skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much to all the contributors for such a useful tool. I use it to convert markdown posts with embedded Latex to HTML for my blog.
I read a beautiful anti-anti-participation rant recently that I thought did a great job of arguing that showing up is half the battle, and so heck yeah you should get kudos just for showing up.

Some people try to go their whole lives without showing up for anything. You should be encouraged to get off your ass and try.

Convincing yourself that everything is pointless is a self fulfilling prophecy.
I'd also like know which companies I should short.
That seems annoyingly true of much of Unit 1, but seems less true (though not entirely untrue) of the rest of the Curriculum.
> But the uncomfortable subtext of No Man’s Sky is that the galaxy exists for your benefit, that it’s OK to blindly consume and profit from everything you see.

There is nothing uncomfortable about this, unless you somehow have trouble distinguishing this fantasy world from reality, or believe this game for some reason should teach you life lessons and influence your personal values.

I personally am sick of this kind of hand-wringing, navel-gazing writing online. Especially as regards games, of all things. This isn't thoughtful critique or meaningful introspection. The original tweets are good critique. This writer's article is simply melodrama, false-intellectualism, and pseudo-ethics.

In terms of videogame critique, there is no doubt a lot to say about No Man's Sky. Including that it is disappointing that a game which is so creative, innovative, and envelope-pushing in so many ways reverts to rote mechanics like point-and-shoot and a trite explore-collect-upgrade-expand core loop design. I personally would have loved to see NMS' core loop be about discovery and improvement -- leaving planets better than you found them, perhaps. (Though "better" on what dimensions and metrics would be an interesting question.) And one could actually write a meaningful article on philosophy, culture, or even sci-fi and futurism based on the universe NMS presents for consideration. Unfortunately, this article does none of this and is a lazy aping of more thoughtful tweets.

As much as the article critiques NMS for relying on the tropes of shooting, and extracting+expanding in games, it leans entirely on its own tropes of online "journalism" today, with shallow thinking, false moral criticism, and pointless hand-wringing for the sake of attention.
I reaaallllyyy want to put a power rack somewhere in my house. I have the space for it, but I'm conflicted because I'm trying to downsize my possessions. While the convenience of a home gym is appealing, having more stuff to worry about is not.
It would be cool if they could release it as open source. There were aspects of IRIX that I really liked.
> Listen to your body.

I hate this advice. When I'm exercising, my body is telling me that I'm tired and that I should give up. When I'm eating chocolate, my body is telling me that it's delicious and I should have more. Sure, there are things that you probably should listen to your body about, but there are just as many that you should ignore and overcome.
> Over the road truck driving doesn't benefit from reducing hours and hiring more, since OTR drivers basically live in their trucks for three or four weeks at a time to maximize flexibility in moving freight.

So give them three weeks on, three weeks off. Or have them drive shorter runs, handing trailers off to other trucks for 'long hauls'.

To your other points, I wasn't commenting on the economics of pay levels for truck drivers. I was saying if everyone was happy with the wages, some tasks (leaving the concept of 'a job' to the side) can certainly be divvied up among more workers without a major loss in productivity...

The only objection I could see to that hypothesis is that there's a shortage in the natural talent pool so that there aren't enough workers to allow a shorter work week. Maybe there aren't enough patient, healthy, and alert people (or whatever the other qualities of a good trucker are) to handle three times more truckers working one-third as much. That's an empirical question at the end of the day.

With that in mind, it seems unlikely to me that makes sense to have three times more brain surgeons working one third as much.
Richards, in fact, is interfering with the natural course of the universe. Galactus is a force of nature. He must exist for the universe to continue.

Richards intentions were selfish, but completely understandable and relatable.
My main machine is an oldish ThinkPad T420s. It runs Fedora 24 flawlessly. Sadly not many machines seem to run Linux (any distro) perfectly. Part of the reason I haven't upgraded to a newer machine is because this machine just works and I am very lazy so trying to get a newer machine to run as well is more work than I care for. It isn't like performance has improved massively since SandyBridge.
Should all cameras be forced to create Dadaist interpretations of what they capture instead of a best-attempt at the actual image?
My gosh, this is way harder than the alert(1) series. http://escape.alf.nu
How to Achieve 60 FPS Animations with CSS3
I understand this might sound weird but I just don't think about fonts. In my head that is designer territory and ever since I realised I was colourweak and couldn't be one anyway I stopped even trying.

I know three types that I use: serif, sans-serif and monospaced programming fonts.

I do however care a lot about keyboard layouts, keyboard shortcuts and general snappiness of the OS so I am definitely a programmer ;-)

Edit: and I'm not a graphics programmer so I'm not an "art dealer" anyway, more like someone in logistics. :-)
Better bump that baby. Start with Excession.
If it's so simple why are so many people overweight? Seriously.
> How ?
In term of allocation : When the future uses some variable present on the current function stack you have two options

1 - Waiting for the future to complete before exiting the current function (which essentially is blocking)

2 - Allocating the closure on th heap (allocation + deallocation)

In a language with coroutine support , we have a third alternative. Instead of block or allocating memory, it's possible to just suspend the current function (no heap allocation necessary, no blocking), and resume when the future completes.

In term of context switching speed : the cost of moving the state machine is essentially the cost of a double dispatch (probably double dispatch plus virtual function call), switching coroutines is closer to the cost of a function call ( i think it's cheaper than a normal function call, but tha becomes too technical)
Out of the box Fedora has ugly fonts but that is easily fixed with Fedy http://folkswithhats.org/ takes two minutes and you have beautiful fonts just like Ubuntu :)
If the games not based on consumption how will they monetise it post-sale though!?! /ignorant-cynicism
How to Start a Food Blog in the Most Convenient and Hassle-Free Way
> Right click, search google (Or however FF does it/extension)

Which of course relies on a third-party, proprietary service.

> A hyperlink should reinforce the article, not detract from it in a random manner.

Back in the old days, being able to jump around from article to article was considered a virtue. It made the Web like a piece of interactive fiction, and adventure. It was awesome.
I have not used MaxMind but with another geo data provider in addition to the centroid it returned the shape and the type of match it was (exact address, city, county, state, country,etc...). So you know whether the IP has an exact address match or not. But many application developers probably chose to ignore the complexity as that might be easier.
When your job 'forces' 10+ hours of inactivity a day in the office + commute and the only house you can afford requires driving everywhere, and cheap entertainment is passive TV/Computers. And most food is minimally nutritious and pumped full of empty calories so your body says eat more I need X.

It's easy to see how people get out of shape.
In most countries they are not. It's really only a big problem in the US, where portion sizes are absurdly large and fast food is cheaper than anything else.
is replacing physical labels such a significant overhead for museums? I would think in the effort associated with updating art pieces, the new label is a drop in the bucket.
Not long ago there was a thread about IBM PhotoStore system from 67, a Terabit of storage on photographic film: http://www.computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/Photostore....

I miss this IBM.
My children were the right age about 5 years ago, and everything on your list (and by another comment, Fraggle Rock) held up well for them, and also the watching parents. Sure Mister Ben was a little clunky, but in a fairly timeless way. And Postgate and Henson just had the "storytelling" touch.
Actually a large part of the equestrian market could still use a form of this. I am in Florida where places like Ocala and Central/South Florida as a whole have a large number of equestrian activities. I could see a product that was GPS enabled and sent a signal every few minutes via a cell network when in range -- for large open pasture a cell repeater could help increase coverage. And when out of cell range it sends a lower frequency signal broadcasting the coordinates, e.g. 400Mhz or lower. This would let you have a tracking device to find lost animals much faster. And if they get to a place where GPS is no longer connecting, that's fine, the last known position plus signal strength could still get you to the animal much faster.

The hard part is making it affordable, in a small enough form factor of low weight but with reasonable battery life to matter. And then how to attach it to the animal, using the halter is one idea, but most people don't like leaving a halter on a horse in a pasture for safety reasons. So then how to mount it without interfering with the animals movement or having it get ripped off when the roll or scratch on a tree etc. When you are riding there are ways to do it via the saddle, reins etc, but when they are out grazing it is a tougher problem.

I guess another point though, some riders where safety vests, many wear helmets, so a device for a rider could also be created along the same lines. This would be nice for those trail rides when the horse gets spooked, drops its rider and the rider isn't well enough to walk out. Happens more then people realize.
Even running can be time efficient. When I lived in almost-central London (Wandsworth), the office was 7 km in towards the center. Running took 40 min., while the tube or bus was 50 min. door-to-door. So running plus a shower was no slower than public transport, plus you save time on never having to go to the gym. And of course significant financial savings on cutting the gym membership and 80-90% of the public transport expenses. (Not a native Londoner, so I was too afraid of traffic to bike it.)
I was thinking about the same thing + JSF.

This might be the evolution of it, where the page routing is residing on client with server side state ?
Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future
http://hieroglyph.asu.edu
One of my favorites podcasts did a great episode on this! http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-can-a-lake-ex...
I imagine if the screen refreshed frequently, that would greatly reduce the battery life of these displays making them much more tricky to maintain
Green goo and pink goo are the accepted terms, at least according to @cstross.
Ok, maybe I should have said "I don't understand how people who want to stay fit have so much trouble staying fit." If you want to stay fit, you won't make stupid excuses like "I don't have time" or "all this junk food I'm eating tricks me into being hungry!"
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Convincing yourself that everything is meaningful is also a self fulfilling prophecy.

I understand what you're saying, and they are certainly valid thoughts. I might even agree, largely. But there's not much objective in what you expressed.
I used to fail at sticking to a routine because:

1) Time. I used to work 60-80 hours/week. By the time I got home, I'd eat, it'd be late, and I just wanted to sleep or waste a couple hours on a video game.

2) Motivation. My exercise was undirected towards anything other than "being fitter" or "losing weight" (better done by diet, anyways).

3) Pain. I used to have terrible shin splints when I ran. This made it difficult to stick with.

4) Insecurity/vanity. I felt like I should have known how to exercise at the gym (say weightlifting), but knew my form was bad. Or was embarrassed by the idea of only lifting the bar. Or thought that I was too fat to get in the pool and swim a few laps each day.

I have stuck to it for the last 2 years because:

1) Time. I reclaimed my time. I work 40 hours/week almost every week. I stopped playing video games. I stopped watching cable TV. I still watch TV shows, but typically only 3-4/season. I watch movies in the theater regularly, but that's a treat on the weekend.

2) Motivation. I started playing soccer, I'd get a bit fitter, but then the season would end and I'd start over the next season. I started running for that. I took up BJJ and wrestling and dancing. I added in strength and condition exercises to improve my performance at those (dancing is surprisingly physically exhausting).

3) Reduced pain. My running form improved on the soccer field, which meant that it also improved when I ran long distances. Shin splints gone, it was easier to get into. Summary version: Start easy, work up to the hard stuff.

4) Security/vanity. I got over how I looked doing things I didn't know how to do before. I got over being fat and having man boobs. My goal was to get in shape, to look good, to feel good, and to train for the activities I enjoyied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic%E2%80%93Latino_naming...
Ask HN: Is it a good time to buy a MBP
consumer vs enterprise SSDs? Interesting.. they are not made on the same line?
How to analyze competition’s tweeting patterns
So, this is the practical version of using your hardware to play music?

(Example) :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68qZ8JvBds
> Supporting more than 48 nodes

Hmm, on the mailing list announcement they claim 2-48 nodes.

EDIT: perhaps they're referring to support for read-replica's that can go beyond the 48 primaries.

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAH%2BGA0qO0q9NJhKxaoo...
You might not even need this. The safe I own had two "user" and one "master" slot. Doing a search for documentation of similar models, I found that that some had a second "master" slot with a default factory code. Sure enough, this worked on my own model.

I find it easy to believe there are additional unlock codes for use by locksmiths, law enforcement and so forth.

I'm not buying another electronic lock any time soon.
> I personally am sick of this kind of hand-wringing, navel-gazing writing online.

Ditto, it's happening whenever anyone writes about media of any kind these days. Sometimes I think people can't remove themselves from the events of the world. Another example I read is in the upcoming Deus Ex game there was a poster where a character in the background had an "Aug Lives Matter" poster. Apparently that's reason to get enraged these days. Disregard that the games themes are metaphorical about racism, lets just call that offensive.
There are Roman structures that remained intact for millennia. I think the main threat to them was people re-using the masonry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_du_Gard
You really dont understand why something apparently intuitive for you is difficult for someone else?
Add rubber band effects to scrollable divs to other browsers than Safari
Pragmatic design: how does design thinking fit into the real word?
> if at all possible, look for simple solutions and quick fixes.

Oh boy. I'm not OP but you and I could easily have the same altercation. Quick fixes and simple solutions are two different tools, and conflating the [two] leads to endless disagreements and hurt feelings.

Pascal and de Saint-Exupery both have famous quotes that apply to the distinctions between the two.
Are you talking about the gov? If thats the case, you should look into the history in regards to unions and unethical labor practice. I think it was this year that a whistleblower revealed that lithium was being mined by children. I appreciate you think we have "evolved" but really we just wear better masks
sorry yes I meant the most popular games are FPS
Yup. Quite a few sneak-em-ups and multiparadigm first-person games offer mostly- or wholly- pacifist routes through too - Thief, Deus Ex, Dishonored etc.
I've been using a Hackintosh as my main machine for more than 4 years. Mostly for Ruby on Rails and Mobile development.

The "secret" is to get a hardware that is supported ( http://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/july/2016 ) and wait a few months before upgrading when a new OS X versions comes out so that all upgrade bugs are fixed.

When I started I had a graphic card that didn't worked well. Every 5 or 6 days, the UI would freeze completely. I simply got a graphic card that is supported and the problem went away.

My current uptime is 183 days and I only had to reboot because I decided to add a new SSD. I also have a mac mini but almost never uses it as the Hackintosh hardware is far superior.
Also, like all software, the digital labels are unlikely to "just work" so maintenance will become an additional expense, which is likely to be more expensive than just printing labels.
This is just a problem with capitalism. Food and exercise studies are turned into health products, and a minimum amount of scrutiny results in the widest range of products. Advertising-supported media can only write about those products positively or not at all, because it takes money from them, or may potentially in the future. Rewriting a press release is cheap.

There's also the mentality that every aspect of what you consume must be scrutinized intensely, or else you risk destruction. We probably get that from our more adventurous forebears eating poisonous stuff, through religion.
I've seen it firsthand several times, if you want a mess, call IBM.

The only "problem" with developers is they usually don't throw golf days for their best customers :)
Hahaha, I think "the North Pole" is in the Arctic.
The annoying thing about survival bias is that the survivors who took the largest risks often get the greatest rewards, and then carry the most influence.

So someone who sank her entire life savings into LTC a couple years ago, would sound more worthy than this person.

And, depending on how credulous the reader is, someone who went into debt to buy a few lottery tickets, and was lucky enough to win, could trump both of them.
That's not my understanding at all! SGI had state of the art graphics (and other A/V hardware) at the beginning. At the end of the workstation market, commodity hardware got to the "good enough" level for a lot of people. A number of SGI engineers went to Nvidia.
Something like that is possible by using UDR (think BDR but only in one direction):

https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/a/a8/Udr-pgconf.pdf
Please improve GNOME multi-display support anybody.

I have triple monitor setup, GNOME always crashes. I am using XFCE with some success on F22.
And don't get me started on "their", "there", or "they're"... though on Hacker News commenters knowledgeable of the correct usage of "their" and "there" seems to be the least common.
That's a neat attack, but why does anyone get an electronic safe in the first place?

The batteries may die, which means there must be a physical lock as well. Either the physical lock is less secure than the electronic lock (in which case an attacker will focus on the physical lock) or it is more secure than the electronic lock (in which case why not rely on the physical lock?).

That doesn't even begin to get into the fact that the profession of electronic locksmithing is still in its infancy and as a result electronic locks tend to be laughably insecure in the first place. The whole reason to have a safe is to keep things … safe. Why pay all that money and get nothing in return?
Hey, I'm a dev at Redfin, and I've done something like this (with Gigabo's help). It's possible, but it's not well-supported yet.

My team owns one special-snowflake API in React-Server. We want the API to be reachable from the client via HTTP, but also want to execute the code directly during server-side rendering, with no HTTP call. It's your exact use-case.

In order to do that, we

1. Detect if the API is invoked server-side.

2. Tell Superagent* to tell the client "hey, if you want data for $API_URL, don't make an HTTP request; the response will come inline in the page's HTML response.

3. Invoke the API code directly.

4. When the API response is ready, serialize it, and tell Superagent to pass it to the client.

We don't do this kind of thing frequently, so we haven't built any graceful tooling for it.

* I _think_ this is Superagent: https://visionmedia.github.io/superagent/https://visionmedia.... Somehow, we use it in a way that notifies the client of what HTTP requests the server is performing on its behalf; not sure if that's stock Superagent or if we added some magic to it.
> How about we don't give up on questions?

What would it take for you to change your mind on this?

There are certainly limits to inductive reasoning. And there's probably a limit when it comes to understanding complicated systems with observation. It's valid to ask whether we have reached some of those limits and how we can know in general.

The same smart researchers (and the excitement of the general public) could be focusing on more tractable problems. Maybe carbon capture or inexpensive desalination.
They claim performance comparable to Hot Standby:

https://2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/bdr/bdr-performance/

and, in some cases, ~1.5x over Slony.
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Not to offend, but "consistent on it's own" is a poor way to say "not consistent" in the way that matters.
I'm not sure about this 'it should cost x amount' argument.

Even if someone only got 10 hours of play from the game it cost them 6 bucks per hour - the day after launch I was reading about people who stayed up exploring all night and didn't even leave their starting planet
Offtopic, but I find it funny how we use banks as the paramount example of a need for consistency, when they're actually not :)
Fixed here: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/1fb0590737b4fc83....
How does pglogical differ from PostgreSQL's built-in streaming or log-shipping replication?
Absolutely not. Wait a couple of months or so. Rumor has it that significantly improved models are just upon us.

PS: You can refer to the MacRumors Buyer's Guide.
You need a landing page with good marketing copy. I landed at your link and was completely confused.
You can always swap the current element with the last element and then delete the last element in an unordered list.
Many/most backends are stateless... In a way, they push the complexity of distributed systems to the db. They don't deal with sharding, load balancing, request routing... so they leave some performance on the table.

They are still built as if it's normal to split the backend in two: app server + db.

Maybe backends will learn from databases, and become sharded, redondant, and stateful. The border between app server and db could become fuzzy...
Simperium Server: https://github.com/beaucollins/node-simperium-server
It's in the proof-of-concept stage so it doesn't persist the data on the server.
Worrying about cache misses seems premature without value types in Java. The list elements are not physically embedded in the list, and accessing each one could easily result in a cache miss.
Have you ever used OS X? Application state can be preserved and restored across reboots. Most apps do this automatically. Actually I haven't encountered one that doesn't.
I wonder how long till someone figures out how to make unauthorized edits. If it's just over wifi...