skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong, but communities are toxic too and after over twenty years of participating in them and discussions and arguments about "the right way" -- which is often only a matter of opinion anyway -- I've mostly opted out now. I just don't feel like putting up with the abuse that predictably comes back.

On HN specifically it's pretty challenging. I haven't made a billion dollars, I haven't scaled anything up to 10 million users, I don't have a Github project with thousands of stars, ergo there's no reason to listen to anything I have to say. I have no merits to spend on the meritocracy here.

HN also tends to rush to embrace the shiny and the new, so it's not sufficient to say something like, "build new things out of old, simple, battle-tested tools" -- which would be a stupidly obvious thing to say to a room full of greybeard sysadmins -- but you have to be able to justify why you should use older tools, and you have to be able to show that they're sufficiently better than the new thing, and you have to have specific examples, preferably from personal experience.

And I don't have the encyclopaedic knowledge to field that argument on much of anything, either.

...maybe a better way to handle this would be to just ask you, what is it that I could say that you would listen to?
> We should all be able to see what goes on in our prisons, in our concentration camps (Gitmo, etc.), in our Zoos, schools, and factory farms... anywhere there are basic concerns about abuse of power and suffering.

100% agreed. Of course, this is precisely why we aren't able to see what goes on in prisons and factory farms — the people in power know it would curtail what they're able to do.

That said, it's not like the conditions in prisons and factory farms (and Gitmo, and so on) are a mystery. We know they're horrible. I am legitimately not sure whether greater visibility would actually prompt the average consumer to care.
They've completed it up to Unicode 6.0 (released in 2010).

Are there any Unicode fonts at all for Tangut? I looked but didn't find any.
To be fair, you originally asked

> why do you think that human life is worth more than animal life

which was asking whether value(human life) > value(animal life), not whether value(animal life) = 0.
It would be no different from the story of one venture capital firm marking down the valuation of some other portfolio company.

Also King and Zynga have had performance like that. At the end of the day we are just talking about several billion dollars in valuation.

The S&P500 returns 1 trillion to shareholders annually. If capital interest in the tech sector is really that fickle, then there's no need to kick the can.

San Francisco is begging to return to the "good ole' days" where there was no industry

Sounds like a net positive
The USA could export everything it manufactures but still run a trade deficit because Americans spend too much money on French mobile games and Bollywood films.

But your original argument was that the US doesn't compete with Germany or Japan in manufacturing, when the facts show they not only compete, America fucking decimates those countries in raw output.
Economy->Stocks->Valuations on 20+Years->Social Unrest

It's important.
I don't know anything about anything, but I want to enumerate some things I learned reading this article, and if someone actually knows what they're talking about and sees fit to take pity on me, please correct me so that I can understand what this actually means.

So a time crystal appears to be made up of real matter. The article mentions ions that are arranged in a certain particular way, cooled in order to reduce their energy, and this still makes sense so far.

So, the idea is to create a closed loop of sorts from a temporal perspective. I'm imagining an object as a set of states that the object can be observed in, and if there was a loop, it'd be possible to observe a certain sequence of states over and over.

The arrangement of the ions is important, and one of the properties is the spin, which is possible to change with a laser beam, because obviously.

Anyways, I guess the frequency of the oscillation of the ions changing spin, since they interact with each other in a domino fashion, can be controlled with the frequency of the laser.

They did this, and observed the ions changing in such a way where there was no driving influence and it's implied that the reason that this behavior was observed is because time symmetry was broken, which is just a fancy way of alleging that the universe is non-deterministic, I think.

Maybe this will eventually be useful?
What are hints and why are the noto fonts packages according to hinted and unhinted? I'm not sure which package to use for linux.
apparently yes, but because it's in a low energy state, it's impossible to extract any energy from it and do work (otherwise it would be a perpetual motion machine.)
ARTFINDER:+Sleepwalker+by+Lee+Clement+-+Lee+SleepwalkerAcrylic+on+Canvas©
Ask HN: How important is install #s vs. usage/retention in funding right now?
I know it's a buyer's market at the moment but I have a project I've been working on for awhile that is starting to show some pretty impressive stats on the usage/retention front, although our actual growth has been slow and steady. It's self-funded right now, so to stop treating it like a side project and take things to the next level I'll need to raise $150,000-$200,000.

My question is, is anyone finding that good usage/retention stats and a detailed plan to get to the next milestone is enough to raise that amount from angels right now or is it a fool's errand to start reaching out to people without crazy install numbers? Feeling a little stuck without being able to hire some help.

Average user/device/day is higher than Twitter right now and closing in on Instagram and SC, clocking in at about 15.2 min/day.

Retention is a little noisy with only a few thousand users but stays between 50-75% day 1 and 15-33% day 30. Fall off is nearly non-existant after day 30.

It's a B2C "social photography game" on iOS only right now with a small but friendly and totally engaged community with active users in over 50 countries.
here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12654122
Phil Schiller's response (from this 9to5Mac article https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/05/apple-inexplicably-terminates...):

"Hi Matthew,

Thanks for your email about this app.

I did look into this situation when I read about it today. I am told this app was removed due to repeated fraudulent activity.

We often terminate developer accounts for ratings and review fraud, including actions designed to hurt other developers. This is a responsibility that we take very seriously, on behalf of all of our customers and developers.

I hope that you understand the importance of protecting the App Store from repeated fraudulent activity.

Thank you,

Phil"
I read this author's works pretty frequently, but I noticed from her blog (and some others) that it seems like authors have a super high incidence of burnout.

Any other writers want to pitch in on that? I'd think you would feel massive relief when you launch a book
"Consumers simply aren't going to spend the equivalent of buying a new car for something that can be done by a minimum-wage maid service"

a leased new car costs the consumer a few hundred dollars a month, which is the equivalent of say 30 or 40 hours of minimum wage labor. a robot that cleans floors, prepares food, washes clothes, folds laundry, cleans windows, serves meals, puts dishes away, feeds the dog, waters plants etc. could work 24/7 (with swappable batteries). i'm not convinced that consumers wouldn't pay that if the technology could get there.

of course we are far from a robot that can do all of that, but in my opinion, the prize to the company that can deliver this is massive.
I think what it comes down to it was such a small amount of money they knew you weren't going to walk away.
RethinkDB is not perfect there is tons of issues. For example it useing too much memory for the large volumes of data and then performance tends to degrade.
Every single one of those founders who come on HN and give honest opinions also wrote press releases just like this.

You have not heard from Elisabeth Holmes because of this, you've heard from the CEO of Theranos, whose name is Elisabeth Holmes. I don't know what she has/hasn't learned, but the audience for this was not HN, and she's not giving her personal experience in this letter.

Writing for yourself is completely different than writing for a company, but you know that. Come on, we can do better.
Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
BSVX:IND is pretty similar over the past 5 years to S&P 500 if you compare the two.
Sorry but webapps make up a tiny portion of what I need to interact with on the CLI as an admin. When I do need to interact with webapps I use an API using curl or python (depending what I need to do).

When do you need to interact heavily with a webapp? Maybe I'm missing something here.
Best method to cancel human voices at work or public space?
I have tried silicone ear plugs and in-ear headphones with good plugs but can’t find anything that completely stops human voices. I have read that the noise-canceling headphones are good for some type of frequencies, human voices not being one of them. What methods do you use to cope with it? If ear plugs or headphones, can you specify?
Does it support multiple SANs on a single cert? I want to streamline things like vanity domain redirections, where every domain I add requires me to refresh the cert.
JavaScript Code smell Survey
I meant to edit my post but the time ran out.

Yes iOS has fewer flexibility in its user-facing options than Android, but Google seems to be no less controlling than Apple.

For some cases, I'm glad that iOS has these restrictions for apps, especially when it comes to Google; on the desktop, when I sign onto YouTube, I automatically get signed in for Google Search and everything else as well. That is something I really hate and find alarming, so much that I only use YouTube in private browsing.

Google can't do that on iOS. They TRY to, in a very creepy way — when I sign-in with an email on their YouTube app, all the other Google apps on my device see that email too — but they can't force global-sign-in on iOS. That's good. Some walls are good.
Of course it does! :).
> Is it common to have to fork over all cash for these sized deals? Is it possible/acceptable to finance? What alternatives to seller financing have you seen? I don't imagine it's possible to just waltz into your local bank and say hi guys I need $100K to buy a website!

I've discussed this with my local Belgian bank (well, not $100k, closer to $1-1.5m), and they'd be happy to do it if I put up 25-30% of the capital. So should definitely be doable. The issue is finding a good and viable asset that won't deteriorate. Usually there's a reason why people sell.
Whenever there's a test that gates perceived advancement, people will teach to the test as a way of circumventing the gate.
Maybe we lack the context in many cases, but do we not know Iran to be a place where such thoughts have legs?

I don't have much love for the pope either, but I feel that he at least has some political restrictions in west.

> American leaders say hateful things, from mayors to governors to a guy who has a serious chance of being elected president

Trump seems to be a little different from past candidates though, and "American leaders say hateful things" lacks magnitude - what percentage of leaders, and how was this perceived? For most, even the impression of racism is a career ender, and they are under a great deal of scrutiny.
I remember reading a book around 1970 or so where a kid gets a computer that would answer questions. The one I remember is:

"What is the main export of Bolivia?"

and it answered "tin". I don't remember anything else about the story. I remember thinking that such a machine was an impossibility. Asking such questions of a computer now is trite.
I definitely don't think the conclusion is that the universe is non-deterministic, the idea is that when energy is lost symmetry is broken, and motion through time seems to be analogous to shape in space, in terms of this symmetry breaking effect.
50% of the population being 100% vegetarian/vegan is bit much to ask, but I can certainly see 100% of the population being 50% vegetarian/vegan, i.e. eating 50% less meat and using 50% less animal products.
No, we can't. It's Congress that's going to have to do the changing. That means each iteration of your "changing it with a dial" is going to be larded with pork, poorly-thought-through rules and regulations, general incompetence, and political grandstanding. Then it's going to be frozen in time for a year or a decade or a century, until Congress decides to tackle it again.
The intent isn't even close to being the same. The intent in industrial espionage is personal and/or corporate gain. The intent in exposing conditions in factory farms is to expose suffering and unsanitary conditions. Nobody taking videos in a farm are interested in stealing industrial secrets to build a competing farm.
What if we removed Webfonts?
That might have changed in 10 years (and the economics might differ for a small place), but when the place I was working was looking at switching from Perl/Tk for internal tools, they went with Python wxWidgets over PyQt4 because of licensing cost even though Qt would have been a better fit. They eventually went with PySide when that got released.
You are equating knowledge with mere numerical literacy, e.g., you are imagining that knowledge is a set of fundamental constants to be measured, and that he who knows the constants to the highest precision is the greatest.

In fact knowledge is the thing that allows you to choose which constants to calculate at all. It is not intuitive why a light in the sky should have a size. What is the size of a sunset? What is the size of a rainbow? What is the size of an eclipse?

Knowledge is not the mere accumulation of measurement. It is the organizational structure that allows you to separate between what we can and cannot measure, what we have measured before and have not measured yet. It is what tells us whether "the" sun is a singleton or that "a" rainbow today is not the same today as tomorrow.

> who don't know history

I think you would benefit from reading up on the current consensus among historians on the Conflict Thesis before presenting it to those of us who have caught up on our Ferngren, Barker, etc.
Oh, I malloc from OS or hardware (external custom hardware) rarely. Usually once, a big chunk at the start and then heap manage manually. Well, semi-manually too since I took most of my idioms into a library of mine. I had a lapse of thought. Keeping everything aligned is not an issue these days. Affinity can also be done from other languages if OS supports it (looking at you, MacOS), intrinsics or asm directly also, etc.

One thing is sure though. You're right most of reasons aren't technical. I'm very confident about what I know and what I don't know in C and I don't have to second-guess (usually) what I want to do, because my experience lies with C. It's a subjective choice, but also a technical - since that knowledge and experience is my technical asset. It's not like you can't do something in C that you can't do in C++. In fact, you can do it almost the same if you want to, but with C++ you would be a better fit if you follow C++ idioms, which I haven't picked up over the years (especially after STL cambrian explosion) and something I think I won't in the near future. Reason is simple. Everything I do, I do mostly alone and so far C has been good to me. I venture into other things, out of curiosity and sometimes necessity, but I always kind of fall back to C. Sometimes it's due to the fact that I know of top of my head how to do something quick (which I often need to) without resorting to googling or I don't know how to make it run quick enough since I'm not intimate with the language (not C++ in this case, but in general).
What you're doing certainly doesn't sound like an easy job for window functions, although it might be possible with RANGE + interval - at least in Oracle 12c.

How about Oracle 12c's MATCH_RECOGNIZE, though?

http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/@otn/documents/webc...
(Warning vegan here).

The idea that eating meat is natural is one of the four main reasons people give (the 4n's: natural, nice, normal, necessary).

A few counters:
It is also natural for animals to kill their own. We as humans have decided to rise above this "natural" existence.
It is natural for animals to eat other animals. A balanced predator prey system is a healthy ecosystem. This is not what we humans are doing. We are raising a handful of species simply because meat tastes good. Sure there are some cases where humans must still hunt for survival and I take no issue there. But most of us have the resources to eat a plant based diet. Which is healthier for us and the environment.
"code unit" is not "code point". "code unit" for utf-8 is 1 octet. "code unit" for utf-16 is a 16bit value. Both utf-8 and utf-16 can represent the entire space of unicode code points by using multiple code units to represent a single code point.
Woah there, that's a bit too far. People who tell you they're drinking only for the flavor are probably lying, but just because something has a bit of ethanol in it doesn't mean the taste motivation goes out the window. Proving students aren't very good at describing flavor or detecting tricks doesn't prove your point.
KDE (plasma), Windows, Gnome to a lesser extent, all web browsers, and now the server side all support application development in Javascript. If you're trying to write something once that, with a lot (a lot!) of effort, can run mostly anywhere, Javascript does make sense.

But I agree, I wish it had been a different language.
Edge does it as well, but I advise people not to click buttons on malicious webpages. So the fact that you have to click the button on the malicious webpage several times to get the option to disable it is very irritating.
Can any old oscillator be called a time crystal?
Groupon, Twitter (Zuck: "they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in"), and Zynga also got lucky quite a bit, and then suddenly they weren't getting lucky very much at all.

And actually, no, DHH wrote about Groupon and Zynga as well: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3221-and-then-the-music-stopp...

As for making money in venture, most venture funds lose money, so it clearly doesn't work that well for most investors. As an asset class, VC has failed to consistently deliver returns. Of course, the bottom 95% doesn't get plastered on magazine covers or fêted by the Twitterati, so most people don't know about them.

Of course, this is all wonderful for the consumers - we get VC-subsidized rides and meals. It's just not that great of a deal for the LPs.
(As I posted on the duplicate discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12654395 )

Would this be the time to explore selling iOS apps outside of the app store?

Offer users a binary download (like when you buy the desktop app outside of the store). Then have a little tool that you run on your Mac, connect the iOS device, enter your developer credentials (since this is a developer's tool the user likely has them, otherwise registration is quick and free)... and the tool sideloads the app to the iOS device.
Show HN: Minimalistic secure open source paste bin service
You can, you use APIs.
I acquired a Heathkit H11 around 1981. Sadly, it's the one computer I later got rid of, and the only one (of probably dozens) I've ever owned that was worth a damn a few years later.
Get self directed IRA or 401K. Then you can do whatever you want.
Not at all...

The GPL requires anything that "includes" it to be GPL compatible. The definition of "includes" that it uses is pretty "iffy" and could easily be extended to include the whole application if you aren't very careful.

OFL has no requirement like that, so you can use it freely in whatever project you want.
This being the CIA, I wonder if they can't improve their forecasting rate by taking a sightly more active role.
Yep, it seems perverse that we force humans to die in ways (e.g. chemotherapy on late-stage cancers, irreversible brain damage) that we would be horrified by if we inflicted them on animals.
I've not raised animals for food, so I am hypothesizing here. It seems to me the key is to be honest with oneself that you are intending to kill this creature for food, and not allow yourself to form emotional attachments to it like one would with a pet. Now, having not done this, I don't know how easy or hard it would be. Were I to have the opportunity to do so, I would be willing to try it.
I think most animal rights advocates draw the line at sentience. If a being is capable of suffering, then this suffering needs to be justified. If an animal has their own desires, those desires should be taken into consideration.

Intelligence is not a justifiable metric, e.g. some individual humans are less intelligent than some animal species. Yet, we don't use those humans for our own interests.
Maybe it would make sense, but I personally prefer their mobile site. It's much nicer to read. Not that their desktop site is filled with ads and gibberish, but for whatever reason I like it more.
I believe this is a poor solution, because the problem is simply with web browser design. Website-initiated popups should remain inside the browser tab, and the browser tab should always be closable. There is NO excuse for a web browser to allow a website to, even temporarily, disable it's UI, particularly the UI to close it. Scripting that controls your browser should not be allowed. Nontechnical users need to be able to trust their browser UI. Message boxes that look like OS prompts should simply not be available options for websites to use.
Same here. Pre-teen kid fascinated by this new tech. Looking back I have no idea how my mom/dad afforded it. In fact, my mom went behind my dad's back to buy it for me as he said they could not afford it. I remember the exact location of the store we went to at the time still. I actually got a genuine IBM (only the best mom.. THANKS!). Something like $3000+ at the time. Later added a $300 modem after seeing War Games.

I attribute a large part to my mom, basically no questions asked, in getting me that first PC to my whole career in IT. As well as a tinkerer of tech stuff and still prefer fixing electronic stuff and building my own PC from parts than buying name brand ones. I'm 43.

I need to tell her thanks again next time I see her for basically taking a $9k loan out (in today's $$) for her 10yo son for this gadget computer stuff that was starting to take off that no one else in our circle of friends really even knew much about.
:lang (which is actually CSS2 except for the wildcard support) is slightly different than an attribute selector.

One difference is that it should handle subtypes seamlessly - e.g. :lang(es) would match <div lang="es-mx"> without the developer having to remember to use [lang*=] or consider whether their expression could match other languages (e.g. did your attempt to select Canadian English (lang=en-ca) match Catalan (lang=ca) or vice versa?).

The main reason I use :lang, however, is for inheritance:

<p lang="zh">
We don't want <b>Chinese text to be displayed in bold</b>
</p>

b:lang(zh) { font-weight: normal !important; } will reliably match <b> every time. [lang="zh"] won't without additional work writing and testing selectors and nested content is easy to get wrong in complex documents. I use things like q:lang() for quotations where it's really nice to be consistent across levels of embedded quoting.
I experience same problem with Firefox 47.0 on Ubuntu 15.10.
Geez, I thought I was so clever and original when I did that!
> People drink wine to get drunk

Plenty of people drink wine, but rarely or never to the extent of getting drunk. Some people who drink even drink (either exclusively or occasionally) de-alcoholized wine.

This makes it unlikely that those people are drinking wine to get drunk.