skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. I only found out about the GopherJS project about a year after it was created, so you'd have to ask Richard for how he picked its name.

Looking at the first commit from Aug 27, 2013 [0], it was originally inside a folder "golang2js". The first mention of the rename to "gopher.js" is on Sep 18, 2013 [1]. It was also a transpiler rather than compiler originally, before it picked up more steam and started doing really sophisticated stuff to support all of Go's concurrency features.

Also, I've never heard of GoJS before today, so thanks for telling me about it! I guess I never tried to search for that term.

[0] https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/commit/2f31215a988a07bc...

[1] https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/commit/9223c657a92578ea...
The thing that most bothers me is she conflates her alcohol addiction with sexism.

I know that as a male, I'm generally asked if I want to have a drink if everybody else is having one, and they don't look askance at me if I don't.

Trying to bring gender into this thing is pathetic.
It looks like it's an issue with dbus queueing connections, and systemd's interaction triggering an edge case.

Are we really just posting bugs in widely-used software now?
much more fun to write in scala: https://github.com/MasseGuillaume/Scala-DNS/tree/master/src/...
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I don't have time now to write a comment laying out a comprehensive rebuttal of all the foolishness that some people have suggested here (bicyclists need to be licensed! bicyclists should have to follow exactly the same rules as drivers! we shouldn't have bicyclists on many roads because cars go too fast!).

Instead, I'll say that just as people walking need physically protected infrastructure on essentially all roadways - these are called sidewalks - so too people on bicycles need physically protected infrastructure on essentially all roadways - these are called protected bike lanes, or cycle tracks, or various other names.

For some recent commentary on this topic from Boston, see the following. The first is from a columnist, and the second from the President of the Boston City Council:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/08/12/bikes/yOFRBYH...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/07/11/the-road-fear...
And like that, "Raw Vegan" doesn't sound so extreme any more.
> DJBDNS hasn't been updated in some time, so a more modern project isn't a bad idea.

How so? If it ain't broke...
I see your point, but haven't we already had timed thermostats for decades? That would arguably accomplish the same thing with a lower part count and less security or manufacturer support issues.
What I've wondered for a while is the feasibility of producing streetview imagery with drones. It seems to be the perfect solution for distributed street shooting.
What's more interesting is to think of another metric - one that doesn't calculate economic growth differently, but measures something else entirely that isn't so built around economic growth.

Depends on what you want to maximize, though. Income equality? Planet health? Life expectancy? Some sort of happiness index? Probability of becoming an interstellar species?
Nah, just shistemd.
I think it's more of "systemd has this ridiculous bug! More proof that it is the end as we know it!"

I really dislike systemd as much as the next person, but this is not an issue with systemd as far as the maintainers know.
<100mL tubes aren't hard to find at all... Even as a non-travel size.
Regarding your first two examples, most new construction where I live (NYC) has switched over to a similar [0] which from my understanding is for accessibility reasons, and I suspect the second example is for the same reason. They don't require any fine motor skills whatsoever, you can pretty much just press in their general direction to toggle.

[0] https://d3jpffnds3bao3.cloudfront.net/catalog/category/cache...
They're definitely consumer-grade cameras, and most of them are at the low end of that. I'd say they are in the $50-100 CAD range per camera.

That said, when they do work they work a lot better than their price would suggest.
I don't anymore, relocated, but I did commute for years in Sydney and I couldn't find a trace of unhelpful attitude in this person's post. They just stated facts. Didn't say that they agreed or disagreed. They didn't say that they passed people in an unsafe way or that they felt the need to or desire to. They just said that _people_ do. Which is true. We've both experienced it…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12333894
> In less than two years, the CPU inside the TV quickly becomes obsolete and can’t be upgraded while the display itself easily lasts a decade, and software updates are persphinctery, if they happen at all.

I refuse to buy a smart TV, and when my TV finally dies, I will probably be forced to buy one, and the first thing I will do is either disable, or just refuse to setup and use, the smart part.

I will then plug a Chromecast in. That cost me $35. That actually works with the services I pay for correctly.

Even those Android TV-based smart TVs are useless, because Google does not control them and cannot force the OEM to push Android updates.... although, Android TV does let you Chromecast to it, which is probably what I would use it for.

Although, if I wanted Android TV, I'd buy an Nvidia Shield TV and use that instead, since it actually has a reasonable amount of horsepower, supports H265 Main10 and Rec2020 colorspace (in the hardware, AndroidTV support of it itself is upcoming), thus, true 4k support (not merely 2160p support using 8-bit Rec709/sRGB, which a lot of so called 4k devices and TVs are; for a historical perspective, see all the TVs that can only do 720p and 1080i but not 1080p, thus are not actually HDTV/Bluray compatible at all, this is the same thing al over again).

Technology advances too quickly for a TV to ever be smart. I'd pay more for a dumb TV that has two more HDMI ports instead, ripping out any smart TV SoC, and ripping out the (extremely useless) cable tuner.

Side note: the cable tuner is useless on cable, due to all cable companies moving to encrypting all channels, or moving to IPTV platforms entirely, thus always requiring a box (CableCard is a dead standard and was a mistake, similarly to how smart TV is a mistake and should be just as dead); the cable tuner is always useless on satellite; and if you're trying to do OTA, many TVs, even ones produced today, do not have sufficient sensitivity to dial into channels for many reasons (distance, obscured line of sight, reflections), and even with large enough antennas, you'll get better performance (and sometimes, the ONLY performance) out of a dedicated OTA box.

As of which OTA box, if you need signal performance for extreme OTA situations, Channel Master's tuners, as a set top box, kind of suck, but often are the only ones that can coherently decode a signal.
I think it is important to note that LambdaConf 2016 was successful. In organizers' own words, "It just means there is a space in this world for an indie conference that rigorously ensures professional conduct at the event, but leaves other matters at the door."

People who protested against LambdaConf 2016 organized alternative confrence MoonConf at the same place at the same time. Two conferences had cordial relationship. Nothing people worried about actually happened.

http://degoes.net/articles/post-lambdaconf-2016
For multiple reasons that all weaken Israels position in the region.

1) Removed Libyan dictator Gaddafi who played ball with Western powers and kept illegal migration to the EU at bay. Replaced with ISIS style radicals.

2) Supported removal of Egypt dictator Mubarak who was definitely an ally of the West and Israel. Replaced by Muslim Brotherhood fanatics who are enemies of Israel and the West. When the Egyptian military removed them from power Obama tried to intervene on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood.

3) Strengthened Irans position in the world by lifting sanctions. If they want nuclear weapons this would be the time. I'm not saying that I would have supported the coup against Mosaddegh or that I would have supported Iraq on invading Iran. But I would make it very hard for a government run by religious fanatics to acquire nuclear weapons.

4) Syria is an enemy of Israel, but they sure as hell do not want fanatics like ISIS roaming free in the region.

5) Wester main stream media is today very critical of Israel, more so in the EU than in the US. Products from Israel must now be labelled in some EU countries to make it easier for consumers to boycott trade. Some EU countries are even discussing sanctions against Israel. But trade with Saudi Arabia is fine.
As a former bicyclist, and a current motorcyclist and "cager", let me give one piece of advice that has kept me alive to this day. Your safety and protection is entirely up to you. No government, painted lines or traffic cones are going to save you on the road. When you're on the road, the only thing that matters is "the right of weight".

If you're hit by a car, and you're not in a protective cage of steel, it's not going to matter if the other person was in the right or the wrong. You're still dead.

If anything, these traffic cones are a dangerous placebo; making cyclists feel safer than they actually are in their interactions with cars. Want to actually be safe from cars when on the road? Ride in a cage of steel. Want to survive on two wheels? Ride as if every person in a car is intentionally trying to kill you.

Yeah, it's probably overly pessamistic; no, it's not fair. But I'm alive and uninjured.
Make sure you carry photo ID though. That actually can attract a fine.
Why No One Trusts China's Markets
My dentist seems to always have piles of sample-sizes to hand out. At my last hotel trip, I had to make the trip to the concierge, and they had 5mL packs of brand-name toothpaste that was like a flat ketchup pack.
As a life-long New Yorker (Manhattan and more recently Brooklyn) I just don't understand why anyone would ever ride a bike in NYC, period. I even stopped rollerblading in NYC when some asshole driving backwards (presumably to get a parking spot) nearly killed me and did knock me silly.

I have a motorcycle license I got one summer when I had free time. I learned that cars and pedestrians are your enemy, and that you will probably regret being a motorcyclist eventually. So I quickly stopped.

The simple answer is to not bike in NYC, or get rid of cars in NYC. Although I have moved to Brooklyn, I think the "get rid of cars" is in Manhattan is a great idea.

But, if we must bike, by all means, let's get segregated bike lanes. I have seen them in Union Square, around Prospect Park, and other places. BUT!

That said, bikes are worse than cars IMO in yielding right of way to pedestrians. I was nearly killed by a high speed biker IN A CROSSWALK ACROSS A SEGREGATED BIKE LANE outside the Intrepid museum nearly a month ago, and the moron had the gall to yell at me as he barely missed me to watch where I was going. Literally two seconds later nearly the same thing happens with another biker. Insane.

Furthermore, bikes don't remotely follow the rules of the road. Stop lights? Ignored. One way streets - or even one way bike lanes - ignored. No riding on sidewalks? Well, mostly followed. Pfew.

As a pedestrian, I fear bikes more than cars. They are silent, they are fearless (if they weren't they would not ride like this), and they don't care about pedestrians.

Personally, I'd rather get rid of bikes entirely, or at least put a cop at every corner writing expensive NYC moving violations to each bicyclist when they inevitably break the law. A million citations a day would be fine by me, and would help pay for more shared infrastructure like subways, bus lanes, and, yes, even segregated bicycle lanes.
The Amazon Echo makes sense to require an Internet connection.

There is nothing that the Nest cam does, apart from offsite backup, that requires it to contact the company's servers. Everything else can be local only with VPN for remote access.
Listen to the latest ATP. Marco explains how his tesla's turn signal indicators don't click anymore when the central console has a problem - they stay silent until he reboots the thing with some button combo.

:-(
That makes sense. Thanks for explaining.
I wondered the same thing. If the encoding was completely dense such that all possible outputs were valid, would the network express more complex compositional behavior by avoiding the need for binary feedback about syntax validity?

I think the main benefits of the abc midi syntax are that it is already a very dense encoding and has an established library of music to train on.
New Webpack stylefmt-loader. Fixes stylelint issues while bundling with Webpack
I just watched it on Chrome for Android. Just had to tap to play
For me the compile time and runtime distinctions are more important.
This is web browsers developers fault: Chrome developers actively resisting APNG support [1], while Firefox developers actively resisting WebP support for years [2] and [3].

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1171

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600919

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856375
So, would you say the chart was correct? How do you find it now as opposed to before? Could this be the start of high culture toothpaste one's palate must be developed for?
To my knowledge HN is a place for open, civilized discussion - it's not a designated left-wing safe space. The presence of people with different opinions to you doesn't make it a "brigade".
India has a fairly low fertility rate compared to other countries of similar socio economic conditions, it is just that it has a very high population base and most of it is very young.

Also the fertility rate is varies significantly across the country.

If you think about it countries like Saudi, Pakistan and most parts of Africa have the highest fertility rates
I know where you're coming from, but Apple is IMO much better at modernising UI. They usually don't just change for the sake of change, there tends to be an advantage over the old way. And the new way is often even more tactile than the old. Only discoverability of advanced features is a problem, but that's IMO less of a problem with a device that you use daily.
A lot has to do with the fact that most of these devices are novelties. Save for smart thermostats (can save money on heating bill), or simple efficiency-boosting products, life is generally easier without the added complexity of an interconnected-everything. A fridge is a fridge and its proven to work well for over 100 years. A toaster makes toast. The dishwasher washes dishes.

Once something more useful comes around companies will invest more resources but I mean who wants a smart toaster? You pop some toast in there and let it do it's thing. Simple.

We need some major breakthroughs in, for example, 3d printed gourmet meals or something.
> I think I know what a radio phone might do. Radio clocks even exist

I assume a radio phone would be a walkie talkie, and those can still be useful. Further, I used to have a cheap mobile phone that had a built-in FM radio, but now I have a much more expensive smartphone that doesn't -- or at least, it's not user-accessible.

I also have a somewhat old radio alarm clock that gets the correct time via the mains power supply. Needless to say, the time goes wrong and you have to turn it off for a while then hope it gets the right time when it restarts. Usually it does, but sometimes it can be hours wrong for weeks.

I could use my internet radio as a backup, of course, but the broadcast sound arrives way ahead of the internet sound, and if the two radios show the same time as the smartphone, that's looks like luck.

Seems to me we've been screwing these things up for a while, even without the internet of things ;-)
Re: native: sounds like a selection bias-- a user who has gone through the trouble to download an app from the app store is already an interested customer with some degree of brand loyalty, versus your regular mobileweb visitor coming from organic, paid, email, or social, who may not yet have any relationship with the brand at all.
The styling on this article hurts my eyes. It feels like the author is shouting at me
Yes. I am aware of people who want to blow up all the bulbs because it hurts the candlemakers.
Intro React Tutorial
> I refuse to buy a smart TV, and when my TV finally dies, I will probably be forced to buy one, and the first thing I will do is either disable, or just refuse to setup and use, the smart part.

Heh. That's what happened to me. Got a "smart" Vizio TV 4 years ago. It had a Skype + camera option. One night saw camera light come on when I wasn't using it. Quickly yanked that out. Then at some point the "apps" for Amazon stopped working for it. So that's when I disabled its networking plugged in a fire-stick and just using it as a dumb large screen for Netflix.

Actually that is an interesting niche to play in -- sell a high quality TV display but just with lots of USB and power ports in the back so people can plug in their favorite stream devices. It would be lighter and thinner as well. More power efficient.

Can even make a play on "this is secure, unlike other such devices". And of course the "you save by not paying for extra crap you don't want to use". Advertise that to a few sub-reddits which do xmbc, kodi development, cord cutters. Maybe get Costco on-board as well.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12333481
The amazing thing is, there is an entire company (Apple Computer) full of thousands of people that have to use this every single day ... what the fuck ?

How do they manage to not fix this ? How do they live/cope with this ?

One theory is that there are no power users at apple computer - just a bunch of people mouse-mouse-mousing around their computer all day, every day. I think that's unlikely.

OSX power users that actually work at apple ... why don't you get this fixed ? I live with this pain because I have no way to do anything about it ... why do you live with this pain ?
I believe you are agreeing with me... Apple does a damn-good job of design -- applied correctly. Their stodgy contemporaries' poor imitation is the problem. (Eg. Honeywell -vs- Nest)
I did a similar thing to thwart a roommate who would always turn down the thermostat so it was frigid inside. I changed the calibration so it would show a temperature a few degrees lower than reality. He never touched it after that, and the rest of us didn't have to wear sweaters indoors.
Certainly that's true, but I think you might be missing my point: it's not an either or - you need a non crappy mobile website for discovery/top of the funnel stuff. But from experience, if you don't want to resign yourself to half the conversion rate as more and more visitors come on mobile, you need a native app. If you don't do it, some "mobile first" startup will, and eat your lunch.
I'm not following the connection here.

My (rather pithy) comment also alludes to a larger scope of activities which people go through (various forms of ritual, cargo-culting, false beliefs, etc.), which give an illusion of control or agency.

As your comment seems to suggest, these may simply be psychological self-inflicted tricks to retain sanity in an uncaring universe. That thought has occurred to me.

It's also possible to engage in self-aware self-trickery. Though that's somewhat more complicated.

I'm also of the view that all models are false. Some models are useful.
Outside the cabin, to protect pedestrians. That's not a placebo.
I was taught Ada at university, it is a complete bitch of a language but it forces you to be disciplined and do things "Properly" - something that is crucial in real-time systems.
I don't regret being taught it, I do however regret that it was used as the main teaching language meaning that real world usage was an after thought!
All I want is a gas stove with built-in electric ignition like we have in Japan. It's simple, immediately hot, easy to repair and IMO elegant.
It's so HN can have its 2 minutes of hate against systemd. A systemd dev opening a GitHub issue[1] was enough to get 194 votes and 284 comments.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11797075
Give it time; they're busy with "systemd-mount"

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-M...
Not zero, but what you learned is highly subject to bias and error from your small sample of individuals. You are likely to have drawn conclusions from your conversation that are not broadly applicable or possibly even true for those individuals because in 5 informal conversations likely:

* you didn't interview enough people from different backgrounds
* you didn't control for the specific psychological conditions of your interviewees or what treatments/medications were in play at the same time or before / after the program
* you didn't test your question set to ensure that it doesn't have leading questions or questions can otherwise influence the results
* and so on.

I could go on, but the point is anecdotes are not _nothing_ but they pale in comparison to a well built scientific study. If you want to really know if a type of treatment works well and who it works well for with a minimum of bias then science is by far the best option. It's normal and fine to use anecdotes to guide personal day to day decisions in life, but if you want to make broad claims that are taken seriously by professionals trying to say help folks manage mental health issues then we have a higher standard than anecdote and rightly so.
Heh, just today I was biking down a hill in a segregated lane. Green lights ahead of me, all the way to the waterfront.

Some guy in the crosswalk, going against the signal (I have green lights for several blocks), left to right across the street. I'm half a block away but I'm going downhill and going pretty fast. I yell, "Watch out!"

He keeps moving, so I start to veer to the left to go around him to the left. THEN he stops, so I yell again, "Keep moving already!" I veer harder left to get around him.

I still have green lights, he's going against the signal.

He steps backwards!!! Now I'm going to hit him for sure, so I brake hard, skidding down the hill, veering now well out of the segregated lane, into a car lane, barely avoiding a full-on collision. My leg hits his bag, and of course I cuss up a blue streak.

I don't get it. I come to a complete stop at stop signs wherever there's any traffic, and I always slow down because cars blow through them constantly.

I never cross against lights, and when I cross with lights, I do so with caution because cars blow through those, too.

I do see more and more bikes on the roads, though, which makes me happy about cars learning to share the roads a bit. We cyclists pay taxes, too, of course.
Temote control hvac for vacation homes is a killer feature. Just being able to check the temp in your ski house to do things like see if the furnace is out, lower it if you forgot before leaving, bump it if the weather is particularly cold to protect your pipes, etc are definitely worth money. Otherwise, you're asking a friend to drive there or paying your handyman to go look.
There's a thread here from a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9483071

One nice thing about the Pony GC is it can GC actors that are waiting for messages but will never receive one. In some other languages I've used I end up with processes idling in a receive on channel living forever but never able to exit because nothing is going to put a message in the channel.
In Kentucky, I've encountered crosswalk buttons that don't actually change the traffic-light cycle at all, but the walk light doesn't come on during parallel green-light traffic unless the button was pushed. I have no idea what that's supposed to accomplish, unless it's just another level of placebo.
Yes, those are alright - but most in Switzerland don't have a tilt (for indicating state). It's like noone even cares about stuff like this nowadays. In the past I thought German/Swiss design to be some sort of pinnacle of function and design, but not anymore.