skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your disapproval of twitter's leadership, and recognize the factual basis for it. I am only suggesting that some of your audience might be biased against you and your comments depending on who you cite - even when the facts are simple and easily confirmed. It's not rational, but its common. For example, I might (unfortunately) unconsciously question the intelligence of someone who linked to buzzfeed, even if buzzfeed accurately reported relevant facts in that instance.
We don't have a binary for Linux yet (keep meaning to do it, want to get to it soon) but building from source works! https://github.com/exponentjs/xde#build-from-source
Life After IPv4 Depletion
It is only efficient because of the tragedy of the commons; The "plastic cutlery industry" can rake in all the profits of the (literal) garbage they produce, but the whole society is left with the cost of disposing it.

One would think that having people pay for the full cost of garbage disposal would steer companies into producing reusable, optimal-duration plastics... but the most likely outcome of this would be a endemic level of littering.

Sometimes the Invisible Hand needs herself a hand.
Neural net writes poetry on the meaning of life
One thing that we do that we think is pretty cool is that we figured out a way to include multiple versions of our SDK (and React Native) in a single binary, so stuff you build with old versions will continue to work.

Here are the docs for SDK 10 (based on RN 0.33.0): https://docs.getexponent.com/versions/v10.0.0/index.html

And here are the docs for SDK 9 (based on RN 0.31.0): https://docs.getexponent.com/versions/v9.0.0/index.html

You can use either one.

Also, all our stuff is open source, so just go back and find the old release tags on Github if you want older versions.
Maybe. But I think that it's, precisely, because we are random strangers in the Internet and we all know how easy is to misunderstand intentions by text, that we should think two times before downvoting.

It's my personal opinion that downvoting is used too easily in HN.

Sometimes it seems that we are trying to filter opinions that we don't agree with, instead of policing good manners and filter irrelevant to the subject comments.
Kayia had intrigued me before but I seem to have lost my notes about it, so I watched the video again. I confess I still don't feel like I have a solid understanding of the semantics. It looks like Kayia (like many general-purpose programming languages) has more than enough flexibility to set things up so that applications can be built with similarly clean code as in Object Spreadsheets, but also enough flexibility for novice users to mess things up in unobvious ways once they start creating nontrivial nested structures. I believe we're better off enforcing a schema and showing the entire hierarchical data set on one screen so novice users can recognize more quickly when something isn't the way they want. (For large data sets, we may need folding, or drill-down in separate windows as in Kayia may even be preferable, but showing everything at once is a great place to start to build user understanding of the tool on small data sets.)
Why research skills matter more than ever
It could be worth it if you need to do lots of relational queries with complex inventory management. I was imagining e.g. an RPG that would ship the stats for all its items in a sqlite data file and then you can store the player's stats and inventory with foreign keys pointing to the item table. You're gonna have to store that data somehow and if you've got enough items and/or complex enough inventory management it seems like maybe you might want to consider sqlite as it already exists and provides a lot of relevant features. I don't consider size so much as whether or not there is a need to persist data and the complexity of relationships; size is more of a factor in "should I use sqlite or should I use a beefier database like Postgres."

I know sqlite is used heavily on iOS and Android and a lot of people use it as a glorified serialization format. Probably not the best in most cases but hey sqlite is so lightweight that it doesn't have much downside. I tend to use it as intended as a lightweight database myself but hey if it works it works.
360iDev Mini - Fantastic SouthEast USA Apple Developers Conference
No, I didn't.

However, it wasn't my intention to come across as snotty - I thought you might just missed the title, which isn't something unheard of :-)

I'm sorry if you felt I had a conceited attitude, that's not how I behave.
Blog subdomain or subdirectory? Hint: one is 40% better
Yes, there is some truth to that. When Obama and Bush got elected they were very inexperienced (comparatively speaking) and therefore also less scuffed up by a life in politics.
Waterproof hearing aids.

Hey, a man can dream.
Yeah, you are probably right but I wanted to get that off my chest anyway. Sorry for OT.
The Playpen Story: Rule 41 and Global Hacking Warrants
Can people with type 2 diabetes live longer than those without?
This assumes it's not a zero sum market. If a company can extract more money than it costs them to print Coupons they will do so. But, coupons may simply allow them to raise average prices without selling more or higher quality goods.

Basically, if you sell the 100 widgets for 10$ that's 1,000$. But if you use coupons to sell the good for 30 widgets for 9$ and 70 widgets for 12$ at the cost of 20$ that's 1110$ - 20 = 1090$. It's the same number of sales in the second place, but your profit is higher.

Thus, just because it's more profitable does not mean it's a net economic gain. Monopolies are great when they are your Monopoly.
> These are entirely the result of socialization.

Entirely? That's an incredibly strong claim. Do you have any evidence for this assertion? Is such an assertion even plausible, if you are objective about it?
The $50,000 San Francisco Home
I can easily see FB buy the team and fund them work on this full time. :-)
Refer to the Melian dialogue: "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must".

Referring to atrocities committed by a dying empire two thousand years ago (recall that the occupation of Melos was eventually repulsed; and Classical Athens itself would ultimately collapse shortly thereafter, as a direct result of its unsustainable military expansion) doesn't seem very helpful in deciding public policy.
XBOX 360 VS MOLTEN ALUMINUM – LaneVids
If you sell tampons to a woman no-one bats an eye, and if you try to sell them to men people will point out the silliness of the idea.

But this simple understanding gets thrown out of the window as soon as jobs are involved.
For example males playing football make much more money than their female counterparts; simple logic tell us it's because people like to watch the athletes of top psyche, it's just that they happen to be male thanks to evolutionary predisposition. Males have more strength in the majority muscles in humans and most mammals (only exception is buttocks and upper legs). But no, people likes to immediately assume it's because sexism, a "they against us" mentality where it must be patriarchy or misogyny instead of looking for the most simple explication driven by the market.

And then if you make an average of how much women make and you happen to inclue athletes then this disparity will show up, and people will say stuff live "look women make 77% of what men do, sexism!" Instead of looking at the million variables, conditions of each gender and how they relate to every possible occupation/job field.
There's no such thing as being more evolved. More fit, maybe. We're all as evolved as each other.

Otherwise you end up having to debate whether people with lactose tolerance are more evolved than people without, and so on. It gets messy.

Also, the history of eugenics. Autistic people have been sterilized and institutionalized, really quite recently. So I'm allergic to talk about people being more or less evolved.
The endgame for venture investing in India
Here's the note from their board chair:

https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/09/20/statement-fro...

Labs is shutting down now, and the other aspects of Sunlight may or may not find a home in some other institutions.
Show HN: Twocentz iPhone app – Share opinions
I think it's the parent's second point: there can be legit attributes that both lead to higher pay, and tend to be concentrated in one gender. I think that's what's going on with models: the pay-increasing attribute is "look like an attractive woman" or maybe "look attractive to hetero men".

In this case, at least, we can see that men are going to have a harder time at that.

Trying to equalize pay between male and female models is therefore going to be an uphill battle at best: we can recognize legit market forces that lead to higher pay for female models.

Do those dynamics generalize to the difficulties of equalizing pay in other areas? It's worth thinking about.
Seattle does it.
Please update (perhaps by switching to getting Chromium from a PPA). Chromium 37 is nearly 2 years old, and is missing many features and many security fixes.
Hi all, we're a bootstrapped startup looking for feedback on our newly launched iPhone app. Any feedback, good or bad is most welcome!

Twocentz is a fun and simple way to find and share opinions on interesting topics.

• Express your thoughts, share your photos, news, articles and places you visit such as restaurants or just about anywhere.

• Once you make a post, others can add their two cents in two words or less (or emojis).

• Up vote on the two cents you like best and the top ones will bubble upwards to show what everyone thinks about a post.

• Follow your friends and family to see what they’re posting and discover accounts from all over the world.

• Poll your followers or tag people you’d like an opinion from.

• Share your post to other social networks and chat apps like Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp.
Nobody’s Getting Cash Bonuses Promised by the Reducing Over-Classification Act
Adding CREATE PIPELINE to SQL Using Apache Kafka
This is a working draft of a findings document that's being actively edited. Google Docs allows for realtime cooperative collaboration, with nice features like chat and annotation of documents. There are a few other collaborative editing systems out there, but they tend to have more hitches than google docs'
And "flash memory" itself can't be flashed anymore. Isn't it called that because you could erase an EEPROM with a light?
> so the more popular content is, the more it is replicated, and thus becomes easier to access.

Self censorship.
I'm not convinced. Where are you getting that water from? Maybe if you manually drew it from a well...
I remember that there was some talk about double voting (WoSign and StartCom not being separate entities, but voting with two votes) in the mailing list. Is there a reason as to why this event hasn't been included in the document?

edit: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security...

> "In no case were these the deciding votes."
It is an interesting topic, and it is an important one for keeping perspective on various alleged pay gaps.

Maybe we are only allowed to discuss 'pay gaps' that have direct relevance to the software industry.
Iran defended itself from Iraq's invasion. Hezbollah was formed in response to the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon.
You do realize that, if for any reason, your colony loses flotation and drops toward the ground, everybody dies a horrible death.
Oh great! Thanks! Will add there after a closing an issue on repo. :)
This is also an MS/Adobe vs. Salesforce move.
Is the source available somewhere?
Thanks, replaced with the link to my post. I'm clearly not a web guy ;-)
Panarchism (opt-in anarchy)
Teen girls have to figure out how to CHANGE a TIRE
But Android Studio is basically IntelliJ IDEA, which is not that much younger at 15 years.
For better or worse, I have a broad set of painful experiences from which to draw comparisons: PHP, Java (Swing, Spring, OSGI, RMI, Nuxeo), Fortran 77, Managed C++ circa 2004, "modern" Pearl, and even some remarkably awkward Python.

My chief complaint is that it takes less effort to grab an open compiler and get to work on 20 y.o. Fortran (for instance) than it takes to spin up the whole stack that this relatively trivial MVC app requires[-]. Some years ago I would have had to buy the Lahey Fujitsu Fortran compiler, but those days are over as far as I can tell.

Substantive greenfield projects (any platform) are marvelous by comparison; not even in the same ballpark.

[-] Note that most of the platform pain goes away if you're a fungible MS dev, but then there's a more subtle and insidious pain for you to deal with down the road.
That's about what I'd expect it to run too. The poorly written marketing material kinda ruins my confidence though.
I think that was certainly true for the last 30 years but as more things start up further away, some of those things can grow into their own "centers". For example when IBM decided to build a west coast center for Watson they chose 505 Howard in San Francisco over space in San Jose or one of the Peninsula cities. At one time they owned two reasonably sized buildings that corner of El Camino and Page Mill Road in Palo Alto. So they felt that some of the center of gravity had shifted.
Just picture @pb asking you what your burn rate is, and that should help.

Congrats on the raise! Any specific plans between now and series C?
One thing I discovered through an ad hoc anecdotal experiment involving only myself, over a quarter century ago, was the effect of font size. As a CS undergrad I was working like crazy in the lab for many hours a day. The display-hardware was B&W X window terminals (cathode ray, of course) with 19" screens. I had this idea: if I make things easier to read even when my eyes are tired, I can boost my endurance, right? So I switched to using large fonts. This had exactly the opposite effect; my fatigue symptoms became worse, because I was able to ignore the status of my eyes and keep going (without even consciously realizing it). If the fonts are big enough, you don't even have to blink any more; you can still read if your eyes dry out, ha! A that point I experienced an "aha" moment, and tried it the opposite way: I used a smaller font than the default. Like magic, my fatigue symptoms soon went away. I hypothesized that this is because small fonts create a negative feedback. When your eyes start to lose focus, you cannot read the screen any more. Firstly, you are forced to blink more often to keep your eyes moist. Second, you have no choice but to relax and not squint or strain. When the feedback mechanism does break, you're forced to take a break simply because you cannot ignore the fact that you're having trouble reading what's on the screen.

Since that time, I have always used small fonts and haven't had any problems. Plus, when CRT's started to disappear around the turn of the century, that was a fantastic change. Solid-state screens are much easier on the eyes.
there is no 'controversy' in India because man on the street is just amazed that Govt can achieve something at all sucessfully, let alone something of this magnitude. They don't care about 'money can be spent on toilets' dilemma because they know that money will go straight into politicians pockets if it was reallocated to 'toilets'. So its not 'toilets vs space' its 'corruption vs space'.
Kubernetes 1.4: Making it easy to run on Kubernetes anywhere
I find DSLs to be extraordinarily powerful for writing and working with my own programs. I find them painful when I'm trying to work with other people's programs.

Making a DSL lets me construct a language to express my program that meshes with the way I think. Unfortunately, we all think differently, and what is intuitive and friendly for me is hostile and awkward for others.

While reading someone else's program that uses a DSL may be superficially easy, but the minute you try to get under the surface, you're left scrambling to understand what a given term or idea meant to the author. There is no language definition to rely on for common understanding.

There are exceptions naturally.

I know a lot of people will disagree, and that's fine of course. It's opinions all the way down.
A reasonable concern in Phoenix with a child locked in a car seat.

We aren't in Phoenix and the kids could get in and out on their own.

.... so NO.
Nudie Jeans? Is that a subsidiary of The Emperor's New Clothes Company?
Here ya go:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535334/
I'm not sure why a fecal matter transplant would help if you're having neurological issues.
This is brilliant, so far one of the easiest to understand explanations.
In-car entertainment would be nice, if we could eliminate the need for concentration.
That's even better. Thanks again!
Also anybody that has an opinion and doesn't live in a swing state. They should just sit it out, statistically.
It's in the wiki

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:WoSign_Issues
The link is already down with a 502 error. I guess they are using the one that isn't 40% better. :)
Neat. They've been adding a lot of good stuff recently.
- peak physical condition

- can gain entry into the most secure places in the world

- don't think for themselves

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoolander
Three years ago I was amazed by the versatility of SVG when I discovered it through D3 and it inspired our graphical designer to ask us designs never before seen in SaaS applications. Once you're willing to dive into the specifications, you'll find a treasure trove of possibilities.

There are some caveats beginning users should be aware of. First of all, better forget multi line text or sophisticated text layout within the SVG. I still think that's really missing in the current specification. As a commute project I once wrote the dynamic programming layout of Knuth (used in TeX) for SVG and JavaScript, but it was slow and didn't allow for multi line selections.

Another problem is rendering speed. SVG renderers can be fast, but you have to know what can be optimized by the gpu and what requires the CPU.
Paranoid? It could be the key to your success
Good point, but you're leaving out the effects of taxes and regulation on prices.

Cigarettes are jaw-droppingly expensive in Australia because the government wants as few people smoking as possible. The icky labels on packages don't make it very attractive either.

Whereas in America, cigarettes can range in price from annoyingly pricey to cheap as dirt, especially if you buy in southern states or Native American reservations (another price distortion).
New Azure capabilities announced
Superstition? Astrology?

I think you never took a physics class?
Please check the law of conservation of energy[1]. A human being is an isolated system,
to lose body mass, you need Energy Used > Energy ingested.

We may not measure caloric values of food properly, and depending on our genetics and age our caloric expenditures/activity will vary. However imprecise, comparing caloric values of chips (150kcal/oz) and leeks (16 kcals/oz) should still tell you something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy
I don't see how my opinion of Romney's personality has any bearing on Clinton's resume.
The small (<40k residents) American city I live in already has weekly curbside compost/yard-waste pickup.
That would be allowable for a clean-room implementation, but OpenMW is not. So while OpenMW is protected from any copyright claim, it would not be protected from any patent claims.
The issue you're describing is a concern for the CA/B Forum, not really all that relevant for Mozilla/mozilla.dev.security.policy. That being said, the CA/B Forum seems to be discussing the issue[1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/sleevi_/status/780454860676149248
I stopped using startcom after their response to the heartbleed vulnerability.
Thankfully with Uber (Lyft, etc?) you get a trip map afterward.

I had an Uber in SF make a wrong turn onto the bridge to Oakland so he stopped the "meter" and at least I didn't have to pay for it.

With a Taxi it'd be my word against theirs, and the police would take their side. I'd be out the extra fare until I could sue the taxi company and I'd have to hope they didn't delete the video which is my only proof. No thanks.
That's awesome. Will this work with your mobile application? I know that's delivered through the app-store so I assume only the latest version is available there?

Sorry I'm new to mobile development...
While reading someone else's program that uses a DSL may be superficially easy, but the minute you try to get under the surface, you're left scrambling to understand what a given term or idea meant to the author. There is no language definition to rely on for common understanding.

I have generally found that this is the same problem as with user-defined functions, and it has the same solution: programmers need to document their code.
Please stop. We ban accounts that don't comment civilly and substantively.
It really was an amazing console. The Saturn was also the best-in-class when it came out, the 2D performance absolutely crushed anything else on the market, but Sony's push for 3D made that irrelevant and the Saturn's 3D capabilities were weak, even weaker than the fairly feeble PlayStation.

The Dreamcast showed how Sega took 3D seriously and it was an amazing console, easily competitive with the PS2 and Xbox. The only problem was Sega'd lost their de-facto leadership position and were scrambling to stay relevant.

It's interesting, however, that I've met several people who had their first internet experience on the Dreamcast because it had several modules that made that possible.
No, flash is called flash because of the speed, relative to other programmable memories that can be erased.
Well by "do login" I meant to basically require that + password. It's good to see it's possible.

I've been toying with the idea of buying a dock for my thinkpad and using it as my main system retiring my current low-powered desktop as a server.

My main concern is that, since I keep important docs on my system, I'd now be carrying them with me. Doing 2FA for harddrive decryption and system login would be amazing for me since then I'd be able to know that even if my computer is stolen the "attacker" won't really have the means to login.
This is addressing a question I'm interested in, but on first read I'm struggling to see the value that's being presented here.

- "parameterize" is great, but seems exactly the same as Clojure's "binding" on a dynamic variable. [Edit: modulo being "sticky" with regard to continuations... but Clojure doesn't have continuations, so it's a pretty subtle difference.]

- Reader macros are an interesting feature, but do move away from the syntactic regularity of LISP -- and were, AFAIK, explicitly rejected in Clojure

- Custodians are kind-of interesting -- but I ended up having to do some Googling [1] to find out exactly what they do...

Is there anywhere else I should be looking for a more systematic Racket/Clojure comparison?

[1] - https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/eval-model.html#%28pa...
Two ideas since I hate things that breaks for no good reason:

I bought a "used" (actually just preowned, not used) but real sewing machine for about $50 last year .

Even simpler I also figured out that especially for jeans fabric glue is amazingly simple to get right (IMO, YMMW) and if I apply it before damage is done nobody even notices, just make sure you use another washed out fabric, apply fabric glue evenly and apply it to the inside of the knees etc.

Edit: removed unnecessary details
She's a textbook demagogue whose career has been plagued with scandals and corruption since before she even set foot in the White House as first lady.

Google 'Hillary Clinton cattle futures' if you want to start from the beginning.
At Harvey Mudd College more than half of the computer-science majors are women
And here's the technical detail of how we do it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/tls-certificate-optimization-tec....