skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No... React is a fundamentally new way of working with the DOM, normalizes many cross browser pain points, and allows one to write their UI declaratively such that total control is retained and state mutations are predictable.

No other major view libraries had successfully done that before React was released. I've used angular and ember as well - their view layers suck.
Why not just open in an incognito window? That always works for me.
Yeah I always wished for people to just give one text box for the number and a dropdown for the country of origin. I never understood the need to represent phone numbers as US only format(s) in the input.
I wonder if it were simpler for Uber to use RethinkDB instead of this complicated scheme they set up.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work for many people.
I have no problem with taxes on them for a different reason: They are a luxury good. Nobody needs them.
>the central thesis seems to be that given the wider array of news sources, our biases towards reinforcing what we already believed are further enabled.

Really? And was that true when there were hundreds of local newspapers with independent journalists on staff?
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Only after we dismantle Pakistan and India nuclear weapons programs.
Org links are great. I admire your email linking setup. I never got email working in Emacs. As a Windows user relying on Gmail, there is significant friction. Thankfully AutoHotKey gives me Emacs keybindings in Gmail and I can actually link to messages if need be with normal http links.
Tempting though it is to cry, "Let it burn!", we should be beyond such things, and earnestly desist from anything that might be construed as wishing harm (even indirectly) upon our honoured colleagues in the greater San Francisco Bay area.
There's also the "web" link between the post, provided by HN. It points to the same URL.
>For every Alex Jones that gets censored, will there be a Chomsky that also gets banned from public discourse?

Alex Jones is now part of the movement powering the Republican Presidential campaign, which stands a 30% chance of winning. Chomsky is still on the margins. Alex Jones is a conspiracy nutjob almost all of the time. Chomsky is sometimes a conspiracy nutjob because he has a shot-in-the-dark at guessing which wars and coups are actually American plots and which ones just happened on their own.
Think tank maps companies reliant on H-1B visas
I remember reading a study done in the UK that said the exact opposite. 70% of people going cold-turkey were able to quit for good. They compared it to the number of people quitting using helping substitutes (like patches, ecigs and whatnot) where the success rate was way lower.
It probably did, but that same pattern of behavior, minus the luck (and people like Wozniak) would just be a story of personal failings. They only seem like the active ingredients to success because we're examining them in hindsight, and want to believe that we can reduce the very complex to the very simple.
As someone in Boston but from California, the lack of commutes comparable to the Bay Area or Silicon Valley always makes me grateful, even if there are other downsides. For example, I split a 2 bedroom apartment in a nice, active neighborhood a few minutes walk from downtown and about a 20 minute walk from work for about $1,200.
So I guess it is going to take years.

Generally, open source software benefits from more users. But having a huge amount of users makes it more difficult to improve and cleanup because you can't just deprecate stuff easily. (like SSL2/3).

Also, having 100% of the internet using openssl makes the impact of a vulnerability in that library huge. Some diversity is probably a good thing.

I appreciate the time and effort that you are putting into it, good luck.
Yeah no. Actually the beach didn't exist before Moses, it was a marshy island. He literally created it in the 20's. Read the history section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Beach_State_Park

Public accessible beaches and parks for hemmed in city dwellers back then in the era of tenements and no air conditioning were not at all common, creating something like Jones Beach was a major public good.

The story of Moses's contributions is generally one of incredible progress and public good in the first era of his career, followed by an increasing descent into arrogance and lust for power that was ultimately highly destructive in many cases.

It's an interesting and nuanced story. Were you to know the first thing about it you'd likely agree.
> This language has bright future.

Yeah, it definitely looks good (to me). Dotty looks really promising to a layman like me especially since it's based on the machine-checked DOT calculus, so should have a better foundation than scalac. Then there are big projects like Spark, Akka, Play etc. But what I like the most about Scala at the moment is the continued effort regarding Scala.js, which seems to be one of the best compile-2-javascript projects. I like ur/web, and what comes the closest to it seems to be scala/scala.js.

I wonder if the collection redesign which is planned for scala 2.13 helps reduce the file size when compiling to js. Hello world is around ~40 kb (minified and gzipped) but goes to 100-150 kb for more involved things.
Without jobs, would it stilll happen?
Can confirm. My best friend is a sales guy at the place I landed my first real (W2) job. Been 5 years and going strong. I am even the "Sr. Engineer" now, working on first principals and loving it!
I'm pretty sure that this library would lose many of its advantages (small footprint, no allocations) when you slap an OpenSSL facade on it.
>And I've yet to see a large scale scenario where it was not possible to implement software which couldn't be both correct and performant

CAP theorem says otherwise. I suggest you try implementing something as simple as distributed counters.
It's super easy to discount people who have these habits but I think we should also look at why these habits develop.

Part of what makes a start-up hard is there aren't any processes in place nor a true north for what the company should do nor how they should do it. Coupled with people who might be new to start-ups and lack the ability to optimize which tasks they work on, I'd bet some of these bad habits develop.

Another time when these bad habits may develop is when people are fighting fires all day. They don't always have the time to reasses how and when to fix what's broken to set up the company for future success.

The rule of thumb I try to think about is "what activities have high leverage" and "will talking about or doing this change what we do or how we do it?". These two checks often help me figure out if the activity is worth doing or if it's "bullshit".
The article mentions that we already buy rockets from China/Russia. It's hard to imagine India as a bigger security threat than either of those countries.
I absolutely agree with this. And as reformed vi user and current emacs acolyte, everyone should use emacs for everything always.

But... I really wish someone would spend some time building some first class alternative implementations of org-mode. I say this not because I want to escape emacs (I'll never go!), but because I wish org-mode would replace Markdown. It's a better format. People outside the emacs world just think I'm weird for using it. If Vim/Atom/Sublime/Eclipse/Netbeans/Etc all supported org as a format, then I wouldn't have to use anything else.
Literally everyone I know in the bay area who doesn't already own a house is considering leaving.

As extreme as the shortage of housing is the shortage of childcare. 150 person waitlists for 50 kid day-cares are common.
Why should he occupy land he didn't work for whilst others with better jobs miss out?
While the literalistic nature of your reply is correct, the parent delivers a valid observation. Although it's true that a journalist may edit content to direct the reader towards a conclusion, the subject of the article certainly appears to have delivered a biased message on her own.

The tagline of the article isn't accurate:
> Vote.org wants to use your cell phone to radically increase voter turnout. Meet the woman behind the movement.

Four paragraphs in, the slant becomes clear and never abates:
> A cluster of votes could be the difference between Trump accepting a concession and a several-year blowout over the presidency.

I had hoped that at some point the article or this YC-sponsored founder would even tip their hat towards the appearance of equal representation, or nonpartisan ideals, but the closest they came was more of and admission of blatant bias:
> Long Distance Voter, like Vote.org, was technically nonpartisan. But many would argue that get-out-the-vote organizations inherently lean democratic, because the citizens most underrepresented in the voting process tend to be liberal.

So long as partisan efforts continue to pass themselves off as unbiased, the problems will continue to mount. If anyone out there really wants to make a difference in the electoral process of the United States of America, you must do so by truly serving the people, not your own interests.

F/d: Of course I have my own bias, but I'm a rampant supporter of neither party's candidate. I still haven't decided how to cast my vote, but I will be voting. You should too.
Laptops are a declining race to zero. Apple knows this. In five to ten years, they'll seem downright quaint.

Edit: For the record, my mid-2014 MBP is nowhere near EOL. I'd rather spend ¥400,000 on AAPL shares.
Stroom helps large organisations understand their systems
Do you mean the current UK government did not put anti-EU negotiators in charge of handling this issue?
yes, neat, and yes SQL is code. Problem is that there is not SQL linter I know of.
I think that's what I'm getting at, it does in this scenario. A crude but working MVP could be knocked out in a month or two using any of a number of frameworks. Instead, a year or two later, the app is still half-built and most of the client base is coming from the manual work done by assistants, who prop up the illusion that the tech part of the company is on track.
Adding a Hero Video to Your Homepage
At least we don't differentiate our hatred by race.
Indeed. What e-cigarettes have done for me, and a few friends who have quit smoking, is help alleviate (my friends, who then later completely quit all e-ciggs), or replace (myself) the habitual addiction of cigarettes. Namely, the act of puffing, exhaling, and the sociability of going outside, etc.

That's a big part of the cigarettes many persons (anecdota) have trouble with quitting outside of the addictive properties: the learned habits.
I see your points.

Flying someone in twice probably only makes sense for higher-level positions, though you could always schedule two days of interviews on the same trip. Having already paid for the flight and expenses, you could make an argument for it that most flown-in candidates would I think accept.

(For local candidates, AFAICT the "doctor's appointment" or similar excuse seems pretty easy to manage.)

As to the exhausting Google-style interviews, I guess they're designed as a one-pass filter. Which seems unfortunate -- many people are more compelling on the second pass -- but apparently works pretty well for giant ad brokerages that also happen to do lots of computer-science-y stuff.
And on github https://github.com/gchq/stroom
Ouch. I'm not sure I've ever seen a critical thread about orgmode, so this adds interesting perspective.
Sure but lots of other people had that luck too. I mean, they all went to computer club meetings and spoke openly about what they were working on. How many other people at those club meetings founded transformational computer companies that survive today, let alone as one of the most valuable companies in the world?

Even within Apple there are stories of guys like Mike Scott, who was the 2nd CEO and took Apple public. He was there at the beginning, got super rich, but what was his long-term impact [1]? Have you ever even heard of him, outside of a Steve Jobs bio?

[1] He has arguably had a longer-term impact on the mineralogy of gems than in computing.
Leading with commas makes it easier to refactor if you're prototyping a query. You're less likely to cause an error when removing a column from:

SELECT
first
, second
, third
...

than from

SELECT
first,
second,
third
...

Which becomes:

SELECT
first,
second,
...
I'll admit, they're a local company that I have a fair bit of respect for, so I'm a bit protective about people attacking them. That said, BearSSL is just too close to be coincidence.

The author could have easily continued with their trend of using alternative languages and ended up with something just as unique. UrsidSSL, BhaalooSSL, XiongSSL; all could have continued the trend without coming across as a sly attack.

It's not as if wolfSSL is a new kid on the block in the world of embedded SSL.
IIUC, cigarettes have been chemically modified to increase the rate of the nicotine hit, to get nicotine through the bloodstream to where it does its nicotiney job. That's one of the reasons cigarettes are more addictive: the sudden hit followed by a quick drop off.
Fourier Transform as Feature Extraction for Malware Classification [pdf]
Better? http://i.imgur.com/3FHVKNC.png still the same in my opinion.
Unix Philosophy makes thing overly complex and Unix doesn't follow Unix Philosophy. All these little programs have over lapping features.

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/06/30/where-the-unix-phil...

man page for ls and see if they built a ton onto the little program and not just write new programs.
Shakespeare is so popuar because he's the most popular playwright of the current lingua franca of the world. That's all there is to it.

And I say that as someone who absolutely adores Shakespeare and who's from the country that had the first ever Shakespeare society (hint: it's not an anglophone one).
And the one person I know who had tried various ways to quit over the years got a vape set, tapered down gradually to no cigarettes over about 6 weeks (I think on day 1 she only had half a pack instead of her usual ≥ 1 pack habit), and hasn't had an actual cigarette in over 2 years. Different people seem to respond better to different approaches.
As some wag put it, NeXT bought Apple for $-400 million dollars.

(Assuming that's the figure, I don't remember myself.)
Wouldn't the gum be easier and more discreet ?
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The Austin Healthcare Innovation Zone: Where Tech and Healthcare Merge
Couldn't this be said about most founders of most failed startups?

In revisionist history, if the founder was persistent and the product achieved a product-market fit, it was a vision. If the founder was persistent, and the product did not achieve product-market fit, it was a delusion and toxic work environment.
That hurts, because you lied about being interested in learning, giving me a little expectation about you – and you also don't admit the truth because of your pride. I need to find only a small handful of people from your life in order for everyone else to realize your true color.

Obviously, you're used to hearing similar words to what I said from those who don't know a thing. However, in order for you, yourself, to avoid become a hypocrite, you need to not make the mistake you accuse me of doing. So, perhaps you could present proof that what I shared is unsubstantiated. It's to your detriment to treat it badly without confirmation.
We'll have those people either way. Just ignore them
You have a 2 bedroom in downtown Boston for $1200? Or do you mean $1200 each?
The built-in Emacs tutorial is fine for learning basic navigation. But to configure your emacs, buy the ebook "Mastering Emacs." I bought it and deepened my knowledge, but I've also given it to newish users of Emacs as a one-stop shop for getting the good stuff going.
Just out of curiosity: How's the public transport situation in the same area? (I mean, Public Transport + car pooling would help reduce this issue no?)
On the other hand, it's a big thick cloud of vapor coming from someone's mouth.
Interesting that there is a claim of ~5% mega commuters in bay area. The 2012 census bureau study (using 2006-2010 data) had that number at about 2% [1].

On that note, you'll see that traffic/commute is worse than L.A. in many cities. I think L.A. just gets the publicity but there are a lot of people around the country suffering in silence.

[1] https://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/files/2012/Paper-Poste...
well. actually looks better from the start:

There is not a single malloc() call in all the library. In fact, the whole of BearSSL requires only memcpy(), memmove(), memcmp() and strlen() from the underlying C library. This makes it utterly portable even in the most special, OS-less situations. (On “big” systems, BearSSL will automatically use a couple more system calls to access the OS-provided clock and random number generator.)

On big desktop and server OS, this feature still offers an interesting characteristic: immunity to memory leaks and memory-based DoS attacks. Outsiders cannot make BearSSL allocate megabytes of RAM since BearSSL does not actually know how to allocate RAM at all.
The Rise of Female Mafia Bosses
The more I look at the latest frameworks, the happier I got with just JQuery + bootstrap.
It really does seem inseparable from emacs. I've not seen another system come close to matching the power of orgmode in any other editor, and I'm beginning to think it won't happen.
This article should have a (2013) tag at the end of it. But yeah, the Hoover Institute predicted this fight pretty damn well.
When I visited the Seattle area, locals were complaining about all the Bay Area people moving up there and driving the rent up. I wonder how big a problem that might become for places that are appealing to Bay Area residents like Seattle, Austin, Denver, etc.
> Since 2005, U.S. satellite manufacturers have been prohibited from hiring India's space agency to launch their equipment. So interestingly why not India then?

> Indian Space Research Organization has consistently punched above its modest weight class, racking up a series of cheap and practical achievements.

Aren't we using Russian RD-180 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180 engines which also seemed to punch above their weight class. Allegedly it was hard it believe it was possible to run engine at that efficiency level.
Abstract — Research efforts to develop malicious application
detection algorithms have been a priority ever since the
discovery of the first “viruses”. Fourier transform is used to
extract features from binary files. These features are then
reduced by random projection algorithm to create a set of
low-dimensional features that are used to classify whether
the application is malicious or not. A 99.6% accuracy
was reached by Random Forest classifier, while processing
various worms, trojan horses, viruses, and backdoors
Let's all work from home 1 or 2 days a week. But I suspect things still aren't bad enough to consider any changes.
Curly Bracket: A Comic to Teach Children to Think Like Coders
Unfortunately, this misconception or perhaps misguided idea of the value you get when paying for work is still surprisingly common today.

Yes, for lack of a more accurate measure work is generally measured in "hours spent". However, as an employer or as a client, what you actually want is not someone's wasted hours but the business value created during those hours.

Insisting on someone filling an office chair just because you paid him to do so seems petty. It's almost this liege lord kind of thinking comically displayed in Dilbert where the people you pay to play "butts in seats" are your part-time serfs to do with as you please.
the commute is very relaxing if you're on a corporate bus
I hope they and their companies do leave. Many places in the US would kill for the problems SV has.
Upscale manga, drawings and logos
Could they have done this without making the underlying full pages/site inaccessible?
I am always against listening to background music. It does not matter if it is during driving, workout, study, sleep, work, bathing or whatever. The music I listen to is the one which I highly respect and it is not in my habit to just play it in background. I consider this to be a disrespect of my favorite artist. Also, I don't like listening to a music if I don't respect and know about the musician and it is a noise to me. I find that more I respect the artist more empowering that music becomes to me. I love Cello and sometimes while between my study session I like to listen to any piece of music by Mstislav Rostropovich.

I know most of the people will differ with my opinion and habit but I just cannot do what is usual.

There is something called binaural beats which has lot of benefits and used for therapeutic cases. I don't know if this should be counted as music. But you can try it. You can look into its physics in Wiki page. It's simple. But I really don't know how does its psychological part works. It's mystery to lot of people.

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

Hope my answer helps.
I was surprised to find out about a 58 year old programmer that just got a job at Google. When I asked them where they were living they said they found a 55 plus community. I am wondering if that actually was one of the reasons they were hired.
Do you think with the first time he pushed out of Apple (1985) and then his failures at NeXT, he found some kind of formula he employed to suddenly be able to hit the bulls eye more consistently?

It would seem Apple had several low level failures (Lisa, iMac mouse, G4 cube), but his big bets (iTunes, iPad, iPhone) always seemed to pay off.
The page claims:
"[...] insecure protocol versions and choices of algorithms are not supported, by design",

followed by:

"TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 are supported", "3DES/CBC encryption algorithms are supported", and "SHA-1 [is supported]"

Sad-face.
Given various clues such as:
-"OS-less"
-small memory footprint
-going out of their way to include discussion of legal jurisdictions
-the author and past activities
-performance seems not a major concern

Makes me suspect that a major goal is anonymity. It's less aimed at users installing on their non-anonymous Windows/Mac/phone but rather leverage generic/commodity hardware to communicate over SSL. Throwaway burner phones.
Home office desk of an iOS and macOS developer
I like this idea. And then if the browser can tie back to the OS, specifically Windows with its update restarts but really any of them where browser open + reboot/shutdown, it's an enhancement for site developers without actually needing to do anything.
We actually don't know that they're safer to puff. We simply don't have any evidence that indicates that they're as or more dangerous.

Every variety of plastic or food additive that ended up being proved harmful was thought safe for years. People are right to be skeptical of them for the next thirty years or so.
I also omit the flavors to minimize the risks. I also vape only on very low settings and with increased nicotine.

I see people using devices beyond 150W and super hot coils to 'make dem sick clouds'. They have essentially created some nice portable catalytic converters. You can even buy coils made from different alloys like Ni-Ti and some devices measure the coil resistance to control the temperature.
What is Modelica and why bother?
Better public transport would solve a lot of those problems. For such a dense area the current offering is a joke.

I live in San Mateo and work in the south bay. By car it takes me 35-40min (with no traffic) but with public transport it would be over 2h. After six there isn't even any option available to go back home. No surprise that so many people choose a car to commute.
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For anyone who hasn't followed this, "popcorn lung"[1] is named that because it was found in workers at factories making (microwave?) popcorn products. In other words, they were dealing with diacetyl in industrial quantities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchiolitis_obliterans