skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two unrelated questions. Native libraries would — at least — make the application faster, and considering this is an image-related program I don't want to imagine how slow it is being rendered via a hard webview instead of a light one powered by a native framework like Cocoa. On the other hand, if it is difficult to implement an scrolling list of images and a toggle button using either Objc or Swift, that is something I don't know because I have limited experience with those languages, but if you take the time to build a non-cross-platform application, why not use native libraries?

If they are planning to package this program for Windows, Linux, Others then good, nice release, but I would still criticize because they are using a technology that is supposed to be a tool to build cross-platform applications from the beginning, if they already have the HTML / JavaScript code for this, what is stopping them from packaging the Windows version for example? I don't see anything in the feature list that requires Mac specific hardware / tools.
What do you mean by what? I presume by the italics it means you're unable to comprehend the word contrived? Would you like me to define it for you?
That's why I'm changing it to 720p while on FullHD TV. Fonts get bigger at low resolutions.

[sorry, clicked on wrong reply button]
>is it increasing?

No. It's falling. Except in the age group of 50+.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6256956

We can't know the divorce rates of the people who get married now, only the people who got married years ago. Since the people who get married now are very different than the people who got married previously we can't assume that divorce rates will follow the same trends. For example, people enter marriage now older and more educated. We know both of those decrease the probability of divorce.
And the main problem is the fact almost nobody see that interdependence mess as a problem at all.
If we assume day trading is gambling, I wonder what the house odds look like contrasted against other forms of gambling (e.g. blackjack, poker, slots, horses, etc)?

I guess what I am asking is, if we take it for granted that it is gambling (and I am happy to do so) is it gambling with the best odds around?
One easy way to inject malicious code in any Node.js application
There's a lot of bad job ads crammed with keywords.

One amusing ad I saw in my local Craigslist was advertising for an entry-level web-design gig. "Requirements: Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and C/C++".
Warren Buffett is not a day trader. To paraphrase, "My favourite holding period is forever."

He is a good data point to demonstrate that long term investors can beat the indices. Most don't, however, and it is my understanding that day trading is even worse. Just as there are professional poker players that can consistently make money, I'm sure there are some day traders that do very well, but it is not a skill that most people have.
Windows 95 actually still included the program manager and you could have used it as your shell, if you really wanted:
http://toastytech.com/guis/win95progman.png
"patching upstream" in this context means "applying patches to the upstream during packaging".

Nix and Guix require programs to work with a directory layout that differs significantly from the standard. Simple things like `#!/bin/python` don't work anymore, because they aren't explicit enough.
Sex Toys and Gun Laws Collide on Campus in Austin
... of course, 50% will end up in the bottom half and 70% will end up in the bottom 70%.

- Charlie Munger.

https://old.ycombinator.com/munger.html
Yes! I was confused by this, too. Everything else I've read about toxoplasma has stated that in humans, it increases risky (or risky-feeling) behaviour like motorcycling or sky diving.

But an infection that makes people more sexually submissive - that reads like the plot of a really silly piece of sci-fi porn.
NUMA Deep Dive Part 5: ESXi VMkernel NUMA Constructs
I guess I don't get the concern. Bootup happens once for me. I used to use vim but atom is much more Web friendly.
> In a world without copyright, large corporations would have free rein to slurp up all the world's public software, extend it however they like, create whatever remaining functionality they needed, and publish none of it. None of what the GPL's copyleft attempts to accomplish would be possible.

That's only true of a world without copyright where no other system of rules around software existed. It's trivial to propose a set of rules that requires code sharing without copyright. In fact, such a set of rules would probably be much simpler than the GPL. Copyleft is really a convoluted hack on top of copyright.
Please pick a topic and stick with it.

You asked about corruption, specifically when "a small part of the whole archive file gets corrupted". I addressed that point. I'm not going to cover all of the advantages and disadvantages between the two systems, because they are well-known and boring.

You of course must choose the method that matches your expected corruption methods. A incomplete write is a different failure mode than you wanted me to address. Reed-Solomon isn't designed for that. Other methods are, and they are often used in databases.

And you of course must choose a method which fits your access model.

Just like you would of course choose tar over zip if you want to preserve all of the filesystem metadata on a unix-based machine. Zip doesn't handle hard links, for example.

My point again is that data duplication causes well-known problems when there is a data mismatch, and while the duplication in zip as the result of its write-only/journalling format helps with some forms of error recovery, there are better methods for error recovery if that is your primary concern.
It still looks like someone mounted binoculars on my eyes (everything's huge and zoomed in).
An excellently written piece, with a perspective that can only be communicated by someone who is walking that path (so to speak). The thought that the whole "You WILL get better" or "keeping fighting!" notion highlights for me is how taboo of a subject death and dying is in many cultures (very much including Western culture). I truly believe the reason people say such cruel and selfish things is because they cannot bring themselves to talk about the topic of death. It's something we are taught to ignore until we cannot possibly do so any longer. I feel like we might live better lives if we talked about death and dying openly and throughout our lives.
But that doesn't seem to be a parallel case, because, per the article, they generally do not actually experience the desire in question.
This blog post did not answer it's own question because it's conditions were not day trading (over 3 trades in 12 months). That condition selects for people choosing individual stocks hoping for a moonshot, for which people tend to choose riskier stocks rather than stocks actually likely to make them money. So no wonder 80% lost money. On the other hand, notice that the 20% who do make money have a large power distribution curve.

A better way would have been to compare performance versus frequency of trading (I don't expect this to prove one way or another though). The fact is, there are many strategies one could take, and it's how well you execute them that counts.

Personally, I don't find daytrading riskier than holding stocks. By far my biggest losses come from holding the wrong stocks for a long period. It just seems riskier because you have to confront yourself with the possibility of loss each day, rather than hold "long term" and deny that you are wrong.

I now take the Doyle Brunson approach. The poker champion loved to pick up small pots and felt it was critical to do by aggressively playing small hands. That way, these little wins pay for the risk of playing bigger hands over time. I've had the same experience - my daytrading tends to be small money but it stems from work done for holding long term stocks. So why not put it to use?

But, to actually make good money daytrading is still really difficult. Commissions alone can make you have to be 55/45 correct, but there is also the steamroller affect where people tend to hold on to losses and double down further. So it's also about mastering yourself in addition to your market. Otherwise, there is not reason why you can't be better: you are putting in more work than others to make good decisions, and that's how you profit. Trouble is, when are you still outgunned informationally?
Thanks for that. Very interesting and indeed a good thing.

A marriage has everything to do with romance in terms of the kind of relationship we're talking about: a romantic relationship.

Personally, I haven't made my perspective clear in my original comment. Me and my partner have lived together for some time, we have kids and our own home. I definitely don't expect a bed of roses after marriage. In fact, after the experience, it would be pretty damn foolish to expect that from a day to remember, a legal document, a few things and nice holiday.

Despite that, I still fail to see how I, myself, could serve my partner with a pre-nup after knowing, by this time, she is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with.

My opinion is perhaps related to your first paragraph in that I have 0 pressure to get married and I have hafthe luxury of giving myself the best part of a decade to make that decision. That is why in my case I wouldn't serve a pre-nup - it would pretty much say "hey were getting married after a decade of commitment and realisation we want to spend our lives together but I still don't fully believe we will so best sign this just in case". That doesn't really show commitment to me.

To conclude, I would absolutely get a pre nup if the relationship was quite new but then again I wouldn't get married like that so hastily.

To me, marriage is the highest honour you can bestow on someone. You are in effect both saying "yes I honour this person so damn much, I want us to join families". That's a major thing and it actually kinda hurts to see some people treat marriage in a way that decreases its great significance.
My partner and I signed a pre-nup. I'd rate our chances of divorce at like...less than 5%. We've both been through a ton of crap together and we are totally committed to making our relationship last.

The point is, we've both seen couples in our circles go from that to absolutely messy divorces. We simply decided that in the rare chance we don't work out, we'd have laid down the rules of separation while we still loved each other. While it certainly wasn't romantic, it didn't kill the romance.

Working out the pre-nup allowed us to really consider how harmful separation would be for both of us on an emotional level. That led to us trying to make the rules for separation as clear as possible. If anything, it strengthened our relationship.

It helps if neither party is interested in "If he/she/they cheats I get double" sorts of clauses and instead are interested in a clear, fair split regardless of the circumstances.
You Don't Know Jenkins – Part 2 – Maintainable Jenkins Jobs Using Job DSL
Apologies for misrepresenting - my Guix knowledge is clearly out of date!

OTOH disagree with many of your choices and the assumptions you based them on. But I also think that this would easier to discuss in a civilized face-to-face than over the lossy, easy-to-misinterpret medium of text on the Internet!
I think using same field names in multiple records is possible with a GHC extension in GHC 8.0.1.

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records/OverloadedReco...
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records/OverloadedReco...
The last stand of the Iranian Qashqai nomads
TV has always been around, pre-internet you still saw amazing people on TV, but the difference was that they were on TV, so you and your friends did not compare themselves as much to them, because the perception was "of course they are better than you, they are on tv", there was a barrier, it's like when the circus came to town and you saw the acrobats there, you might have play-pretended to do the things they did, but of course you didn't seriously compare yourselves to them.

The insidiousness of social media is that EVERYBODY is on social media, it's the same medium, there is no difference between a video shared by your friend and a video shared by an olympian or a world class musician or even an adult beginner that due to genetic blessings is learning things way faster than you, this breaks the wall between you and them and as much as it's good in some ways (pre internet you would never be able to have a discussion with a pro musician unless you personally knew them) it is bad in many others, leading people to misjudge what average is

It also does not help that so many people when discussing what they do always say that "if you want it enough and work hard for it you can do everything", which feeds into the "I am not as good as social media person X at doing Y, therefore I must not be working hard enough, what's wrong with me" while in the end to be at the top yes you need to work hard, but you need to be lucky to have the genetics to be there too.

If pre internet you saw 10 of your friends try something, you had a good idea what "average" was, and calibrated your self esteem accordingly: all of you being average, you all had something you were better at than the group, and something to fall back on to feel good about when you didn't do well at something else

Now all you see on social media is either the top of the field being so much better than you at everything that it feels impossible to be able to get from where you are to where they are, or average people made fun of because they "suck" (even if they are just average in the end), this IMHO is what's causing a lot of problems in terms of depression and general lack of happiness
New software law: Every thread about Atom must contain a few people complaining about the start up time.

It's also fine for me, and I love plugins like the merge conflicts one[1].

[1] https://atom.io/packages/merge-conflicts
I just remembered that the thing I was talking about was SubUser [0]. You can read their manifesto since it better describes everything that they are looking for. Their solution is to keep file revisions so if you need an older version of a file it is still there.

[0] - http://subuser.org/
Fortunately it appears this perfectly legitimate comment has been salvaged. Steve, I was disappointed that this topic[1] received no discussion at all at HN. Has anyone inside Mozilla looked at it? The title is a bit click-baity for academic work, in my opinion, but I do think the points raised are worthy. Much like recent criticism of PostgreSQL by Uber, one hopes the purveyors of Rust are also open and respond well to constructive criticism.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12258957
I'm just graduated and living in Toronto.

I have gone to over 100 interviews at various companies - startups, major corps, banks (no I'm not kidding...in fact, once I do get a job, I'll do a massive write-up on what it's like to interview at different companies) and almost every single company seems to want "more experience" or "too experienced" (while they claim I can't do senior positions because I don't have experience) for entry level positions,.

I can do web (JS, and backend with nodeJS) and android (java) dev (and have previous experience of working at 3 startups).
and in all honesty, I'm a quick learner and can pickup other languages/stacks in a few weeks at worst - yet I am not even given that chance to prove myself.
:(

EDIT: to add to the above - I'm also told I'm lucky if I get paid more than 60k/yr (and basically no benefits) as that's what it is starting out.
Coursmos closed another bridge round receiving $500,000
Yes, and to be realistic, the researchers themselves are in a very competitive environment. Having done many years of graduate work, I realize just how hard it is for doctoral and post-doc students to break into a good position at a research university, but that's just the beginning. There is serious competition after that for tenure and grants.

Who want's to spend time dealing with FOIA (freedom of information act) requests from kooky skeptics while worrying that some other researcher will scoop your research? There are structural impediments in our university research environments to completely open science.

However, I'm hopeful because of the success that the software community has had with open software. Before Richard Stallman started the Free Software Foundation I would never have believed that such a transformation of the industry was possible.
I don't know if I think survival rates are the best metric for judging progress here. The ones I'm most familiar with are melanoma's, but those are also a factor of many things besides treatment options. The only thing I can think of that its a good metric for is 'people not dying'.

I also don't know if 'cancer isn't a single disease' IS well known by everyone. In this crowd perhaps, but certainly not the population at-large.
> I don't know if it's anyone's duty, but I think it's completely plausible for a single patient or small group of patients to arrive at a more patient-focused conclusion than the medical industry.

I think the more important take-away is each patient should find the treatment that works for them. There are many people who are fully accepting/trusting (whatever term you choose) of the "machine". It works for them, don't knock it.

There are other people who want, and/or need, to look for alternatives. Some of them work and work very well. But, some people don't have the stomach for that, or they second-guess the idea that they "could have done more".

I had a good friend die from cancer a few months ago. After the first surgery and round of chemo, his Oncologists told him all was well, full remission. About a year later, it returned somewhere else. More surgeries, more chemo, full remission.

The third time, now in his lungs and brain, they said even with surgery and chemo he had about 6 months to live. Instead, he took the route of alternative treatments in the US, Mexico & Canada. All of these treatments were by fully licensed Oncologists who have been practicing for 20+ years.

Every 3 months his "machine" Oncologists said they were surprised to see him for another follow-up visit.
This went on for 5 more years.
With commissions per trade, brokerages love day traders. The more activity, the more money they make. They hate people that buy a stock with 3% dividend yield and don't touch it for 10 years.
I'm actually quite impressed by that. I had looked into that a bit, but believed Ducktape & React to be too slow to be worth while. This is really interesting!
Was all in into Barclays shares the day before it was going bust in 2008 but got out before 5pm fearing the night and the wiping out. Instead, Gordon Brown bailed them before the market reopened the next morning ("too big to fail") and I missed my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make the big money as an indie trader. Done.
Went through the same thing 14 months ago. I often think about that poem "Do not go gentle into that good night"... and contrast it's theme with my father's and our family's calm acceptance of the inevitable. It was hard and sad, but peaceful with a tremendous amount of love all around near the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvos4nORf_Y

How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay Christensen at TEDxBoston

This is a very inspiring presentation, especially towards the end. The take away is that it's not important how high you went up a certain hierarchy or how much money you have in the bank. The important question is what did you do with your life to make other people's lives better? When you're put in certain situations that touch other people's lives, it's for a reason, and your life will be measured by how you did in those situations.
[JS] Invisible Code
Hope is the humanities desired result, we all hope for the miracle. Once in a great while it happens.

Good luck. The paper work for these things is the hardest, and making sure the executor of the estate is up to the task. I do hope you've been able to get the family to see an actual accountant to do as much as possible while he lives so the tax burden and hassle will be lower. Its a serious pain in the butt to deal with bureaucrats when you really want to deal with family.
The idea that you can only fold paper eight times in one direction rings absurdly false, since the problem screams of being obviously related to the thickness of the paper in relation to length.

An informal, physical/graphical proof that there is no upper limit given sufficient length is simply this. Imagine a piece of paper that has already been folded N times:

--------\
| \
|______ |
/------` |
| |
\---------/

->| |<- flat section

All you have to do is add more material to the flat section, extending the length of each layer by an equal amount, and then you can fold it again:

------------------------\
| \
|_____________________ |
/---------------------` |
| |
\-------------------------/

->| |<- flat section

You can add as much as you want. Suppose the above is an inch thick and we extend it to be a mile long.

I.e. don't approach this as a problem of the subdivision of a fixed length and width, but rather as the length being open-ended: we can go back and add more.
Applied Traversals and isos: a 2048 clone
i also hate saying and hearing platitudes, but recognize that it's only because people don't know what else to say. by telling them about this unfortunate situation, you're kind of putting them into that position.

these days i only tell my problems to people who have the ability to do something about it, or my closest friends who will commiserate without offering useless responses.
I was wrong about the iPad Pro
> similar principles as Microsoft espoused for many years

A little bit more recent comparison of systemd and Red Hat strategy behind it would be Google with PlayServices - proprietary ball of mud, which render AOSP effectively useless for vast majority of users, and more and more of Android is moving there.
Offtopic but is there some similar resource regarding VS Code?
If that is the case: beware of pitchforks in the long run.
Ummm... it's not permanent ownership, it's a limited duration license.
Eh, vim has that too: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/fugitive-vim-resolving-merge-co...

(edit: holy downvotes, Batman! I thought I'd provide a helpful point about vim, since not everyone knows it has plugin capability. My bad!)
TinkerTool: access additional preference settings Apple has built into OS X
I found that Firefox's Reader View made the article readable.
While I'd love this development to be true, in my experience it's the opposite:
Younger customers are at least as ignorant as the older generation, if not worse.

And long term loyalty is even less a concern: It's all about the new gadget/social platform/etc. of the day.
interesting, hope you write this up sometimes and that it makes the front page so I see it :) I'd be most interested in getting this to work with audio so I could have my DAW in linux indirectly, unfortunately virtualbox is not happy with realtime audio (if I go via pulseaudio it's bad, and assigning the usb audio card to it makes it crash)
I'm an avid FT reader and like that description, but have never seen it before. Any chance you can provide a reference?