skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the thoughtful reply, thank you. But it's not a strawman. That's when you advance an argument that wasn't at issue.

I supported the article's thesis, that fewer people will be coding in the future, and provided a couple of anecdata points from my experience. I don't think code is unnecessary magic to be done away with. It's essential magic that becomes invisible when done well, to everyone's benefit.

And to clarify, creative work isn't limited to the arts. The creative impulse is common and has multiple outlets. Engineering is every bit as creative as portraiture or sculpture or crafting LOTR on a ginormous graphics processor farm.

My observation is that as the need for coding has decreased due in large part to increased computational sophistication, it's gotten easier for a wider range of people to do contributive work.

Suppose you have something to say about climate change. If you need to model it, you have several global models you can run, without having to code FEA and planetary atmospheric physics from scratch.

Or pick an artistic field - I know a hand weaver who uses commercial software to visualize her designs before she heads off to her hand loom. She'll never code a simple if/then/else statement, but the (invisible to her) code in the app lets her do things she'd never have time or resources to try otherwise.

Even in your medical example - I'll guess that fewer than 2% of the surgeons who use a Da Vinci medical robot could do anything useful with the code that runs that system. And if learning to code the robot were a prerequisite to using it, it would be a failed product.

I like your thought of a device for home appendectomy. Why not, really? Ultrasound imaging, vital signs sensing, actuators for retractors, scalpels...and lots of invisible code to make it work well. Just the thing for clinics in parts of the world where there is appendicitis but no doctors.

Code may not be designed to obfuscate, but it does that to many who would otherwise be able to use computation to do something new and useful. I think the more sophisticated code becomes, the less it will be a critical skill for most people. Which is good. We'll be free to figure out the next important thing and work on making it trivial.
We do have an API for sending data into the Pipeline, documentation for it can be found here: https://docs.stitchdata.com/hc/en-us/categories/203326787-Im...

Additionally, we'll be releasing a Java client library any day now, with other languages and platforms to follow.
When a ~$100k Tesla can't successfully avoid a stationary guardrail or a turning semi, even under the limited conditions that it's autopilot actually attempts to run under, I'd say it's massively premature to suggest that there's anything like a driverless future coming in even the medium-term for affordable vehicles. There's just too many variables on our roads and the stakes are too high.

If they are coming, it's more than 25 years away IMO. Remember 25 years ago, cars weren't super different from today. ABS was first in a production car in 1971. I think the average car on the road now is 11 years old, so there's bound to be unpredictable manually-driven cars still on the road for a long time that any driverless cars would still have to contend with as well.

Self driving cars are pretty much unicorns.
And what do we do when the moderator uses that button to ban someone purely for his or her opinions being on the wrong side of the political spectrum, or unpalatable to the moderator?
NO, the entire premise rests on the FACT that the site owner IS sending the content to me for free. No entitlement there. Just reality. Now if they put up a pay wall and I start whining to you that is entitlement. Very different things if you think about it.

Now the obvious thing to say is - "well people won't pay to see the content" And to that I will respond by thinking: "hmmm, does the content really have any value then?"
UI Elements at 60fps
I had a pair of hatchlings with my ex. I didn't quite get to see them to full maturity, but just about. They're almost like the puppies of the lizard world, especially if you get them young. The first one we had, his mate died about a year on. He went from being a fairly social critter to burrowing under his pool most of the time until we got him a new mate. I try not to anthropomorphize but I swear he cheered up and became his old self because of his new friend. I know anecdote != data but damn if I'm not gonna believe those things had something more to them than "hey, you're just a stick"

If you want a cool pet that's less effort than a dog, bearded dragons are a great option. Just make sure to be careful handling them when they're small. Sneaky little things.
UUIDs perhaps?
Of these I hadn't thought of the data utility, but yeah that's probably pretty useful. However, as you suggested, it's a little hard to take advantage of that without creepiness potentially killing the larger customer relationship.

I think the other 2 are nice, but I'm not sure I buy them. I've used the product and for a rockstar team it was kind of crap. They're trying to build slack-dropbox-googledocs all in one, and it's substantially less capable at each of those tasks than the individual products. Maybe now they'll have the resources to build it out and make it actually good, but I have no idea how such a product in its current state is worth 750M.
Pretty surprised that Github is not using Ruby for this project.
This is all wrong! If you search "Inventor of email" on Google you are shown the one-true email god is VA Shiva Ayyadurai. Stop denying him the title of inventor of email with all this propaganda.

Seriously though... I thought Google was going for accuracy in their search results. It's amazing that this idiots website is listed at the top when searching for this information.
Smart idea except grocery stores and other businesses thrive on long checkout lines since it's an opportunity for them to make extra sales from snacks, gum, etc. Think Fry's Electronics.
"to augment human intelligence"
Could you please add an easy way to sort by intern or not intern. Thanks :)
Competition is not a zero sum game and video on demand is not a winner takes it all scenario. Netflix is already the market leader and for Amazon it is a great way to hedge, even if their video service fails Netflix would ensure they still get some profit from the market.
Ask HN: Why do we have a black bar today?
Just wondering.
Extremely negative review -- wow.
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I helped several small business run web apps that use mysql without any issue. Only one of my customer asked for a Discourse installation that had postgres. Managing that database was a nightmare. The server would often crash for no reason, took seriously large diskspace etc. Unlike mysql I was not able to quickly understand the problems and handle them. I am pretty sure when configured properly etc. Postgres runs better than mysql but that extra trouble is not worth for most people.
Are there any IDEs or code editors on Windows which leverage Flow at the moment?
Your only other choice is a single port on one side. There's no way you get two ports side-by-side on one side. So your point is well taken, but the existing setup of charge and audio together on the same side would be gone no matter what.

I think the choice is eliminate the port and don't allow simple charging while listening without a weird adapter, or else you need two lightning ports.

What will be funny is the power cords which have a 3.5mm jack embedded in them. Take the jack off the phone, move it a couple inches away. It can be made very streamlined, doesn't have to be bulky. The possibility of a good power/jack cable makes me think they won't actually pull off a radical redesign, but I'd be so glad to be proven wrong, just to see something different from Apple.
Nobody in SFgov is qualified to review the design of a skyscraper's foundation. That is why everyone involved in the project (city building inspectors, investors, lenders, etc) relie on expert engineering firms. Any firm making a mistake of this magnitude - if it is an engineering error - will be out of business and there insurers writing big checks.

While I agree Brown/Newsome/SFGov is shady but I highly doubt they are responsible for this problem. How did they fool the lenders? How did they get multiple engineering firms to sign off? Why would an investor like Millineum Partners want to take such a big risk in an area they have no advantage?
That's INSANE.
America had secret cities too at one point; from 1942 until 1949, Oak Ridge, a city of 75,000 people did not exist on maps.

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/06/the-secret-city/100...
As a kid I always wondered why so many of the taller buildings clustered up near DTX and then down that little strip down Boylston. As I got a bit earlier and learned what Boston originally looked like, it all made sense.
There's a chance the living computer museum in Seattle has such a drive.

http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201810
FYI: that particular pdf copy is illegible, at least the first couple dozen pages.
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Publishers dodged a bullet in their war with Facebook
I think you will find [y] in most Germanic languages, including German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, (most likely) Icelandic, and Dutch, so probably not. But it is a very "Finnish" vowel though... Hyyvää!

Besides, Widenius is Swedish speaking (just like Linus Thorvalds and about 10% of the people of Finland) and the name "My" was more or less invented by the also Swedish speaking Finnish author Tove Jansson in her books about the Moomins.

Although wikipedia claims it to be a short form of Mary or Maria, which I seriously doubt.

Anyway, Finnish has not that much to do with the name, I think that it allegedly was Tove Janssons uncle - a professor in mathematics, that suggested the name based on the mathematical symbol and Greek letter μ pronounced in Swedish. It might even be vaguely similar to how it was pronounced in ancient Greek :-)

Besides, I think that "My" in Finnish would be spelled "Myy" since just about the only simple thing with the Finnish language is that the vowel length is indicated by the number of characters.
the big topic is weather radar on 5ghz channels at least in europe. The wifi router has to detect that and stop transmitting[1].

Besides that I don't think you can do soo much harm... on the models with pluggable antennas you pump of the power to 500mW and add some additional power through an antenna but in practice that buys you little or even does worse to your wifi... however DD-WRT allegedly got some knobs to do this and lot's of people did (higher is better!11!!) and this caused some fallout that the seemed to put the FCC into the need to intervene.

Most wifi routers you can buy max out at 100mW some do 500mW you can multiply that if you add custom antennas but then the energy is directional.

There is no harm to humans to animals, maybe eventually if you sleep and live directly (<100cm) next to the antenna 24/7 but even then your smartphone likely uses more power speak to the cell tower.

1: http://wifi-insider.com/wlan/dfs.htm
Not the poster, but as some IQ tests have been proven to discriminate against protected classes, this may be an opening for a discrimination lawsuit. Effectiveness of the lawsuit might vary from state to state. IANAL.
>meaning freestanding homes that have a yard, not condos/apartments; such homes actually appear to be so rare within city limits that you'd have difficulty getting them no matter how much money you were willing to spend

I'm not claiming these homes are affordable inside SF, but they certainly exist - anyone who has spent much time in the city or searched zillow can attest (I would link you if I weren't on my phone). There are three-story single-family Victorians all over the place. The yard is usually in the back, though, as putting one next to city street traffic is a waste of space. There are some gated communities with front yards.

The preponderance of single-family homes in the city is one of the causes of the high housing prices. Most of the apartments/condos are actually subdivided versions of the victorians, because it is not legal to build anything taller. And now you have owners evicting all occupants of a property like this, converting them back into a single-family-home with an open floor plan, giant deck, lots of windows, and asking price in the millions. The circle is complete.

>For example, I know Daly City is only a few miles from SF proper, but that doesn't mean you can get doorstep-to-doorstep in under an hour given the transit conditions.

The BART train from Daly City reaches Montgomery station in 15 minutes. If you can't stand a train you do need to commute in off-hours.

>This is a good idea if you can get the timing right.

Granted, there are possible scenarios where this won't work, but all you need is for housing to appreciate at the rate of inflation over a few decades. If that happens fifteen years after you buy, you can sell and lock in your gains early. It's not so different from putting your 401k in equities when you are decades from retirement.
On the other hand, how fast does an empty unit depreciate in value?
Quip is a turd, a common investor of my past startup pushed me hard to try it and I didn't like it one bit. I never understood the hype.
One individual home router operating illegally won't do much to increase the noise floor, but each router operating illegally adds that much more to the background noise and makes it that much more difficult for the weather radar to function properly. So yes, they were doing harm to airport operations. It's just like light pollution -- one light won't block out the stars, but a million will.
Really? It would be acceptable to be hit with just some missiles, and only all the missiles would be a deterrent? This has gotten silly.
We find that we live in a somewhat special time, when the universe is just starting to be dominated by dark energy after having been dominated by matter since ~300,000 years after the big bang. Anytime you see that we live at some sort of a special time, the Copernican principle leads one to wonder if there is some underlying reason for this.

I will propose such a puzzle. The moon has been moving away from the Earth at a certain rate every year. Yet it is only in the time frames of the humans that we find the moon and the sun roughly the same size, so they can form full solar eclipses etc.

Is this a coincidence? Surely there can't be any physical explanation for this.
Not for nothing but the only thing I use Word for on a regular basis is contracts. Track changes may be sub-optimal but its a critical tool in this use case.
On that subreddit in particular, it's like 10% shitty answers referencing pop history (e.g. Jared Diamond, Howard Zinn), 80% shitty answers with no basis (e.g. "jefferson smoked weed"), 10% typical reddit shitposting (bigotry, holocaust denial, conspiracies, memes, moderator complaints).
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In iOS though, SSLKillSwitch v2 does the job well.
Seems like no one is giving love! I enjoy Atom and I use it daily (I do website at some webagency).

It is fast, even with Photoshop, Indesign, and multiple Chrome tabs opened.

Pros: its handy and has so many addons. Not crippled with useless toolbars like Eclips-y editors.

Cons: Sadly, it's still missing a "go-to-method-declaration" feature (did I miss something? ), and is awfuly buggy when editing over FTP.
I meant to include React Native here.

RN has been a focus for 2016.
I lived in SF's Inner Sunset for several years. When the old DeYoung museum was demolished and all the landscaping scraped away, the "soil" underneath was pure sand.

I noticed the same thing at my home a few blocks away -- the city had to dig a trench in the street and after they got down a few feet, there was no soil, just beautiful beach sand. A little disconcerting with SF's earthquake history.
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FTR, the original post was not about internet.
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The problem with calling out 'jerks, bozos and assholes' is contextual -- social norms/what works in NYC is quite different from small-town Indiana for example.

Two ways to handle someone you think is being a 'jerk/bozo/asshole':
1) what percentage of their behavior is 'bad behavior'?
2) what is my threshold percentage for what I personally consider bad behavior?

After I got married and witnessed PMS in action, the proportion good/proportion bad became essential.

The same is true at work.

And there is no OBJECTIVELY jerk/bozo/asshole behavior.
What you think is jerk/bozo/asshole may not even CHART with what your boss, friend, family member think is jerk/bozo/asshole behavior.

If I hire a sales guy who blows away the next 10 sales guys but 25% of the time he is reported to be a jerk/bozo/asshole I'm NOT firing him/her.

This is life and people have different psychological makeups and histories.

If you're going to set your "tolerance level" for bad behavior to, say -- 5%? 10%? at home, or in the workplace -- you'll meet highly effective people who add value to relationships and businesses who will make you unhappy.

They're out there.

"For better or worse."
"Take the good with the bad."
"Lighten up Francis."
Note, you should look at the Dorian Invasion like the PIE invasion—metaphorical. So it's visible via the archaeological record, but it's not that there was conquest so much as deep change where the Dorian culture clearly spreads over time.

Although conquest could be one such way of spreading culture, it's generally more by intermarriage than displacement (e.g. see the saxon and normandy invasions of britain or the romanization of gaul).