skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does "justify" mean here? My web browser does them in a lot more useful fashion to me than Emacs would - in other words, it is worth 12GB of writes per day for me to get these into my web browser instead of into Emacs. Am I wrong for thinking that this is a good tradeoff?
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A thousand times this. Is Trump right? No. Has the response to him been absolutely unacceptable? Yes.
Or donate to a group that can do said teaching for you. Personally, I donate to Khan Academy.
So that they can take the dollar and go back to twitter to tweet "how the new company is making a fool of itself?" :)
"real men do / don't do X" long-predates Torvalds, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_Don%27t_Eat_Quiche
>GIMP is missing some rather powerful tools that PS has, one being content-awareness. In PS, you can remove a section from a bitmap, and have the space filled automatically based on the surrounding image. It works incredibly well, and the technique is used in a number of tools.

That's false, GIMP had that before PS itself.
+1 - excellent book!
Read 10-Ks and 10-Qs and build operating models in excel.
Well, you could take the VC money you'd spend on Silicon Valley rent and salaries, and use that to bring fiber to that area.
Or more accurately: "Isn't it hard to get noticed on the App Store? We made an app for that."

This is basically just an advertisement, not much useful information in it.
It's kind of silly how he says "everyone needs to know about this; it's so important" and then the first example he preceded by saying that mobile phone screens basically can't tell the difference and don't matter.
> We too casually jail people without actual convictions and pretend it's OK because they aren't being held as convicts. But the kids are impacted just the same.

Is there a better alternative? And are you suggesting that a significant number of people are being held in jail indefinitely without convictions? I find that hard to believe. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, but I don't know that it's as much of a problem as you seem to be framing it to be.
The worst is if you are trying to do a letter-indexed list of items and B) gets coverted to a guy with sunglasses.
> This isn't necessarily a problem--open source apps could be made configurable to aid people in controlling their behavior toward almost any goal

True, but even the choices of what to track are themselves important (e.g. if the tool doesn't provide a way to track how often one prays — well, clearly it won't reward pray-ers).

> It's a bit off-topic, but I'm curious about your pro-smoking stance. Could you give your reasoning?

I think that cigars and pipes are conducive to thought and camaraderie; I think that they smell pleasant. They dull appetite, enabling one to go longer between meals. They mask unpleasant odours. They are not terribly bad for one's health, although of course they're not good either, and they do increase cancer. The world would be better if everything smelled of good tobacco smoke.

Cigarettes, OTOH, are typically made from bad tobacco, and paper which stinks. They are much more of an addiction than pipes & cigars are, and they are conducive to addiction. They encourage littering. And they are very carcinogenic.
There's a few other recent developments of the "Big Data" city that New York is aspiring to that also give some residents mixed feelings. In chronological order:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/nyregion/cellphone-alerts-...

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/linkny...

http://www.nyclu.org/content/automatic-license-plate-readers
There are some other issues for users trying to follow along. I hit my next snag from moment.js not being imported, and not having the filters domain, amFromUnix and amTimeAgo not being found. I see you addressed these points later on in your post notes, kind of as an "excercise left for the user".
After that point, I just read the article and stopped trying to follow along. Perhaps it wasn't your intent to make a step-by-step type article, but I'm just sharing the experience I had trying to go along one step at a time. I appreciated the article, especially because right now we're starved for Angular 2 content, and there's not a lot out there yet.
It's shitposts all the way down.
Sounds sweet, ill try it out. How is it comparing to ack (ack-grep)?
401ks are itself a convoluted mess.

They should just say, "hey, if you work, you can invest it tax-deductible and tax-deferred".

The current system is, "if you work, then you should be able to participate in your caricatured, mustache-twirling, ultra-rich boss's tax-deferred plan, in accordance with all these rules and exceptions that clumsily try to make him share his bottomless wealth with you."
> The ideas behind Google Wave are very very old, like Lotus Notes old.

The ideas behind Slack are very old. Doesn't stop Slack from being incredibly valuable as both a product and a company.

In many ways, Slack is trying to become what Google Wave tried to be at the beginning (a tool for real-time communication with, not just in chat/text form, but with other embedded forms of media as well).
I'm extraordinarily opposed to Trump as a candidate for prez, but this does not sit right:

"Facebook, Oculus and Luckey are yet to respond to the developments, which call into question partnerships between the virtual reality company and other video game firms. Microsoft, for example, has partnered with Oculus to bundle an Xbox One controller with every Oculus Rift. Project Scorpio is rumoured to be compatible with Oculus Rift, too."
It's a lot more than "somewhat" less significant.
the argument the article made was that financial barriers made science inaccessible. ubiquitous exposure (google news) makes the argument nonsensical. if you think you can't master high school science today (the argument) without bunsen burners, some hcl, and an egregiously over paid teacher, i can't help you.
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So... why the high standards?
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Anybody buying a drive so cheap it can't handle Firefox is probably putting the drive in a machine so cheap that it will only be lasting 3-4 years maximum anyway.
I used BeOS as a kid while playing with different operating systems. All of the windows were yellow colored, and you could irrevocably damage your system if you ever tried to change the color.

Good times.
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So we're supposed to be outraged that he supported Trump?
> And besides, the whole idea of a "species" is dubious at some level, because it's merely a human invented category.

I think something like K nearest neighbors algorithm[1] describes our understanding of species pretty well. You have a scatter of animals and you try to find groupings. The finer-grained the groupings, the less distinction there is between members on each side of an edge.

Or to put it in more simple terms: say you're putting pebbles together. How many do you need before it stops being "1, 2, 3, 5 pebbles" and becomes "a pile of pebbles".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-nearest_neighbors_algorithm
The first two sentences of your link: "The role played by social media during the Arab Spring as a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests (both non-violent and violent), riots, and civil wars in the Arab world represents a highly controversial issue. The impact of social media on the events in the Middle East and North Africa as a factor of political uprising and turmoil is highly debatable and fostered both criticism and approval."
This feels like it is missing context. I honestly don't understood how this is important.

Also, Milo vs Twitter ins't exactly what they wrote there. There is much more to it.
On a related note: also see http://windows7themes.net/en-us/firefox-memory-cache-ssd/

Just another firefox ssd optimization.

Edit: And see bernaerts.dyndns.org/linux/74-ubuntu/212-ubuntu-firefox-tweaks-ssd

It talks about sessionstore.
I'm vaguely surprised that Android phones don't let you just look around with the camera from any sidewalk and tell you where you are based on comparisons of what it sees to known street view images. That sort of capability would be quintessentially googly.

And slightly less scary.
I guess it's far scarier unless you are a Mexican, a Muslim, or believe that climate change is a pressing global issue
Ask HN: East African tech incubators?
Every so often, we see articles in the Economist about how broadband is revolutionizing tech in East Africa. Can anyone point to any examples of tech incubation in Kenya, Rwanda, etc that's happening by locals, as opposed to Silicon Valley applying its mind to African issues? I'm finding it hard to locate projects/start-ups originating from African innovators.
Up until Trump started hinting about assassinating Hilary, I probably would have agreed with you. But he seriously crossed the line their from offensive to dangerous.
I don't know about anyone else, but I found this especially interesting (and blessedly unrelated to semantic arguments):

"Our work has shown that this model of speciation does hold. But in addition, we have shown there are other routes to speciation, such as gene flow from one species to another. We see this in the Big Bird lineage but also in cichlid fishes and butterflies. There are multiple routes to speciation."

It's one thing to have a hypothesis, another to spend the decades it takes to modify it with observations.
> Many people bitch about GIMP, but like in arcticle, they just trying to hide their laziness to learn new things.

The other way to look at 'laziness to learn new things' is that these people are choosing to do something else with their time - something that they presumably value more highly than learning GIMP. For most people, the set of such things is huge. GIMP is usually just a means to some other end, and there's nothing particularly noble or enlightening about learning yet another piece of software.

Personally speaking, I've used GIMP off and on since before it had either layers or GTK. (It was once Motif.) That said, a few years ago, I got sick of the time it was taking for relatively basic operations, installed a $30 copy of Pixelmator, and haven't looked back. Part of the problem with open source consumer software is just that: it has to compete with commercial alternatives and most of the time lacks the resources to do so in an effective way.
Even so, doesn't this just boil down to a few math functions applied to each pixel?

Why would I need something in GIMP whose effect can only be seen on paper, except as some kind of Export ... format?

Suppose I have a properly calibrated monitor, yadda yadda, I should be seeing good colors on the screen as I'm editing. When I'm done, good colors on paper can only be seen after the data passes through a professional printer provided its RGB values have been properly massaged into CMYK values. So it has nothing to do with interactive image editing.

It's almost entirely "off topic" for GIMP.
There's constructive criticism, which is usually welcomed, and then there are just plain complaints. Alleging that the uniform transport tool is simple to code helps no one. It just expresses the author's disdain for the accomplishments of volunteers who added a feature to a free and open source tool.

If he thought it was so simple, he could have actually spent a few minutes to help a project which everybody can see needs help, instead of sneering at it. That would have been constructive.
Take Trump out of the picture. Has the response been appropriate, given that a lot of the Trump-adjacent rhetoric (see: the stuff Luckey's been funding) is racist propaganda that literally (and proudly) coopts ideas, language, and imagery from Neo-Nazi groups?

(And before anyone responds, please recognize that calling it "Neo-Nazi" isn't some liberal smear. They're 100% open about this.)
I didn't learn about FAFSA until I was already in my first year of college.

Navigating how to apply and pay for college is difficult if nobody you know has done it before.
HN is, by my estimation, 95% horrified at the prospect of a Trump presidency, so yes.
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Github: https://github.com/ajbrock/Neural-Photo-Editor
I actually don't believe the federal government has very little power. The Supremacy Calause, the Civil War, erosions of the 10th amendment (the US code is intense!), having a court called the "Supreme" court, regulating interstate commerce, adjudicating disputes between states, raising an army, and of course taxing citizens in any state should provide ample support to the federal government's power. And yes, they also control individual states by proxy using fund distributions as a carrot (road standards, national speed limit). They control immigration into the US; no individual state has the power to invite a foreign citizen into a US state.
It's not moving goalposts. We all know that DNA is what programs how and when cells divide, so how can anyone claim they're witnessing evolution without a thorough understanding of how the new DNA is different from the old?
Intuit's position isn't necessarily pro-complexity, they'd actually prefer the tax code simplified somewhat, because they'd need far fewer employees to update the tax code information in the software every year. The lobbying is to keep the IRS from A) releasing free 1040EZ/A software and B) keep the IRS from simplifying even further and just sending you a bill, like HMRC does.
In the end: Thank you for your comment : ) My annoyance with the plugin situation, and at first, no resolution for it, was fixed in 45: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firef...

I'm now running the latest version of FF, but still able to use my plugin.
I disagree with 90% of what comes out of Trump's mouth, but this stuff is getting ridiculous. So what, Palmer's a smart successful guy that happens to agree with the 40%+ of the population that supports Trump, get over it.
This isn't people being turned off Oculus because of a voting preference of a founder. This is him funding smear campaigns for a fascist. Now that money is considered speech under citizens united, boycotts, etc. must be as well until we can get it overturned.

Palmer wants to directly fund Trump with your Rift expenditures:

> Our adversaries have enormous power, and the best way I can continue to fight the good fight is to keep doing well in business and funding good causes with the proceeeds.

https://archive.is/4OuYq#selection-3341.176-3341.346

This isn't some citizen sharing his opinion proportionately to his vote or his social status, this is him using money to amplify his voice and control discourse.

Hillary has PACs, etc. that do the same. We should work to get money out of politics, but in the meantime it seems fine to vote with your wallet in cases where your money is being used as speech and you disagree with the speech.
BeOS (the OS Haiku is a reimplemntation of) has an interesting history. It was an OS that has a fully async C++ API (very novel for it's time and even now). The fact that it was async made the OS much more responsive and had a better CPU utilization.

BeOS was another company that Apple considered to purchase but they ended up buying NeXT instead. IIRC they ended up going with NeXT because BeOS didn't have networking back then.
You had a SPARCStation 20 with Linux on it? Facepalm.

The very first SPARCstation I bought also had Linux on it. I promptly ordered Solaris 7 from Sun for $50 (which is how much redhat CD's cost back then), played with Linux until my Solaris 7 kit arrived in the mail, completely wiped away Linux, installed Solaris 7, and never looked back. Seeing that

UNIX System V Release 4.0

was such an awesome feeling. I was thrilled. My very own Solaris machine. I actually owned a Sun! I walked out, my whole body shaking in excitement. It was surreal. Before that, a Sun workstation was a mythical system, something one only saw on a poster, or got to log into along with 1,250 other users at the computer center, but never see in person. And you actually ran Linux. What a waste of good hardware.
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Luckey can express/support anything he desires and that's fine for him -- however ignorant his views are. But it's another thing to say we shouldn't call him out on it.
Anyone else see S20E02 of southpark? All I'm going to say is it put Twitter in a very interesting perspective.
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I've long wondered how to address this "different itch" problem. People in a position to contribute code don't have the same itches or desires as those who don't, vs a DBMS, IDE, wiki, http server, etc.
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Oh please. Sure, they'll authorize money for some big things right now, then in a year or two they'll change their minds (after new people are elected) and pull the plug on it. They've done it over and over.

The only way the US can get anything done in space exploration is if it can be fully funded and completed in less than 2 years. So a little probe here and there is completely doable, but a Space Shuttle replacement or manned Mars mission or any other big project is a complete no-go. It won't ever happen.
That's such bs. It's a typical Republican talking point: "If you're against people owning guns, you give up your guns first and see what happens". It's not an original or particularly good argument, but you're really straining credulity by suggesting this has anything to do with assassination of his rival.
No one is controlling the press. I am not sure where you are hearing that, but it's genuinely concerning that you seem to be concerned about things that aren't happening.

The government is not blocking any information. It is managing contacts. It wants trust worthy contacts who aren't going to spin things around for financial gain.

The actual information related to their policies are accessible again, by people who actually understand the material. Thousands and thousands of scientists from competing organizations observe and consume information from the FDA. There is nothing stopping journalists from seeking out this information and gathering opinions from the employees of these organizations, or professionals in whatever field they're reporting on in general.

"Do the right thing." How shallow and means absolutely nothing in the context of this conversation. Please say something a bit more substantial than that. The FDA wants to interact with reporters who don't spin information or misquote members of the FDA for their own gain. That's literally it. What's this "do the right thing" battle cry in reference to again?

It's extremely aggravating that this needs to spelled out on this forum these days.

PS: Nothing about what the FDA doing is remotely authoritarian. Stop promoting click bait, and furthermore at the very least don't try pathetically defending it.
I love how different the conversations were on the internet then.

Now adays, if a thread came about to propose the ':-)', people would devolve into a debate about the proper use of the parenthesis, and at least one user would claim that '(-:' was a better choice, though it is the darkhorse option for the community.
You can keep deducting that capital loss on the options exercise going forward against future capital gains, and up to $3000 more can be deducted against regular income each year until you balance everything out.

BUT

Since the gain is actually unrealized the best answer is ask your CPA. Really.
Or just a decent human being.
Can you give an example of what you mean by "the response" and how it is "absolutely unacceptable"?
That's very profound, and I'm glad I was able to discover these writings just today. I also think that the need or desire of transcendence is what drives us to create great things.
how does that compare to increase in frequency of positive words in all published texts? (maybe excluding youtube comments...)
Most of these articles have been killed by user flags, but the most popular submission is still open for discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12561763.
In a civilized society people respect people with different opinions. And I can respect someone with a reasoned defense of their political beliefs.

But shit-posting memes? No. That's what I object to.
We need an emoji to represent sarcasm that we would put at the end of the message, like the use of "/s". And I think this would count as grammar.
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Doesn't the attractive nuisance doctrine only apply to children?
I don't think the use of SQLite is a problem, since it can be configured to be very careful or very reckless.

http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous
Also the I part of ISS kept the world space research orbiting around NASA. For example Brazil make every single research that requires a station (including vehicles, modules and medical science) use the ISS.

Without the ISS Brazil could for example attempt its own station, or help China instead.

NASA is very powerful, but if everyone help China or Russia instead, it would be bad for USA strategically.
My hunch is that if there were more unicorns (amazing designers/illustrators who used GIMP and had the capacity to write code for it), you'd have more progress in this realm.

For example, Figma (non-open source) is doing stuff that myself as a designer, I find very subtly innovative for a browser-based graphics program. Sure, they are actual company which can devote more resources to the product, but I think it helps that some very talented designers are using it and thus, can give feedback and suggest new features with engineers to support the effort.

Similarly, I'm sure a lot of open source projects have thrived because the contributors are active users whose skillsets (coding) overlap with the project.
Wikipedia claims the session restore features was added with 2006's 2.0 release. That's what I would have guessed, since that release was (famously) a giant step backwards in performance, which was never really addressed except by waiting for hardware to improve.

I'm holding out hope that whoever's responsible for Firefox abandoning "good, light, cross-platform web browser" as its differentiator stays away from Servo, at least for a while. That's a niche that's unserved currently, AFAIK.
Thiel is not a libertarian, he is a feudalist. He wants to be lord of the manor and governments have a habit of getting in his way when he wants to make you his serf.
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I'd be curious to see a statistical analysis of how unlikely it is for there to be predictions of something like this on any given timeframe. Whenever Twitter got sold (or didn't), what are the odds that some vaguely recognizable name would have "predicted" it?

To do this analysis we would need some kind of easily searchable corpus of simply-worded predictions, issued by a sizable fraction of public personalities. Hmm...
Exactly--this bill is a pernicious half-measure that only serves to further obfuscate the problem. One can exercise in-the-money but illiquid options without grappling today with the problem of selling them while being anchored to a heavy tax obligation ("seven years is a long time, surely by then there will be a market").
Micro-evolution is defined as changes (mutation) or loss of DNA. This happens all the time, much to the chagrin of anti-biotic researchers.

Macro-evolution is defined as addition to the DNA (new information never before seen on that oranism).
Not if I'm out of range of my home wifi which is practically the only wifi I connect to. I think my phone last longer like that, but I never actually measured it, so maybe it's not worth it after all. I guess I also don't like the idea of broadcasting these few known networks I have saved.
Thanks - that what I was getting at.