skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I am sort on the fence about Material Design itself, I do love MDBootstrap. I just saw it about a month ago and have been playing with it ever since. Specifically, I really like having the component prebuilt.

I will say that the way the folks behind this project design their pages and lay them out is not to my taste, having the prebuilt components it a time saver, and tweaking their look or layout isn't that hard.
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Can say good things about brother inkjet too. Was using J5?20 (don't remember exactly):

It auto cleans head while plugged in, can take a3 paper, in emergency can print decent photo in slow(best) mode, has huge black tank, and the size is not much different from other brands a4 inkjets. It weights a ton, though
Nylas, Polymail.. just to name a few
Where did you see that figure because that sounds hugely wrong.
Gattaca was pretty much based on this as well.
In stali, or in general? For stali there's a slightly confusing FAQ entry: http://sta.li/faq / "Aren’t statically linked executables less secure?"

> it is simple to use position-independent code in static executables and (assuming a modern kernel that supports address randomization for executables) fully position-independent executables are easily created on all modern operating systems. [...] Thus we consider this as an issue with low impact and this is not a real focus for us.

So I don't know if they do it or not. If I read it correctly, they just ignore something they say is easy to do.

But in general, as mentioned, there's normally nothing that prevents you from compiling PIE C code even if you use -static.
This would be relevant were that the point OP was making.
> The sort of standard answer is just build more housing, but the cities are already so congested. Building up would surely lower prices in both cities, but i think it'd make bad commutes worse.

Build around public transportation and fix zoning.

> In any case, it's easier to convince 100,000 people than it is to convince a million, and it's easier to convince a million than it is to convince 10 million. Whatever the answer is is going to take some serious politics.

Sigh, yes.
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This is very ominous. In other words, don't build a RN app because, if it takes off, Facebook can copy the business model independently and claim it as their own. And, if you try to do anything about it, your license to use RN is revoked, rendering your app as nothing more than a petty copyright infringement.

If you're going to RN, go Pure Native at the same damn time ;) It's awfully ironic since they market RN to rid us of the need for Pure Native. Or, is it ironic? It seems this clause and their marketing efforts are truly shield and sword. I'm not really surprised; it's a very cunning way to hijack ideas from other people.

I have used RN, though, and it's a blast to develop with it. Thankfully, none of my kooky ideas are going to be important enough for this fine print to apply to me.
The navbar comes with Bootstrap. I created pages with MDBootstrap that have a navbar and the look is integrated. Maybe you are seeing some of their customized navs?
I wonder if the solution for IoT things like the network-connected door lock mentioned in the article is the emergence of third-party companies that are contracted by the initial manufacturer to provide ongoing updates for the expected product life (eg 15 years).

The idea being that these patching companies would become recognised brands, and the manufacturer would get to put a "Supported by FooCorp until 2031" badge on their packaging, and consumers would start to expect to see this.
The Origin of Banking (2016)
I use React Native and he's mostly right. Coming from the perspective of a native platform, this ecosystem is bat shit insane. It's harder, full of pitfalls, rife with complications, and rickety as all hell.

However, there are also some pretty excellent benefits that come with all the Bad of React Native and JS so for the moment, it can be very much worth the trade offs. I've been working with it for over a year, and for now I'll be sticking with it.
In the US, for pretty much all open frequencies that require either no license, a de facto license (owning a device gives you a license, CB), or a certification test based license do not allow any sort of scrambling or encryption unless the gov't is able to decode what you are sending. A third party successfully listening in defeats the entire purpose of obscuring what you are saying.

But, if you can afford an expensive license from the FCC for operating on other (commercial) bands, you can secure your communications from prying eyes.
Not sure why you were down voted without refute. Gerrymandering is a known and ignored problem in a lot of states, including my home state of Kansas (where Lawrence is split down the middle).
Yep but now instead of fetching 1 updated library, you depend on everybody and their cat to rebuild their binaries and publish updated versions.
No, it doesn't hurt future chances!
And here I have the reverse problem in Willow Glen. The commute to Mountain View is terrible, but once I get to neighborhood streets near my house there is 0 traffic and all the local services I need within about a 2 mile radius. I can't bike to work, but I think the tradeoff is personally worth it for all the benefits of living in a walkable/bikeable neighborhood.
Inventors and innovators in Africa have a really hard time getting access to international markets and funding. Can you help?
A statistic I've run across recently is that up to 1/4 of all of Earth's original endowment of water has boiled off into space, as dissociated hydrogen.

Earth has been through a lot, it turns out.
You are 27. Hard to imagine you'd be behind in anything.

But no reason to delay in making the impact you want.
But there are just as many knee-jerk stupid positive comments, they are just as much damaging, and you singled out the negative ones.
I'm the author of http://programmingreactnative.com, maintain the https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native list and built some other tools and libraries for React Native, along with a few apps.

Obviously the conclusion that follows is that I think React Native is going to be a revolution for mobile development. Not only will it succeed, it will get copied, and you'll have many variants of the same like-minded platform (open source, developer-oriented, low-barrier language).

Regarding the article, my point of view is that some points in this article are valid, but are trivially obvious:

- Javascript is Javascript, take it or leave it. Flow and Typescript is an evolution that to me looks good. It is one language that was adopted to be user-facing in React Native. According to Apple's Developer terms 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 only interpreted languages that run on JavascriptCore are allowed to be pushed to market.

- You can't know what the future holds. I was part of the Ruby community at the start, then Node, then Go. I was hard core into .NET, and before that Java. I saw platforms and technologies rise and fall, and was surprised over and over. I was much into Silverlight, a technology that Microsoft wanted to take over native development on the Web. Guess what happened to Silverlight? THAT was very nasty. We all know how that feels, but that's nothing to attribute just to React Native.

- Regarding patents: I believe we will have alternatives to React Native long-term, with the same properties but we'll still choose React Native :). However I also believe Facebook doesn't use patents in a bad way that the author hints at, as far as we know and as far as we've seen. I also met with core React Native developers, and they're awesome.

Practical advise: I'd suggest for the author to meet with the React Native core team.
He didn't, but the outer space treaty would make any claim to ownership of land invalid.

In the past he's discussed direct democracy as a preferred form of governance for smaller colonies with all/most laws having sunset provisions requiring them to be debated/voted upon on renewal.
I shudder to imagine. It's a real problem with the system.

Not yet.
You need to spend time with other people (non co-workers) at least once a week as a way to recharge yourself.
We both go in most weeks for about half a day and talk to the team whenever they need.
The name is taken.

https://github.com/barak/stalin
There's an analogous situation in pop music: it's mostly mastered to sound good coming out of your average car radio or PA system or $5 earbuds. This definitely is a "purposeful feature of the artwork." It might be a regrettable feature—a constraint that the artist wishes they didn't have to work under—but the work is definitely informed all through its creation by this constraint.
I just tried NewPipe. However, after downloading a video, you can no longer play it directly in NewPipe (with NewPipe's ability to play in the background), only in an external player.
First, while you may have a point, you misunderstood my percentages. I did not mean them to be the pass rate, but rather the score.

> An exam with a 90% pass rate (before curving) is no better than a 10% exam.

I do not encourage a 90% pass rate. I do not endorse exams where most of the students score 90%. I'm saying an exam which allows for a large variation in scores (anywhere from 10 to 100) yields more information, whereas an exam where a really brilliant student will get 50, with the next highest score being a 30 by someone who is only very smart, tends to be less likely to yield useful information about most of the students who will get 20 or less. A fairly bright student and a fairly average student may both score a 20 on such a test - yet the test failed to distinguish between them.

(BTW, I had an instructor whose exams were like this - I think I once had the highest score at around 25-30 out of 100).

A less demanding, but not trivial test, will separate out the average from the brighter.

Regardless, why the need for a curve? Your grading system should not depend on which students are present. It can lead to poor students getting a good grade and smarter students getting a poorer grade - in different semesters, for the very same tests.
But cars still only offer protection against mostly random events, not determined adversaries rail gunning projectiles through the wind shield.
What is the oldest age for a founder that you have accepted for YC?
It is quite hard to take seriously any project that so much uses word "suck" to describe other projects, i.e., other people work, or their approaches.
Early 70s.
RETracer: Triaging Crashes by Reverse Execution from Partial Memory Dumps [pdf]
This is marvelous. Thank you!

I have copies of the two Motorola manuals, and they are comprehensive and quite useful. The OP is tremendously helpful as well because it's a bit higher level. Now I can flip between the manual for opcodes and the tutorial for assembler names and contextual understanding.

I'm excited to dig into this thread as well. There's a lot here that looks fascinating. Particularly the microcode exploration, the reference on the sound chip, and the interrupt handling. Not to mention timing information.

I haven't gotten much further in my experimentation than rudimentary execution of a few opcodes, and have mostly been floundering around trying to make the code and project feel ergonomic. I'm discovering (and expected) that there is quite a lot of stuff you want to set up early on in a project like this. Mainly debugging and other sundry tooling.

I'm away from my laptop, but I'll try to post the code somewhere tomorrow.
I came here to learn from "armchair experts" about the challenges that lie ahead for such forays. Instead I am seeing that the discussion devolved to over-sensitive drivel. This might not be your initial intention, but you caused this.

HN bunch is courteous and precise and that is generally best applied to topics which require expertise. You triggered them to defensive mode and by now most are accusing you of fanboyism in the most courteous and precise way possible.

I hope you set an example to future commenters on what not to write.
I second tablet support.
Ahh, I miss the 68K architecture. It made sense, unlike x86, and it was fun to use, unlike PowerPC.
Once you submit it we may read it away, so you shouldn't submit it until you'r ready.
People never really understood what we meant by it. Will try to break out into several more descriptive RFSs in the future.
You know, in the old days everyone had a whole book that was basically a table of everyone's name and phone number.

It was called the telephone book.
You're right that our universe will come to an end. However, for me, entropy isn't a show stopper. Its just a resource time bomb waiting to be diffused, or run away from.

At a "smaller" scale,

- Previously, our rivers have dried, and our crops turned to dust.

- Our planet will eventually run out of resources.

- Our solar system will eventually get consumed by the sun.

- Our galaxy will eventually shrink into its central singularity.

Whenever we come across a resource time bomb, the final option has always been and will always been to migrate away. The only question has been, "where should we go?".

But aren't there potentially:

- infinite parallel universes?

- infinite higher dimensions?

- infinite recursive simulations?

However, infinite sounds like a lot, and maybe there are only a finite number of each of the above, but I don't think it'll matter. We can't keep beating time. Eventually the entropy time bomb will go off before we are able to solve its riddle. The only thing I want, is that before that day comes, I want to have beaten it a few times. Shown entropy who its master is. Because on that day, I want to be happy for my long time advisory and proud to have been the master of time, even if the student finally surpassed the master and has gotten its long deserved win.
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You can build RN apps in ClojureScript and, voila: You rarely have to touch JS.
Edit (it's not without its flaws though): https://youtu.be/6IYm34nDL64
Planetary Anihilation?

Screenshot: http://cdn.dbolical.com/videos/games/1/19/18851/planetary-an...
There should be some limit to the threat model, though. It should not attempt to remain secure when something can do arbitrary read and writes (VM), for example. Even determined adversaries will merely be armed, not equipped with WMDs.
Almost as good as human translators at getting the basic meaning right and putting words in the right order, for similar language pairs, translating wikipedia articles.
The skill of human translators isn't based on getting the information right, that's a given. The difference between a good and a bad translator is how well they capture the thoughts and intent of the speaker, whether they can make their audience feel the same way as the original did.
I say it every time one of these articles comes up, a machine capable of universal translation will be none other than a true AI.
XDE does run on a Raspberry Pi, this is a photo of it running on my RPi 3: https://i.imgur.com/ZvLtqjR.jpg. You don't need anything special aside from following the instructions on GitHub to run XDE from source.

The RPi hardware is pretty slow for a development machine. I have mine minimally overclocked but the CPU temperature was coming close to 85 °C and it took minutes for the starter project to initially load (after that, the build is cached). On the other hand if all you have is a Raspberry Pi, then Exponent is one of the few ways you can make iPhone apps.
That's a bit of a stretch from what he actually posted. May as well link directly to the post, also.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907
Eradicating poverty is orders of magnitude harder than landing a colony on Mars.

Hypothetically, if the US were to put 20% of their budget into (truly) getting people on Mars, they'll do it.

If they put 20% of their budget into eradicating poverty?

Right now the US government puts between 10% to 30% of their budget into Medicare and Medicaid.

Is poverty eradicated?
The US spends almost as much on public healthcare as EU countries - a couple of %GDP less than Germany but the same as the UK - and then the same amount again of private healthcare. That it gets so much less for its money shows how effective the medical-insurance complex js been at lobbying.

In California we enjoy US levels of public services with European levels of taxation and landowners get rich.

(Taxation doesn't pay for vacation.)
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I enjoyed attending and I thought many of the conversations were interesting.

The format is just discussions. Some of them changed my mind about things, many didn't. No direct actions come out of it, but hopefully there are some benefits to smart people sharing ideas.
Totally. Someone asked that I implement SVG <path> (bezier curves) for my svglover library and I took one look at it and said no :)
I also have a feeling it's a hardware/software combination. All the post-Haswell Macbooks (from 2013 onwards) seem to fare much, much worse for audio applications than the ones produced prior to the switch.

I recently got rid of a late 2013 Retina MBP in favour of a late 2012 15" RMBP, and the difference in audio performance is astounding. No dropouts anymore, all my plugins work again, and Ableton is once again usable. I was hoping for a difference in performance but I was amazed at how much better the older one performed, with identical memory and SSD disk.

And that's not the only issue I had with the 13" Haswell RMBP. Often it would lose its entire USB chain (which includes the built-in trackpad and keyboard!) which would require me to remote into it to shut it down. Thunderbolt wasn't much better, with frequent network dropouts over a gigabit tb adapter. The poor thing barely worked out of the box and it didn't get much better.

I don't know what happened specifically with Haswell, but it seems like Apple and Intel haven't really been working to ensure it's a stable platform.

It's a mess.
As Finbarr says, non minimums at all. Sometimes we fund just an idea if the EV seems high enough.
How important is for YC founders to be ethical in a world that cares mostly about financial success, profit margins, exponential growth, etc? Think Theranos, Zenefits et al.
It's very easy to find people you can't teach <insert concept here> to. All it requires is a trip to the residential care home.
Yeah, that's pretty disturbing. But I seem to get two different fingerprints. Refreshing the page 10 or so times, I usually get one, and then it switches to the other for another ~10 page reloads, and then back again.

FF49 on Ubuntu 16.04.
The beauty of Silicon Valley is (as put by an interviewer) "You can't succeed without a little road rash."

I think it will help to talk about folks whose initial companies went under, and then succeeded later. Or failed later and kept on going.
What we've thought about the most is creating a better way for potential cofounders to meet each other.
https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/
While this does happen, I think it's because some on HN enjoy spirited argument and aren't intending to hurt anyone's feelings, just issue a worthy challenge.
I just like pwnyoutube.com, honestly.
That just shows why you shouldn't be applying filters after rasterizing. If you want to avoid aliasing, you should be supersampling or calculating exact coverage before you reduce everything to the final resolution. In which case the tiny square survives perfectly.
His site is calles suck less so i guess it is his moto
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that... That was ridiculous.

It actually made me realize that I may not want to go with others if the average person is like that.
I do not believe that Apple has ever offered the "greatest computers ever released for Pros". For example, the MacBook Pro is more Prosumer than Pro when compared to a Lenovo Thinkpad P70 with a 17" 4K display, Xeon CPU and 64GB of RAM.

EDIT: designed for heavy sustained CPU applications
Is this an anonymous account for someone at YC?
On average, how much time will you spend on handling 1 application ?
> Right, but I have to wonder if those who want to keep minimum wage down really care about keeping jobs for all these people. Surely they'd celebrate the impending automation of these jobs, where they only need to worry about purchasing equipment rather than the well-being of squishy meat-bags known as employees?

They don't care, but the restaurant business is precarious. They know that hiring people for minimum wage works, and keeps their margins the way they are. However, investing is kiosks and hardware is something they'd have to amortize over time.

An increase in minimum wage might tip them over - the risk of the machines not working and constantly requiring expensive repairs might be outweighed by the fact you don't have to pay extra money to your employees.

> The people earning respectable amounts of money for their time and effort, they're going to be eating at places served by other people.

Just a personal anecodote, I'm fairly antisocial. I'd rather line up in a self service lane or self checkout line in a grocery or fast food place than deal with another person. And I doubt I qualify as a person "at the bottom".
I'm increasingly convinced that much better solutions to most of the problems Javascript and AJAX solve ("solve") would have been better frames and improved HTML forms.
Thanks for your on point technical replies on aircraft engineering here. Really fascinating stuff.
"This is a massive step forward."

Take it easy. The graph you're linking to is for a limited survey of 500 isolated sentences, and it's a comparison of mean scores without confidence intervals. The authors themselves admit that it has serious problems as an evaluative tool:

"Note that we have observed that human raters, even though fluent in both languages, do not necessarily fully understand each randomly sampled sentence sufficiently and hence cannot necessarily generate the best possible translation or rate a given translation accurately. Also note that, although the scale for the scores goes from 0 (complete nonsense) to 6 (perfect translation) the human translations get an imperfect score of only around 5 in Table 10, which shows possible ambiguities in the translations and also possibly non-calibrated raters and translators with a varying level of proficiency. Testing our GNMT system on particularly difficult translation cases and longer inputs than just single sentences is the subject of future work."

When you look at the other evaluations in the paper, it's clear that it's about as good as the current best phrase-based tools. In other words, this may be a massive step forward for neural nets, but it puts them at about par for the field.
Why is static linking supposed to REDUCE memory usage and binary size? Am I missing something really obvious?

Eg, if five different binaries are statically linked against the same version of OpenSSL, won't it be in memory and on disk four times more than it would be on a dynamic system?
For all the hate of JS, I'm developing a RN app in ClojureScript, so I rarely touch JS and instead use what I percieve to be a nicer language: https://youtu.be/6IYm34nDL64
>I mean that's exactly what I'm doing...

You're not advocating for something your advocating against something.
Libraries already tackle this. As well as other organizations. For example, when I was a kid my main internet pc was at the state extension office.
Aspell and Hunspell: A Tale of Two Spell Checkers
I think there's still one or two variants of the original family available from the usual places (Mouser, etc). Then there's Coldfire, which is more modern with things like on-board peripherals and debugger support.