skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anker’s products haven’t always proved completely reliable, but it has made up for any foibles with excellent, no-questions-asked customer service.

I have a bunch of Anker products because they have been, in my experience, the best quality and most reliable at good prices. I have a 5-port charger with "PowerIQ" that was the first for me that could fast-charge both Android and iOS devices (that for a while followed different charger standards, haven't checked recently) and not just on one port. My team also bought a box of some of their USB3 hubs/chargers because they worked well with some of our finicky pre-production hardware.

In summary: Anker provided what I wanted from a "brand" in a field flooded with dubious no-name products: quality I can trust.
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and the landlord creates nothing
They make a bluetooth one, IIRC, so that's not as crazy as you might think.
What is the consequence of the OP not showing up at work? Does he lose paid days? Does he get fired? How does his company track sick days? At every company I've worked for there's usually a formal sick day arrangement, but often sick days are less formal; you email or call your boss and tell them you're sick and they tell you to stay home. Rarely does the boss actually record that event. This is different company to company but I'm betting a lot of people put more on themselves about staying home than they should.
The main page [1] gives some info about the project and might be a better link: "Specification for interoperability of common algebraic structures in JavaScript"

[1] https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land
This is a nice use of intrinsic ratio, but it's not a what I would call a "responsive iFrame",you can achieve this by just putting your iFrame in an intrinsic ratio container and laying it out with CSS. The only method I know to make an iframe respond to contain its child element (which might change size, or load slowly) is with a resize listener on the child and postMessage.
Depends on why you're feeling blocked. Is it because you don't know what to do next or because you just aren't enjoying writing that program?

Pair programming can help with both. When you have the social pressure of someone sitting next to you, you can build up momentum that you can hang onto even after you're back to programming alone.
cperciva and dhouston were working on similar stuff at this time, they cross paths in the comments of the same thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35088
I guess the point of this particular data set is to check performance on low quality phone audio
Putting (my VB6) Windows Apps in Windows 10 Store
Yet another hack caused by Godaddy's customer service
> they have roughly the same speed and direction than Sun

Are you sure about that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s_Star :
"The proper motion of Barnard's Star corresponds to a relative lateral speed of 90 km/s. The 10.3 seconds of arc it travels annually amount to a quarter of a degree in a human lifetime, roughly half the angular diameter of the full Moon."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri
"All components of Alpha Centauri display significant proper motions against the background sky, similar to the first-magnitude stars Sirius and Arcturus. Over the centuries, this causes the apparent stellar positions to slowly change. Such motions define the high-proper-motion stars"
The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Be Like Nothing in Earth's History
When Bluetooth Latency Matters
Conspiracy theories: How to be a smarter news consumer
That's because transistors are smaller now than they were a decade ago. In terms of transistor count, modern processors are much bigger than processors were a decade ago.

The question then becomes: Is neuron size constant? Can some animals have smaller neurons?
Use your ISPs resolver then your ISP can see what sites you're visiting.

Use DNSCrypt then your ISP can see what sites you're visiting and the third party running the DNSCrypt server can also see what sites you're visiting.
+1 for Blindsight.

However, as a non-native English speaker, I found it to be hard to follow at times.
I think it's secure in the sense that you can easily add in your own authentication scheme that integrates with the schema, whereas this is basically impossible if you were accepting sql statements (short of parsing them yourself, which seems more difficult than parsing GraphQl)
I wasn't talking about Thiago's credentials. I was talking about the tone in his reply which was clearly abrasive.

Brams criticism is valid about Thiago solution. Forcing msgpack is less than ideal. It's clear Thiago is learning as he goes along. Taking his work without reflection would be silly.

Also it is also clear neovim wants plugin writers. So they want vim to be compatible with what they made so they can grab users.

Why should vim care about being compatible with neovim?
The landlord either created the house, or the landlord created someone else of value and traded it for the house that someone else created. Houses don't appear out of thin air.
Compared to voice over internet? Yeah, it's pretty terrible.
I too have had positive experiences with their products. The products I used were well-priced, high quality and generally work. Why aren't they using their own brand?
Here's an example, at least for code. "Using Python to Code by Voice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
These are the guys who created Team America: World Police in 2004, and you're trying to say that they're neo-conservatives?
Ask HN: Can you share how you sought mentorship or mentored
One of neglected part in my work is seeking mentorship. I feel a mentor could have been good help to me to think through some technical choices and direction of career.

I'm planning to seek mentorship with some one who has built successful products from ground up and I worked for him only for a short time. I've spoken to him only couple of times and it's been couple of years now. Now I'm thinking of writing a mail to him and ask for a coffee or lunch or show up in his free time. I'm interested to know about hiring, IP, about approach to product building mindset, avoiding any pitfalls by explaining current happenings, top do's and dont's in a given scenario.

But I have never done seeking mentorship and tad nervous. Can you please share your experiences on how you sought mentorship or who have done mentoring themselves share some insights to these meetings.
Technically, the iFrame itself is not responsive but that is what the library does: it wraps it in a container that has more responsive properties than the iFrame.

In addition, I think you may be overloading the word "responsive." This is not a post-message base iFrame resizer, it makes iFrames scale like images. This maintains an aspect ratio which is very desirable in many cases. Think a YouTube embed.
and who are YOU? (/sarcasm)
How the right syntax can help teach recursion
Why work 40 hours a week for someone else and sleep at night, when you can work 16 hours/day 7 days a week for 10 years for yourself, and age a lot in the process?
Acknowledging that the computer is severely limited seems like a good first step. Some people hate thinking of it that way though, and I have no idea why. It's annoying.
This is not a realisation, it's a belief. And it's a very boring one. I quite enjoy my narcissistic views and have absolutely no interest in trading them in for your moralism ("fairness", "equality", "justice" and other socialist bullshit). Live your own hell all you want, just don't inflict it on others. Since you're a believer in "fairness", I'll cut you a fair deal: I'll keep my luxuries to myself and you keep your "responsibilities" to yourself. Deal?
Serverless architecture financial incentives: game-changer or a recycled fad?
My company /says/ they don't want people coming in ill, but policies state you must get a doctor's note for even 1 day's absence (doctor's really don't like you wasting their time) and the HR portal shows you a score relating to your time off. Also, managers love coming in all to show how dedicated they are! Joy.
I don't attend many conferences, but I've been to a few and the quality of the speakers at RustConf was above and beyond any I've ever seen. Kudos to everyone that organized the event and spoke at it, it was a great experience!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban ?
Power vacuums are not left unfilled for long.

Also, I've never met a "true" (in the sense that they tell you about it as soon as you talk to them) libertarian who isn't also a raging asshole.

But there are assholes on all points of the spectrum, so I'm not sure what that proves. :D
Yes. You missed. That sucks, but that's life. Nobody said it was going to be fair.

Had you stalked him and hit him good, he would have left you alone. But your friend retaliated for you, and he did leave you alone afterwards, so similar result.
In much of the EU, if you get sick on holiday, you can claim your holiday back:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6190826/...
Show HN: Using Parsing Expression Grammars to rewrite source code
I know that I'm putting my name on a dissenters list, but isn't that kind of the point? I hate how it's become this casual reality that the government is always working behind the scenes to further its own interests, often regardless of the actual benefit to the average citizen. Today's political climate is like the fever that our society is enduring to effect change. Honestly, I'm not sure why Obama would not do this. I mean, I know why everyone thinks he wouldn't but the sense that there is something to lose, as though the favor of all these Washington back scratchers was worth anything, seems really just like an illusion. Obama doesn't seem to me like an insider. He seems to me just like a guy I'd have a beer with who has a solid head on his shoulders. I believe there's a part of him that would just love to do this and believes it is right. I guess we'll see what happens.
Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux
I was just perusing the Anker site [1] last weekend and noticed these products (and more) listed in the Appliances category.

[1]: https://www.anker.com/products/taxons/115/Appliances
> Unless you're saying you want it to keep track of diffs of the heap

Yup, that's exactly what I'm saying. Keep track of (store) the full browser state before entering a function, and when you rewind restore that exactly.

Local I/O is no problem, remote I/O will simply be restarted. Or it will error. It doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.

Mozilla actually is working on such a tool: http://rr-project.org/ (for gdb i.e native) and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We... (for browser).

It would be awesome if they fully integrated those tools into the built in debugger.
You're being awfully defensive about this. Yes, I don't like seeing people throw the "fanboy" word around. It's always meant as an insult, and nearly always used with the intention of dismissing someone's argument without actually countering the points made (usually because they can't). I don't get why you keep trying to accuse me of taking offense at something not directed at me, as if that's even relevant to the discussion. Did I even ever say I was offended? I don't think so.

> Because even Elon Musk said so

Citation please? I'm not seeing this anywhere. In fact, an article from just 1 week ago talks about how Tesla might achieve GAAP profitability in Q3 - https://electrek.co/2016/09/07/tesla-tsla-could-achieve-gaap...

> and their overall profit margins would be relying on the people that buy the premium modules and upgrades for the model 3

Isn't that true for all cars? If the optional features didn't improve profit margins, dealerships wouldn't be pushing them.

> This is an utterly irrelevant question to ask if you want to make a change in the world, even Elon Musk made this same argument, the point of the cars like the Bolt isn't to sell them to people who want to buy an electric car specifically but to anyone who wants to buy a car in general.

One of Elon Musk's goals was to push other car manufacturers into making electric vehicles. The fact that a widely-recognized brand like GM is coming out with the Bolt is exactly what Elon Musk wanted to happen.
The same way all skills are acquired: practice.
I too have always found their products to be very high quality for the price point. I trust them more than a brand like Belkin.
I once heard that Anker was started by a bunch of ex-Googlers, does anyone know if that's true??
I know barely enough haskell, passively, to dislike quite a lot of this code (like really, 3 lines on 3 places, just to case on a maybe to throw an error? w/a just calling fromMaybe or even fromJust? and manual instances??) - but, could someone more experienced suggest a saner one?
Unfortunately it's become a blind mantra for many people that "violence is never the answer." We like to think ourselves as elevated beings, but there are many situations where primal shows of dominance through strength and aggression are viable solutions to a problem.
d) create issue templates also, i have to currently cut and paste the same markdown into every issue

e) create user-level permissions - i work on a team where everyone would use this, but currently not everyone can have access to the code base so we have to say in trello until you can allow me the ability to turn off code access to "non-engineers"
No. Metafont (at least for format, not the interpreter) is more akin to TrueType or Postscript font definitions.

This is more akin to the old Adobe MultiMaster fonts, where the user installed one font that could then be dynamically tuned in various ways - weight, descenders, etc.
I guess the best way to think about it is that when you omit the height on an image, it will scale when you define its width. iFrames don't do that by default, but this allows them to be scaled.
Like Totally!
Unfortunately there are people who really believe it. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism
I've wondered the same thing! How much work is being done in the area of making Siri and OK Google sound more human-like?
It's kind of cool that there are so many different countries with different variables and that some people are fortunate enough to be able to pick the one that suits them best.

Homogeny in this case would actually be a bad thing.
6.3% on Switchboard. This is of course in response to IBM getting 6.6%, which was in turn in response to Baidu getting...

Switchboard is kind of a lame evaluation set. It's narrowband, old, and doesn't contain all that much training data (100s of hours, whereas many newer systems are trained on 1000s or 10Ks of hours). And the quest for a lower Switchboard WER to publish means teams are now throwing extra training data at the problem, or using frankly unlikely-to-be-deployed techniques like speaker adaptation, impractically slow language models, or bidirectional acoustic models (which require the entire utterance before they can emit any results).

I really wish they would have stuck to just publishing a paper explaining was actually new here (ResNet for acoustic models? Cool!) rather than just a "let's see how low we can push this 20 year old benchmark" paper.
I agree, I use probably a very similar charger for you along with a few other products and they're very high quality and were well priced.

I use their screen protectors too, and when it chipped they sent me a new one no questions asked.
Fantasy Land is a great project—proof of how extensible JavaScript can be. There are some very interesting related projects:

https://github.com/Avaq/Fluture is basically lazy and better promises. A+ spec got nothing on this.

https://github.com/sanctuary-js/sanctuary adds better typechecks, combinators, and types like Maybe.

https://github.com/origamitower/folktale An upcoming collection of similar tools for JavaScript.

And of course, there's Ramda.

I think these libraries may sound impossible to use at work at first, but if you play with them for fun, you can at least learn some cool techniques or paradigms.
Thank you! Can I make one more request? I'd love to be able to see merge conflicts from the diff page (also like BB does).

Knowing the conflict is just db/schema version instead of something more problematic-- that is especially handy when used in conjunction with various target branches.

i.e. I know <another-feature> branch is about to be merged before right before <my-branch> gets merged. Then, I can know what I'm going to have to fix quickly without having to go back to terminal, fetch <another-feature>, merge <my-branch>, just to find the conflicts. Yes, I have to do that with master after it's merged anyways, but I find it great to see quickly and at a glance beforehand.
Yeah, I agree my original wording could have been better. However, I think both of us are in agreement that if you were that person in a developing country, you'd chance drinking potentially infected water over dehydrating. Just as one would work for pennies at a sketchy job site instead of not working and not being able to buy food at the end of the day.

And going back to the original discussion, automobile accidents are an abstraction, a probable cause of death, versus something more definite like starvation.
If anyone thinks that startups aren't _all about_ sales, they are in for a rude awakening. The truth is, your idea/technology doesn't actually have much to do with the success of a startup. It's all about how much money you can raise (sales), and as a prerequisite, how much traction/customers you have (sales).

Just look at the Yo app. They got $1 million in investment (for some reason). Their technology was nothing special, in fact it was literally written in a day. But their CEO apparently had an in with some investors, or they were _very_ good at sales/pitching.
you can use a helper library like the wonderful graphql-sequelize [https://github.com/mickhansen/graphql-sequelize] which helps you get from an ORM like sequelize to graphql queries/results fairly easily.
Doorman: A http proxy that authenticates via OAuth
What's the problem with complaining about being downvoted? So it's ok to downvote without explanation, but not acceptable to ask for one? HN mods are such wankers, it's pathetic.
So how can I get the different variations of the font in CSS? (e.g.: I want condensed ultra light for instance)

Will it work with font-weight and font-stretch?

e.g.: Will this use the font variations instead of letting the browser do the interpolation?

font-weight: 100;
font-stretch: condensed;
Similarly to the `<div hidden>` example above, it's a tradeoff. A speculative fetch is just that: speculative. It might not always be correct, but on balance, it's likely to improve the user's experience.

I think it's pretty unlikely we'd see this kind of speculative preloading for fetch though, at least initially. More likely, it's done for imports, and then some number of months or years down the line some engineer or PM has the bright idea to measure how much the average web page could be improved by doing speculative preloading for fetch, and then if the measurements are favorable and the technical tradeoffs are manageable, it happens.
> I would advocate immediate, publicly visible, and decisive violence as a solution to bullies.

Speaking from experience: yes. Nothing prevents violence and bullying more than to show the bullies "okay, you don't stop, so I'm gonna fight back". It's like with preventing a computer system from getting hacked by everone and their dog: raise the difficulty bar enough to chase away the masses.

Downside: bullies are going to choose an easier target, most probably the only friends you have (which makes that decision definitely harder).

Solidarity in a group of bullied kids tends to vary, too. Sometimes, they'll stick together and actually beat one bully so hard he's going to the hospital and staying there, and sometimes it's "okay, choose the guy next to me, kthxbai" (aka everyone fights for himself only).
Practicing does not help for me. I am rather a lone wolf, but not because I want to be, but because I simply fail completely, so I find it a little bit unfair to downvote the above post.
Ask HN: What would you like to learn in your spare time?
> 1. Can you rebase in the GitHub interface?

> 2. Does GitHub have an option to fast forward merges?

So is Gitlab's aim to just play catchup to Github?
> No-one said it was.

That is literally what the comment I replied to said. That "self hosting" was a reason to root for gitlab.
Doing a load of laundry in an office trash can with pocket sized washing machine
Yes. It's a neat language. Runs on linux too.
> It's not a beauty contest

And plenty of taxis in my neck of the woods have rooftop advertising, anyway.

On the other hand, it makes it clear the car is an Uber. Illegal parking and such will be a lot easier to ticket.
My experience: the three companies I've worked for as a Software Engineer in the USA all tracked vacation and sick leave as two distinct buckets. Vacation gets paid out when you leave the company, sick leave does not.

If I'm sick and out of sick days I can either go in to work (infecting everyone else), burn a vacation day, or (presumably) not get paid. I've never been willing to risk trying the third option, and since I don't have a ton of vacations days, I'm most likely to pick the first one.
I had a conversation a little like that when I was a teenager, without the beating part:

ME: Am I being arrested?

COP: No, you're being detained. Get in the car.

ME: And if I don't?

COP: Then I'll arrest you.

ME: For what?

COP: For resisting.

ME: Resisting what?

COP: ?!?!? Just get in the damned car.
I also hate to say it, but this is one of the only effective solutions to bullying (especially among males). People become bullies for complex reasons, and people are bullied for similarly complex reasons. But almost no school aged bully is willing to put themselves at the risk of physical harm.

I wasn't bullied, but I definitely had attempts made. Those attempts were usually resolved very quickly and permanently with a bit of school yard fisticuffs. My friends who didn't fight back physically stayed tormented for as long as they cared not to defend themselves. Arguing, going to teachers, parents, school administrators, counselors, none of it made a lick of difference. Physically fighting back did.

There were two things I think that made it possible for this to work however (my parents were informed by a healthy disdain for the public school system):

1. My father established a standing set of rules in my family about bullies. a) Don't be a bully or you'll get severely punished b) if you are getting bullied, you may reasonably defend yourself without worrying about getting in trouble at home c) you may reasonably defend another person who is getting bullied without worrying about getting in trouble at home. d) if you throw the first punch you'll get in trouble, but you don't have to "win", just defend yourself

2. My father taught me and my siblings how to box a little - basic punches, blocks, parries, enough to be more trouble than it was worth for a school yard tussle.

It worked, I was the perfect bully target in school, smart, bookish, glasses, I never was the victim of bullying after the first return punch.

But I saw other children be bullied mercilessly, beat up, made fun of, even getting urinated on in one occasion, and another pushed head first down a flight of stairs. The problem with defending them of course, is that once I'm not there the bullies will pounce. I've even lost friends who had to move away to go to another school district the bullying was so bad.

There are occasions though where this doesn't work, when the bully returns with a group, or if the parents don't teach and support their child's ability to enter, engage and resolve this kind of conflict on their own terms. Many very well meaning parents cannot imagine their child getting into a school yard fight to defend themselves and try to work through other adults at their level. But it very rarely resolves that way.