skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a lot of Cold Fusion back when it was owned by Allaire, and drifted away when it became what I felt was a DSL for bad Java. Even had a component I sold (for RSS parsing into CF Objects).

It was the language of my first big assignment after striking out on my own years ago, and I'll always have fond memories of JJ and Jeremy and of CFML. Homesite / Cold Fusion Studio were the best HTML authoring tools in their time, too.

I'm glad to hear that he's still creating in this industry! I have been hearing so many things about R and keep meaning to look further into it.
Nothing that HTTP/1.1 and websockets can't do, really.
Yes, it was like a more polished and concise PHP. Plus with a cooler name. :) Comparison for the curious below although it's been too long for me to tell how accurate it is other than the ColdFusion was pretty concise for database stuff:

http://paulalkema.com/post.cfm/php-vs-coldfusion

It could be considered in a way like a 4GL for apps that combined web and database. So, really good at what it's specifically designed for then starting to become painful when use case isn't true for that.
My possible #1:

I am afraid that I will will be interrupted before I get anything done.

If this is the case: don't work from home unless you live alone or with understanding people, put headset on, turn phone off (or only sound for trusted allies) etc.

Make trusted allies, but be careful: I recommend framing it as a matter of being more effective and reaching flow state quicker instead of framing it as impediment.

Edit:

As others have mentioned: pomodoro. I'd also like to mention the autofocus system by Mark Forster.
It was just an example; besides, sometimes "think of the children" is the correct stance. If that is your only counter to my point, then I feel safe in my position. :-)
Even more, the EU is taking the American approach to taxing there ("if you're American you're paying, regardless where you're living"):

Banks with headquarters in the EU have to pay the tax, even if the transactions are done in Somalia. Every transaction in European stocks is taxed, even if done in Afghanistan.
There is actually logic behind why Dine is based on going out to eat or drink. The problem with dating apps is the fact that people on apps like tinder are swiping on loads of people...when a match actually happens, what was the point of the match? Did you want to meet that person IRL from the time you swiped? Or did you want to see who you could potentially match with and then make a decision from there.

Not only do we personally feel like going out for food and drinks is the ultimate ice breaker, but because of this concept, before people send out a Dine request, they are aware that this is a commitment for actually meeting for a first date. As a result, we effectively are able to increase that match to actual date ratio so something of 50% of matches will lead to dates on Dine. Tinder is less than 10% which is terrible. Just my two cents.
When you live in a foreign country many things will be different/new, and so you have the perfect excuse to talk to strangers.

"Does this tram go to the (railway) station?", "Do you sell edam?", "How much is this?", "How do I buy a bus-pass?", etc.

I've recently moved from Scotland to Finland, and finding reasons to speak to strangers has not been difficult. Too often they reply in English, but every now and again I pass and have a conversation, albeit brief, entirely in Finnish - it's a little victory.
thanks man I appreciate it.
> Yet Chipotle has had no choice but to grapple with the reality that its prestige status has evaporated.

That's the key. It lost at its supposed top mission to - provide wholesome food with healthy ingredients, not like those other cheap / dirty fast food places.

Yes Tesla had an issue, Dole did. Tesla is new, its mission is to make really cool cars. Dole's is selling food, but its mission is to provide bulks processed foods, which a large majority of people wouldn't honestly claim is healthy or wholesome.

I can't explain but, yes, I lost the desire to eat there. I know rationally it doesn't make sense. But we have walked too many times past a Chipotle we used to go to and said "meh maybe next time". Next time never comes somehow.
Absolutely, I can check all of those boxes. The worst one is #4 for me, because when I work on task A I realize that I am not working on task B, C, or D. Of course it is somehow less bad to work on nothing rather than favor one task over the other :-). That said, there are many techiques for pulling through these issues. For #4 I set a timer and plan to work on task A for only 1 hour or what ever, and give myself permission to work on something else in hour 2 etc. But at the same time if I feel bad I'm not working on other tasks I know that I'll have used up my time for this task soon enough.

Self inflicted mind games to be sure but they can be helpful.
It's not as simple as that, individuals have very different sensibilities regarding simulator sickness and lack of inertia is just one (presumed) cause of it. There are studies that suggest "virtual cockpits" or even a "virtual nose" can help here.

However, it's clear that right now everybody is trying to "play it safe" regarding movement in VR and this is quite limiting to the possible experiences. Marketing towards the segment of that population that doesn't get simulator sickness is unthinkable.
Ask HN: When to not use deep learning?
Given the "unreasonable effectiveness" of recurrent neural networks, and the increasing ease of their application to a given learning problem, I'm often left with the following uneasy feeling when reading through academic papers covering more specialized approaches: "Hmm, this was written in 200X... am I wasting my time reading this because deep learning could blow this technique out of the water?"

I want to develop my "smell" for judging whether reading through a paper for a non-RNN model is a good use of my time. Does anyone have any heuristics, red flags, smells, entire domains, etc., that they use to put things immediately in the category of "nah, this is smoked by deep learning techniques"?
sorry about that buddy. First time on here. I will make sure to give direct links next time or at least put a plus sign tag so you know where it takes you. Thanks for looking out.
Sam Altman says he’s not going to cut ties with Peter Thiel
I will post something fresh soon.

Stay tuned.
SHOW HN? What does this mean?
Well the hedge fund manager can invest in whatever stocks he wants already, so I don't see the point of this scheme.
I think that there is overoptimism in VR right now where the technology is going to progress slower than people think, there will be more difficult roadblocks than people think, and the best practices around VR software will take a while to develop. It will happen, it's just not going to be easy.

This article strikes me as saying something akin to "Cellular phones are a stupid idea and will never take off. They're heavy, the size of a brick, and you can only use them in the few areas where there are towers nearby." Well yeah, if we were perpetually stuck in 1985 sure, but fortunately we're not.

I'd argue that the current generation of VR (Rift/Vive/Gear/PS4/etc) is already multiple orders of magnitude more successful than past attempts, and, to continue the cell phone analogy, we're essentially in 1985 right now.
This article by Ed Yong in The Atlantic contains the following paragraph about this [1]: It’s possible that the spiders got the latrotoxin gene from the virus, or that the two evolved their copies independently. But by comparing the various versions of latrotoxin, the Bordensteins think that it’s most likely that the virus got the gene from spiders. It certainly had the right opportunity, since Wolbachia, its host microbe, does indeed infect black widows. The phage could have picked up spider DNA directly from the creature’s own cells. Or Wolbachia could have picked up spider DNA and then transferred it to the phage. Or other as-yet-unidentified viruses and bacteria could have acted as intermediaries.

- [1] http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/the-virus...
If I understand your comment correctly, this is checked in more recent versions of React: https://facebook.github.io/react/warnings/unknown-prop.html
There are plenty of Americans roaming the planet just like the Germans, Australians, the Brits and the Japanese. I have met them in South East Asia, South America, India and Africa. There's no shortage of them. They were all taking sabbaticals or time off or whatever you want to call it. All of the places I just mentioned are relatively cheap to travel compared to Europe or the US.
I can't recommend this enough. You'd be surprised how incredibly often you can spot vulnerabilities in real life code just because you wrote an exploit in this challenge.

I blogged about my run through the early sets a while back:

https://lolware.net/2014/09/15/cryptochallenge.html

Set eight however, is much more brutal (while still being fun). I've completed the first three and had to take a break. Looking forward to getting back at it.
Robert Weinberg's The Biology of Cancer has a great chapter on the early history of cancer research and its connection with virology and a chance occurrence leading to discovery.

There was a chicken breeder who noticed that some of his birds were getting tumors and he brought them to Rous, who exposed healthy bird cells to an extract of the tumor. He was able to figure out that in this case cancer was being transmitted by a virus. Later analysis showed that the virus itself doesn't cause cancer, but that this particular strain was "lucky" and picked up an oncogene (basically took a normal tyrosine kinase gene that is involved in the cell cycle from a chicken and incorporated it into the virus, making cell replication more rapid).

This happens all the time with retroviruses in the wild. I find it interesting because the key to the virus' ability to cause tumors actually lies in using the normal cells' own machinery. Sort of like uncovering an ancient archeological site and decoding a text only to see it is about your civilization!
The Tài Xuán Jīng symbols are, however. A subset can be used like:

𝌆𝌇𝌉𝌊𝌏𝌐𝌒𝌓𝌡𝌢𝌤𝌥𝌪𝌫𝌭𝌮

So Unicode has Bagua (3 bits), Tài Xuán Jīng (4 trits), and I Ching (6 bits, but incomplete).
Sure but then you have a websockets interface , is there something similar for http2 that breaks the resource requests-resource response model?
Designer Bugs
Don't room scale VR systems, like the Vive, avoid this problem? They (usually) avoid having any artificial movement at all, mapping you walking around in your room 1:1 to walking in the virtual environment.
I'm dying to finish these, but I had a ton of fun doing the first few sets. 1.6 was a total eye opener for me, not knowing any real crypto before, I naively thought if I used a long key, repeating key XOR would be a reasonable amount of protection against at least your boss or a few of your smart friends or whatever. Finding out that I could crack it in milliseconds with vanilla Python and that the key length barely matters, that was... educational.
That is essentially the function of p-values.
True. I did a year of sys administration, and when I got back I realized I had missed that year's JS frameworks du jure. Panicked, I began learning everything I could about Bower, Grunt, Angular JS 1, and Mongo.

I lucked out, though, because the team decided these technologies were woefully outdated, and we were to migrate to Gulp, React, and Postgres.

Unfortunately, end of this year, and these have been eclipsed by Angular 2, JSPM, etc.
Reading other comments, it appears that I haven't made my point clearly enough, and most responses aren't quite to what I had in mind. So let me clarify.

I was specifically addressing the assertion that corporations should get a free pass on any indirect political effects of their business decisions, because they're apolitical by definition. IBM was a counterexample to that - their decision to sell their goods and services to Germany was very much a business decision, but it was also unavoidably political (as would be any other decision - if they refused the sale, it would have also been political).

Hence, corporations are not politically neutral agents. From there follows that they are responsible for the political consequences of their actions. The degree of indirection involved reduces said responsibility, and can remove it entirely if it's remote enough; the important point is that this is a matter of degree, and not an absolute.

So we can agree to disagree where the appropriate line for such responsibility lies, so long as we agree that there is a line. But when you argue about where to draw said line, "corporation is a politically neutral agent" (or, to rephrase it in more familiar terms, "nothing personal, just business") is not an argument in support of any particular placement. It has to be decided on other grounds - for most people, I'd imagine it would be their subjective utilitarian assessment of how damaging the resulting politics are, or can potentially be.
Nodio. Your digital guardian
Nodio - a blockchain-powered router that serves as a platform for decentralized applications. Its purpose is to transform obscure technologies into simple solutions for everyday use. Nodio is much more than a regular router. It's using blockchain for running DApps (Decentralized Applications) and guarantees the highest level of privacy for every solution based on a device. With Nodio a peer-to-peer Internet with messengers, social media, and browsers immune to external threats and hacks, free from censorship and fear of being exposed can become a reality.
It's not so much that Thiel is deluded.

What I think leaves many of us aghast is the entitlement and lack of empathy it takes for wealthy white men to not see what Trump and his supporters will and are doing to many of our friends and family. At this point they are willfully blind, but because it doesn't affect them personally, that makes it ok.

When Trump and/or his surrogates angrily scream that the election is being stolen (by black people), that black people voting is illegitimate, that it's ok to jail your political opponents, that the current president is illegitimate because he's black, or he didn't rape her because she's not hot enough, it makes it fundamentally not ok to support him. Romney or Bush really didn't make similar claims.

People who support Trump with speeches and money should be shunned.
Sothink Media Toolkit
Ask HN: Matlab OR Mathematica?
I am looking to get started and learn a numerical computing environment. Any suggestions which one to start with?
Yikes. 20/20 hindsight of course, but that definitely looked like an accident waiting to happen.
The first camera based optical mouse was the Microsoft Intellimouse. They released various types all with the same sensor. These were superb mice for the time, and still good by modern standards. Unlike a lot of competitors (even today) the sensor had pure linear response, no smoothing, no angle snapping, no forced acceleration. It was ideal for gaming. It couldn't cope with very fast movement but it was possible to poll the USB port at a higher frequency which increased the maximum speed before error. 500Hz polling was popular (supported in Linux with the usbhid module's mousepoll option, available with hacked drivers in Windows). The sensor resolution was a somewhat low 400DPI but with the display resolutions people played at back then it wasn't a major issue.

Any problems with erratic movement were caused by excessively shiny surfaces. Preferring ball mice was pure superstition. All the competitive players switched once they realized how much better the optical mice were. I still use an Intellimouse today (with replaced microswitches after the originals wore out).
>but the truth is that VR has been tried and failed repeatedly over the last two decades.

Maybe it's not VR as most think of it, but the problem has existed for even longer when considering 3D movies in the 1950s.

Since then the same cycle of new technology, hype, sizzle, and obsolescence seems to play out whenever there is a new invention. VR is not like other technologies once written off that became ubiquitous, instead it replays itself with each generation before they discover that it's terrible and not enjoyable.

This article is one of the best explanations out there why it will never succeed with permanence.
This seems like it's more true of software than most other human endeavors; anyone can come along and "git clone" someone else's best work and start right where they left off without having to re-trace their steps from the beginning. Or, if understanding what they did enough to improve on it is too hard, one can just re-use their work as is and innovate in a completely different direction.

One way this breaks down, though, is that a certain way of doing something becomes "standard". It's really hard for everyone collectively to move forward when we're all using abstractions that are decades old because that's how new software inter-operates with all the old stuff.
The actual logic is a bit more benign.

Once upon a time, the digit for 0 was a dot, the digit for 1 was (close to) ι, the digit for 2 was (close to) μ, the digit for 3 was close to w with a leading descender like μ has. The digit for 4 might have been closer to a + sign that eventually morphed to look more like a backwards 2. It was the number of vertical lines which encoded 1, 2, or 3; with 4 and 5 and 6 there was more need to come up with more-abstract symbols.

In Arabic these first 4 digits have actually survived relatively unmolested, ٠‎ - ١‎ - ٢‎ - ٣‎, while the backwards 2 for 4 started hooking down to become a ٤ and some other stuff happened with the next 5 digits.

In English the digits for 2, 3, and 4 all rotated about 90 degrees counterclockwise while the tail disappeared for the 3 and the 4 didn't close up on the top until relatively late.
Love your site.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12720673
This article is super long. One reason I won't read it all is explained well in the first 2% of the article:

"When a listeria outbreak caused by Dole’s packaged salads was linked to four deaths last year, the public outcry was not nearly as intense or sustained (despite an ongoing federal investigation). When Tesla reported its first driver fatality while using its Autopilot feature last June, it didn’t affect the company’s stock price at all. Why were these deaths only blips for Dole’s and Tesla’s reputations? By contrast, Chipotle spent a year in hell even though no one died—and more than 265,000 Americans get sick annually from illnesses linked to E. coli."

...it just doesn't seem like real news to me because it isn't.

What are the cliff notes?
Evolution has some very interesting ways to increase chances of survival. Still most of the species that ever lived are extinct today. Those alive have beaten great odds.

Viruses are the enigma of evolution. Are they just chemicals, or living?
thyrsus didn't say they didn't vote; they said they didn't vote for their senator. Presumably the address is in a rural area (if Senator is a Democrat) / urban area (if Senator is a Republican).
> Seems like it has no regard for privacy by the sound of it.

IPFS is an infrastructure building block. You are judging it by throwing out "privacy" like all things need to implement privacy without regards to the fact it's the application layer that should be responsible for the "security" of the "private" communication.

I could seed an encrypted file on IPFS and then put a bounty out on it for people to cache it aggressively. I'll increase bounty if you've cached for me before and I'll increase bounty for anyone caching it around a particular timeframe. Any agent looking for my contact who is downloading that file doesn't know if they know the file is for my contact or not.
I think it's not about affording traveling itself but to be able to afford everything that comes with it, like consequences, plugging in back upon return, picking up career etc.
A troll is a douche no matter if he's piggybacking on a banned user or has the stones to put his post above board. Which you don't.
wait, do you mean 1000 lumens?
I've learned mostly the opposite. Those that become indispensable rarely get promoted because moving them would create a huge gap in a necessary role. At best, these engineers are rewarded with 'pseudo promotions' like team lead or lead of two projects - with no pay increase or perks, just more people to manage, PowerPoints to create, weekly status meetings to attend, etc.

Playing politics, dressing better, getting in shape (opposite of the typical hoody-ed neck beard) and befriending those above you, while learning a little bit of lots of business facets, is the path to real promotions.
I recall reading somewhere that Chrome apps would be discontinued on Windows and Linux. If so, would stuff like this also go away? Or does this count as an extension?

PS: news link http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/chrome-apps-to-be-disconti...
Fair enough. I use Self Control and it works well for me. What features in Focus are the difference makers for you?
Show HN: Morphine – Regulated distraction for Chrome
I admire this community banding together to kick out the (rather corrupt, if I understand Mexico) police, politicians and gangsters. It would be nice if most Americans would self govern at the same level, be we seem to have too many differences to be able to pull that off outside of the stray small town.
> Now, though, they've begun to attract a noticeable level of crud in the corners and other hard-to-clean areas like the perforated wooden wall boards.

Heh, I was wondering about it once waiting in line there. All those unpainted pipes, wood panels and corrugated galvanized steel must be fun to keep clean.

I guess that's the downside of wanting to look the opposite of McDonalds and White Castles with tiles everywhere. There is usually a reason why those places look like they do -- they easier to keep clean. Believe it or not White Castle despite its popular reputation for slimy burgers is one of the cleanest food chains (knew someone working for the insurance company which provides insurance for it).
When reading stories like these, I sometimes wonder how happy these modified-subsistence-living folk are.

They will likely never see most places beyond their small farming-community town, probably won't do air/train/ship travel and they probably will never see even $X00,000 in net-worth.

But sometimes it seems that they are probably happier than the rest of us. Sitting in our cubicles, working 80 hours per week for 40-hour/week jobs, just to earn that little more money or get a slightly better job-title.

While they enjoy the land, the openness and live directly next to nature, the rest of us just "consume".

We eat, cohabit and slog away the valuable asset of time, just to repeat this cycle. We site behind keyboards, spending "10,000" hours mastering things that don't matter as much as the food we need from these kinds of people (who seem like farmers). We create pointless profiles and indulge in the gamification of these centralized ad-monsters, who steal our time through artificial "likes", "retweets", "upvotes", "stars", etc.

Granted, these people are homogenous and can make a system like this work. I just hope that the poison of alcoholism doesn't ruin them and what they're attempting to do in a country that is somewhat ravaged by drugs/cartels (or pointed out to be by the centralized mass-media cartel).
I've met some real hellions that I couldn't quite attribute to the seemingly-good parents. Your statement is probably true 90+% of the time, though.