skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more than just food and shelter.

Having a computer with internet connection can increase happiness. For example elderly that feel more connected with their families. The important thing is the minimum threshold is a computer, so a 200$ laptop can fill this need just as well as a 10,000$ laptop.

Further, in that case it's connecting to people that's bringing happiness not the physical device.
You're right that a basic failure here is the way the prize was set up. Unlike the Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature prizes, which are awarded by actual practitioners in those fields, the peace prize is awarded by whatever 5 people the Norwegian Parliament selects that year. Neither these people nor the Parliament selecting them necessarily have anything to do with "work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses", unfortunately. As a result, they don't seem to have quite as strong an incentive to make good choices, on either a personal or institutional level, as the selection processes for the other Nobel prizes.

I think this difference in _who_ is doing the awarding and how they are related to the people receiving the awards is what dagw was trying to get at above. It's the difference between experts in a field selecting prizes for other members of their field and democratically-elected politicians playing political football with prizes in a field they themselves are totally not involved in and likely not much interested in to start with. :(
NASA unveils new public web portal for research results
Glenn Greenwood has essentially the level of anti-establihsment-media (and pro-conspiracy) bias that he accuses the establishment media of having anti-Trump bias, so, no, him saying something like this doesn't make me reconsider anything.

Not all bias is based in partisan politics.
If there is no carry, then I don't understand. Four bytes will have the same value deducted. regardless of the byte order. If there is no carry implication (all are digits) then there is no issue.
How to use Intercom and in-app NPS feedback
Exactly this, but hey at least I know what I'm doing and the client is happy!
Then you'd have to get cable first, with whatever that entails. I don't have any kind of TV connection to my apartment at all.
Usually they omit adding "at the rates we are willing to pay" after saying something like "We can't find enough qualified candidates"
It depends how it's done. Microsoft's approach was pretty wonky as it basically gutted the desktop. If Ubuntu's one is more respectful for the desktop, why not try it?
Quantum Suicide Quantum Immortality and the Doomsday Device
Black propaganda.
Avoid News – Towards a Healthy News Diet [pdf]
I think it is a wrong thing to imply. Just looking at the crime statistics for the past decade debunks this hypothesis.

The arab demographic has always been troublesome in Scandinavia.
I think using strings as an API is a step in the wrong direction. I like that it
produces a React component directly though.

We experimented with styling approaches for React a while ago and produced our
solution — React Stylesheet[1], which we used for over an year in different
React applications.

It also produces components out of style definitions directly:

let GreenBox = style('div', {
base: {
background: 'green'
}
})

Which you can use like any other React component later:

<GreenBox />

As you can see the API is kinda similar but uses JS instead of CSS string. What
are advantages? The following:

* Consistent syntax: you can use functions, variabls, mixins, w/o the need for
interpolation `${...}`.

* Tooling. This is big one. You can make your stylesheets linted with ESLint and
typesafe (!!!) with FlowType or TypeScript.

FlowType is supported out of the box, see [2]. Typesafe stylesheets is a huge
win for productivity, I constantly catch typos and invalid values via Flow.

[1]: https://github.com/prometheusresearch/react-stylesheet/blob/...
[2]: https://github.com/prometheusresearch/react-stylesheet/blob/...

EDIT: additions

Styles are compiled into CSS so :hover and friends work here.
But not necessarily heard by people outside the echo chamber.
In the original discussion, a lot of people were certain that Apple, Google & Co constantly abuse their powers. Good to know that's perhaps not that worse after all.
You're not the only one, but since they're the only company backing unity they're free to explore things.

Maybe it's a great idea hidden as a bad one- I'm for exploration as long as they're not dragging software contributed to by others coughgnomecough.
It's just raw salary divided by 2000 hrs (50 weeks a year * 40 hr weeks). It's obviously never fully accurate for any one person, but that's just how the world calculates something that isn't inherently hourly. If that's what you're worth an hour then double $67.5!
Haha... Valid point. I'd have to explore the intricacies of Canadian songwriting before I could confidently make the assertion, but my feeling is that Cohen's songwriting falls in line with the American tradition.
Great song - for those wondering, it is The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol by Bob Dylan. I think the lyrics are more powerful in context of the rest of the song[0].

0- https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tjwyq4ppzw6s7xatkamydg...
Are your premises in a flood plain? What about those of your power supplier and network supplier? These are important questions for many of us.
Personally I think people pushing this level of fear mongering should be embarrassed.
malloc/free/etc. will only cost when they're called; GC can be a continuous expense even when there's no collection.
People will pay any amount for goofy food. There's always a market among people with money.

To change food for everybody, it has to scale. Greenhouses are a pretty expensive way to grow food. Just look at the prices charged for greenhouse vegetables.

100X would be hard to hit. Iowa grows enough corn to feed 2 USAs (if we were content to eat just corn). But that's a long way from 100X.
Such effort would be better spent on figuring out best practices for avoiding data structures with cycles in the first place.
A list of helpful front-end related questions
>A generator shed at the tail of each arrow powered the beacon

And who were the poor souls that had to drive up to these generators and fill them with diesel every so often? These things couldn't have been off major roads so I imagine this meant a lot of off-road driving. Considering this spanned the nation, the number of staff involved in just keeping the lights on must have been significant.

The article is probably wrong about this replacing the Pony Express. By the 1920s long distance mail was sent via train. I can't imagine the post office still using horses for long hauls.

Wikipedia has more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_Airway_System

>The beacons flashed identification numbers in Morse code. The sequence was "WUVHRKDBGM" prompting the training phrase "When Undertaking Very Hard Routes Keep Directions By Good Methods." to remember the sequence

I find this part fascinating. More info here:

http://everything2.com/title/WUVHRKDBGM
I thought it was a great article, and I'm smack in the middle of Trump's demographic. The article was pretty much about me, and where I grew up.
Bonn was the capital of Germany for many years.
Some regulations help customers. Some regulations hurt customers by protecting incumbents in an industry.
https://i.reddituploads.com/ is also showing as revoked (chrome54, osx 10.12)
Hey Andrey! :wave:

If you reading this are interested in a discussion about this, read this tweet by Andrey and the following replies: https://twitter.com/andreypopp/status/786524437843615744 :)
On RISC platforms

*(uint32_t*)s

will get you a SIGBUS if s is not aligned to a 4-byte boundary. Though that's another issue, not what OP was referring to.
Yeah, Witness, for example, how the NYT spun the fact that Trump may have been able to use past business losses to offset income for tax purposes as some diabolical tax avoidance scheme not available to ordinary people, even describing it as a government bailout. Letting business owners earn back the money they've lost without adding insult to injury by taxing them on it is not a "bailout" in any normal sense of the word, just how income tax works for businesses, and while losing money does avoid income tax it doesn't exactly benefit the person doing it.
Meh, let them try! At least on ubuntu we can choose between a lot of DE and WM, and we are not obliged to use unity anyway, so nothing is really forced on us (Still wishing to have a win7 ui on w10)
even in the current state Unity 8 is not really that bad to use on desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaf2LTeLHhQ (it's more or less like unity7 on desktop)
I think the president of Colombia is not an unreasonable choice. The selection criterion set out by Nobel in his will for the Peace Prize is "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". He has in fact been doing work in those directions, and it has in fact been good work. It hasn't been completely successful, but it also hasn't entirely failed yet (e.g. FARC is not back to open fighting, now is it?) and I think there is a very good chance that it will in fact succeed. We can start arguing about whether it was "the most" or "the best", but I think it's hard to argue that it wasn't substantive work aimed at the things Nobel's criteria indicate.

The Obama thing I agree was rather ridiculous, as were various other Peace Prize awards.
A video which induces visual hallucinations in healthy people
Programming Line-Rate Routers – GoogleTechTalks
A much better writeup is here: http://sometimes-interesting.com/2013/12/04/concrete-arrows-...
I haven't watched it myself yet.
Headline says control, numbers and article conclusion say influence. My skepticism says when someone attempts to reproduce this, it may just vanish. My cynicism says the post is preparing this as an excuse for trump winning.
>The economy is not a pure zero sum game.

Why do people keep saying this? This is a huge misconception. The economy IS zero sum.

Energy and physical resources are limited. When one person uses a limited resource, than another person will be unable to use that same resource. This is a Zero Sum.

I've heard people say that seemingly "unlimited" products like an idea, a painting or an abstract idea can be created out of thin air and because of this the economy is not zero sum. Well guess what? Have you ever heard of an economy that can exist while thriving only on abstract ideas and pieces of art? No. All economies thrive on energy and physical resources while abstraction only sits on top of these things as a luxury. AKA: A farmer can feed himself with his own crops, but an artist cannot survive without trading his painting with a farmer for food.

Another cop out people use is that although the sun is technically a limited resource (it will burn out one day), it is seemingly unlimited because it outputs more energy then humanity will ever need or comprehend. This argument is flawed too. We are limited by the amount of energy we can extract from the sun. There will always be a limit to the amount of energy we extract from the sun due to fundamental limits in technology and physics.

It gets worse than this, because technically speaking you are correct.. the economy is not zero sum, it's actually a negative sum. When you add up the numbers there will always be a net loss for all economic actors. The second law of thermodynamics dictates that even if an economic agent doesn't extract or use a resource, the resource on it's own will eventually, slowly degrade into an unusable state.
Thanks! I'll check them out.
In remote teams issues with daily accountability are definitely a thing. I've tried a few approaches, full on project management is sometimes a little heavy, especially for non IT workers. I don't like to count bums in seats I just want to know what's going on and whether things are progressing. It seems like you've hit a nice sweet spot here, so definitely think about how you can get this in front of remote teams in particular?
It's possible; a very talented engineering team with horrible management that holds them back is still a very talented engineering team.
News papers pre-emptively write obituaries for famous older people, so they have a bunch of stuff already researched and written for Cohen.
Agile vs. Lean vs. Design Thinking
> Is GNU social a spec?

It follows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus

> You might be interested in general P2P decentralized tools like https://webtorrent.io/ and http://gun.js.org/

Would client-side solutions like these be useful for a django app? GNU Social uses federated servers (like email), so I think it would make more sense for the poster to do federation server-side too.
You're hilarious.
Instagram Followers from only $4.0
Installing Debian on a TI-Nspire graphing calculator
Yep. Hearing that solution to the problem was just beyond reason. Its like they didn't just set some compile flags and constants for the architecture, but decided that their code had to calculate it every time the variable is needed. The line about finding if /dev/null moved was also pretty scary.
I think the easiest way to see this is by an example of a non-differentable architecture.

Let's suppose on the current training input, the network produces some output that is a little wrong. It produced this output by reading a value v at location x of memory.

In other words, output = v = mem[x]

It could be wrong because the value in memory should have been something else. In this case, you can propagate the gradient backwards. Whatever the error was at the output, is also the error at this memory location.

Or it could be wrong because it read from the wrong memory location. Now you're a bit dead in the water. You have some memory address x, and you want to take the derivative of v with respect to x. But x is this sort of thing that jumps discretely (just as an integer memory address does). You can't wiggle x to see what effect it has on v, which means that you don't know which direction x should move in in order to reduce the error.

So (at least in the 2014 paper, ignoring the content-addressed memory), memory accesses don't look like v = mem[x]. They look like v = sum_i(a_i * mem[i]). Any time you read from memory, you're actually reading all the memory, and taking a weighted sum of the memory values. And now you can take derivatives with respect to that weighting.

To me, the question this raises is, what right do we have to call this a Turing machine. This is a very strong departure from Turing machines and digital computers.
I love how so many on the thread have Dylan lyrics to contribute. Seems like empirical evidence for his impact. I listened obsessively to every shred of Dylan I could lay my hands on when I was a teenager.

With apologies to Bob Dylan...

Then she opened up a book of poems

And handed it to me

Written by an American poet

From the twentieth century

And everyone of them words rang true

And glowed like burnin' coal

Pourin' off of every page

Like it was written in my soul

From me to you

Tangled up in blue
If you need to build an iOS and Android app and you don't need to really push the envelope on design then React Native is a godsend. It's not the right solution for everything but for that vast array of apps that are mostly just list/tableviews talking to a REST backend it's a massive timesaver.

I've been doing native iOS work for six years now and I'd still recommend RN over straight native for a lot of projects.
How naked mole rats have evolved to feel no pain
If you're using N separate libraries, that's N times the likelihood of breaking changes that force you to migrate at inconvenient times, and O(N^2) opportunities for bugs caused by incompatibilities.
We Toss $62M of Loose Change Every Year. This Company Wants Some of It
I've explored the intricacies of Canadian songwriting. J Biebs.
What matters is the out of the box experience.
Well, I'm sure you'd concede that read-file-name is part of Emacs's core, and its been buggy for years. (Have not checked to see yet if it is still buggy in version 25.) Specifically, if the current buffer is visiting an image file, pressing down arrow during a read-file-name will often cause read-file-name to try to insert the whole image as a text string into the minibuffer after the prompt, which will make Emacs unresponsive for a few seconds and will sometimes crash Emacs.

Before that there were years during which there was no way to configure Emacs that I was able to find to refrain from asking the user what coding system he wants to use every time a buffer containing a non-ascii character is saved. Not strictly a bug since maybe there are users who do not mind regularly getting into the same dialog with their text editor, but certainly, so many occurrences of the same monotonous dialog is unusual behavior in a user-facing application in this decade and very tedious at least to this particular user.

One reason Emacs is difficult to debug is because of the widespread use of global variables.

That said, I haven't found anything worth leaving Emacs for. (If I were a web dev, maybe I would've left it for vscode by now, but I don't like how text looks in vscode: I prefer the native OS X text rendering used by almost all text editors except the Electron-based ones.)
The list of planes can be found on GitHub[1].

It seems to be heavily focused on governments residing in the MENA region and Central Asia.

Notably missing is Ethiopia[2], but it seems the repo is open to pull-requests.

[1] https://github.com/lefranz/geneva-dictators/blob/master/arag...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/12/ethiop...
There are some advantages to being over provisioned though: it is more resilient to disruption and downturns for one.
I should have stated the original statement more clearly. If the global economy was 100X the size per capita, and demand for food was 100X (implying there's 100X as many people), could we feed everybody? With an economy 10,000X as big, could we grow 100X as much food?

I say we could easily do so. But you need all three 100X's: miss one and it would be probably impossible, as you say.
>and investors would start getting better returns.

One-sided accounting fallacy. For every lender receiving an interest rate, there is someone borrowing at the same rate. Why do you assume that the person lending is more deserving, when it is the risk-takers with need of capital (ie borrowers) who are the inventors and entrepreneurs? This place goes nuts for Elon Musk's projects; well it would be a different world if capital was more expensive for him to access.
> Yeah, people are generally able to solve a problem only when they understand the problem. Direct experience is a valuable form of learning.

I'm sorry, but this is pseudo-reasoning to me. These are logically linked on the surface, yet extremely vague truisms that can only pass for some form of a coherent argument because they're so full of weasel words.

Based on the same principle you could argue that in order to improve car safety, to have a better chance at it, one needs to have had a life-threatening accident. Why not? After all, people generally are able to solve a problem when they understand it... and direct experience is a valuable form of learning... etc.

It really depends on the nature of the problem though, and the nature of this direct experience, and so forth. Painting the situation with such an overly broad brush doesn't lead to any meaningful conclusions.

For starters, first-hand experience is typically caused by symptoms of a problem, the underlying nature of a complex problem isn't readily apparent, or else it wouldn't be complex.

For instance getting sick from air pollution doesn't do anything to help you understand the nature of these pollutants, how they're emitted, what is the economical context and therefore possible countermeasures etc. It just reassures you that the symptoms of such pollution are a bad thing, which isn't that much of a discovery by itself.

Not everything is as simple as an itchy-scratchy situation, and we shouldn't pretend that it is, especially when it leads to racially biased claims.
Seconded :-) as I am just starting PD dialysis
If you offer me a 500 GB SSD I will gladly take it.
Even in science there is a fair amount of subjectivity to the prizes. It was fairly questionable to give a Nobel to Kary Mullis for PCR, for example (the technique is certainly useful, but maybe not that deep scientifically and Mullis is kind of a nutjob who has used his fame to promote pseudoscience), not to mention prizes to work that hasn't held up well -- frontal lobotomies are not considered a great solution to mental illness anymore despite Egas Moniz's 1949 prize for it.
> How does Clojure or ClojureScript do as they are built on top of JVM/CLR or JavaScript?

I don't know, but what you wrote sounds right. I don't really think of them as Lisps, although they have some Lisp-like features.
.... I mean... I don't know , really I don't know... you put close to each other Bob Dylan and Mario Vargas Llosa and you want to cry
Motivational History
I'm always intrigued by this desire for integration. Even if you want to have one device that is mainly a phone but also a PC when you connect it to an external 24" screen and keyboard - why can't it have totally different UX experiences optimized for each state? Is that really so bad?

Windows 8 was a UX disaster - so maybe that's just coloring my judgement. I haven't used Ubuntu on mobile yet so guess I need to try it.
wonder if the name Yakkety Yak
is a reference to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
A lot of our internal architecture is driver based. So the calls and interfaces are generally the same and the enterprise logic for example is determined in the driver, also helps migrating 3rd party vendors because we just write a new driver to handle that system.
>The music industry packaged up singers like Dylan for whichever vertical they needed.

What singers like Dylan? Have you ever listened to him? His voice is... not exactly a common sound.

>the music itself was nothing extraordinarily unique if you look into the long tail of music being made at the time.

No music is entirely unique. But some people do it better than others, add their own twists, and build something unique.

>It's like saying 7-Up is the uncola and you are rejecting the establishment by drinking it instead of Coke.

Frankly, he's no longer anti-esblishment, if he ever was. But that doesn't mean he's a talentless hack, which seems to be what you're claiming.
No, your website does not need a feedback button
No mention of systemd..
iOS instrumentation without jailbreak
Show HN: PHP development environment with Docker
Marcus by Goldman Sachs
The general consensus is people need to be laid off to cut costs. He hasn't done that.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is structurally unconstitutional
Seems kind of like aiming for a convergent experience with a pocketknife and a table saw, but hey, maybe my pessimism is unwarranted. I use Xubuntu anyway. I'm extremely grateful for all the effort people have put into Ubuntu over the years.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/57447/

Shows working sni with nginx and let's encrypt. You've probably done the same config error
We have him on record joking around with someone about actions he didn't take. It's hardly the confession the breathless Twitter hordes want it to be, not to ruin your emotionally resonating state of being
Is anyone using Snaps in production - or even regularly on their development machine?

I'm still on 14.04 and would be interested to know what the most popular uses for Snaps might be.
Off topic, but where do you host your website and what is your tech stack?

Would it be possible to do a blog post about traffic patterns from HN? Eg- Hits vs time since post, hits vs day of post.
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