skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you were being hyperbolic but asking a question requires no previous community engagement. There is no barrier to entry.

This is part of the issue with SO though in that so many people ask questions without trying to figure things out for themselves or because it is their first time asking a question on the internet they have a very hard time with it. Veteran users are frustrated by new user's attitude and new user's attitude is often that they are asking a question because they are hitting a wall. They've stalled out on their task and are frustrated and the question they end up posting shows this. It will lack context, enough information to reproduce, be an XY problem or some issue like that. These questions are either difficult or impossible to answer. Making them stop is a very hard problem, unfortunately.
Yes, you're right about the signals. The Alto has a 5.88 MHz clock which is very slow by modern standards, and the buses are a couple feet of wire-wrapped pins so the probes are unlikely to have any effect.

I'm not sure modern-ish is the right word for the logic analyzer. It's a 1999 Agilent logic analyzer and I don't know how they managed to make it so slow. You can ftp a trace off it over Ethernet at the glacial speed of 10 kilobytes per second, so copying traces for analysis is a big bottleneck.
Disney Is Working with an Adviser on Potential Twitter Bid
UI is weird. Left/right goes between main topics, up/down goes through the slides on that topic. So if you just go right, right, right, you're only seeing the headings.
With the incentive being student loan payoff, shouldn't we be concerned that this is targeting voters that skew Democrat?
I'm definitely registered to vote (at the correct address), but this website claims I am not. I voted (by mail) in the Democratic Primary.
There's the Dasung Paperlike e-ink monitor:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e...

However, it's only 13.3" in size and, as you noted, it is limited by the refresh rate of e-ink.
Time Might Only Exist in Your Head. And Everyone Else’s
I didn't downvote you, but there are different reasons why you would like to use a wildcard certificate and even if those reasons are not aligned with your goals they shouldn't be dismissed.

I know two, at least. For a small communitary school in my city, teachers and students keep blogs in a wordpress multi user server, for storing data or doing webdev examples. They have a subdomain setup and cannot use ssl as the domain name will always be unknown by the person who creates the blog and the wildcard is too expensive for something they do in their free time.

Sandstorm uses unknown subdomains as a way to avoid possible security issues https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/wildcard/#...

I'm sure your points are valid, but you cannot define the thread model of others so easy. And don't get mad by downvotes, upvoting or downvoting is pretty boring
> No one able to vote in the US should be sitting this one out

I disagree. People who haven't taken the time to thoroughly research the candidates should not be encouraged to blindly push a button, especially this year. Most of them will probably be persuaded by fear mongering or partisan mud-slinging.

That's not democracy, it's just mob rule.
I’m glad that I have been distrusting Startcom on all my devices since early 2014. Time to do the same for Wosign.
$1M VotePlz is too little too late of that's the impetus; keep the cash and do something useful with it Sam, like fixing the DNC so they run a competent candidate next time.
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Why use Planning Poker cards instead of saying your estimate out loud?
This is clearly aimed at getting the vote out in the college / recent grad demographics which is reliably Democratic.
So the main use case of the language is the handbook of that language? :)
Not a lawyer, but as far as I know, the relevant statute would be 18 USC 597, which says: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate [...]"

Which I strongly suspect is why the language around the offer universally refers to "check[ing] voter registration status". And I'm sure somebody or other's legal team has reviewed this language and signed off on it.
Transit format: An interactive tutorial – better than JSON (part 1)
I said it can, not that it does it already.

My Swift experience is constrained to the GNU/Linux version, so I don't know if XCode is already doing something in this direction.

Sure one can have blessed library types that the compiler knows about, but then from language design point of view it creates a decision between those types and others written by developers, but with similar semantics.
Again...

Yes you are certainly persistent but we are talking about the state of nutrition as a science not about rules of thumb that average people can use when thinking about diets. The former and the latter are different things.
That's right but you are not returning the error. Here is the corrected snippet https://play.golang.org/p/A3YRSTg-7K

Edit: your example works too, though I find it weird...
I think you hint at another point -- this phrasing has been coming from everywhere, and the fact that it continues to come from people who tend to support one particular candidate makes me weary of it: "The 2016 US Presidential election feels like the most important one so far in my lifetime" seems like it really is just a euphemism for "Candidate X is really scary, so despite what you think about Candidate Y, we must fall in line and vote for him/her"

Every presidential election is important. Unless the President somehow gained newfound apocalyptical powers, I don't think it is any more or less important than before. You should vote because you want to exercise your right to vote, not because everyone is compelling you of how "important" (a.k.a super duper scary) it is. Telling everyone to "get out and vote" is hardly helpful. We have security experts telling us electronic voting machines are just plain not safe, we have laws that disparage minorities and low-income people from not voting, and worst of all, we have a majority of the population who is completely ignorant or lackisdasical of the numerous blunders and legitimate concerns over both major candidates (at least in my view its the only way to explain the vehement support they continue to receive -- nevermind how awful my person is -- look at how awful yours is! I know you are but what I am! I am rubber you are glue!) These are the real issues we should be trying to address.

This has been the absolute worst election season I have ever experienced on my short time on earth, and everyone older and wiser than me concurs. There has been more mud slinging by both parties, and every side of the media that they make Fox News look "normal".

I am terrified of the choices either candidate is going to make in the near future. Either one will be able to push the supreme court to its most extreme position in history. You may think that be a victory, but life has taught me extremes in one direction or the other are aways bad.

Neither of these two deserve anyone's vote. If anything we should be voting for a constitutional amendment to be able to vote to redo the whole thing and get two new candidates, whatever, anything besides these two.

I know, I know, "vote third party", which is all great and fun, until you get blamed later for being the reason the other party won. Just ask anyone who ever voted for Ralph Nader.

Sorry I am not sorry for posting this rant here. I just am so fed up with our current state of politics.
Ferdinand Mount Reviews “Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion”
The grandparent is talking about Venus atmosphere.

It seems the conditions in the upper atmosphere of Venus are acceptable.
If you can manage living in floating cities (that it's cool but makes it a very difficult endeavour) then, Venus is close to Earth than Mars and the gravity is similar to the one in Earth.

As always, Wikipedia have this covered:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Aerostat...

PS: I'm upvoting the GP, by the way. Why people downvote instead of asking for clarification.
I tried to get more into CL because of implementations like SBCL and because it's standardized, but modularization/package management turned out to be too verbose and archaic for my taste.

In Racket, by default a file creates a module, I import things, export stuff and done. That's really very handy, because I hate fiddling around with package declarations and paths -- these are a pain in the ass in almost every older language.
I don't think they're assisting because they are shrewd, but because they are genuinely nice and helpful people, and like to see old computers running.
But they still had to find an interesting point from which to zoom out, right?
iirc JS changes that don't modify app behavior are allowed to be updated on the fly
weird re-wiring => creativity and new passions

but I doubt evolution has much room for overcapacity. Maybe a bit more for older people, because they can rely on heavy abstraction and don't have to learn so much anymore.
I feel mine started through squinting. My layman's theory is that this introduced tension to the muscles in the area, and around the glands, which inhibited them over a long period of time. It is much better now for me, but like you I can't follow the care instructions to the degree I should. I find a very gentle massage of that area after heat really helps, and I also try to relax the muscles around my eyes and being aware of them becoming tense whenever possible.

Like you say though, it seems to be something you manage rather than cure.
Hey Joe. I work on Exponent.

When you're developing you can use Exponent's apps from the App Store/Play Store, so you can get started immediately and let other people test your app easily. Once you're ready to put your app in the stores you start a build using our CLI and we build it on our servers (see https://docs.getexponent.com/versions/latest/guides/building...). We want to make it easy for people on Windows and Linux to build apps so don't require you to use Xcode or Android Studio. If you don't want the builds to happen on our servers our clients are open source so you can do it yourself if you want (https://github.com/exponentjs/exponent).
HERE and automakers to share live data from cars
These all can, they just choose not to bother.
Just a note: the size of the urban population of Chicago is to St. Louis as the size of the urban population of St. Louis is to Grand Rapids [0]. Which is to say that the quantitative and qualitative differences between each are enormous.

You can't really talk about "The Midwest" as a monolith.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_ar...
You don't need in/out params to get references; in Swift, anything defined with "class" is always passed by reference.
FYI those moderators with 10k+ of rep are not gaining rep any longer for editing questions. You only get that +2 rep bump per edit when you are <1k (or <2k I forget) of rep. And Commenting never gets you any rep.
Lisp is a family of languages that includes Racket and Clojure.

C is a language, not a family of languages that includes Rust and Go.

The Lisp family of languages also contains Common Lisp. In some contexts, it's reasonable to assume "Lisp" means "Common Lisp". This is not one of those contexts.
I am the target demographic, and this doesn't appeal to us.

> The 2012 election was decided by millennial turnout. And this election should be too. It’s up to you to vote and decide!

Millenials see politicians and old people using emoji as contrived and duplicitous. They also hate the word millenial.
A couple of years ago Apple changed the iOS developer terms to say it's OK to download and run JavaScript as long as it's run on the built-in WebKit or JavaScriptCore engine (section 3.3.2 if you're curious). Exponent uses the built-in JavaScriptCore on iOS.
I didn't say it was hard to understand; but it does scare me to depend on any C-style macro like that in a C++ project.
I thought this sounded familiar, and I managed to find this app[1] that claims to feature a "2D mind map to keep track of your journey and suggest new paths".

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikilinks-smart-wikipedia/id...
It's the height of irony that your post (which seems to be suggesting that the only reason I prefer San Francisco is snobbishness) is fundamentally predicated on a disbelief that anyone could reasonably have preferences different from your own.

If you don't think the Bay Area has amenities worth paying for, that's ok. I do. Many other people do too. Different people like different things. That's ok.

This is obviously besides the point that I've never paid $4 for gas or $6 for a bagel in San Francisco.
My experience is that managers don't care.
Same here. This clearly won't work if a decent percentage of people are already registered and it doesn't know that.
Money creation is so poorly understood that the Bank of England undertook to clarify[0]:

• This article explains how the majority of money in the modern economy is created by commercial
banks making loans.

• Money creation in practice differs from some popular misconceptions — banks do not act simply
as intermediaries, lending out deposits that savers place with them, and nor do they ‘multiply up’
central bank money to create new loans and deposits.

• The amount of money created in the economy ultimately depends on the monetary policy of the
central bank. In normal times, this is carried out by setting interest rates. The central bank can
also affect the amount of money directly through purchasing assets or ‘quantitative easing’.

[0] http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
> This can't be entirely surprising given that Apple has lost it's focus on the desktop

This really only means they don't add a lot of things to the desktop. macOS pretty much works the same between Snow Leopard on up.
I think the distinction isn't so much between "student/hobby projects" and everything else, so much as it is between "projects that go through the motions overly-formally to learn the motions, rather than to achieve the goal" (i.e. the result of doing a code kata) and projects that are created with intent to put them into—at least hobbyist—production. Even quickly dashed off scripts are useful to others; while perfected, deliberate homework assignments usually aren't.

Partitioning the search results of sites like GitHub based on such a factor might be useful.

You're right, though, that people wouldn't know well-enough at the time to self-report this "is practically-applicable rather than an academic exercise" property. It'd be more useful as a fact derived from social-bookmarking/tagging of repos, I think.

GitHub already has a pretty good signal for practicality in its "stars"; people don't star things that aren't useful to them in some sense. You could maybe add some other explicit signal (maybe a "hide" button in the search results) to serve as a negative signal.

Better yet, though, you could build some sort of "BlackBoard for CS" education-workflow site on top of GitHub, and use its positive signals (this is academic) as the negative signal for GitHub itself.

(As an aside: I've always wondered why more sites don't use this approach. It's way easier to incentivize people to tag something they want vs. something they don't. Build a second frontend for your site that serves the user-base you don't want on your main site, and serves them better—and then have that frontend add the ghetto-tag to everything it passes to the backend.)
Hi all! Thanks for the post! Here are some links to help you check out Exponent and get any idea what it can do -- all you need to do is download the Exponent client from the app / play store and you can open any of these:

- Pocketgear - a pokedex app: https://getexponent.com/@rncommunity/pocketgear

- A fun little app I've been working on for a few days for an upcoming talk: https://getexponent.com/@community/growler-prowler

- An IP Subnet Calculator: https://getexponent.com/@levic92/ipcalc

- The navigation/routing library that we recommend to be used with Exponent: https://getexponent.com/@community/ex-navigation-example

- A work-in-progress showcase of animations that you can do with React Native / Exponent: https://getexponent.com/@community/animations-showcase

- Shared element transitions are possible too: https://getexponent.com/@janic/shared-elements

- A showcase of some of the components that you can use with Exponent: https://getexponent.com/@notbrent/native-component-list (tap out the ^ icon in the top right)

- "Floaty Plane" - a simple game: http://getexponent.com/@exponent/floatyplane

- An experiment to re-create basic Wunderlist UI: https://getexponent.com/@mastermo/wunderlist

- A pre-launch version of "React Native Playground" in Exponent: https://getexponent.com/@rnplay/rnplay (just sign in as a guest and go to the Explore tab)

- An image gallery example: https://getexponent.com/@community/image-gallery-example

- A Pomodoro app UI: https://getexponent.com/@exponent/pomodoro

- A tab view component demo: http://exp.host/@rncommunity/react-native-tab-view-demos

The largest app on our platform right now is li.st for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=st.li.listapp&...
This is a terrific initiative. Especially the part where you can take a picture of your driver's license and get everything taken care of. Everybody with a little bit of startup experience knows that removing signup friction makes a huge difference and yet voting in the US is way more complicated than it needs to be. This isn't an accident: legislators know low turnout doesn't affect all demographics equally. So I support projects like these that get people to vote.
But I'm guessing that you've figured out after reading your own comment that the musical sharp symbol is not rendered in all mediums (including HN). Were I required to search for reference material related to Microsoft's C-like language using proper typography, I'd have to go cut-and-paste the symbol from a WikiPedia page because I don't know how to get it from keyboard to textfield otherwise.

IMO, yeah, maybe not the best choice by MSFT. But pragmatically, we all know what "#" means in that context even if it's not correct. All the Monday-morning-quarterbacking in the world isn't going to change that. So I'm as all for an academic discussion as the next person, but that's all it is.
>But computing machines aren't unpredictable. They are very predictable.

Are they though? A 5-state Turing machine might seem trivial, but there exist programs in it, that we don't know if they ever halt or not [1]. Their behavior is totally non-deterministic for our understanding. There are also minimalistic cellular automata that produce completely unpredictable patterns. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver#Known_values_for_....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
Yes, but it begs the question why a Google employee working on Chromium is a peer of that module in the first place. It's because Google is a user, right?
treating someone with sympathy but not also with respect is a bad thing.

OK, I think we're on the same page. I have no reason to respect that about them and don't.
I think there's a lot to this analysis, but it's common to try to interest people in an activity by pointing out that it's fun, or that it can be fun. I was just reading Wheelock's Latin this morning and he has a recurring section in each chapter "Latina est gaudium - et utilis" ('Latin is fun - and useful').

We do need more discussion about this. I met a professor who studies formal methods and we discussed how we both got into programming because we enjoyed it, but how making proofs of program correctness is rarely enjoyable in the same way. (There might be moments of enjoyment, but also moments of tedium.) This is challenging because we may need the formal methods to overcome the plague of bugs and security vulnerabilities, but working that way may upend our sense of what we feel the experience of programming ought to be like.
Enter for a chance to win... jury duty. No thanks!
What your opinion is on this approach?
>We know google spies on its users for the NSA and other agencies

No we don't. For one, every publicly-known piece of evidence suggests that after the Snowden leaks revealed the NSA illegally tapped Google's network connections, they immediately began implementing full transport encryption both between and within their own data centers. You could say they just did that to save face, but no evidence has ever suggested Google has ever wittingly provided the NSA or other agencies with intelligence (excluding responding to NSLs and similar orders).

>Google makes its money from consumer propaganda

Could you elaborate? That's very vague.

>Of course google is responsible for what content it shows in its search engine and other products, and which content providers they reward.

Google claims their news-ranking algorithm is 100% algorithmic and that humans are never involved. Is this true? Who knows. But, again, no one has provided evidence to the contrary yet.

>You seem to have one goal here - defend Google. Somehow other corporations doing wrong is what absolved google (and probably all other corporations) in your eyes. Nice try.

Most private corporations in the US lack transparency. They create tax havens, keep proprietary algorithms secret, and don't tell the public that much about their internal structure and processes. Sometimes lack of transparency is the right of the company, sometimes it's an ethical violation, sometimes both sometimes neither. Again, you'll need to cite specific examples of Google skullduggery for this accusation to hold any weight.

>Nope, they participate in censorship and will remove and website or content from their results if some government (like the US government) asks them to.

Examples?
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I think it's unethical to link prices to debt, college or student debt in particular.

How about a "50k for a business plan" option? This is a startup accelerator, right?
LiftOff[1] hosts had an interesting hypothesis on Elon Musk's mission to Mars business strategy. If SpaceX can land on Mars early enough to convince Congress that they can do it quicker and cheaper than NASA, they can eat NASA's lunch by taking over manned missions to Mars. That would be a huge payoff for SpaceX.

[1] LiftOff episode 26: https://www.relay.fm/liftoff/26