skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Craig, I really enjoyed the podcast, I am actually working my way through all of the old episodes during my commute.

I would really like to hear from founders that are still running the business and are still profitable.

Something like how posts on indiehackers.com but with more detail would be interesting.
Makes sense for Swift. What about ReactNative apps?
Slightly off topic, but ProPublica does really great investigative work. They recently took over many of the technical functions that The Sunlight Foundation was going to shut down. They do important work on civil rights, criminal justice reform, asset seizure, public corruption, corporate corruption, etc.

If you have some spare cash, setting up a recurring monthly donation in any amount really helps them operate and plan for the future. I've added a subscription to the WaPo and recurring donations to ProPublica, ACLU, and The Marshall Project. This work is too important to neglect.
Not OP, but I typically show people the Blu, Tilt Brush, Space Pirate Trainer, Audio Shield, and if they are up for horror, the Brookfield Experiment. I think Accounting and Gnomes and Goblins are also great little short experiences.
I'm a bit confused. I didn't read anything that was blatantly racist against him in the article.

His original boss hired for his position looking for someone that wouldn't challenge her -- this happens to everyone, and is very common. Is he saying that they thought he would suck because he was black? That's pushing it, knowing nothing of the interview process.

He was asked to rap, but that is a skill he had and apparently people knew about.

"To Be A Young Black Man Working In An Office Full of White People" -- ends up writing about everyday white man working experiences.
Thank you. I seem to have completely missed all the VC blog posts about the bincompat decision with regard to Visual Studio "15"/2017.

Glad to know that the VC100 to VC140 overhaul that I completed only very recently can still be considered fully up to date with the latest and greatest :).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/16/british-second...
Faraday cages don't block DC, so use that to provide power.

Then run a simple optical fiber cable for communication to an antenna that lies outside the cage.

If you are really good you have multiple antennas that are kept off (with the circuit physically disconnected from the antenna). If you get hit with a pulse activate the next antenna.

It's possible to make simple electronics that can survive such a pulse, with auto-reset fusible links, and you use those for activating the antenna.

Or even a small door and "push" the antenna out of the Faraday cage when needed.
> Unfortunately, our documentation doesn't split the two yet, it starts with the pure HTML/CSS version and then showcases the Angular 2 components after that. Probably explains the confusion.

That's where the confusion come from, thanks for explanation!
AB inBev is considering a takeover of Coca-Cola
I worked at a bank before, throughout and after the 2008 financial crisis. That bank wouldn't have dared to give a broke and jobless person a loan, not a penny. Unless there are good reasons to assume it can be paid back, like securities in the form of a house or shares.
It's worth noting that Microsoft is aggressively pledging about patents, open sourcing with very clear and explicit licenses, and making industry-level promises that imply they're serious about making .NET Core an open and usable platform.

It would be nicer if there was a managed langauge platform that was not tied to an entity with a history of patent litigation, but let's not lose our sense of scale here. The degree to which Oracle has betrayed our community and tried to undermine the bearable status quo of the software industry to milk the Android ecosystem is as unforgivable as anything Microsoft has done in the darkest depths of the Balmer era.
It's not necessarily a rename of Xamarin, Xamarin Studio for mac was built on top of Monodevelop ( http://www.monodevelop.com/ ) and they are using the same thing as base for Visual Studio as well which is why they are all so similar. Im sure microsoft will keep adding features and make it have feature parity with the windows version.
Wouldn't an earthquake have shifted the ships elsewhere? I'm just speculating here.

Edit: Never mind. Saw the Guardian link which provides more info. I'm surprised there's capability to salvage that deep for large wrecks.
If you have 2 candidates one that has been working and one that hasn't which would be less risky to hire? Despite what you hear on HN we get plenty of resumes to pick from.
Spring Security 4.2 GA improves web and config capabilities
Investigatory Powers Act imminent as peers clear path for UK super-snoop law
> It also makes writing and refactoring faster (don't have to think about the return types, just the code flow).

I see what you mean, but isn't this one of the advantages of explicitly declaring types? If you refactor a method to return a different (incompatible) type, you'll have to touch all affected code parts, possibly revealing uninteded consequences of the change.

Also, I think remembering that autocompletion in VS had some trouble with correct type inference in some cases. But it's been a couple of years, maybe things are different now.
The new Visual Studio Mobile Center announced support for cloud builds and CI of iOS projects, which is probably the closest we'll get: hiring Mac build machines in Azure to do the work for us.
There is a lot of cool hackery going on here but the most beautiful part is how it tricks the target computer into thinking that the entire internet is directly connected to the computer via the USB ethernet interface (I think, I thought the 128.0.0.0 subnet would mean half the addressable space? I've never gotten to 100% understanding of subnets). Although the deception relies on the priority in routing (LAN over outside), it's still a real beaut.
A project like Servo means that the proof will be in the pudding.

Gecko and WebKit/Blink are C++ (though stuck at C++11 due to compiler and platform compatibility). So we'll see how they end up comparing.
I feel like this article tries too hard to give people an easy way out. I wish the stress and threat weren't there, but they are very real. It is a crisis of democracy, and IMHO if we just go to work every day and try to do the conscientious thing without thinking too much or acting on the crisis, we are failing our obligations as a citizen of democracy. It's like trying to go about your business during WWII, doing nice things for people, ignoring what's happening around you.

In prior generations many, many people gave up careers, wealth, and their lives to give our generation this democracy, this freedom and properity. What will we give the next generation? Why should we have ever imagined that we would have it easy and just get to consume the benefits that our predecessors provided to us, like free riders? I think that assumption, that the democracy was a given and we didn't have to do anything about it, is a reason we are in this position now.

'All it takes for evil to prosper is for good people to do nothing.'

My apologies if it sounds like a lecture!
Nearly half of U.S. adults get news on Facebook
It's interesting to think about what the limits of an AI that doesn't have a full human experience are. I think you're probably right that machine vision will be competitive with human vision. It's already much better in specialized areas.

General purpose machine translation is harder, for instance. Brute force algorithms have gotten decent, but aren't in the same ballpark as humans (though professional translation services now often work by correcting a machine translation). However, MT systems trained on a specific domain do much better (medical or legal docs, etc).

What would be the hardest task for machines that's trivial for humans? Maybe deciding if a joke is funny or not?
For someone who has been out for a hike and been startled by a rattlesnake a step away, I can imagine a terrifying world of small, ground-based area denial robots that spring to action faster than our reaction time can avoid them.
Growing up, our family of 4 slept on a single bed in a tiny one bedroom apt. I got my own bed when I moved out at age of 18. I know I shouldn't be embarrassed about it but I almost never mention this to anyone, esp in America.
Sure, I know why Microsoft wants it. What's in it for open.ai to endorse Azure, which appeals to hardly any, if any at all, of the yc companies?

If MS is simply paying them, I dont see anything wrong with that, I'm just curious.
C++ is lacking in the list of supported languages. It's great to rebrand HockeyApp here, but this limits the usefulness for me.
Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears (2015)
I've literally seen you tweet at people to kill themselves and then delete it. Idk about any of this other stuff but you certainly can't claim that your hands are clean in all this.
From experience, I'm going to guess, it was the glaringly obvious chip on his shoulder after believing that he was passed over for a job, he felt he was more qualified for, b/c he is black.
Ad blocking with local DNS servers and NGINX
I know of banks that wouldn't have approved loans like that, either. However, some banks did, and made money doing so. Many banks don't keep the loans they approve on their own books.
Is there some way to configure network-manager to not autoconnect to new ethernet adapters that show up? I don't mind clicking the nm-applet dropdown and clicking on the device...
Hey Craig,

I love podcasts, and as a matter of fact host one myself called Veni Vidi VC. Despite the shameless plug, I would love to hear from successful YC founders who have had exits.

The entire process is fascinating to me, including:
- building a company
- raising funds, and
- making it ready to be absorbed as part of a corporation or better yet, becoming a public company

Infact, all founders from every startup in this list is interesting to me - https://mattermark.com/mattermark-startup-index-top-10-y-com....
both of these are great tools, but as with many you have tradeoffs. Extension methods give you a way to produce very clean reusable code to extend behaviour of classes. Downside is you do need to bring in the extension method class (not a big deal).

Java is a shitty language exactly because they don't put in things like these out of fear that people don't know how to use them.
The Fears of Going Back
The ecosystem is an important factor too. I'm excited to use C# in new projects, but I can't move away from Java without replacements for all of the libraries of external code that I use.
He wasn't so upset about it in January https://twitter.com/drquarles/status/692809125294706688
> In theory it could kill a person if it pulsed the correct harmonics

If you're thinking about RF, then frequency doesn't matter that much. It's just that absorption and penetration slowly change with frequency, that's all. There are no "deadly frequencies" there.

If you're thinking about modulating the RF with some signal matching the heart rate or some brain waves, that's... interesting, but I'm not sure if it has ever been proved to work.
That does sound rather interesting! (And anti-fragile, to use a talebian neologism)
Well mine will now. Thanks for showing this to me.
> Should we ban or limit alcohol to some nominal amount? If not, why should we treat gambling differently?

No, because nobody steals $4 million to buy alcohol. Alcoholics don't tend to be spending anywhere near the numbers in OP.

Even if nominal was 0, the proposal would still prevent stealing or borrowed money being gambled. It's not an essential part of the proposal.

If tax authorities are overlooking theft being gambled because they get a cut, then incentives have not been lined up properly. Theft causes a negative externality greater than the thief's gain, so society should not want theft, and if it does then there's a problem.
If you keep repeating something that isn't true, people stop listening to what you say... It doesn't mater if you made up the story or someone told it to you, the spreader takes the responsibility when it comes to reputation.
The first time I used react was for the beta of my project http://launchaco.com/

One of the coolest things from this release IMO is the simulation of clicking working now! Simulate.click()
3 Months of GitLab. The Hybrid-SaaS Era
So this isn't just for Mac apps? Are there templates for .NET Core console and web apps?
Now it makes sense.

Thank you!
Does the clang frontend for their backend not address that already?
is this bad, good, neutral? i personally love it.
Indeed, though trusting unsafe blocks in Rust is more tractable than trusting an entire C/C++ codebase due to the fact that unsafe blocks present a drastically reduced auditing surface.
Other than a sufficiently large randomly-selected sample, no such group is particularly likely to be.
I'd love to hear "office hour"-style stuff. Somebody who's having a problem, you work on solving it together, then maybe in a month you do a retro on how it worked. Might be cool to wait enough time that the episode has a "before and after" in the same episode.
jQuery might not be the fancy new hotness on the block, but it still works and is still used.

I get the feeling more and more that developers are embarrassed about using it, similar to how some devs are embarrassed about using PHP, yet it's still a workhorse.
What happens if a group like the Koch brothers decides to buy Twitter and ban the other side of the spectrum and control hashtags in a different manner. It's a slippery slope
I agree the Democrats do things I don't like, and they should be addressed. Again, I don't think it's at all comparable to what I posted above and I think false equivalencies, often in the name of non-partisan 'fairness' (I don't know if that applies to you), are dangerous.
Rust will have a niche regardless of the momentum of C++ as long as it's easier to learn to use than C++ for someone who's new to solving these kinds of problems. The question is whether that goal is in sight.
Like a mine with a brain.
An Inside Look at IBM Security's New Global HQ in Cambridge [Photos]
CO2 levels lowest ever, in geological terms
Same question. What advantages does C# the language have vs Java the language? Do people perceive Java as playing "catch up" with other languages?

e: I only ask because I've always heard the opposite.
Passport? I guess this would be hard to regulate, but even if foreigners were excluded from the regulation my proposal would still help some people.
(Cockroach Labs here) The simulations are available on Spencer's github repo here: https://github.com/spencerkimball/spencerkimball.github.io/t...
Does this work with the new syncing stuff?
That's completely irrelevant. But "extorting" is more than a BIT of a stretch. They've got valid patents that Android handset makers need. Just like they need licensing to even put a cellular modem in the phone in the first place.

If you honestly think Samsung would willingly hand over $10-15 per handset over bunk patents, I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona you might be interested in.
I'm sure all of that is true. Which doesn't change the tendency of people to think that the person looking at them who might be recording the conversation to send to their internet buddies is a weirdo. Thats true whether the distinctive-looking video-augmented eyepiece is Google bland or Snapchat childish
It does use quad tree (or similar) tiling. I guess they simply limit framerate to something reasonable instead of rendering as many frames as possible like others often do.
The lure of the smartphone is pushing a number of drivers over the threshold of insufficient attention. They would be less distracted without.

It's not like drivers had an individually fixed amount of distraction that they would distribute on whatever media at hand, it's the attention that is limited and far too many drivers don't allocate it correctly when their phone is around. Unfortunately, using a smartphone while driving is far more common than using the newspaper while driving has ever been. This has everything to do with the difference between smartphones and newspapers.
STOP CLICK BAIT

1. Be a reflective producer (consider ethical implications of who you work for)

2. Be an ethical consumer

3. Be an active citizen (petition, campaign, unionize, call/write to politicians)

4. Be a principled person
Edited to clarify. Good catch.
Google did have certain disputes over Java with Oracle. That could be one factor.

Maybe Google could decide that putting resources on Dalvik and related tool development does not make sense.

Maybe they would like to see one language to cover both the client and cloud development.
Excellent! What photogrammetry algorithms are you using? Can we talk about it in detail when I'll be visiting MFF UK? ;)
Would it make sense to have a cargo/rustc flag to disable unwrap and friends when building for production?
I keep trying to learn rust but fail miserably.

They do say on their website that there's a hump that you have to climb over before everything fits into place, which is probably applicable to everything you'll learn, but sometimes I think that hump is too much of a hurdle
Does this mean enlightenment desktop also supports .NET bindings ?
I counted 12 out of 30 links just now, seems like MS PR is in overdrive right now
Celebrex is generic now. Pfizer has lost most, if not all, of it's market share. They have no incentive to promote it at this point in time.
Well they just released a preview for VS on macOS.

Project Rider by Jetbrains is a cross platform C# IDE.

VS Code has some tooling.

etc...
Swift is FLOSS, Apache Licensed and built and collaborated on GitHub: https://github.com/apple/swift

Objective C has not had an official open source release, so far as I know.

ETA: Arguing of course how close the gcc/clang implementations of Objective C may or may not be to the Xcode compilers, of course.
> when you have hundreds of millions of dollars directed at one person over several years, approval can slide from 66% to less than 40%

Yes. This is SOP.

> But, several times during the 2016 campaign I actually caught myself thinking that I didn't trust her. And, I had to remind myself why I liked her.

Don't take this the wrong way, but to me that sounds like cognitive dissonance. If you believe that it was actually unfactual information, I would suggest researching what influenced you badly and try to identify that next time.

Most of this stuff has remained the same since Robert Caldini wrote about it in his book Influence. It's just the tactics and strategies on how to apply them.
I was using "99%" as an off-the-cuff figure indicating near-unanimous agreement. But now I have a citation.

To be precise: 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.

http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Head into a computer lab, and log on to HN.
I haven't read a ton of CRISPR/CAS papers, but I have read the seminal ones, and didn't see that. Mutations in unmodified cells are completely expected, of course, but not mutations in line with where CRISPR is being targeted—I'd hardly believe that to be the case. It looks like the cell perforation (getting CRISPR/CAS into the cells) can certainly affect cell viability, but those numbers have been steadily, rapidly improving. Quick search shows that in 2015, a study found 80% viability post perforation and CRISPR/CAS application (http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500454.full).
> Faraday cages don't block DC, so use that to provide power.

Drones carry their own power source - usually a LiPo battery.

What you're proposing would not work if the phaser could just keep firing (which seems likely). Onboard AI seems the solution (assuming the Faraday cage is effective enough, which remains to be seen).
It's because it uses Electron (HTML/CSS/JS) that the OP mentioned it, I'd imagine.
I don't see how this means they have stopped being hostile. For example, they are still suing android manufacturers.

I think they are doing this because they think they have to and not because they have actually embraced anything. I think they are trying to buy goodwill.
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What for? If you have the extra RAM and power for a GC, you don't need Rust for safety. HotSpot's next-gen (JIT) compiler is written in Java and is absolutely amazing.
> I've heard rumors of memory vulns in rust as well.

I guess you did read it on the internet, so it has to be truth. Are you referring to that clickbait "Heartbleed in Rust"?
I very much doubt these places will allow virtual visitors if they forbid real ones. That is, I doubt Google will be allowed to drive through North Korea with their cars. :)
What? The criticisms that are getting downvoted are pure assertions with no reasoning to back them up. I'm pretty sure that if these posters had provided more than 1 line proclaiming their distaste, they wouldn't be receiving downvotes.
I'm a big fan of React, but I agree styling is a mess.

CSS in JS has many limitations and virtually every alternative adds either another library or some other convention/configuration overhead.

Other frameworks struggle with this as well but it feels like React really shrugs off styling as the community's problem and subsequently there's a hodgepodge of solutions that work in this or that scenario but no gold standard.
Indeed I suspect a great number of people who scream on TV never actually read The Wealth of Nations or at least not this passage:

"It is but equity...that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged."
I do not tell people to kill themselves, as that's not cool.

That said, I'm not interested in replying to brand new accounts made to troll me (and conveniently without evidence), so I won't be replying further.
DNA-editing breakthrough could fix 'broken genes' in the brain
There's a really good book about the design of the slot machines, called Addiction by Design. It talks about the different UI and design elements that go into keeping the gambler engaged and why they keep spending more money. It's a really amazing and enlightening book to read if you're interested in learning more about the mechanics of the slot machines and the designs of the casino.

https://www.amazon.com/Addiction-Design-Machine-Gambling-Veg...
My experience with the Vive:

I would recommend Vanishing Realms, specially when you already have a sword and a bow. It's so fun to fight with the skulls.

People seem to enjoy Tilt Brush, I find it nice but boring.

Brookhaven Experiment is a nice 1 time game to get people excited and scared.

Chair in the room is creepy, slow transitions but has a really well executed ambient.

People tend to like Job Simulator, it's lite and funny.

There are a couple of Vive demos that are also entertaining. In general people seem to like to grab things, throw, move around, feel large or small environments.

On the PSVR:

Battle Zone is my favorite at the moment

Drive Club is very good too but it makes me a little bit nauseous, and I'm not usually a person who gets nausea often.
Sending unwanted emails - this is a great way to get added to spam filters... Do it to too many gmail users and no one will receive any of your emails.
You do realize that Celebrex is generic now and Pfizer has lost almost all of it's market share? If they promote Celebrex, they have little to gain from it.
Many banks don't keep the loans they approve on their own books.

That is dirty, dirty business. Giving out loans that will never be paid back, bundling them up and selling an opaque package full of risks. They said that was a big part of what started the crisis. I'm glad I wasn't part of that.
It's still in preview, but you can build .NET Core apps with the .NET CLI tool: https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#windowscmd