skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Movies really are full of falsehoods big and small. Scenes showing car interiors usually involve matte effects so that they don't actually have to drive the car in natural light settings. Fight scenes are dance choreography with foley "thwack" sounds. Daytime scenes are shot at dawn or dusk, where the lighting is most forgiving. Nighttime scenes are shot with ample additional lighting so that the actors show clearly. Dialogue is unnatural and written around plot conveniences according to the strict "three-act" structure. Scenes containing dialogue are typically composed of dozens of different cuts, with long takes and ensemble performances being the exceptional cases. Characters walk through doors that are apparently part of the same location, but are actually completely different sets.

And that's describing movies as they were made 40 years ago, before Star Wars renewed film's direction towards pure spectacle. Since "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" it's been possible to make a production that is essentially a live-action cartoon, with actors and a few props superimposed on an otherwise fully CGI world. This is the route that every new blockbuster movie has taken. Even the shots in "Fury Road", which are based on a lot of real vehicles and people doing real stuntwork, have undergone a massive amount of post-processing.

Also worth noting is that the particular ways in which "realistic" things are represented change over time as our understanding of the world shifts: Films depicting war scenes in the 50's or 60's might use WWII or Korean War footage as the inspiration, with large units rappelling or parachuting in, adopting a slightly hunched stance and shooting bursts from the hip to liberate(or oppress) a place or people. Films after the Vietnam war are more likely to focus on small groups engaged in wilderness survival, maintaining communications or finding hidden enemies. The two types of film use different effects and foley, and that isn't purely a matter of budget or technology! The whole aesthetic changed, in a more complex way, to reflect the new design goals.

When you watch films that are very low budget and keep things simple, they tend to look ordinary, because they don't have all this production gloss put on top; their falsehoods, where they show up, are more the ones inherent to film and to storytelling, and not visibly designed effects.
> Apple’s emphasis on fashion and Pebble’s on productivity and third-party innovation were costly detours—the smartwatch market is rooted in health and fitness.

that's depressing :( i was hoping that they had just misexecuted, and someone else would step in and fill the niche of "e-ink watch with long battery life that is geared towards displaying things your phone sends it"; i have no use for fitness tracking and biometrics, and pebble's featureset and reasonably open ecosystem was ideal for me.

the saddest thing is that even buying used pebbles on ebay won't help me much with their servers going offline :(
"seller of over two million smartwatches"..."Pebble was losing money, with no profit in sight"

I honestly don't understand this line of thinking. Why not, you know, sell something for more than it costs?
One thing I should point out is that my story took place more than 2 decades ago in the pre-WWW days. It was a lot harder back then to check sources in multiple countries.
Just want to add my thanks for making this amazing plugin! I've been using it for four years and have always found it to be an invaluable part of my toolset.

Great work, please keep up the awesomeness!
> "now that I told you that you will always be conscious of it (hehe)"

Also, your jaw is affected by gravity and you must hold it up manually.
Yes, I figured that out as soon as I started reading the article. :) I just figured I'd give some context to thread readers who'd never heard of the OS and were wondering what we were going on about.
What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

When I want to do a mockup fast, I don't think there's anything better than Balsamiq. And... the point of ux wires / mockups is to get them done quickly, right? Move on to visual design and then dev...

Ain't nothing wrong with Balsamiq.

Bootstrap isn't Mac dependent. It works great too as long as you have basic HTML knowledge.
Yeah, this kind of mentality produces utter shit like TOGAF. The code is still crap written by mediocre devs, but now includes at least 100% more complexity and needless abstraction!
A good description of investing is, it's like a game of chess that you can win (using skill) and get $1, and after every game you bet $50 on a random (unbiased) coin flip.

Clearly, you can make money over the long run. But it's incredibly easy to go bankrupt. In addition, there's only so many chess players (trading opportunities), so after a certain point, there's nothing to be gained by investing more money (e.g. Renaissance has been returning 20% for decades, but only have a capital of about $10B - they pay out the profits because it's impossible for the to invest more money using these strategies).
Pebble crowdfunded as an alternative to venture capital. Their huge success on the platform was an inspiration to so many other hardware startups that it sparked an entire generation of products (in my opinion). Kudos to that.

I still wear my original Pebble. It's reliable with very long battery life, and is one of the very few wearables that works well while wearing gloves.
Really interesting analysis. But the following gave me pause:

> Software has very natural returns to scale, because all engineering costs and up front. The marginal cost of serving one more customer is very low.

One of the interesting things that we've seen over the past decade is that while Software-as-a-Product has nearly all of it's engineering costs up front, Software-as-a-Service does not. And I don't mean that the software is being improved continuously. There are significant ongoing engineering costs simply keeping the system working (consider, for example, the effort required to stay ahead of advanced persistent threats).

That said, when you're operating SaaS at a large scale, generally speaking the marginal cost of serving one more customer is still fairly low. Just not as low as with SaaP.
That's a really good idea! I'm going to start doing that.
Anyone know of a equivalent libraries like GenStage for other languages? (Java, NodeJS, etc)

I'd definitely be able to put to use things like flow limiters and queuing and such, but none of my company's projects use Elixir :(
Good question. We don't have metrics on the exact number dropped. We're using an earlier version of GenStage that doesn't give any information about dropped events. Once we upgrade we'll have a better idea.
If you've considered an Apple Watch then I'll give my requisite recommendation to look at a Garmin. It won't have quite the features that the Apple watch does - but it's perfectly usable as a standalone device, has a battery life long enough that I don't even think about it (think week(s)), and has amazing built-in GPS.

It can potentially be more expensive than a Pebble, but competitive with an Apple watch, if not cheaper (depending on model). As a fitness tracker and notification machine I'd say it's superior to an Apple Watch - I haven't had an Apple Watch but have had android wear devices which seem to be about the same in terms of battery life and functionality.
No Holdstock and his Ryhope Wood series?

Of course that might be the implied problem of a "2016 winter reading list", its not the 1985 winter reading list and you probably should have read Mythago Wood back in 1985 when it was new. On the other hand in the sci fi discussion people are arguing about a hard sci fi book that's over 20 years old, so allowing a 30 year old book isn't too ridiculous...
Author is MZ, who's also the user that submitted this article to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Mz
I can't argue with your point or your analogy.

The amount of capitalization needed however doesn't seem prohibitive as long as you are sure you have that slight, if inconsistent, edge.

Options are made to slice and dice exactly this kind of risk for a reasonable cost.
Just to go on, the distribution of Elsevier and Taschen is pretty damn esoteric.

I have never had a problem spending money on educational material that was way beyond what you can find in public libraries (Internet these days).

Not really been following print for a while. I'd like to think they still maintain that standard despite current trends.

Sad if that is not the case.
No, it's not reasonable, the article isn't very relevant at all.
Sounds like this would be a nightmare to rebase onto.
Name of the Wind is good. Almost too good. The downside of course is that some people fear Rothfuss will never finish the story...
Enumerative Combinatorics Volume 1, second edition [pdf]
Inside the magic of modern sensors
I haven't heard any criticism of the touchbar predicated on it making the device "appear less 'professional'" at all; I don't even understand why anyone would think that.
Most of these sounds cut off quickly to increase the effect. The "M" forces you to close your mouth cutting off the sound in a similar manner.

The "R" is presumably because these sound also tend to have a rolling sound to them (reverb?). Think brrr or purr.

You could probably say something like PREEEB with similar effect though.
The "watch with largish LiIon battery" market is very odd. Nobody seems to have any clue what the market wants or what the market is. The only company doing reliably well is Garmin, who just iterated on their sports watches with low hanging fruit like smartphone notifications or step counters (one of the most bizarre features).

Everyone else is just in a drunken random walk.
So now there are watches that waste lots of battery on recording rough HR all day but totally fail reliably capturing HR during sport activities. I have no clue what they think that is doing, utterly useless.
Yes you are probably right. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place in the modern world.
Mckenna shares thoughts on the nature of time, novetly, consciousness and how we are rapidly evolving technologically as a species at a rate thosands of times faster than any living organism through the power of our imagination, creativity and inventions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnjsoBF5Ay0
Great idea! Although this does break cherry-pick, doesn't it?
I find the idea interesting, but the execution leaves much to be desired. I'm using it on Windows and some of the basic readline shortcuts don't appear to work correctly (e.g. ctrl+a is doing select all instead of moving the cursor to the beginning of the line.) It also doesn't seem to have any mouse support, like the ability to scroll or resize panes in tmux. There's a very real need for better terminal emulation on Windows, but this doesn't seem to deliver.
Fiber is simply a fully-backwards-compatible performance enhancement, though that does it a huge disservice. It's actually figuring out how to run different parts of a render() function in different clock ticks, essentially making renders asynchronous so that animations don't jitter or drop frames, and different parts of the render tree can be prioritized out of order. Unless you were doing weird stuff with low-level animations or React internals, user code won't need to change, but it will instantly become buttery smooth. See https://github.com/acdlite/react-fiber-architecture for how.

Now, the preference for stateless functional components that has been popularized for user code by Redux is certainly a trend, and a focus of performance attention. But that's nothing new.
Ask HN: Great online forums?
Reddit is filled with internal jokes.
HN is a big echo-chamber.
Lobste.rs is invite-only.
Imzy?? (too young maybe?)

Any good forum out there?
People do use them for sleep tracking. Take it off a half hour before bed, charge it. Put it back on the charger in the morning for a while, and it's good to go.
In my last job at a big telco I was working with/on a scorecard driven next-best-offer system steering 80-90% of all outbound callcenter activities. I would not call it AI/ML because the scorecards were built with good old logistic regression and were pretty old (bad) but the process made us 25 M €/year (calculated NPV). I don't know how much of it was added by the scoring process. We also had a real-time system for SMS marketing built on the top of the same next-best-offer system making 12+ M €/year (real profit).

On the other hand I found an internal fraud costing us 2-3 M €/year applying only the weak law of big numbers. Big corp, big numbers.

Now I build a similar system for a smaller company. I think we will stick mainly to logistic regression. I actually use "neural networks" with hand-crafted hidden layers to identify buying patterns in our grocery store shopping cart data. It works pretty well from a statistical point of view but it is still a gimmick used to acquire new b2b partners.
Context: We've worked with this client for 10+ years, I know their IT team really well. They are not a super huge organisation, and we are a tiny (read: 3 man) operation too, so the reliance on each other's services is something we consider important to keep everything moving forward.
You're conflating politicians with voters.

Most GOP voters are not conservative true believers. The fact that Trump won the GOP nomination is proof enough of that.
It doesn't actually need to charge overnight.
I don't think "conservative" is the correct word in this case. Our current legislators, by definition, got into power under the current system, so for (almost) all of them the current is preferable to an alternative system where their victory is less certain.

Additionally, they are almost all part of one of the two major political parties; both of which benefit greatly from our current system.

Ultimately, the problem is that it is very difficult to change the rules of the game when the winners are in charge of making the rules.
Yes, that is a problem.

On the other hand, with your approach you are going to have revisions that won't even build/compile.

If you have automatic builds or/and unit/integration tests, then you'll have failed builds every time you have a merge conflict.

Also, you are kind of 'polluting a well': what if meanwhile someone merges that revision into his/her branch?
Or what if you have automatic merges configured?
Yeah, it's been a bit vague on whether Fitbit is going to keep the servers alive, although the article hints towards it. People on /r/Pebble have been working on an open source community store to keep the ecosystem alive.

I thought Pebble really nailed balancing the engineering tradeoffs that go into a smartwatch, but I guess it didn't translate into mass market appeal. It's surprising how quickly things turned after the modest success of the Pebble Time.
Bootstrap and Middleman
I could never get into it because of his personal beef against veganism (no pun intended).

I think it started when the guys who made Cowspiracy went to his show. After that he went on a mission to find every piece of pseudoscience or blog post that said the animal industry is actually good for the environment, or that plants have feelings, or that vegans were unhealthy, and then went on a Twitter rage against vegans.

It was pretty clear that his open-mindedness was quite limited. The sad thing is that a lot of people think he is a reliable source of information.
I do this too. "Okay, the worst thing that can happen is XYZ. What would I do if that happened? I'd do ABC. Okay, I know how to handle it. Moving on."
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"But consider this: Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Princeton are all Universities that started off as Christian seminaries. Their roots are founded in the idea that academics and reasoning are inherently noble pursuits."

The key here is that they started off as Christian seminaries. Are they any longer? Perhaps this same reasoning led them to stop being Christian seminaries in the first place.
Why would it? You can get a conflict on a cherry-pick as well.
I didn't know I could merge on github.com in the first place... where is their merge function, by the way?
That depends.

a) I've found that I need to quit work cold turkey-style, just be OUT. Working part-time while caring for the toddler just means everyone at work assume I am at work, leading to 100% work load and only X% time to do it in. (Where X is significantly less than 100!)

Previous time around, we tried to both work part-time for a few weeks during transitioning from my wife being at home to me caring for the little one - worst mistake we ever made; totally ran both of us into the ground as we in practice wound up trying to catch up on work after the little critter had fallen asleep, trying to meet deadlines. Not good.

b) As for being at home full-time, I've found that it works very well, provided (drumroll, important part) I get enough time to interact with adults during the day. True, the little princess is as cute as they get, all smiles (and, if she's not - time for some food and sleep!) and mostly a joy to be around - but what soon gets to me is not talking to someone with a vocabulary larger than 'Da-da!' and 'Tee-hee!'.

So - every day, we go out, visit the library, shop for groceries, just chatting up random people we meet - to keep me sane. I've found that works a charm for me.

Also, we try to keep to somewhat of a schedule, though obviously allowance needs to be made for her sleep schedule - which is still somewhat of a work in progress.

We get up at about the same time every morning, eat at regular-ish intervals, I try to do some chores like cleaning, laundry &c while she's asleep, so that most of the day-to-day chores are done with by the time the older kids + missus come home in the afternoon.

That basically means we can spend a couple of hours going over the 7-year-old's homework, play a little, read, whatever until kids' bedtime - rather than having to cram in all chores inbetween or -shudder- wait until after the kids have gone to sleep, giving us a couple of hours before adult bedtime to do adult stuff for relaxing, rather than playing catch-up on keeping the house tidy-ish and clean-ish.

Tl;dr: I definitely cannot claim that my recipe will work for anyone, but for me, working in the industry I do, being at home full-time works a charm as long as I get some interaction with grownups during the day, have a schedule of sorts - and the wits to depart from it when need be.
My mistake!
Ironically, I went from a dual monitor setup (24" and 21" in 'portrait'), and I find that I'm more productive now.

Probably just my lack of self-discipline but the dual monitor setup tended to encourage me to code on one monitor and procrastinate on the other.
You lose money on every unit but make it up in volume!
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> Even without getting into the result that not interacting with Elsevier has on careers in the biomedical sciences...

The author of the article addresses this concern in the "What you can do" section. He says he's noticed no ill effects from avoiding Elsevier journals and that most people are likely to have the same experience.

As for PLOS ONE's business model, it's possible that it sets up some perverse incentives, but fortunately there are choices other than PLOS ONE if this model bothers you.

If it really is impossible for you to avoid publishing in an Elsevier journal, that's fine, but anybody who can avoid it should for the reasons presented in this article.
So simple, so useful, I wonder if this feature wasn't already in Gitlab since it seems to be more full featured
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You've no idea what you're talking about. Hedge funds (legally) can't advertise to retail investors (if they do, they're no longer hedge funds, which substantially increases their regulatory burden and narrows the range of strategies they can trade). Having said that, even if they could, they probably wouldn't want retail investors - if they're good, they can get rich investors (e.g. $10M+), reducing their administrative costs and allowing them to trade with longer horizons.
Probably similar to how other professions are regulated. Educational requirements, internship requirements, licensing, yearly continuing education, etc.
like uber does?
Showing returns isn't the same as making a public offering. This article doesn't even claim that. Hedge fund managers do it on CNBC all the time without running afoul of the law.
Because it's the same code as the client, which is "where the users are." I guess you'd assert that having the same language on the client and server doesn't justify the cost of using the language.
It entails support and financial benefit.

The point is not that Elsevier Journals are bad Journals. They aren't. However, Elsevier is a bad publisher, and publishing in these journals enables Elsevier. The author then continues to argue there is actually little personal cost in avoiding Elsevier journals.
Fact it's paid in Bitcoin is irrelevant both to being taxable or being tracked down if need be.
For really old Intel Macs there is the hack of hardcoded framebuffer addresses, which they did instead of supporting UGA.
Just picked up an Alta, I'd say its a smart watch-light.

I wouldn't get a full smart watch, probably ever. I don't need a full screen on my wrist. For me, the killer features are: Tracks my steps/motion, tells time, vibration alerts and alarms.

If they can keep making it smaller / more like a wrist band, I'll buy each new version that comes out.

I want something small/subtle, not packed with features.
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It's literally the hallmark of GitHub...
How else would pull requests work? (well, there _is_ the rebase option now...)
> Christian Apologetics attempts to answer many of the questions that are raised

With respect, either you misunderstand the point you are responding to, or you misunderstand apologetics, as actually practiced and taught in evangelical institutions.

Apologetics, in the evangelical sense (like all terms, it has had varied practical forms), is the rational defence of pre-existing doctrine. It deals with epistemology, natural philosophy, hermeneutics, and other areas only when they can be used to support the doctrine. It is pretty much the opposite of rational inquiry, because it explicitly begins with the conclusion and seeks arguments to justify it. It is, in practice, an example of the parent comment: what falsification of the doctrine would an apologist accept? There would always be another argument, another apologia to bolster the claim.

[Source: theological degrees and was an evangelical apologist for 20 years. Books such as Louis Markos, Apologetics for the Twenty-First Century, Crossway, 2010; Peter Kreeft, Handbook of Christian Apologetics, IVP, 1994; and much of the rest of IVP's output.]
http://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1861_OriginNY_F382...
The two books I mentioned were debated as much for their content as for the provocative title, though I might add that the use of a provocative title to maximize sales by manufacturing controversy is hardly something to be celebrated, but rather represents the decline of political discourse.

Regardless, I don't think that unhappiness of a work's subject with the portrayal therein necessarily carries any weight. Demonstrable inaccuracy would be a valid critique, but portraits can be both truthful and unflattering.
>Is congress and state legislators more conservative than the electorate?

In both the small-c and large-C senses of "conservative", yes, they largely are. The USA currently has an economically progressive, socially moderate majority (when you do non-party-branded, issue-by-issue polling), but a government that largely consists of economic and social conservatives, rather extreme ones actually.
I'd imagine this also breaks bisect (and might make your CI system very confused), since you have a non-good commit.
How deep a chain of "this reply isn't that useful"-replies can we get?
Is "liberalism is a mental disease" on the YC reading list?