skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's take that back a step.

If we're talking about "disease" in the sense of "a condition that interferes too much with normal life absent some intervention" and not "caused by bacteria or viruses", then we already have a bunch of subjective terms in there. And I don't think you can get a reasonable definition that DOESN'T have some subjective terms.

Given that we're talking subjective terms, you're stating something like "If you have a condition that makes you suffer more than most others in certain circumstances, and this condition can be treated with pharmaceuticals, I'm fine with that, but I don't want to call that condition a 'disease'." Others might say "drugs can make your life easier, but I don't believe that you actually suffer more than others in those circumstances, you just don't handle that suffering as well". With current technology we have no means to distinguish the two.

And I almost certainly agree with your statement regarding certain circumstances. There are people that have medical conditions that make them overweight - likely including some conditions we've not identified yet. There are also people (such as myself) that just value eating over losing weight. I know of no way to know which is which for most cases, but for situations such as mine I'd not call it a condition or a disease, I'd call it overeating. All of which is to say I think I know where you are coming from.

But I lack the basis to say when other people are suffering more than I do under the same stimuli. I have no way to know if something is a disease/condition unless I've experienced it. Any more than I know if Bill Cosby raped anyone, or if the convicted murderers sentenced this year actually killed anyone.

So I extend some trust in the collective people (while at the same time thinking some large collections of people are idiots, say, politically).

Honest, non-trolling question: On what basis do you have your confidence that this is not a disease/condition?
nebulon, I feel you buried the lead here. I came in here and was like "Cloudron already offered self-hosting on AWS, what's this announcement/blog for?"

You guys went open source! THAT'S AWESOME. But you didn't mention that until the bottom of the blog. :( You should highlight that news better!

Congrats and welcome to the open source world! :D
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I think that something like this will probably be the future of programming, but Carbide itself needs to dial it back and focus on which data visualizations give the biggest bang for the least obtrusiveness.

Apple's been moving in a similar direction with Swift playgrounds, and recent Java IDEs (IntelliJ, and I think Eclipse) will display the values of variables next to the line of code when you pause in the debugger. These are both useful features. They get cluttered really quickly, though, and in the playground case take you out of your normal development flow.

If you want this to be impactful, focus on delivering information at your fingertips without delivering information overload. The core idea of being able to inspect & manipulate run-time values alongside the code that generates them is sound. The implementation - with lots of fancy gadgets that overshadow the code itself - needs some design love.
Yes, it allows them to insert ads between the "slides".
> North and south magnetic poles are named after the north and south celestial poles because they seem to coincide.

Sure, and that's why the axis-to-the-star probably wouldn't define "north" and "south" poles, but not a reason it doesn't make sense to call that the points where the surface intersects that axis through the planet "poles".
... setup by the president before him. The only thing this president's got going for him is a long series of human rights violations even predating his presidency that he's about to be accountable for.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/22/asia/philippines-senate-he...
This repeats the story that "Charles Manson ... was captured with the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land" in his backpack".

I thought that was unfounded rumor. http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/faqworks.html says "This story apparently got started because of an anonymously published article. When asked, Charles Manson had never heard of the book. Some of the Manson girls had apparently read it but it had no connection to the murders."

Wikipedia only talks about rumors to that effect.
Is it just me, or do some of these resemble more "traditional" companies? In the startup == growth sense.
Does Techcrunch have any history of successfully picking winners from demo days?

This just feels like an excuse to make an ad-rich slideshow.
Any editor with multiline support makes this problem go away (vim, sublime)
The most interesting feature is how it computes the inverse of the program to yield the inputs that produce a given output. I'm not sure if it's useful but it's cool.

But saving to public gists, no thanks.
I would just like to echo my support for Electron. I think it's one of the most important development platforms out there.

Of course, the great thing about it is that you can use HTML5 to build native apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux. As unique selling propositions go, you can't get much better than that.

As a Web developer, I am going to be using it soon to build a few apps and I'm really looking forward to it.
Because Uber is outcompeting them on VC subsidies.

The point of the parent is: How does Uber turn all these subsidies into an actual profit someday? It's easy to undersell your competitors when you're burning money. Once the VC dries up, how does Uber compete with any other entrant?
By framing devices I meant things like, most simply, obedience to authority. Arguably one of the defining elements of Confucianism is an equivocation between filial duties, on the one hand, and duties to increasingly distant and abstract social relations on the other. By contrast, in Christianity you just have "obey your parents" on the one hand, and "render unto ceasar what is his" on the other, which doesn't dictate the particulars of how authority operates in a society to the same degree that it's dictated by Confucianism.

But also, for example, devices that teach you to think of the good of the community as a good accruing directly to you. In other words, a hijacking of selfishness. Many religions teach that good deeds and sacrifice will accrue a benefit to you in an afterlife.

I just didn't want to suggest that religion necessarily turns people into sheeple, to be inevitably abused by elites. That's often a consequence, but that's hardly always the case. And that's a possible consequence of culture more generally, not just religion. In this sense I think of culture as the underlying phenomenon that makes religion and other forms of complex social organization possible in the face of the counter-veiling Darwinian genetic forces; as opposed to culture referring to the beliefs and habits of a particular community. And I usually distinguish religion from other social structures by reliance on magical thinking, though magical thinking is hardly exclusive to religion.

I don't have a degree in psychology or anthropology or anything, so my personal models and definitions aren't academically rigorous. Though I studied international relations in undergraduate school, and I ended up reading quite a lot of economic, sociologic, and anthropologic literature on these issues.
Set goals, set them high, make them specific. If you don't achieve them, don't worry, at least you've gone some of the way. You could try out OKRs (Google it) for yourself.
Yup, and Glyphicons does that.
> I don't want to be on the machine when someone is spawning >64 processes, though.

Ha.
Same, Chrome task manager says 126% CPU for that tab :) Nonetheless, congrats on the launch!
Reminds me a lot of this article from a while back: http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

Some really good ideas in there - I was pretty impressed.
Nah. There's enough privately funded traders to keep the system going despite freeriding.

Fund managers playing the market with borrowed money might be in jeopardy though.
Hey HN!

I'm one of the creators of Carbide, and I'm really excited to share it with you all.

We're thinking of releasing Carbide as open source in the coming weeks if there's a community interested in building stuff on top of it.

One of the areas we'd appreciate help with is adding support for different languages— Python, Scala, Haskell, Rust, etc.

Other than that, general feedback / questions welcome.

We've scrabling to turn off jet-engine mode on the website :)
Congrats on making it through. I was extremely ill @ 29 years old and came to terms with my seemingly imminent mortality. It changed me completely from an Alpha anal-retentive to 'just another guy' enjoying the moment... more or less, there is no Utopia I have found. No one who hasn't been on their deathbed for an extended period could understand the experience, the slowness of time under the influence of ever-present discomfort and the desperation of impending finality. It is indeed maddening, then you get past it. If you're lucky enough to get a 2nd chance, your values can not not change. I've shared a campfire or two at the lake with fellow "happy people". I don't know if we're enlightened, calloussed or brain damaged, but I am much more contented in life without the high "highs" and low 'lows" of the 110% lifestyle. To each their own.
also: wasn't it just a frontend to a external summarize service (that's what i recall)
> I don't know, say, the thousands of future engineers and researchers, that, you know, make the product?

Apple hasn't needed to do that with engineers and researchers pretty much ever; now with AI it's different? Maybe it won't help attract some small portion of people but I'm not sure why it supposedly matters now where it hasn't in the past.
Why would Uber let a competitor undercut them?
A ground-launched Orion could be built now, but it'd make a mess when it launches, and it'd probably be much too small for a useful interstellar mission anyway, because of that scaling problem I mentioned. The stresses are just too high, and it's pointless because you don't need a ship that rugged in space, only for transiting planetary atmospheres.

I don't think we have the capability now to build a sufficiently large ship on the ground anyway, even if we decided to say "screw it, we don't care if it's wasteful to massively overbuild this thing"; our materials science probably isn't up to the task. So we need to learn to build things in space anyway.

No, we don't really have this capability right now. But we need to assume we'll have it when we need it, and we need to work towards it, and not try any kind of missions requiring it until we do. Thinking about interstellar missions right now is really putting the cart before the horse; we haven't even gotten manned missions beyond the Moon, and even those were pretty simple (walk around, hit some golf balls, drive a rover around), not anything involving real work such as building a habitat or serious excavation or mining.

This is why I think all this talk about going to Mars is silly too; we need to be concentrating on closer things, like near-Earth asteroid retrieval and prospecting, and building a Moon base, and figuring out how to mine materials and build larger ships offworld. We need a bigger ship to go to Mars, not some little tin can that you can stick on top of a rocket; something the size of the ISS would be good, because the crew will have to be trapped in it for months, and they need stuff for landing on the surface and doing real work there. You can't do all that with something the size of the lunar modules we launched on the Saturn V.
That link goes to the ACM Digital Library, where the paper is behind a paywall. Oddly, it is also available on the ACM SIGMOBILE site without a paywall: https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/papers/p90-aliA.pdf

If I am understanding this thing correctly, WTF...they are figuring out keystrokes by looking at the variations on a WiFi signal caused by the movement of human fingers during typing, which change how the signal propagates!?

Note that the computer you are typing on does not even have to be using WiFi. Heck, you would not even need to be using a computer. This should work if you are using an old manual non-electric typewriter.
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Just inherit the colour, in the spritesheet use:

fill: currentColor;

Same with stroke. Works great.
The HN front page is 30 items. Of those, none were about Node.js when I made that comment. Right now, none are about Node.js and, though I don't trust my memory much, it's a largely different selection of items.

If half of all HN front page items were about Node.js on average, the probability of getting (let's say, conservatively) 40 with none about Node.js would be (1/2)^40 or about 10^-12.

Of course people exaggerate and I am fallible. If 30% of all HN front page items are about Node.js on average, the probability of getting at most one such item out of 40 is about 10^-5. Which is, y'know, still much less likely than ten consecutive heads when flipping a coin.
>And what do they mean that it requires no installation or setup?

This almost always means that it's entirely in-browser.
You'd think, but that seems like a pretty weird way of saying it.
First - super cool.

Second - I'm at a loss for exactly what it does. Sorry. I get the 1000 mile-high view, and I get some of the super specific examples. But I'm not sure how it applies to most js progamming which is much more mundane than the very specific examples given.

Maybe you could add a section that takes a much more 'basic' introductory approach?

Again, great work.
How does it know that a line pasted to the end of a block from another indentation level belongs to that block or should go after the end of the block?

if cond:
line
pasted line # where does it go?
Ask HN: What's your biggest gripe with CSS Media Queries?
I'm currently finishing up with a complete re-write of a 2-year old JQuery plugin for Responsive Web Design (restive.js). It's going to lose the JQuery dependency and have a couple more nice features for modern Web design.

I've never used CSS Media Queries to build Responsive websites, primarily because I found them quite frustrating when I started learning Responsive Web design.

Still, I know a lot of folks use CSS Media Queries and I'd like to find out what your biggest issue with it is?
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I realize this is going to get voted down, but piece reads like a Trumpism "we have great AI, trust me, you would not believe, if you could see what we're doing".

I don't think you get to claim PR credit for advances in ML unless you publish. In general, for R&D, IMHO, you need to publish. There's product R&D, and there's fundamental R&D. If you make an advancement in something fundamental, but that helps your product, then publish it. If it is specific to your product only and can't be transferred elsewhere, then maybe it's ok to keep it secret.

Apple and Google's competitive advantage now arises from scale and path dependency. I think they need to let go of this idea that somehow they derive a competitive advantage by keeping these things secret. The Open AI community is going to advance at an accelerated rate regardless and IMHO, it's better to be part of it than to be seen as a kind of parasite that consumes public R&D, but doesn't give back improvements.
Very cool! Seems similar to what Brett Victor demos here: https://vimeo.com/36579366
Looks like a cool project, but I can't scroll very far down the site before my browser crashes. I've reproduced this several times, here's the terminal output if it helps:

$ conkeror https://alpha.trycarbide.com
......
JavaScript strict warning: https://alpha.trycarbide.com/, line 603: SyntaxError: test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)?
JavaScript strict warning: https://alpha.trycarbide.com/, line 604: SyntaxError: test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)?
JavaScript strict warning: https://alpha.trycarbide.com/, line 605: SyntaxError: test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)?
JavaScript strict warning: https://alpha.trycarbide.com/, line 606: SyntaxError: test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)?
JavaScript strict warning: https://eponymous-labs.github.io/carbide-splash/static/main.js, line 162: SyntaxError: in strict mode code, functions may be declared only at top level or immediately within another function
JavaScript strict warning: https://eponymous-labs.github.io/carbide-splash/static/main.js, line 201: ReferenceError: assignment to undeclared variable diff
Console error: [JavaScript Warning: "window.controllers is deprecated. Do not use it for UA detection." {file: "chrome://conkeror/content/window.js" line: 331}]
Category: DOM Core
Segmentation fault
No, LEA issues as a single micro-op on modern Intel CPUs, but no x86 CPU will merge a sequence of shift and add into a single micro op.
You have to go really, really fast to get 100:1 time dilation (like, 99.99% c) -- probably fast enough to make interstellar travel hazardous in a "collide with a hydrogen atom, it hurts" kind of way.

Also, the energies involved are absurd.
France is so pro-women that it forces a woman to publicly strip.

Everyone who supports this is deeply confused.
I loved the sequel myself.
How is

"If you’re the kind of person who holds yourself to the highest standards, our ‘attendance policy’ is exactly what you’d expect it to be: Be the kind of person your team can rely on. Be here when you’re supposed to be here. We need you. We can’t get things done when you’re not here."

clear and transparent?
For myself, I will often ask myself something along the lines of:
"In my current trajectory, will I be doing the same thing in a year? And is that what I want and will I be happy with that?" So I try to imagine the different paths I can take in my current trajectory and if none of the paths interest me, then I know it's time to make changes. Try to draw out a 5 year plan on a spreadsheet. Aim high, but be realistic.

My main point is, you don't need to work for a big N company to achieve your goals (unless your goal is to simply work for a big N company). The sooner I realized that, the sooner I was able to start working on my actual goals where the actions are vastly different than those of "getting into big N."

e.g. I want to design software, but not necessarily at Google makes it a lot easier to achieve than saying it must be at Google. :)
Interesting comments but both are saying the same thing: it's all knowledge in the end.

Either you know or you dont. CS degrees just means you learned it in a more standardized/formalized setting and have some proof to show you did it, but ultimately it's the knowledge itself that makes the difference, not how you gained it.
Oregon is one of the most expensive states to live in, as well. (If you opt for Portland.)

It doesn't compare to California, but it's getting there.
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Sounds like a communist utopia, just replace the big corps like Walmart and Safeway with GovMart and GovWay. Maybe Marx was unto something on how capitalism would evolve, just got some parts wrongs.
actually, the odd thing is how seemingly quickly abiogenesis seems to have occured on earth; few 100 million years give or take. This may mean that given proper planetary conditions, life just tends to happen rather easily - ie for a quite sizablle fraction of candidates at least. Or maybe that it's not going to happen at all unless it happens improbably quickly.

Basically we can't say a much about what the fraction of planets that develop life to planets that have conditions for developing life is based on just one example, but there's no apriori reason for particular pessimism about that number just yet.

Now how likely the conditions are to begin with is a different matter. They've certainly improved in the last decade, since planets at least seem to readily form and earth-sized things too, and apparently easily end up in orbits that could allow for water to exist etc. There's clearly a bunch of other potential conditions that may be necessary for abiogenesis -- untill we know more about how exactly it happens, we can't tell (and actually finding separate origins of life would greatly help in undestanding what that is)

I for one think it very likely this particular planet isn't habitable, because Proxima is such a lousy star, but it's certainly not ruled out. But also that microbes are likely reasonably common in the universe. Around a small fraction of the total number of stars, only some small percentage of what we'd consider candidates today based on their sizes and orbits -- but still that leaves immense numbers.
Seems similar in spirit :) They do a version of one the original demos: https://youtu.be/gtXpOD6jFls?t=49s
Can someone explain how there's a post in the middle of this from before it all started?

"Thanks for creating Linux." 24/06/2011 John
...in often distant second-class-citizen form, and a cursory glance at the docs of any of the big-hitting data flow platforms will show you that it's Java/Scala or bust (with some Python/R sure but to get serious you have to speak to them in their native tongues).
Line of sight, or the lack of. Pretty soon the cell phone in my pocket can use its wifi to detect the pins you typed on the ATM terminal. Wifi jammer will be popular.
Drivers are making more than this, Uber is paying them. Uber is just giving away VC cash to consumers.
IPv4 x IPv6 performance comparison across the world
Chrome and Firefox and Opera all keep up. Safari is worse than IE/Edge at this point in terms of implementing standards. It's the absolute worst because it's not even available for anything but Apple products now so it's a pain in the ass to test.
Check out HLS.
Based on http so no special ports or udp. Also support HTTPS.
And you should reconsider WebRTC, it's amazing.
I currently work for a company that heavily uses Oracle technology. It's horrible. Our culmative contracts are worth several hundred thousand dollars per years.

But they'll still cheat us on small things. We request information on a training seminar (we had a free attendance voucher), and they lose our account information until 1 week after the seminar ended.

It's to the point where I just laugh. Everyone knows their cheating us, but upper management won't change.
Clickbait title and seems to have gotten much of its information from some HR industry-specific article written by Andrew R. McIlvaine in 2014 (scroll down to No Chain of Command):

http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/print.jhtml?id=534357301

Basically a high-school article where they plagarised a source and rephrased some sentences.

And upon further review, the original poster joined 5 hours ago and already posted 3 articles from their company blog? Flagged.
That's an opinion. I don't think you could get a random group of 3 AI researchers to agree on what the long term goal is, or if there even is a long term goal as opposed to this simply being a very buzzword- and marketing-friendly area of research at the moment.
Well, "always dark" is waiting for us at the bottom of the ocean.
> If it is specific to your product only and can't be transferred elsewhere, then maybe it's ok to keep it secret.

wouldn't it be the other way around? if the competitors can benefit from your knowledge, you'd want to keep it secret.
Good. I probably saw/heard their ads thousands of times (no exagg.) over a few month period. They annoyed me so much I wouldn't give them any business even if I found their product fun (which I didn't).
> Her eggs grow inside the fig flower and hatch several days later. The newly hatched wasps mate with other wasps that were born in the same fig.

Wouldn't this lead to and extremely shallow gene-pool? Or do figs tend to have multiple wasps in it?