skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Newspapers used to make a healthy profit from tiny ads. Network news used to be run at a loss by the tv networks. The introduction of CNN made news into a huge money maker. Craigslist ate the lunch of most newspapers.

Now, the internet (especially social networks) has made everything a race for attention. Now the New York Times has to compete and worry about Buzzfeed.

All of these trends now just reward attention more than anything. The standards for journalism are eroded when outlets like Buzzfeed allow anyone to write content, get it indexed by Google and then track how popular that piece of content gets and automatically promote it.

In a world like that, we get the loudest, angriest, most emotionally wrenching things; context, nuance and facts be damned.

Whatever you think of his politics, Donald Trump wouldn't be where he is without his savvy use of the media. He has exploited the weakness in our current system all the way to top of one of the two major parties in the most powerful country in the free world. All to the horror, shock and dismay of the vast majority of people who work in the media disagreeing with Trump's politics.
The origins of children’s literature
Sensor suite, software licensing, and data licensing. If solid state lidar can get there soon enough, that will help. Data licensing for extremely accurate data for everything - traffic lights, stop signs, every single intersection, etc.
I'd counter that taking it in this direction can actually help you get more honest with yourself about what value you can provide. For example, if you don't have wealth or privilege behind you, you may should maybe focus being the technical founder rather than the CEO in a start up situation. if you buy into the myth that everyone has an equal shot it can be quite discouraging and at the same time mystifying as to why things aren't working out. If you have a clear sense of ALL the inputs that your favorite startup success had going for it, then you can make informed decisions about what you have to offer and what you are likely capable given your particular set of inputs and resources.
Is it just me, or is the OpenAI hype finally dying down?
This is the talk [0]. It was interesting, although in the talk he only addressed the issue of erosion of jobs quite briefly. He spent more time how AI was augmenting/disrupting a variety of industries. It was more of a penny drop moment for me than an in-depth discussion on that particular topic.

The talks were filmed so they may be accessible somewhere, though I know the speaker writes on the subject so his writing may be more readily accessible.

As a free tip/shameless preach a book which has impacted me greatly recently is Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt[1]. The more people that read this book, the better.

[0] http://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/hadoop-big-data-eu/pub...

[1]https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0143118765/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...
I'm responding to the part in her email where she said Jake was a great guy who had always treated her right.
Slovenia should be updated, we got 4 medals so far, not 3.
What a politically correct way to dismiss a woman's opinion!
I was talking about extremist leaders recruiting people, and your point is true. With better education those who are oppressed are actually more likely to take notice and "rebel". I wrote in a sibling comment that everyone should be better educated, including oppressors, thereby ideally making them realize that it's a short-term game they're playing, for example.
Oh god.

> The typeface Comic Sans was created for Microsoft Bob.
Excuses, Excuses. When DPRK, Bahamas, Bahrain, UAE, Brunei can win medals. There is no sound logic for any reason the apologists present for India not winning medals. Incompetence across the board (with an exception of some real hard working athletes). Phelps has more medals than India in its entire Olympics participation. Shame. Shame. Shame.

edit: if downvoting me to hell is going to give a bronze medal to India, then please down-vote me to oblivion.
The Philosophy of Open Source in Community and Enterprise Software
I seriously suspect we'll have a WM protocol in wayland before long. Nobody wants to have to reinvent decorations for their application or toolkit over and over. KDE already do server-side decorations, so it's just a matter of time.
Ask HN: What is the state of the art in styling React.js components?
Are you using inline styles, managed manually or with a library? External stylesheets applied mostly through classes? Inline <style> tags?

What's the size of your codebase? How many developers working on it? Were there unexpected pleasant or unpleasant gotchas that you ran into? Does it matter, or have you found you spend very little time grappling with scoping component styling?

I've seen all of the above feature in various blog posts or trending GitHub libraries and don't have a strong intuition for the tradeoffs. React favors self-contained, modular components, so external stylesheets doesn't seem idiomatic. On the flipside, inline styling everything eliminates the possibility of using certain CSS transforms and pseudoselectors (iirc).
That doesn't make any sense at all. Which minority's rights are being thrown out? (Note, by the way, that you didn't actually answer my original question: why should your opinion about where the limits of zoning should be override the opinion of the residents of PA?)
What’s next after SMS one-time passwords?
scientific discoveries and social network websites aren't in the same class and this reasoning doesn't apply to the latter.
Test against slow servers?
Thinking of a generic service (that handles all REST requests, does not care really) but only emits out slow responses. Not talking about 404s, just want to test 504/gateway timeout cases. How would you build it?
It is nice for languages where it is a first-class concept (e.g. Twelf, which is a logic/theorem language), but it gets complicated very quickly if you want to do AST transformations.

I cannot recommend HOAS outside of very narrow areas.
Get one?
ARM's IP (intellectual property) consists of designs (that is, layouts) of ARM CPUs, SoCs, etc. It would very likely not include semiconductor manufacturing processes to achieve a final implementation of said design, though I may be incorrect on this point.
I wonder if they would be open to fabbing AMD Zen chips.
I really enjoyed this, and I've been trying to do similar changes just based on things I've noticed work better but not formalized in any way. Now I have a better guideline to go by and a book to read.
After spending a month there in March, I agree totally. EVERY adult male has a giant gut, and beyond their early 20's the women are all over weight as well. I was not really expecting that.
I'm using ABCDABCD, and from memory it took a couple of hours. The hardest part was picking a 'vanity' short id that wasn't already taken.
BMW’s EV roadmap detailed, includes full autonomy by 2025
Regular 2d apps in 3d space could be great, basically a natural extension of the multi-monitor setup. But I don't see it being viable in the next five years. Current generation VR displays are not even close to the required resolution for useful office work.
How do the suck points measure up for DayDream and other VR alternatives?
I love working from home. But it's because in the Summer I can choose to split my day in two, spend a sunny afternoon riding my bike around the city with my girlfriend, grab a beer with a friend, and finish my work in the evening; or I can go out to the country, visit my friends' office and work from there... or whatever.

Sitting at the office from 10 to 6, breathing in sterile AC, watching the world pass me by through the window was the depressing bit.
Question : is laying worse than sitting?
5 tools your enterprise startup needs
> And just to make this point, how far into Facebook did it actually become a company?

> I don't know. I think it became a formal Delaware company when Peter Thiel invested about six months in.

Isn't this an outright lie? He sure stammered over his answer. He's joked himself about the fact that Edwardo incorporated Facebook as a Florida LLC originally.

This is how history gets rewritten to be more streamlined...

The fact is Zuckerberg was extremely ambitious about starting a company and had many attempts. That Florida LLC could've been dissolved easily if Facebook had failed. There's no downside to incorporating really.
> It took me a second to realize that while the hour hand on the clock appears to be pointing at the "Astronomical twilight" shaded portion of the ring for my location, those two elements are completely unrelated.

This matches my experience precisely.
I agree that better terminology would be something like competent and master.
If Soft IP were VHDL or Verilog files, then Physical IP is result of the physical design of those hardware descriptions into a database for base layer and masks.
I wouldn't consider this news. This project has been around for quite some time, and is essentially used by EVERYONE doing Node work to authenticate.
The IPO Pricing Dilemma
Definitely. A similar example: at one point studies started coming out that showed the best performing schools were small. Cue a lot of noise on how small schools are better, if you want your kids to be successful, send them to a small school, etc. I think these findings even showed up in government reports/recommendations.

Problem is, the worst performing schools were also small. Almost all of the effect could be explained by higher variance.

Unfortunately I don't remember where where I read about this, wish I could provide sources.

EDIT: found it. It wasnt government, it was the Gates foundation, who spent billions into supporting smaller schools.

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8863.pdf
In short: if you have done it before, you are now an professional who can implement a very similar thing again. For everything else, you are not a professional. Thats how I understand the article.
I'm glad we have an expert like you to share their opinion.
You value all your time at $90 an hour and still find time to give us some?! You are extremely generous!

Obviously facetious but hopefully you get my point. Not all time in our lives is billable. You don't get paid for washing your own clothes, cleaning your kitchen, taking your kids to school. It's life. You do that for you. While these are all things you can pay somebody else to do, it's really not until that point you can start comparing time values. If you are, you're probably not in the demographic that buys cheap rotisserie chicken.

Or you're some sort of robot who never sleeps and only works. Again, thanks for putting your zeros and ones aside for a few minutes to talk to us.
80% of all Android devices are vulnerable to hackers hijacking their Web traffic
DVDs at Walmart would be covered by sales tax, as would satellite and cable TV, unless it's a basic subscription.

From Pa. Code § 9.2. Sales and use tax changes:

(2) Pay television. Pay television except for ‘‘minimum pay television’’ is taxable. This includes anything charged to a customer for a service other than minimum pay television service. For example, if a cable television customer purchases basic service and in addition purchases a ‘‘pay’’ channel, tax is owed on the price charged for the ‘‘pay’’ channel. Installation and repair service for pay television with the exception of minimum pay television also is subject to tax.
Forget Laptops, Headtops Are the Future
Cutting the Cord with Playstation Vue
I think it's misleading to infer too much from that. Most people are nice to strangers, face to face. Maybe it's that you're suddenly a member of each other's in-group, and forming a basis to exclude the other person (becoming enemies) requires some initial behavioral or ideological incompatibility and enough time for it to germinate into enough of a conflict to sabotage the automatic friendly social interaction. However, just because strangers generally get along when they meet randomly, that doesn't say anything about the major problems that cause people to not get along once they know each other—incompatible ideologies, behavioral patterns that the other person can't tolerate, and so on.

To pivot to another realm, a cop can be the nicest person in the world if you hang out with them at a neighborhood barbecue, and the next week they can be harassing people and ruining lives over drug possession.
Hahaha, I'm not disagreeing, but "a month ... in March" is a bit quick to form a judgement.
Well, other than the millions who are starving...
,,...Fields said, adding that ride-sharing would make more efficient use of vehicles, with less time wasted for people and less pollution.''

If he would really care about pollution he would make sure that these shared cars are electric.
People talk as if an average Indian spends 14 hours a day in a library. There is clearly talent like Dipa Karmakar who was not facilitated with right kind of training facility or equipment, she missed medal by whisker. The stories of Indian athletes doing training by themselves and begging for equipment is now legendary.
FTFA: For context, they're only about 15 million years younger than the dinosaurs, and some 35 million years older than the oldest great apes. When they first arose, Australia was still connected to Antarctica, and the Himalayas didn't even exist yet.

They've changed very little over the past 49 million years.

What I find disturbing is that because we know so little about them, they merit the lowest categorization on the threat scale, least concern. Again FTFA, their habitat is under threat from deforestation and development... scientists have never seen the animal alive in the wild, they're not entirely sure where they live, or how many of them there are left.

I would have hoped there would be a category that basically means "stop what you're doing, we're in danger of wiping this thing out in our ignorance".
Good E-Reader 13.3 inch Android e-reader
Makeshift one.

I put two large speakers I have (similar to amazon eco) and a flat table on top of my desk. Presto!

Be creative and you can build one super easy. Only need a flat table and something to cover the height.
Relevant post: http://squid314.livejournal.com/340809.html
Came here to say this!

In my oven it takes about an hour at 425f on a baking rack, meat stays juicy and skin turns out nice and crisp.

The Predator-esque spine removal is a little daunting the first time, but I've found that kitchen scissors are the easiest way.
Ali Yurukoglu: How Biased News Impacts Your Vote
Well, write-compile loop depends on language and what you do. Of course it would be horrible experience to e.g. hack some mostly undocumented record format in Lisp REPL into ad-hoc parser routine on the screen with 1Hz refresh rate.
But we may find some activities almost opposite to that example. Like, write a code (in literate programming style preferably) of some sophisticated algorithm, well-thought before, especially in language that doesn't support REPL-style well - e.g. C, where you know the tests wouldn't help you much and accuracy (and focus) is a king.
And we don't have a need to strictly oppose those both activities to each other actually. Playing with REPL at home, done this part of work ('the quick part'), then take an eInk and go out to the park to slow down and think about that part ('the slow and focused part') - that sounds good for me.

The 'universal conversation app' is would be great to have on its own merit.
I agree. Think if Friendster & Myspace were on top of things, they would have bested Facebook. What made them suscpetible for disruption?
CamScanner seems to be a smartphone application for scanning documents; this seems to be an article that explains how Dropbox has implemented their document scanning functionality.
This is a really incredible explanation. It'd be amazing if the United States had truly great rail options.
So it's Google's ad/search-equivalent of Apple's MFI "Made for iPod/iPhone"?
Two things that need to be highlighted:

I came looking for a video that would talk about building the future and I am surprised Sam & Mark spent lot of time talking about FB origins and other things related to FB and talk future only for the last few minutes.

Its almost palpable the cold nature of the interview, they don`t shake hands nor greet each other as someone else noted the conversation seems very detached to say the least.
Welp, I spent time time in Chennai, Pondicherry, Bangalore, Mumbai, Jaipur, Pushkar, Agra, and New Delhi. Interacted with hundreds, and hundreds of people on job sites. I'm not sure what else I need to see to support my visual inspection of the Indian population.
Small samples have high variance, while sample mean approaches the mean of the true population as you increase the sample size.

This is a fun website, but the Olympics would need a lot more events for it to mean something. If each athlete were only allowed to compete in a single event, then it might be insightful for countries at least as successful at capturing medals as, say, Great Britain.

I'll be Phelps' hometown has a crazy medal count per capita.
Connectivity is saying he is focused on top of the funnel so he can convert some of them to use Facebook.
Since it's been 7+ years since you made this change personally, what has been your long term experience? Has the change stuck? Have you had periods of struggle?

Thanks.
Whether or not its the amount you get paid per hour, every hour devoted to an activity has an opportunity cost, and there is some value associated with that cost. No time is free.
1.25 billion people in India. There are starving people in every country, but you can still have a majority population being overweight. Just like any modern industrial country.
I'm missing an option for the guy who could not care less whether or not a tomato is a fruit or not, because he knows it does not matter at all for his purposes. IMHO the real expert knows what knowledge is relevant and what knowledge is for forum discussions that are just used to kill time.
Well, in the VR side of stuff, we have the Rift DK1 and DK2, Vive, and the OSVR.

Everybody has their content for the Rift. They were first. And it shows by the number of people making content.

The Vive is pretty awesome. The controllers are top notch. I was playing (edit: nope, not Incredible Machine) Fantastic Contraption, and having a great time at it. Things just work, and work well. Make sure to put the room position sensors up about 5-6 feet on tripods though.

The OSVR... Well, a pile of crap is putting it nicely. The scripts that install the drivers are that: bad scripts. half the stuff is command-line and badly documented (unless you go through source as your documentation). There's almost no applications for the platform, and no way to run Oculus based demos and games on it. Head tracking was a disaster- when it worked. Save your money and frustration. Buy something else.
Why is M. Zuckerberg qualified to tell us how or to build us our future? Because he built brain dead website where people waste their precious time and lives?

Building facebook - glorified yellowpages - is somehow a sign of high knowledge or achievement these days?
Why the lack of Winter Olympics data except for Sochi?
I want to know from the moderators if it is allowed to post the same link on Show HN 3 times per week until it gains a considerable amount of interest, because if that is the rule I have a lot of tools and services I want to publicize, but haven't posted here that much.

I actually care about the quality of the posts here and don't want to turn Show HN into a spam bin, but if other people are allowed to do that, maybe I should use it for self-promotion too, before it is gone forever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=davidsQL
Work in 30-minute intervals (these are great for achieving focus too). After an interval has elapsed, get up from your desk, relax, stretch and wander around the office a bit. Don't read HN during the break.

Maybe not so hip as a standing desk but it works.
README updated with this alternative, thanks!
Back in the day the two common use cases were expert systems and natural language processing (which are somewhat related). In this day and age I would most likely use Prolog for rule-based simulations or high-level game AI.
Yikes. I exercise 4 hours a week which isn't nearly enough, not to mention I sit for more than 12 hours a day.
If you are willing to make your own, very non fancy setup, you can have a standing station for quite cheap compared to a proper standing desk. You can use a custom made piece of wood to put on top of your current desk, use books, boxes, even soda cans :) https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcoarment/3234209861

Personally I like to alternate standing and sitting. Since this is not going to be an adjustable desk think about having a way of quickly repositioning monitor/laptop keyboard and mouse on 2 levels instead of just the standing level.
This is one of my favorite features of Evernote. Looking forward to giving it a try.
> Who cares?

I care.

I want to build software normal human beings can actually use. Git is not that. Learning more about Git is me going in the wrong direction entirely. I don't want to go in the wrong direction, I want to go in the right direction.
TOR developer gets accused of being a rapist in order to kick him out. Is he really a rapist or is this just the same playbook used against Assange and warned of by ESR? Regardless, there's nothing but he said/she said and tons of anonymous slander (on the accusing side).
I don't think he is getting much flack. I think he is more like Bill Gates with some luck involved. Let us not try to put him in the same bucket as Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. Facebook started as a way to hook up college students, remember poke? It did not start out as a vision to connect the world
"info" is much like gopher, but less well designed.
Building a $350B tech company from nothing in 12 years might be a sign of "high knowledge or achievement"...
You're being downvoted because you're rejecting a coherent explanation in favor of insults and vague mentions of "incompetence".

If you're claiming Indian athletes are incompetent - WHY? Lack of training, the good talent decides on other career paths, etc.
There are definitely some interesting features in development. Things like placeholders (infinite) have been in OneDrive for a while (then removed because Microsoft) and then were reintroduced. I remember a few years ago a company I was working for used dropbox and I was shocked when installing DropBox instantly depleted my local storage - it felt totally bizarre that infinite functionality wasn't the default as that was what I was used to with OneDrive.

I'd like to see some evidence that sync is actually better in a significant way that is noticeable to the user - noticeable enough to warrant an incredible premium. For example, $10/month or $100/year gets me full office for my entire home and mobile, 1TB of storage, and Skype minutes (not that anyone cares about that perk). If its just for one person, that goes down to $7/month or $70/year. Why should I pay $10/month for just 1Tb of storage and slightly better sync?

EDIT: After reading some other comments, I see some evidence that your syncing is in fact better. It might be useful to highlight that specifically rather than making the blanket statement (e.g. faster, more robust rather than better). Now I might take a look at dropbox especially as my reliance on Office is decreasing.
I completely agree. Elon actually built something useful.
Aren't you afraid that once a good standard exists for file syncing, which every OS then implements, dropbox will lose its business case?
Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes