skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is reader view an officially supported standard? I must say that if you can't read the #586772 on white, that's a pretty severe handicap that I imagine would require a screenreader.

Let me postscript that I have sympathy for not having full ability to read on the internet, and I'm sure the world would be easier for many if screenreaders and high contrast were universal, but I also wonder whether and by how much design must suffer to accomodate all users.
The comment about the "North-South/wheat-rice axis" really hit home (though I grew up, outside India, eating both).

In 1984 I was in Sri Lanka as the civil war was gearing up. It was a rather exciting time, and not in the good sense of "exciting. From there I flew up to Delhi to stay with my auntie and uncle. Our entire dinner table conversation the night I arrived was the following:

Uncle: "You were in Sri Lanka?"
Me: "Yes"
Uncle: "Sinhalese?" (the Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka)
Me: "Yes"
Uncle: "Huh. Rice eaters."

(In the realms of exciting: a few weeks later I was in Delhi when the PM was assassinated. That whole summer and fall was crazy).
Are there any plans to catch something like this:

function f(x: any): T {
return x
}
I'm having trouble remember when Flow was bigger than TS at any point?
Yes, and that's why they make rules that only impact the_donald, which in turn encourages the_donald to lash out. Because they are being singled out for censorship. I think you've got a pretty selective memory of sticked threads in the_donald, but whatever. Should they be nice to a community that consistently calls it the_dipshit, etc, and whose administrators continually make changes to limit the reach of their voice, and their voice alone?

The sticky change came in conjunction with limiting the number of posts it was possible to have on the front page, and a few others. Saying the change to sticky policy is what's keeping the_donald posts off the front page of /r/all would be incorrect.
I'm curious why you would do an MBA if not for career advancement. I can see someone going back to school to study something like mathematics/literature because they love the subject but not MBA.
I think he was talking about field CPR "...brought to me in the emergency room after getting CPR..."
And the thing about being Mossad'd is that even if you're being individually targeted, making it harder often is what lets you know you're being attacked.
Raise the bar to fend off attackers!
That's also when he came to Notre Dame.
Ansible and Salt don't seem to fit the use case of configuring something that
is effectively a chroot, and I don't know if Chef can be used with chroot-like
installations, but you must have used Puppet in a wrong way if it caused you
trouble (my guess is that you used Puppet with master, not a CFEngine-like
masterless mode).
'Photonic Water' Could Be Boon for Optoelectronic Applications
Just tell me in your web site kindly and unobtrusively that you need ads to survive and that you'd hand-picked ads which are not animated and respect privacy of your visitors. You'll immediately get an exception.
Fantastic news! I hated to write type annotations in comment blocks like

T foo/*<T>*/() {...}
I meant more as in 4chan and /pol/. Haven't gone to 8chan or /leftypol/ but I'm always interested in quality discussion. That's why I frequent Hacker News.
In Dwarf Fortress's case, the closed sourcedness is because the creator wants to be the sole driver of the project until it's "done."
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13122218 and marked it off-topic.
Second, that you can always ignore it when politicians tell
us how terribly, terribly wrong it is for anyone to leak
classified information.

It's the President's prerogative to release information. When intelligence is a tool of foreign policy, the President and his staff are free to wield that tool however they see fit, as long as it's not for personal (non-political) gain. Congress cannot limit the President's discretion in this regard, directly or indirectly, as it would be an unconstitutional interference with a power clearly vested in the executive branch.

Releasing the information in contravention of the law, and then protesting when others do the same, doesn't make the administration hypocrites. Unintended leaks impinge upon their constitutional prerogative and diminish its power. They're right to protest.

What makes them hypocrites is when they claim the sky is going to fall whenever anything is leaked unintentionally.

What makes them hypocrites is when they punish disfavored leakers out of all proportion to the harm.

What makes them hypocrites is when they classify anything and everything under the sun, and then act surprised when highly valuable secrets leak with all the mundane stuff.

What makes them hypocrites is when they use their prerogative for blatantly partisan political advantage--it may be constitutionally protected but it definitely sends the wrong message about the sanctity of secrets, and undermines the legitimacy of the executive's power.
Looks nice but the naming is wrong. We shouldn't expropriate well known names for tech solutions
Buck: a high-performance build tool
Why not just embrace Cassowary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_(software)) aka the algorithm behind Cocoa's Auto Layout? Auto Layout isn't perfect but I think that it's fundamentally the API/UI that you are working with, the concepts are definitely at the right level of abstraction. Some sort of DSL could really solve this.

Flexbox could be implemented as a framework on top of this.
Seems like a matter of hierarchy. Current NNs are flat and tiny. We're only simulating small chunks of the base levels. There is no executive level that integrates from multiple minions. You need that hierarchy to even start considering "meaning". What we're doing now is making bricks for that future building.

Of course, then there's that other school of thought that predicates the true grasp of meaning on the participation of consciousness. But that's another can of worms for another time and/or another forum.
> I'm kind of stuck on 3b in section 8.

So you managed to do exercise 8.7 ?
I wonder if there is an answer shorter than 22 symbols...

Nice instance of lambda golfing!
Amazon Prime unlimited photo storage: can it be used for generic file storage?
I use make to build my docker images. It works really well.

`make update`: fetches the latest version of the code.

`make build`: builds the images.

`make push`: pushes them to the registry.

Salt's great tho, I use it to manage my Docker environment files and keep other systems up to date.
Ask HN: How does our industry value OSS projects?
Hey HN, I'm doing some research into how important OSS is to our industry, and how companies give back.

I've created a simple survey to get some data, to turn into a proper post. It should only take about 5 minutes to complete, and requires no private information to participate:

https://goo.gl/forms/4eWaiuTg2pmoVN1I3

Thanks!
Ask HN: Do you have an explainer video for your product/service?
If yes, can you answer some questions?

1. How long was the process from start to finish?

2. How much were you involved, and in what areas?

3. How much did it cost?

4. Do you have an example to share?

5. Was it worth it? Did it get more leads/sales?

6. If you were to do it again, what would you do differently?

I'm in the process of getting one done for our blog growth tools SaaS and I'd love for some of you who went through this process to help me out on this. I'm sure other people down the road in a similar situations can find some use in this info as well. Thanks.
Can anyone weigh in on TypeScript vs Elm?
Believe me I have been there :)

I write some pretty complex essays purely of things I find interesting. For examples this one https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...

Most of my essays are based on looser discussions I have with people which I then ponder over and distill down into an essay.

So I always make sure to send to those people who have a basic idea of what I am talking about. I.e. I am not trying to convert some reader from being completely uninterested in the subject matter into someone who should care.

Instead I send to the people I discussed it with or a few group of people I know share my interest.

That mostly steers me clear of any frustration :)

Another thing I try and do is think about my essays as a way to get thought out of my head and down on paper. That way whether tens of thousands of people read it as they sometimes do or no one (as they sometimes do) I can still check it off as done.
Why banks don't refinance loans for international students
> No story is that perfect. You aren't that perfect.

I'm not perfect no. But the story isn't a lie. It's funny to me that you don't believe I was on to surveillance before the Snowden Documents and on to Iraq war propaganda before the UK Iraq War inquiery/report.

> And writing this long of a post to try and convince me that conspiracies like Hillary Clinton engaging in a pedohpile sex ring are true because you believed the Iraq War wasn't about WMDs is just stupid.

I am not writing this or any other post to convince you that Hillary Clinton is engaged in a sex pedophile ring.

> I can't stop you from fellating yourself regarding your overwhelmingly pretentiously perfect view of yourself throughout the past decade, so I guess I should join you.

The purpose of the prior post is not self-fellation, but to describe to you how the powers to crack down on one 'conspiracy theory' or another will immediately be used to crack down on public dissent about real and ongoing government wrongdoing.

Namely the post is an attempt to motivate you to see how powers you are defending for the Trump Administration would have been used (in fact to some degree were used) by the Bush Administration to aggravate a horrendous war and its resulting terrible consequences.

It's a way to say: pizzagate isn't the extent of how state police will use censorship powers.

And regarding self-fellation: I had just been accused of being a provably nasty actor and conspiracy monger. What you read was a defense of this. I think you'll find if we talk more I'm quite cool-headed, grounded, unflappable and otherwise capable of calm and polite and reasonable conversation.
(from Facebook)

I just learned about Buck from the Yoga post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13124584
All good points. The voting system just isn't conducive to balanced discussion. It's a perfect recipe for group-think, especially when overseen by self-selecting moderators.

And to make matters worse, many subreddits rate-limit your account if you receive too many downvotes. You are literally silenced for posting unpopular opinions. They also usually block new accounts, so you can't even participate in the discussion via throwaway.

"Only posts that agree with us" isn't an official rule, but it might as well be.
I feel that the lookup types and mapped types are dependent types, am I right?
I downloaded and ran the binary. It's a pretty neat screensaver! Seems to work fine on Windows 8. It even looks good on multiple monitors, which is impressive for something from 2008.

I wish the author had documentation on the algorithm somewhere. The code has comments, but I didn't see anything that talked about the high level approach. The neat thing is that it makes a giant, random knot, but if you follow each thread it alternatives between going over and under each thread it crosses.
> It's easy to say that, but when you are up against the Apple/Samsung type companies who have much deeper pockets

They did not really have to go against Apple/Samsung, their product was unique enough that Apple and Samsung don't have anything that's similar to it, and people like me would prefer pebble over their products. I mean now that pebble is gone, I'll most likely go back to regular watches.
TypeScript doesn't split the community any more than Flow does. TypeScript remains very close to ES2016/2017, syntax-wise, with the only major difference being type annotations, but you have those with flow as well. Anybody who can read JavaScript can read TypeScript.
Thank you for providing these excellent docs from day 1. Can I suggest that you change the background color of the flex item in the jsfiddle example of the default values, https://jsfiddle.net/emilsjolander/jckmwztt/, to something besides white as it took me a moment to realize that I was looking at a flex item as white backgrounds are very common.
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 Datasheet [pdf]
I think it happens less on special interest boards because there are less posts altogether on niche boards.

/p/, /trv/ - slow boards that have their own shitposts.
It's the rise of cheap computation and the availability of enormous data sets.

It's a bit of exaggeration to say so, so don't take it literally but in many ways the NN work is where it was when Papert and Minsky wrote the "Perceptrons" book in 1969. But as Stalin is supposed to have said, "quantity has a quality all its own" (thus the immense quantity of cycles and data people have at their fingertips causes a discontinuous change in functionality). Don't over-read this; I don't mean to denigrate a lot of cool work done in the past few years. But conceptually you are correct on the computation side.
could not copy paste my username and password into text fields!
Nice! I worked out a little proof of concept a while back for a pan-and-zoom wrapper around any ol' HTML, if that's of any interest: https://github.com/brian-c/react-zoomable
I haven't tried it with SVG, but I imagine it'd work fine.
Pebble Time 2 would have been their third major product. They had the original Pebble, and then the Pebble Time. IIRC the Pebble Steel and Pebble Time Round were sort of secondary projects, but if you include them then they had 4 generations of delivered products.
ReactNative uses Yoga for it's layout. There's an OSX port already in progress, so cross platform Desktop apps using Yoga isn't that far off ;)
Can we change the title to "Entrepreneurship Factory" instead of "Genius Factory"? The article is definitely not about genius. Let's not cheapen the definition any further by misapplying it.
Hey everyone, I am the OP of the reddit thread, thank you all for your advice, and I will be taking some of these steps
Naan is not the most important bread. About the only time I've eaten naan (growing up mostly in India) is at restaurants. At home it's always roti, parathas, or poori.
when I entered info it said connected to servername but then nothing happened. Could not get list of files.
Strange, our McAfee firewall flags that site as containing malware.
Someday Soon “Chemtrails” May Be Real
I see 2 main reasons:

- TS has been released before Flow

- TS has the support of the Angular community
> The deal will mean the Pebble stock held by employees is worthless, two of the people said. The money will instead go to debt holders, vendors, some of its main equity investors, and Kickstarter refunds for the Time 2 and Pebble Core orders, the people said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-07/pebble-sa...
Anything that can create an alternative for universities is very valuable. Stanford tuition has doubled in the past 20 years -- so has the price of gasoline -- I don't see people suggesting government subsidized loans for gasoline.
I wonder how long cases like this one will keep popping up.

I think it is pretty straightforward once proper title is established - you've bought stolen property, and it is returned to its rightful owner. If you have a problem with that, go after the one who sold you the piece - not the original owners.

However, it is somewhat puzzling (though perhaps not surprising, given the scale of the crimes committed!) that we yet haven't got a complete-ish, authoritative-ish catalog of the artworks stolen (or, at least, of dubious title transfer) during the war - a place where one could verify the provenance of any piece of art? Surely, at the time this particular painting was last auctioned, the Polish authorities must have known that they were short a Geldrop, courtesy of the nazis?

(Though I suspect organizing such a catalog would be a nightmare of epic proportions.)

Perhaps some statute of limitations is in order? Say, cases not settled by May 7th, 2045 (for Europe, the centenary of the nazi capitulation) are moot?
Not off base at all. Even with your off the top of your head example, I'm sure everyone reading this can think of that person they know that would get offended by a male "repositioning" himself.
Curious how using this for a complete page layout "feels" to someone who's familiar with designing websites. Since flexbox is intended for 1-dimensional layout only (as opposed to the old-school display:table or the forthcoming Grid spec, which are intended for 2-dimensional layout), I wonder what they do to make it work well for the full page / screen layout (in terms of ease of coding, not the display algorithm itself).
A few years ago we used this service for my wife's resume who works on the business end of IT. It worked great, her callback rate went through the roof and she landed a gig in our new city in no time.

I don't know as much how well it would work out for programming jobs, IMO the best thing to do there is just to know someone.

https://resumetointerviews.com/
a very very good point. I think the answer is art. People like to create art. It's just another painting but we already have other paintings. Well this is a new painting that might speak to people in a new way.
Slack and Google announce partnership focused on better integrating their services
If You’re Going Through Hell
You must have no real problems to solve in your life or job uf this is what rustles your jimmies to the point of writing long winded comments on random foums, probably even going to the point of creating an account on some website just for it. Or maybe you don't have the balls to say what you think with your regular account.
Lawyering up would be my last option, I am not trying to get into a legal battle with Amazon , I just want my life back. Because there are other people have to consider before burning all my bridges with them
> I had just been accused of being a provably nasty actor and conspiracy monger.

No you hadn't.

I was referring to /r/the_donald, the nasty trump trolls of /pol/, and the pizzagate conspiracy.

You imagined that I targeted you, because you did not understand my post.

Fueled by that misunderstand, yes, you engaged in a lame tale of self-fellation. You clearly cannot evaluate it as such, so I leave you with the hope that you can improve your self-perception so that you do not falsely interpret others words as targeting you when they do not (and choosing not to ask, but to assume your analysis was correct)
The place to start is NetFPGA since they have open source Verilog, tutorials, and a community. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/projects/netfpga/...
There's one link I could find to "Compilers" and the page doesn't exist. So much for being "for developers".
Are these the blood donors?
Actually I translated all the configuration that would be done through RUN commands in a Dockerfile, into Ansible roles and playbooks that are applied at build time.
Do what? Make jokes?
Ask HN: Do companies care more about your pedigree or raw skill?
Specifically for new grad jobs at top companies, what is more important? I would define top company as in the set of unicorn startups that you hear about all the time on HN. There seems to be a pattern among them.
The real urgent problem is sockpuppeteers using purchased accounts which makes it difficult to see who is legit or not.

They can influence and censor people they don't like. You see a lot of this going on over at /r/ethereum, where certain submissions receive high number of upvotes but little to no comment activity apart from obvious sock puppetry creating fake conversations. Comments pointing this out are quickly downvoted to oblivion or flagged.

The anxiety from Reddit is obviously clear. Their user base premium is losing it's value from an investors point of view. Mindless banters you see on Youtube are what makes up Reddit's audience with occassional anecdotal experiences that show up.

Pornhub has ton of users but are they valuable as Facebook users?

I feel like there's going to be a market correction in the quantity over quality type of social network websites who've ramped up userbase but have not extracted tangible value apart from delivering shaky metrics that advertisers are now beginning to raise questions.

It seems like the only ad platform that stood test of time is Adwords but as a small advertiser I'm turned off by the prospect of paying $1+ per click.
I took the OP to mean "lacking in empathy, contextual awareness, and premised on a specific—and potentially very damaging—notion of capitalism." Based on the interviews I've read and the description of the Thiel fellows, this seems like a fair characterization, if hyperbole.

Rather, I think "sociopathic" is deficient in that it underplays the structural determinants of such behaviors, while placing judgment on the fellows themselves. That's not fair—they are basically high schoolers, often without the cultural capital and social analytical skills conferred by top schools.
Do you use Salt from within a Dockerfile to make the changes inside the container?
No, because I got stuck on question 3 :)

Also, I find questions like 8.7 to be really uninteresting - it seems like busywork.
Does anyone know what algorithm this uses?
These ideas were discussed at length, but it was ultimately decided to keep things simple. Perhaps the mechanism can be extended in the future? In the meantime the 90% case is supported.
Ah Sim Lim Square...glorious memories of time spent wandering all the floors. It used to be my pilgrimage site while in Singapore. Even took my son there a few years back after several decades so he can see what his old man used to waste his spare time on.

After visiting Shenzhen and Huaqiang Bei this year I have to reconsider my future pilgrimage site.

I wish I had spent some time in the food courts though.
> Admin KeyserSosa

Is it me, or is it weird to see what are likely a names chosen when someone is adolescent or at least interacting in a non-professional capacity making their way into professional contexts, especially when they refer to another person, real or fictional (even if slightly changed)?

Are the corporate executives of the next generation going to go by the aliases the likes of BillGaytes and BarackOsama?
Ugh, the way this writer talks about women is pretty gross. I know its a piece about two of the most macho types in midcentury literature, but must the author of the article really refer to women as "conquests"?
Wow, you can write a whole book on the topic! Lots of good info in there, thanks for sharing.
Neat. Was just wondering about the Creative Commons Attribution Share-A-Like license with regard to a hardware project and used this to sanity check my interpretation. I also was very glad to find this page when I went looking: https://tldrlegal.com/license/tldrlegal-terms-of-service#ter...
DIY – I Built a Desktop Robot That Responds Entirely in GIFs
Question:

Is it possible to have a setup with TypeScript where it is guaranteed that no code changes occur other than removal of the type information?

I started using Flow, found what it can and can't do and would like to try TypeScript. But only if I can have "types-only", I don't want my code "translated" in any way. I'm writing for the latest node.js version and not for x different browsers, I want to use exactly what that version supports and have no code-changing steps.

With Flow I use flow-remove-types (https://github.com/leebyron/flow-remove-types) to remove the types. It leaves spaces where there was type-related code and doesn't touch the code itself.
Depends on what sharp means to somebody as well as what their job entails. I'm unfortunately doing SSIS/ETL work which I don't want to do. I stay sharp with the technologies I want to use by doing work with them outside of work.
High quality gifs with ffmpeg (2015)