skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a truly idiotic thing to say.

"none of which were particularly impressive"

First who are you to judge quality of his work, that guy has a Nobel. Imagine if they did follow your utterly idiotic suggestion and did kick him out, other universities who recognize importance of his work and would instantly hire him. Years later when he would actually win the prize, Edinburgh University would look crazy for kicking out a Nobel prize winning physicist.

So no Peter Higgs is a genius, he knew importance of what he had achieved and took leisurely path, nothing wrong in that. Edinburgh University knew importance of his work and correctly decided that keeping him was a great investment.

The fact that you think that a researcher who won a Nobel prize somehow did not work "hard enough" in later years and should have been fired is a great indicator of dysfunctional academic culture.
I was on the team working on Vanadium @ Google and have since moved on to Firebase.

I can't speak to what level of commitment to the project those that have moved on to Grail have; you should direct questions to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cosmosnicolaou or refer to his comments.

I actually recently gave a presentation / live demo of Vanadium at Drinks on Tap SF. It's not production ready, but a cool glimpse into a possible new paradigm ;)
"was deciding to buy a fridge" should be "was deciding to buy their first fridge".
You're right there. I emailed someone who posted similar products there in the past and asked nicely if he was happy to share my product and he was.

There are a few frequent posters that are fairly open to requests if you dig around.
Got a link for that? I'd like to go read about it. Primarily as what NOT to do ... :)
Why aren't they getting the fuck out now?
Haha, what's more: through a series of coincidences I found out that the guy who built our competitor's product also did so with Elixir!

(Well... not quite competitor. A similar product to ours, but which deals with the management of electricity.)

So yeah, there's quite a few startup using Elixir already :) and a handful established companies as well. -- Pinterest, for example: http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/18/pinterest-elixir/ :

> The notification system runs across 15 servers, whereas the old system, written in Java, ran on 30. The new code is about one-tenth of the size of the old code.
>Finally, any even number divided by two is still even and approaches two.

6/2 = 3

In fact. Every odd number multiplied by two is even.
This may be the best book and it's great that you can download it for free, but it's scanned, and that makes it horrible to read. Still I marked it in my book list under math, and hope I'll find the time to read it in the future. I will buy a decent EPUB or PDF then. I don't mind to pay for that convenience.
I'd like to think that the part about launching and iterating -- getting your product out there rather than trying to make it perfect before launch -- is quite a useful tip for solo founders (and small teams). But, to each their own!
I agree. This is the candidate of a major political party.

Calling for the elimination of positions of those you disagree with is only going to make the world a more polar place.

We need more discussions and less calls for firing people or imprisoning them, from both sides.
Agreed. If someone is acting as a political surrogate, even if I think the candidate is awful, as long as it's not interfering with their work and they're not explicitly representing the company I don't see the problem.

I also wonder if DHH has the same thoughts if someone is a Hillary candidate.
Laws themselves aren't inherently Constitutional. It's their application vis a vis a particular scenario which must withstand scrutiny.

In this case, the question is whether a charge of "rioting" or "trespassing" or whichever charge is currently in play withstands this scrutiny. Generally, application of these laws pass Constitutional muster. On occasion, they do not.
Duress fingerprints. 'nuff said.

Or a configurable timeout, rather than the apparently hard-coded 48 hours.

Or ask for a PIN if the phone's radio detects many more other radios in the vicinity than a few minutes ago ("Because you might be under duress, please enter a PIN now.")

Or if a phone has been sitting on a flat surface for a while, require a PIN.

Or require a PIN if the phone is tapped with a duress code ("Shave-and-a-hair-cut"). Could be pretty subtle.

Countermeasures like this are useful both against thieves (who might want to unlock your phone and get access to your accounts) as well as against state actors (ditto).
Prototypes also use BLE / Bluetooth Classic but the vision being that it's transport agnostic.
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Typical American; never use one syllable where two will do.
Interesting. I knew about the journalists who broke the story about East Timor, but I didn't connect that with Amy Goodman. Was that the start of her career (or the big break, so to speak)?

While she can handle it, I wonder about other journalists, those without the fame to get nationwide attention on their plight, including articles in the Nation and on the front page of HN. How many local journalists died in East Timor, without anyone knowing their names?

Freedom is a Light for Which Many Men Have Died in Darkness

- from the/a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Bob Dylan isn't the first lyricist to win the Nobel: that was Tagore
This could be used for other branches too, not just music blogs. For example Indie Games.
I have a seasonal project that creates christmas/holiday cards from Instagram photos. It makes a few grand between halloween and new years (https://cheergram.com but the cert is expired rn)

Surprisingly, the best thing that I did to get it some traction was having a few influential people in the design/craft community post it to pinterest. A couple years ago, a single pin generated dozens of orders.

Other than that, some SEO fu has always helped. It used to be on page 1 for "Instagram christmas cards" and I'd get lots of traffic from that (currently on page 2). So, some SEO basics (good titles, good headings, a blog/news section) always helps.
Or if you point just the joints, not the tips, you get base 12.

If you count multiples of 12 with the five fingers in the other hand, you get to 60.

And this is the reason we have the 12-hour, 60-minute system, and other sexagesimal systems, ever since ancient Babylonia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
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I see a lot of interest in Elm in Elixir community but if you take actual production projects written in Elixir very few use Elm on FE.
What Linux Ultrabook do you suggest?
I am considering the Dell XPS 13" DE or a Suped Up Lenovo IdeaPad 700 for my devel machine.

My must haves are...
250+ SDD
8 GB Ram
Intel i7

What do you suggest?
Mostly random. The poles would have less direct hits, but equal number of sideways hits. Mainly because I think most meteors orbit in the same plane as the solar system. So there would be less "from above" hits on the poles.
It is acceptable but not "perfectly". It is acceptable with an additional condition: if you also accept the fact that the act of surrendering your privacy increases the pressure to expose the privacy of those who are not so willing to expose theirs.
I understand where you're coming from. That said, how do you recommend we heal what's dividing people? Do we stop associating with people that don't share our beliefs? What level of association is acceptable? I know I don't have the answer, but I don't think increasing the separation between people is a good general solution. I think calling out in a constructive way behavior we think is problematic is useful. And maybe there's a distinction to be made between someone in Thiel's position and someone who isn't so prominent.

If I'm putting words in your mouth, I apologize. And please don't interpret my comment as supporting one side or the other. And there's a significant number of people on either side. There's a lot of vitriol on both sides that I hope we as a society can overcome.
I have said it before, and I will say it again.

Facebook is the folly of our generation. We are already paying the consequences of giving away our right to privacy, and it is only going to get worse.
The transcript of her reporting from that day is alarming.

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/6/full_exclusive_report_d...
Right there with you.

I'd like to know your perspective of the explicit amorality of the SV "quirky-elite", especially the YC-Facebook nexus. To me, Altman, Zuckerberg, and Thiel all very obviously have ulterior scifi motives (live forever, solve the question they think underlies existence, etc) predicated upon a sort of über anthropic principle, i.e., "I'm one in a million so there is a special underlying meaning to my life."

I'm only guessing this from afar. Do you think I'm on base with this, or is their issue just hubris?
From what I know, contacting your representative in the U.S. works, especially calling them. As I've heard more than one political operative explain, your representative knows most people don't vote and therefore their responses to pollsters, etc. don't have much impact. But they know anyone who bothers to call is highly motivated and may represent or influence other voters.
it would be nice, just generally, not to introduce another character which is just a plain vertical line, even if 99.9% of the time it is identifiable by context
I had reinvented these symbols, without knowing Birkana, for one of my hobby alphabets at high school. I had given a lot of thought with my high-schooler leisure time and haven't been able find more simple system with enough data capacity. I think readability suffers from similarity though.

They also look like some symbols from Old Turkic alphabet, If I recall correctly it was my source of inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet
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You can build virtual dom trees or use real dom nodes using something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/morphdom . Tagged template strings let you build these features in without custom language extensions. See also:

* https://www.npmjs.com/package/hyperx
* https://www.npmjs.com/package/yo-yo
I agree they are biased. However, there are no unbiased sources covering the stories that they do, unfortunately.

Editorialists are both journalists and opinionated; Bill O'Reilly and Paul Krugman are journalists too. Taking a side doesn't exempt her from first amendment protections.
The first amendment absolutely can protect from a charge of trespassing, or from any other charge. We don't know if it will in this particular scenario, but speaking categorically? Yes, it can absolutely.

A recent high profile example of trespass law clashing with the first amendment would be free speech zones.

The Constitution constrains the construction and application of all laws. Every single one.
Deceptively simple device.
What makes it ephemeral? Does not IPFS store all objects forever?
Unit tests are a fantastic tool, but they have clear limitations.

Tests (unit, integration, system, acceptance or any other kind) should do two things:

- while developing, help checking that the code is doing what it should (e.g. fixing the bug)

- after developed, ensuring that the code keeps doing it.

(ideally also ensure that it doesn't do anything not supposed to do, but that's much more difficult)

That's why the best tests should aim for weak spots and try to give a good assurance that, if there are defects, the test should have a good chance of failure....
Those weak spots sometimes will be in single functions, but other times they won't.

Creating tests just for the sake of having them, not adding a better chance of them failing when a problem arises is just wasted time. Or worse, coupling the tests with implementation details that are irrelevant (for example, this function is divided in two or three because is big, just to add readability) is just pointless....
That would be capitalist libertarians. There is also such a thing as libertarian socialists and communists.

But yes, that is the next most important division. Right libertarians believe that there is a natural right to property ownership. Therefore, infringement on that right is an aggression, and using violence to protect it is simple self-defense. Left libertarians believe that private property is a social construct, and that it has negative social effects at large scale (a few would even say that it has them at any scale), and so reject it, and the use of violence to protect it.
Clearly it's time to levelup our borrowed words.
Ah this is cool. I'm thinking about making a passive income sim game for the web. Didn't think of it as a monetizable thing but your experience is changing my mind.
Is it possible to make like a cheap electric pen using parts from optical mouse? Currently there is Nebo app [1] available for free from Microsoft Store, but it requires touch/pen device. Doesn't work with mouse :(

[1] MyScript Nebo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNx-Nir0VQI
solar panels in mars did not turn out to be very efficient. After couple of days, all those panels get covered with dust, and you need a wiper to clean that up, which will again drain a lots of battery power.
The current chief of the Australian army has a great line on this.

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. that goes for all of us, but especially those, who by their rank, have a leadership role."
Sure, but it's not like someone just handed him a successful music blog. He worked hard on it, and parlayed it into something bigger. Isn't that practical?
I would appreciate some context and background as to what's going on, certainly. Twitter makes it pretty hard to backtrack through multiple conversations to figure out what started a particular thread.
Yes, I agree. I'm also saying that even if that wasn't the case, it's almost impossible correctly identify what is journalism and what isn't from a professed journalist and freedom of the press is protected under the first amendment, so the charges are ludicrous on those grounds alone. But because of that we, as the populace, should hold journalists to a high standard and call out what we see as misconduct, since the legal system is ill suited to do so. That's not to say this is a case of that, I'm just trying to make a general point about journalism, which I was spurred to do by the charges leveled (even if they are baseless in this case).
So it did, good catch.
Of course, Thiel is not a YC employee, so a statement about firing someone is irrelevant.
The US just bombed Yemen, and no one's talking about it
The person who has to carry the child to term gets the final say, and both parties going in knew that was a possibility. You can't honestly be shocked that sex can have consequences, including some you might not foresee. If you can't afford, under any circumstances including the very unlikely, to have a kid? Don't. Screw.
This is pedantic. The clause, "except when necessary to prevent the violation of one's rights" is understood by most, and isn't relevant to this conversation.
I think people take symbolism too seriously. I won't argue that it never matters what message an organization sends, but people should stop apophenically inferring messages where there are none. This would include, for example, adopting the charitable explanation that Thiel was hired as a source of valuable advice to YC startups, not because YC supports Trump.

I'd like a serious answer to this, actually: why does this matter?
Cool idea - getting cert issues though on Chrome (Your connection is not private etc)
I wouldn't call the current court a rubber stamp. There have been some very unfortunate decisions, sure, but there were also quite a few decisions that prevented either the states or the feds from running wild.

The real problem with being a true check is partisanship on the court. By now, it seems to be essentially accepted that there are "liberal judges" and "conservative judges", and that they will rule accordingly. I cringe every time I hear that, because SCOTUS, like any other court, is supposed to rule on what the law is, not on what it should be; and one's political affiliation should not affect the former. In practice, of course, it does matter these days, and it is a really bad thing, especially in an institution that is 1) so small, and 2) not providing any mechanism to hold them responsible.
Is there some reason the answer isn't, "Both"?
Stupid question: any particular reasons you picked Meteor and React? Also, can you give us details on the backend/infrastructure?

Thanks!
Equivalently there is "salsa inglesa" in Spain.
Hard to believe, but rents fell again in San Jose and San Francisco
Your congressperson in California won't be able to do anything. She is in a county correctional facility in North Dakota for violating a local law, not in federal prison.
I know that after this, I won't work at any YC company, as well as any place Peter Thiel is involved in any way. The organization get to decide which reputation hit they want to take, but no option is neutral in the face of a racist, sexual-assaulting demagogue.
> There is zero chance SubmitHub would work without the music blog

> Jason Grishkoff built a $46,000/mo SaaS business helping musicians promote their music, and he did it in under a year.

When do you start the clock? If the business success is based on the blog's success, then arguably the clock starts when he first made the blog.
I have that book.

It's good for other field too. I've know union Electricians who didn't know how a three way switch works. They could wire it, but couldn't conceptualize it. Same with relay, and transformers.

It wasen't there fault. They just weren't taught it in the right fashion.

I do feel the book is dry though. I don't feel you need to read it front to back. I personally got more out of the diagrams, than the writing.

(My pet peeve in most technical books is the apparent lack of editing. If anyone is on the road to writing a technical book; there is nothing wrong with short books. People will pay for short books. Less is more--much of the time.)
It's time for the moderates to come out and say it: we won't be defoo'ing or firing people for supporting Hillary and we won't be defoo'ing or firing people for supporting Trump.

Or Johnson or Stein or Harambe, for that matter.
This issue isn't whether is exists or not (I think it does exist), but that it isn't likely to "qualify for diversity consideration" (whatever that means). Maybe there are scenarios where companies have comparable candidates and need a "tie-breaker", but that's not my experience. Adding someone new to the mix is a big decision for us (small) engineering teams. There's no room for us to award points for circumstances unrelated to job fit and performance.
ok sorry, I mean't the career analysis.
So Paul Graham has disavowed Trump. Thiel supports Trump. Paul Graham hasn't disavowed Thiel's support of Trump.

That seems an absurd expectation, to ditch someone for exercising their own agency legally and within the parameters of a democracy.

I don't support Trump. I also don't support the goading and lack of empathy towards those that do. Nor the guilt-by-association accusations being promulgated in this election cycle.
Why? That's a dumb reason to hire someone too.
There is a difference between firing an employee and continuing to do business with someone that funnels millions of dollars into a racist, sexist, sexual predator that's backed by a foreign intelligence service.

Don't lie with dogs. Don't take money from Andreessen if you think Snowden was a hero. Don't continue to partner with Thiel after he continues to support Trump after revelations of sexual predation put to rest that any of this is just folksy bluntness. Trump is the most dangerous candidate I've ever seen. MSNBC has reported that he's contemplated the use of nuclear weapons against ISIS.

Continuing to prop up a billionaire that actively campaigns with Trump and continues to funnel money towards him is a grave mark against YC, and frankly surprising given how for most of YC's history they've prioritised helping first and money second.
Why aren't you going behind mark zuckerberg as well? Thiel is not only an influential investor, but also has a board seat there, and he probably has a bigger share in facebook than he has in YC right?
I think it's different, but I think if you have to waste part of your (I believe) only life fighting for basic human rights, it's wrong. It's especially wrong when those issues so often touch on matters of health, with contribute to an early and unnecessary exit from that life.

Not surprisingly, this has more nuance than the silly black and white options presented by people who have issues.
I'm sure they have each other on speed dial though.

Thiel definitely wants to continue to have a fast track towards investing into high-growth YC startups, and YC doesn't want to damage that relationship.

This reminds me of Palmer Luckey getting "disappeared" by Facebook, which I didn't think was ethical. In a truly democratic society, taking a different (not to say, also completely mainstream) political stance shouldn't threaten one's livelihood.
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Ask HN: A guy asked why “write the same 1000 times”. How to proceed?
Hi!

I'm a developer and I created some time ago a library called Jimple - a dependency injection container for NodeJS using ES6.

Now, another developer created a issue in Jimple's repository asking "Why to make hundred the same things in NPM ?" and "why to write the same 1000 times?".

Well, I made an answer, sent as comment and closed the issue with some views I have about the opensource community and how great it is today because of these views, however, I think some other opinions is nice to:

1. Make a bigger and better discussion about that subject;
2. Explain to people how the opensource community works;
3. Explain to people why the way it works now is not so bad as it seems;

The issue is here: https://github.com/fjorgemota/jimple/issues/7 - remember that my comment reflect MY opinions about that subject.

What you think about that?

Thanks, at all. :)

PS: this is my first post at Hacker News, and I think that it's a great place to discussions like that. I have not found other discussion related to that subject and I know that my english is really poor..Sorry about that.
The ones who were financially able to/had a place to go to already did. But not everyone has those benefits. You also have to figure out what to do in terms of money after getting out(1000% inflation will eat up your savings). Sometimes the devil you know...
Hi, my name is Grey. My voice is my password, verify me. Seriously though, would it really be a challenge to simulate someone's speech in that way? If the key element which makes a system secure is the biometric side, then that's still the point to attack legally and otherwise.
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