skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author submitted this on Reddit a couple days ago to /r/javascript, then deleted the submission after a very negative reception. That discussion is at https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5a4irf/redux_is... . Looks like this is a second try in a different venue, I guess.

There's actually a bit of truth to the article title (Dan Abramov himself has said as much many times), but the article itself is rather short and kind of incoherent.
For what it's worth, my 2012 MBA touchpad is glitchy as shit. I don't really consider this a computer I control, so much as I make gesture suggestions and then wait to see what the computer thinks it should do.

That said, if you have a good one, I do agree Apple touchpads are great.
Ask HN: Are you subcribed to any subscription boxes?
Do you pay for any subscription box services? If so which one are you subscribed to?
seems like he just posed some javascript. stupid but he didn't attack anything himself.
Hell, it's the case in the enterprise world too. Why do you think Cisco gets to charge 2-3x (sometimes 5x) what their competitors charge for an outdated, inferior product?
It will be interesting to see how it competes against more traditional solar systems. Right now I can get a 10KW system, with an inverter and installation, all for AUD$9000. If Tesla could be competitive at that price point, both in terms of raw cost and the capacity of the system installed, then I'd be all over it. Otherwise I might just go the regular route as not many people look at my roof.

Heck I barely do!
Stupid Patent of the Month: Changing the Channel
You forgot it's also 4th most expensive place to live in the US.
"I believe the point is media not digging into Wikileaks' papers. You can compare it when Wikileaks showed Bush's faults -- the media was after it right away."

If nothing else, a Trump presidency would mean the return of investigative journalism on the national level.

The "Fourth Estate" has become terribly out of shape in that regard.
Very cool! It seems like it worked for my place:

"0 sq feet available for solar panels
Based on 3D modeling of your roof and nearby trees"
"The web" is all articles? Interesting.

PS You know who decided what Reader Mode should look like? Designers and typographers.
I really want to like this. Maybe what the developer can do is to build a simple app that translates a Chinese character into a series of keys. That will ease some of the frustrations on not being able to figure out how to type using this input method. For example, I am trying to type 瓦 but for the life of me I can't figure out how.

edit: removed "shift doesn't work"...does seem to work.
That'd be a pretty big bummer for anyone who adopted it recently though - I'm not sure if I could justify another $200 just for 4k when there are plenty of <$100 devices that can do it right now.
Spooky Street View Treats
You mean vines?
I haven't read the statute, but I got the impression from the link that the law reads like the laws in the US compelling you to give a breath or blood test when suspected of DUI. If you refuse, you receive punishment whether or not you were actually guilty.
Op asked about a laptop with linux compatibility. I'm assuming that's going to be installed from scratch without any marketing/upselling software from Lenovo.
Ask HN: Developed academic publishing software for journals, Ask for advices
We've developed https://github.com/ojs and deploy it on production with a library (+1.2k academic journals).

We're wondering if you could give us some advice.
Been there, done that.

Somehow Google think dating sites fall under auto repair, gardening, computer hardware or software or a few other categories I am actually interested in.

Or more likely IMO: they don't care.
Those shingles look awful, eg. http://roofpedia.com/solar-roof-shingles/#pictures.

Are there existing solar shingles that look like conventional roofs? Otherwise, maybe that was what made those solar shingles fail to find a market.
Roof replacement is quite a dirty business, in more than one sense of the term, and there are regions where whole roofs are replaced by the majority of insured homeowners every 10 years or less. Any dent that can be made in this problem is a good thing, and this looks to be quite a large dent indeed.
It's improving. The Golf EV and Fiat 500e are basically the same exteriors and interiors with EV drivetrains. The Mercedes 250B EV looks extremely normal. I believe Ford has some normal-looking EV options.

But BMW went all-in on a new platform and new materials, and that led them to the suicide doors. I don't think there's any excuse for the front end, though.
On-Demand Cell Phone Searches Hurt Teenagers on Parole
You're putting the cart before the horse. First get informed, give your ideas a trial run if possible, then vote.

For instance, you can mock vote, and then see whether that politician lives up to your expectations over some period of time.
Google Pacman Homepage
I think the simplest explanation here is that where previously the MacBookPro was a device for professionals with Mass Market appeal, it is now a device for mass market that hasn't quite lost the professional price. When your company has catered so heavily to one demographic over the years it's more than a bit disingenuous to use the same product name to sale vastly under suited machines to those individuals. The new MacbookPros are clearly not going to work in a lot of pro use style environments. It's fair to argue that most people don't plug anything in but power, and that 16gb of memory is already overkill but I'd argue that's what the Air and non pro lineup are for. The pro moniker has meant something for the past 15+ years, and these machines do not honor that. If Apple isn't in the business of making machines for developer and serious creatives that's fine but they need to do a better job communicating that.

Also as a side note the new iPhone not coming with a cable is just bad. Directly connecting the phone to the computer remains the easiest way to transfer content and the only real way to reset the device in certain situations. Just complete failure to not have that included.
Ask HN: Solo bootstrappers, how much time do you spend in your new projects?
i.e

2 weeks to research the market/devise a business model/planning in general

1 month to dev an mvp

2 months to advertise it

- if there's no traction, move onto something else?
Why Mac apps never get “closed”
Well, I know it's not all designers who do bad design. But more so, it's not developers who are doing bad design.
What's the first thing that's drilled into you as a professional developer? Don't optimize prematurely!

Better hardware just moves the goalpost of where 'prematurely' is.

From a business perspective, if it runs fine on modern hardware, why spend money optimizing it?

This sort of means that better hardware should lower the price of software development. You should be able to replace devs competent at optimizing with cheaper mediocre devs, or the competent devs should be able spend less time on the same software.

I get the impression this hasn't happened but I havn't looked at actual statistics.

But also, software now has more features, there was nothing like modern web apps 15 years ago.

(Note: I'm making guesses on why things are as they are, not as I think they should be. I share your frustrations, why is my 1 year old budget smartphone, that's 4 times as powerful as the 1st laptop I owned, so laggy that's it's nearly unusable?!)
Another side note: it always annoys me when people insinuate that Musk using government funds is a bad thing.

The government is literally just US....it's our money and a collection of individuals from among us who we've appointed to handle the general administration of us and the space we take up.

Why should American entrepreneurs, particularly ones doing such an outstanding job of moving technology in a positive direction, not get our financial support (a.k.a. the government's support)?

Who exactly is losing out when we support our own business initiatives with our own money?
Intellectual property strategies for startups
It's already obvious this isn't targeted at your garden variety practical consumer. As the article points out, the demo'd roofing styles are all luxury roofing.
Adding more to your list:

+ One also need VGA or HDMI adapter because when I go for a presentation at some place then it is very probable that their projector is at least four year old.

+ I use Ethernet connected to my router

+ CD/DVD player (Super Drive) has USB A end.
Blind Dev Works
I appreciate the sentiment, but what if striving for "artistry" turns out to just cause a nuisance for the user? I think the problem here is that everyone experiences "art" differently, and what may be an impactful experience for some may just be irritating for others. Is it always better for someone to strive with their heart?
I think the White House can get someone at Twitter to copy anything they need over.
It looks like it's OK for me, now: https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=news.ycombinator....
Well ~$5235, but the CPU starting at $1135 isn't even the problem. Its the $4100 motherboard that should really be closer to $500. But it all seems sorta silly since the tyan openpower machine was selling for ~$2750 or so a couple years ago.

I guess IBM got tired of throwing cash at it? But really, these guys (and ARM too) need economies of scale, and they aren't going to get it by selling a machine for 4x+ more than the equivalent Intel. Both of them need to look at some of the low cost integrated intel motherboard/cpu combos, match one with slots, graphics, networking, usb, sata, etc on spec's and cost, and start from there.

But they don't want to do it, because those machines don't have the fat margins that intel makes on the E5/E7 lines, and they aren't willing to spend a few hundred million buying every hacker/linux developer a desktop machine using their cores. So they will need a ton of runway, and a long term plan to beat intel. Something I see that ARM may have due to their huge advantage selling a few billion devices a quarter. IBM OTHOH, spent the last decade trying to sell overpriced POWER/linux machines and failing, so they don't have another decade left. Plus, they can't even get their strategies straight enough to push one single linux platform (because they are also pushing s390, and their software guys are all busy selling x86/linux software).
Oh goddamnit, that was right in the feels. I'm sorry for your loss and I hope you forgive yourself for it one day. Your intentions were well placed and you couldn't have known.
Sex as an Algorithm
> I'm sure i'm not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity/Tesla: an old-ish idea, made sexy and tasty to consumers, together with technology reaching a tipping point

Except one ingredient is missing: most people cannot afford one, even if they tried really hard.
People are not as dumb as you think.
price is not a problem, but getting worse and having a higher price is bad.
Also I actually used the function key, the SD slot and need at least one USB slot. and there aren't many USB-C docks available so keeping my old Thunderbolt dock would be great, but that is possible by buying another Dongle for 50 Euro http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-us...

So my overall sum would be at least 3000 € to have at least 756 GB storage 16 GB memory enough Dongle's and a dedicated graphics card. For the 2013er version we actually had a bill of 2600 Euro, but we also bought a dock, additional storage and a additional charger.
If Apple would actually provide enough value to satisfy the price increase, i would say that it's fine, but they didn't they even made it pricier and removed stuff that I actually need to pay more for Accessoires.
I'm actually really really happy with my late 2013 15" but I probably need to wait till for the new one till USB-c is more common to satisfy the additional price and I basically never need the touch bar, I don't see any value in it. I mean contextual bases switching is nonsense. I want to stop the music without having iTunes open.
I'm curious - I still haven't seen any details on how these are installed. How are things wired - does the wiring run under the shingles themselves? Also, how does it work with odd sized/shaped roofs - e.g.: something that isn't exactly a multiple of 1/2 a shingle?
so what if there was a encryption method that had two keys, one to decrypt innocuous data and the second to decrypt sensitive data?
>>SC will be able to have a monopoly on these modules and their installation for a long time to come

Is that really Elon Musk wants, monopoly ?
While I totally agree with you, the Apple TV also includes 802.11ac which is capable of negotiating a link speed far greater than 100mbit/100mbit.

Of course, speeds in excess of that are totally not necessary when streaming video, but I could see the case when downloading multi gigabyte files for games, etc. Personally, I have mine connected via wired instead of on my wireless network, just because it's more reliable and it sits right next to a switch already.
So this technology is useless because years of wear and tear will make you need to replace the roof eventually? Isn't that pretty normal for any house?
I agree completely, however there are practical problems to being polyamorous, namely in finding partners. This is a common complaint if you read poly discussion forums: couples decide to open their relationship, and pretty soon the woman is banging men left and right, while the man can't even find a single new partner.

I'm over 40 now, and somewhat recently divorced so I've been on the dating market for a couple of years or so. I explored poly a bit while still married (wife didn't mind, we got divorced for other reasons), but it didn't go farther than a few coffee-dates. Now that I've been single, I've had to drop the poly stuff altogether if I want to get a date at all; there simply are not any poly-accepting women in the major east coast city I live in, in this age range. Perhaps it's a little better on the west coast. I do see couples in open marriages more and more on Tinder and OKC, but it's still puny, plus most poly women I see online are eclectic in the extreme (and thus would not be interested in me, or vice versa).

Poly seems like a pretty good relationship choice if you're under 30, because that crowd is so much more accepting of alternative lifestyles. If you're over 40, I think you might as well just resign yourself to monogamy and cheating/divorce. Probably best to avoid marriage if you can, just hop from relationship to relationship.
“Design has nothing to do with art”: Design legend Milton Glaser
Amazing and elegant. Gets the job done.
You've kind of got the cart before the horse. People already minimize the use of PowerPC, and that's why Debian is dropping it.
Fine, make it a big deal. But give me back my Fn and Esc keys!
Thank you very much! I'll look your code right now!
Votes could be counted as fractions instead of as whole numbers
In the launch presentation they were saying that their pricing is competitive with standard roofing, plus the cost of electricity over the lifetime of the roof. And they're also talking about the increased durability, so that's a lot of electricity bills. the initial installation is definitely not going to be under $25k
To an electric utility, how is it (panels + powerwall) different from just conserving electricity?

From their side, it is just decreased consumption. Sure, it hurts their profits and bottom line but how will they even enforce this BS?
That's the entire point of product lines. One should buy the air or regular macbook if they don't need the beefier hardware of the pro.
Has PGO been applied to V8 as part of Chrome ?
Except, unless you are powering a laser pointed offworld, most of that energy is going to end up in your local environment as heat. Or, you meant just your house's greenhouse problem? Running a heat pump or AC would do that.
Women in China have all the power. Since there is such a shortage of women, only successful men with money even have a chance.
Metal roofs are pretty hardy, but sound like a paint can full of ball-bearings even in light hail or heavy rain.

Asphalt roofs are inexpensive. Given that hail-damaged asphalt roofs keep getting replaced with asphalt roofs, I have to think it's some kind of market/regulation/short-term-profit thing.
Terrifying impacts of burning fossil fuel
Okay, so, what will this link do?

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/786254141182074880

Will it go to a page that says deleted? Is that what "no tweets on the timeline" means? Will each tweet link redirect to the copy?
Well, it counts as votes not being counted accurately. It's only not being counted honestly if it's deliberate.

Also, one county in Texas is not going to hand Clinton the election. Is there any evidence that this is systematic and country-wide? Or is it just one incident in Texas?

Look, all votes should be counted accurately. But it's going to take probably more than a million votes changing to change this election. Anything less than that is still a problem, still needs fixed, but isn't going to change the result.
That's news.ycombinator.com not ycombinator.com. I was talking about the latter.
http://superuser.com/questions/40113/does-installing-larger-...

Increased power consumption with higher RAM may be true.
And the same size as a large or multifamily house in Europe.
Seems like Western Digital could step up and maintain the Debian build tools for powerpc.

...just kidding, they'll just keep shipping progressively more ancient and insecure versions of Debian.
He is not in any sense of the term a "thoughtful person"

The problem is, there's no inherent contradiction between being "delusional" and being "thoughtful". In fact, throughout history many of the very people generally regarded as having unleashed the greatest amounts of havoc in the world got into positions where they were able to do that precisely because they were able to reconcile these seemingly contradictory traits.
This link give a good list of the industry, focus, B2b/B2c. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/08/christopher_wilson_s...

https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/spybl...

etc. Wikipedia has a few more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...

(Note that Wikipedia has some of it a bit wrong. WP suggests that councils started snooping on citizens after RIPA. In fact, councils were always doing this, and RIPA brought it into a regulatory regime and stopped some of the worst excesses.)
I sent in my FL mail ballot a couple weeks ago and this amendment was on there. After first skimming it, I was about to just quickly vote YES, but something wasn't sitting right. It seemed very fishy - it was trying to support solar, but the wording was super weird, like they were trying to trick me. The problems they were saying it would solve just didn't seem realistic. A quick google search revealed who was bankrolling the amendment, which confirmed my suspicions. Fuck this thing.

I wish they had some kind of "follow the money" thing included in the ballot. Like, no matter how many wrongly named shell companies you go through, the actual source of the money should be right there on the ballot so voters know who is truly driving these amendments.

Super tricky though, it won't surprise me at all if this thing passes. This is yet another case where the average human is just not intelligent enough to keep up with the marketing strategies of the most intelligent.
iOS 10.2 Beta Brings New Emoji, Wallpapers, and More
I think that is something worth investigating - because if it is true that 50% of all papers written never get an audience, then I would see that as a pretty major flaw in the way we do science. (As if we don't have enough of those already...) I mean, many people having been saying for years now that the scientific community is much too focused on churning out papers, but this would take things a step further by saying that all those extra papers are essentially useless. And if they are indeed useless, then they represent a phenomenal waste of time and money that needs to be stopped ASAP.

(Personally I doubt those numbers, but I have no hard evidence to back that up.)
I'd imagine they'd just change[1] the username of the current account and create a new one with @POTUS handle.

[1] https://support.twitter.com/articles/14609
For Helping Immigrants, Chobani’s Founder Draws Threats
this twitter thread makes the post somewhat more interesting: https://twitter.com/BruceDawson0xB/status/793177917949739008

Specifically, (one reason) why this wasn't done years ago[1] and bugs found when switched to PGO[2]

[1] https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/...

[2] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/compiler-bugs-f...
What’s the True Scientific Value of Scientific Whaling?
fossil fuel industry people are somehow able to forget that they get subsidies right now every time they comment about clean tech subsidies.
Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle
TMo includes free international data in most plans I think.
http://www.t-mobile.com/optional-services/roaming.html
Nyan Mode creator here. If someone borrows me a new Mac for development and testing, I'll happily make it work on the touch bar :).
"Sorry, Project Sunroof hasn't reached that address yet."

I like the concept, but it has that Beta(tm) feel to it...
That kind of reminds me of Ballmer's "FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS?" moment.
Monopolies make money and you need money to do cool stuff
Finally getting rid of Javascript and its spawn nodejs and npm.
I'm wary of self-driving systems based only on cameras. He should really wait until cheap LiDARs are available in a few years.
Why not a single USB-C to USB-A hub for the mouse, phone and headphones?
You're correct - at least one of the subdomains (hacker news) is on CF and I assumed the main site was on it too.

I don't know how Adobe flagging works - it's possible that detecting an issue on a subdomain would cause them to flag the apex. That being said, the same recycled-IP issue could apply to the Amazon load balancer / CDN.

[Edit] Looks like they do indeed classify by apex. So, news.ycombinator.com redirects to ycombinator.com on the Adobe database, e.g. https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=news.ycombinator....
> Since code size matters, JavaScript will make more sense for high-level languages. You can reuse JavaScript strings, objects, the garbage collector, and so on.

Which can be useful, but it can also be bad if your languages model doesn't map perfectly to JS's (this is an issue already with JS-hosted versions of a number of languages that introduces incompatibilities with non-JS-hosted implementations.)
That you haven't taken advantage of anything new in the last decade doesn't seem like an indictment of technology so much as a declaration that you are happy to ossify. I certainly do new things all the time that came about in the last decade.
> saying that all those extra papers are essentially useless

Having a deliverable is useful. It focuses your efforts, provides clarity of thought, and gives you a target.

It's often that only when explaining something we realize we don't understand the thing.

Even papers nobody but the author reads are useful.