the frank nature of your post. As a left leaning person (though I lean right on nuclear power, drugs, and a few other issues) I'll try to answer as honestly as possible.

> higher taxes

I'm fine with higher taxes for some purposes. As a fairly high income earner, my tax bill hurts quite a bit. Still, when I was a kid I had a single mom. She had to go on welfare for a little while, and it was rough on her. I think it's the first time I ever saw her cry.

Obviously there are some people who abuse the system, but I feel like we have to keep providing anyway. The money that we collected for those few months kept us from being homeless. I like to think it as an investment in my future by the tax payers. I've paid more in now than I took, so it worked out.

> more regulation of businesses

Not always a good thing, but I can get behind some regulations. I think the repeal of Glass-Steagall was probably a mistake (thanks, Bill), and likely contributed to the 2008 bubble burst. Things like the FDA, and OSHA seem like examples of good regulation. They're certainly imperfect, and have made mistakes. On the whole though, I think they've been a net positive.

> more intervention in housing markets

Not much of an opinion on this one.

> higher marginal tax rates on "the rich" (AKA a middle class salary here) etc.

Hillary's plan calls for a 4% tax hike on incomes over $5 million. Software developer salary is pretty good, but I don't think anyone's salary is that high.
FWIW, I don't think number of talks on meetups is a good measure of long-term success at all.

AngularDart's play is not to be the next React (the same way Go is not trying to be the next PHP). AngularDart users at Google are, to my knowledge, extremely happy with the framework, but their enthusiasm won't necessarily (or even probably) translate to large portions of JS crowd. AngularDart works for a specific set of problems (very large web apps that need to be performant and work well on mobile, built mostly by developers with classic CS background).

I personally think insisting on the one framework (Dart+JS+TS) was the silly thing to do, and I'm glad that's over.
"A recent survey found that the average user spends 43 minutes on Pokémon Go per day, compared with 30 minutes on WhatsApp, 25 minutes on Instagram, and 22 minutes on Snapchat."

How is this even a useful statement? I'm thinking that 22 minutes of video is going to be a lot more data than 43 minutes of playing a game.

side note: I hope an irritated group of howling howler monkeys shadow every speech of any politician that distributes a PDF that cannot be selected from because its a friggin image file.
Ask HN: How can you stand sitting at computers all day?
This is not what humans are meant to do. This is not social and not fun. Why are we slaving away like that? Building complex is fun up to a point, aren't we taking this too far?
ES6 for Everyone (Wes Bos)
The thing about the so-called "mind upload" is that it requires a particular view on concepts such as death and consciousness in order to consider that those who would undergo it would escape death in some sense, but ironically such view also implies a certain disregard towards death so that it becomes much less of a concern than it is for people who do not share this view.
The unadulterated version of the original Star Wars is, kind of, available, as the "Despecialized Edition" widely floating around the universe. It's HD. So, so much better than VHS, particularly if you have a big TV on which to play it.
"Respect my authoritah" vs. "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"
She also tells you where to get a packet of picoseconds.
Asteroid that formed moon’s Imbrium Basin may have been protoplanet-sized
That is by default set to 1.5 GB, but you can change it or even turn it off. I have unlimited, but still have a warning set at 3Gb
No New Zealand on the map - Typical north-hemisphere neo imperialism :)
I'm actually not aware of any popular DFA based engines that suffer from this vulnerability. grep and RE2, for example, build the DFA lazily and cap the size of the DFA such that matching is still linear time even if generating the full DFA would take exponential space. (This is because at most one DFA state is generated for each byte in the input, so technically, you only ever need space for one or two states. In practice, you give a little more room to avoid constantly recomputing states, but it's still bounded.)
Well, I get that. My issue is I can't see anything redeeming in the technology. It's not "warm to the eyes" or the artifacts don't humanize it, they usually get in the way of the experience. VHS to me, was a useful tool, but inferior, none the less.

I understand if someone wants to keep their old collection, but.... Paying thousands for a "rare" copy of an inferior technology? I don't get it.
I agree with the downvoters of your comment.

edit: You downvoters of my comment, however, are lame!
I don't think I've seen ZFS use much more than a single core. Apart from it being left over from upgrading desktop machines, I put that CPU in in there for video transcoding.

It's well worth while creating a bunch of sub-filesystems (something ZFS makes really easy) with different settings: block sizes, compression, etc. - and copying sample data to it, to tune things in. The defaults are not necessarily a good fit for everybody. There's no reason not to turn on lz4 compression, for example.

If you create zvols for use with different filesystems or sharing out over iSCSI, watch out for 100+% space consumption (e.g. 500G volume takes up 1+T space out of the pool, which is more than you would expect even with 8+2 raid overhead). I understand it relates to block vs stripe mismatch. This makes it a little less handy for things like virtual machine backing store than I had originally hoped.
There are some very long Stack Overflow answers that contain a wealth of information. If there were a limit, it would likely need to be far greater than 20k characters anyway (the number of whitespace characters that caused the outage).
This right here is the crux of the issue. Rate plans are straight robbery.
I grew up watching the Wizard of Oz every year on standard def broadcast TV. Then I moved to LA and got a chance to see it in a theatre from a restored print on actual film (this was 20 years ago). The detail was incredible, but it also took some of the magic away because it was now painfully obvious that it was shot on a sound stage. Production flaws that had been hidden by the low definition were now painfully visible. I haven't watched it since, despite the fact that I have it on DVD.
Fair enough, you have some points there.
So, you're saying that if you enjoy tricky gotchas and puzzle-solving over reliability, then the perl-aping regex implementations have your back?
Once we passed the fork block, we had a vote by 100% of the mining power.

The ether vote had the percentages you mentioned, but all elections are decided by the people who show up. Generally we consider elections fair if everyone has the opportunity to vote; whether they actually do is up to them.
Dartium doesn't need to be close to native, it just needs to beat every JS engine out there; in other words: the comparison should be in the same league. Last time I've checked it did beat them.
Why Florida's recent earthquake is so rare
I don't think it will be a brain copying thing. I think we will have implants that connect us to a cyber body and a cyber neural network. We will come to rely on that part of our "brain" and we will spend part of our time in that body.

As we age, we will spend more and more time attending to our cyber half. As it grows, our flesh half will atrophy. The brain cells will quiet, our muscles will grow weak.

Eventually our heart will stop, long after we stopped using it for much. What is left will be purely digital, and to our friends it will seem like nothing has changed. But it won't be a clone. It will be more like a metamorphosis. The caterpillar gave way to the butterfly. It didn't die, but its body was used up and transformed into something else.

I do wonder if it will feel like death. In that moment, when we draw our attention back to our last remaining brain cells, and our last remaining heart beats, will our cyborg half really feel like part of us, or will there still be a sense that the machine within us is Other?

I suspect not. I suspect we will have long since spread our identity across the divide. But maybe that is a choice we will all have to make. Whether to see it as death or birth.
The position on that continuum of race is just as correlated with the same metrics as the self-identified classification.

The issue 'race is correlated with X' is not materially affected by how exactly race (especially its borders) is defined and taxonomical problems - it's important in it's own regard, but in this regard, it's not the core problem, it's a red herring distracting from the core question of "does race affect X'; and that question is the same, with the same answers, no matter if in your analysis you choose to model race as discrete borders or as a continuum.
There's a piece of writing advice I like: "Take pity on your reader." Stream of consciousness style writing at such length is very painful to read. So I never understood why an author would do it, but for some kind of self-gratification that strikes me as pretentious. Now this article has explained that Joyce had a goal that I often think about in relation to my often humdrum life, elevating the ordinary. I have a bit more respect for this now. Perhaps not enough to read the thing again, but still.
Google Just Figured Out a Futuristic Way to Slash Its Energy Bill
I still haven't figured out why regex engines font use state machines where possible (i.e. in the absence of back references and such). Is that not an obvious optimization?
We run ZFS at my company, Datto, across hundreds of machines, including devices out in the field and servers in our data centers. It has a few warts, but overall very stable and the feature set has allowed us to deliver world-class features to our customers.
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Is there any "ecosystem for frontend development" for Go at all?
Writing software for whom?

Consider the software that NASA writes and how it's written. Rigorously specified, reviewed, and tested by some of the best engineers in the world to the point that almost bug-free code is produced at the expense of a much slower rate of development. Which is the best you can do with billions of dollars and human lives on the line for certain projects.

Now look at most government software infrastructure: frequently mercurial and ambiguous software specifications interacting and/or based on flawed laws and regulations filled with logical contradictions written by Congressmen and lobbyists with perverse incentives. And you have to justify every cent or risk the accusation of wasting taxpayer dollars.
Yes, and I believe iOS gives the same breakdown (though it is not as intuitive to read, and it gives all-time-since-you-reset-the-counter data usage totals).
Any idea if it was a malicious attempt? It kind of sounds like it was.
I don't give a hoot about any of that stuff you want. I'm responding to some dupe who has fallen for an Internet hoax claiming to show a gigantic wall on the Mexico/Guatemala border. There is no such wall.
Why PokemonGo is sitting on a $$ goldmine
InboxSDK looks awesome. I took a look at it several months ago, and we want to build something on GMail. We're a little concerned about the licensing and availability of the library, though. Is it possible that a month from now you decide that we're competing with something you want to do, and stop serving the library for our app? What would be our recourse then?
Court: Google and Bing Don't Have to Censor “Torrent” Searches – TorrentFreak
In this area there weren't any traffic controls. The level of planning and understanding that corvids demonstrate in most tasks exceeds anything I've seen from even the smartest of dogs.

I wish I could know what they were thinking.
And Rust! https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/regex
>A good investment has to grow in value over inflation

Housing is the exception to this rule. Yes you want your investments to beat inflation, but unlike an index fund, or a stock, or a commodity, you need housing (you have to live somewhere). You have to either rent or buy (or live off the land in the woods, which can be illegal many places). When you rent you are throwing your money away, you will never see that money again, period. The one other alternative is to purchase, even if you lost a small percentage on your "investment" buying a home, isn't that better than just throwing your money in the trash and losing 100% of it? An investment that isn't great is still better than an investment that absolutely sucks.
Used pro-grade VHS VCRs are getting expensive. That's what you want for transcribing old VHS tapes to some other medium. Pro units have timebase correction and lack Macrovision copy protection, so you can get a clean signal out.
I don't think the razor market grew at all. Or, at least not enough to compensate the prices reduction. How could it? It's pretty much bounded.

Making a market bigger by reducing prices is something completely different. It also goes by the same "disruption" name. That's why I started using that term.

About that second line, yes, any kind of coercion is an exception.
> Full disclosure, I don't really buy the vinyl arguments either. My personal suspicion is that vinyl has historically been thought to be better not because of vinyl advantages but because vinyl mixes weren't participating in the loudness war. I'll buy that a non-war'ed vinyl might sound better than a war'ed CD, but I'd rather have a non-war'ed CD.

Heh. Everybody forgets that the Loudness War goes all the way back to even the Beatles. It's not new.

However, most people who "prefer" vinyl do so because it sounds "warm". They like the sonic imprint that the needle, preamp, amplifier (which has to be tube, dontcha know), and speakers put on the sound.

In reality, it's personal preference with a dose of whatever you were raised on in adolescence. It's like guitar preference--you may like the sound a Fender Stratocaster makes when we all know that a Rickenbacker 360 is objectively superior while staying in tune better. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic :) )

But, yes, calling vinyl "better" is quite silly. Especially since it degrades with every playing.
While that may be true, I would say that your power consumption example is not related to the power conservation claim in the article.

You are talking about the power required to execute the AI, where the article is discussing the application of the AI to make a system more efficient.
The context of that sentence is that it makes no difference whether you work on cargo ships or rockets.
People can hate without violence, just like you can think about a girl sexually without later jerking off. However, it's a sin either way, with obvious potential consequences (i.e. violence) that will occur more often than zero percent.

As such, there is violence in America, it's greater than zero. There's less hate, more wisdom, and more love here, I think, which is why there's less violence here.

Anyways, do Protestants really hate Catholics? Or do they just think they're idiots? They just dislike their ideas, traditions, etc., rather then them as individuals? I'm actually not too aware of this relationship, but this would be my guess.
I am not a huge fan of Musk, and agree with some of the sentiments of the article, but I found the title quite offensive - to me saying, "Elon's Great Leap Forward," sounds like saying, "Elon's Final Solution."
Both Dart and Go can be run in the browser or on the server, so you can share code between client and server regardless of which language you choose, so long as you don't mix them.
This doesn't account for the fundamental attribution error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
> not language designers

They designed a language. Is there some other qualification for being a language designer?
Have you looked at Unity's game dev tools for HTML5/Emscripten/asm.js? It seems like there are viable alternatives to the Flash authoring tool.

It's not just Firefox and Chrome that are focusing on Flash. Safari 10 (in macOS Sierra to be released this year) and Edge are also restricting Flash usage:

https://webkit.org/blog/6589/next-steps-for-legacy-plug-ins/

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/04/07/putting-users...