skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to (maybe still do) have a pizza & pop special for students. It was something like $199 to print 4 copies of your PCB and you get a large pizza and 2L of pop from Domino's Pizza. I got it as an engineering student in Canada, and was disappointed to learn upon delivery that the coupon could only be used in the USA. I had to wait to use it til my next climbing road trip to Red Rock Canyon.
It tends to be people that enjoy their work. I know a retired TV comedy writer in his 80's that continues to meet with, edit for and make industry introductions for young writers just because he loves storytelling and comedy writing.
Google can easily retrain itself to weight verified Wikipedia topics higher than unverified. There is a lot of benefit to having these articles maintained by a non-profit; Wikia's load time on a phone browser is stupid long, mainly because of ads and tracking scripts. It is several seconds before they are loaded, then you start getting bombarded with full-screen ads. There are dozens of Wikia apps in the Play store, so effectively that means that, unless this is a topic that I have a deep and pre-existing commitment to, I can't have the accelerated app experience. Wikia is just not a replacement for Wikipedia.

Yes, UGC sites are clamoring for content: so they can monetize the shit out of it with no respect for the content, community, creator, or reader. Your comment makes it seem like there's no merit to keeping the content on WP, but if you actually use some of these other sites I don't know how you can even compare the two.
I've been using Polymer since 0.5 for a number of personal projects as well as professional.

I have to say it's been a pleasure to use - coming from Angular 1.0. I like it has a very low barrier to entry, having only one real concept; Web Components.

Polymer gives you Data Binding and a few nice things on top of that, but for the most part, you're writing things fairly vanilla.

It's definitely not without it's problems. Element inheritence doesn't really exist in 1.X unless you use Behaviors. There's no inline expression support in bindings. This is partially good because it forces you to keep logic in your javascript, where it belongs. But it also means you sometimes have to be more verbose in obvious places:

<span hidden$='[[thingsAreEqual(a,b)]]>They are not equal</span>

vs

<span hidden$='[[a==b]]'>They are not equal</span>

But even still, I've been able to be very productive with it, and enjoy using it thoroughly. Feel free to ask me about my experience.
Seattle’s cloud-computing boom is new force helping to drive Washington economy
That is correct. Many articles with comparison and product lists are under a permanent edit war of [interested] people adding and removing products.
So, I'd suggest a few different books on that topic--Farnham's Freehold not being one of them.

Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and Pournelle goes into a bit of the politics and aftermath of a comet striking the Earth. It talks about survival, civil defense, and a few other things that would be spoilers to mention. That said, it has some points that are weirdly racist when viewed decades after publication--if you can look past those, though, it's a solid read.

One Second After by William Forstchen talks about the aftermath of an EMP first-strike on the US. Perhaps the one of the more interesting things is that he does specifically pay attention to both the food and medicine logistics--specifically, what happens when we lack ability to run refrigerators and move around grain. It's a bit cheerful in the end, but a good read.

Warday by Strieber and Kunetka takes place 5 years after a "limited" nuclear exchange with the USSR. The premise of the novel is that a pair of researchers are traveling through the US and interviewing folks, reading documents, and generally piecing together both the initial conflict as well as the efforts to survive and recover. It's a really good bit of speculative fiction, but is pretty depressing.

~

One of the biggest things that makes nuclear war difficult to imagine today is that we have the Internet and cell phones, things which at once are utterly integral to most of the non-rural folks and which are completely vulnerable to any sort of honest nuclear strike. The lack of books, CB radios, and basic practical knowhow and repairable goods brought by the rise of technology and international trade might well yield a situation where a theoretical 2020s United States would have a more difficult time recovering than a 1980s US.

At least as far as the 'net stuff goes, the short story "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" by Doctorow is maybe one of the only ones that treats the tech angle seriously in a modern light.
Evolution, by definition, will never stop, so long as there is life. It is the way life works. It doesn't mean progress towards some arbitrary goal, such as intelligence or strength. It means fitness for the current environment. You might argue that the cockroach is one of the most successful products of evolution.
I never used my XPS touchscreen at first but I slowly started to and now I find myself using it at least once a day. Usually when I'm on the couch browsing websites or watching a movie and need to pause it.

I'd personally love to try out a laptop that converts. But I guess the use-case in question in this thread is for professional usage where I haven't found utility.
I just grep'd for Prouty and nothing showed up. Even his wikipedia page [1] is a bit scrubbed and buries his important act of blowing the whistle on the shadow government [2]. Btw, Prouty discusses Ellsberg directly in his book. It is 'interesting' reading for sure.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Fletcher_Prouty

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Team
This story oozes elitism. It's also rife with misinformation and misleading tangents. The claim that various government organizations are solely responsible for AIDS elimination and cancer research is ridiculous. How many NGOs research these things? How many private industries? Then to follow that up with the idea that taxpayers foot the bill for the NIH so why not foot the bill for the NSA??? I just don't follow this reasoning.
Thanks, that was a great quick read.

Adversarial work does seem like it's largely a sign of communication breakdown. I think 'gaming' isn't always as adversarial as it seems, though. I was considering it in terms of Goodhart's Law, where even with good intentions, representative metrics become less representative as you organize around them. The "active days" entry in your link seems like an example; if everyone pushes most days for the sake of pushing, then active days isn't feedback on programmer skill.

Of course, your link touches on that. "Everyone pushes every day" is a great outcome, even if the metric is no longer clear. The common trend is to pick good metrics, then struggle to keep them relevant. I really like the alternative of just setting metrics that will be good after people optimize.
The idea that we'll just find one simple magic change and that will vastly reduce aging/senescence is wishful thinking. Literally nothing in our biology works that way.
In the industry, we call them cigarette burns.
This framework seems very interesting, I wonder why it didn't become popular outside of Google
> who will watch and maintain the articles?

Exactly the people you don't want - powerhungry, fiefdom building diehards.

The whole point of Wikipedia was to be a repository of our knowledge, even if there are flaws, but it just seems so pointless to contribute. I know I stopped bothering years ago.
Back in the late 90's and early 00's I did the same thing. We had an online record store, homebass, and we would give free records (mostly promos) to our best customers. I would also include a hand written note thanking them for their business.
We turned a ton of cities into ashes during WWII without the help of nuclear weapons (except at the very end).
In order to look into this controversy, I searched for rsync.net on Wikipedia, and this is what I found. The user Kozubik submitted a draft with references, but the user Arthur Goes Shopping dismissed each of the references. Then when no one edited the draft for six months, the user JMHamo deleted it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Arthur_goes_shopping...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kozubik#Your_submiss...
My bio course taught the terms introns and exons.

Exons are the portions of DNA that are used to express proteins.

Introns correspond to "junk DNA" and are removed prior to protein expression. Their function is not fully understood.
Black Hats Leveraging PowerShell
Can you tell me how do you 'easily measure' notability in a robust, non-gameable way? I'm not aware of any such measure existing. 'Substantial coverage in reliable, independent sources' seems the best possible at the moment.
I didn't mean to recommend Alan Watts in general, though I generally like him. I just think Zen can be a bit hard to get into without some introduction and I consider Watts' decent.
Show HN: Async readline-like interface PoC
See also: the original vision of Leland Stanford.

At the University, Stanford’s vision of an education to support worker cooperatives never became established. To a large degree, this might be due to Stanford’s death two years after the University opened.
[...]
Leland Stanford’s vision was not only forgone, but over time was entirely forgotten by the Stanford University community. This forgetting appears to have been fairly rapid, occurring within the first decade of the University. Undoubtedly most of the faculty and administrators knew of Stanford’s wishes, but they ceased to speak and write of them, and thus the knowledge was not transmitted.

http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/PAPERS/BCLSFV/
No, we actually use ML. We just don't need to, in my opinion, because the problems our products solve are more or less solvable without these techniques.

My point was that using ML, even though we don't need to, "adds value" by virtue of the hype train. We need ML to sell products, not to create them.

I do agree that this sort of arrangement lends itself to supporting skepticism around AI and ML. On the other hand I don't think that's a bad thing.
The View from Nov 2016 C++ Standard Meeting Issaquah
Personally, this feels like misinformation. There are such drastic consequences to S02. Take this recent article
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mystery-solved-cause-londons-1952...
One problem is that you can't stop hearing it, after you know. Like Pachelbel Canon [1]. Like orange and blue scenes and posters [2] [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

[2] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContras...

[3] http://www.slashfilm.com/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-poster...
It says right at the top of the home page, it's a Terminal emulator, it just happens to be written with JavaScript and HTML.

It would be nice of the title of the HN post said this (Hyper 1.0 Released, A Terminal Emulator built using Web Technologies), but it's easy to figure out once you go to the home or github page.

I fault the OP for the poor title, not the project.
True story: I still have one of the old white plastic MacBook 4,1s (w/ Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz) from 2008. Even though it's eight years old and runs Snow Leopard, and will not run current XCode or Chrome/Firefox, and has slightly outdated command-line tools, it's still a functional rig that I can do a surprising amount of work on (especially since it remains plugged in all the time, SL is very stable, and I do a lot of work in vim/zsh/tmux).

Well, my wife has a brand-new Lenovo ThinkPad running Windows 10, which is probably one of the better-quality non-Apple laptops. My five-year-old son recently tried my old MacBook for the first time after using nothing but Mommy's before to watch Minecraft videos, and the first thing he said to me was, "Wow, Daddy! The trackpad on your old laptop is so much better than the one on Mommy's laptop."

This was not prompted by any audible parental Apple fanboyism. Somewhere, Steve Jobs is smiling...
The published erlectrcity gem does not support maps, as they were only introduced into the language in 2013.

I forked it a while back to add support for maps. I'd recommend you use the fork: https://github.com/hamiltop/erlectricity
No one digs them. It's no longer the great depression.
The problem is that in the cases where you'd most want to, you never know what could be a problem until it's too late. Say in 2016 you went to a gay friend's wedding. No problem if that end up in some vast anti-terrorism archive of social media images since it's perfectly normal but … what about a decade later when President Pence of the Republic of Gilead declares that homosexuality is a crime against God and suspected sympathisers should have rights like employment curtailed?

That's an intentionally unlikely example but it's not like there aren't plenty of historical examples of this – e.g. imagine how much more dangerous HUAC[1] would have been if they'd been able to mine every picture on Facebook using facial recognition software to build a list of everyone who'd ever been in the scene with a targeted person.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities...
I had to deal with this last year. I had some traumatic times, scared shitless to die of heart failure, went to see doctors "you have nothing". One even dared me to reproduce my problem on sight. I was speechless (too tired to rage but ..).

They have a point though, mental state can disrupt organ coordinations (heart rate, artery dilatation, liver hormones). Read about the sympathetic nervous system.[1] They put me under antidepressant and I felt a very subtle improvement in my case. I guess in yours it's extremely far fetched.

Most of them only do simple tests (blood sample, cholesterol) and tell you to go home if you're in range. For anything a bit twisted you're on your own.

[1] in my case I was so frail, I could feel the difference when trying to meditate to calm anxiety. 3 minutes would show tangible signs (warm blood rushing to my finger and toe tips, instead of blue and cold limbs).
That's always what puts me off as well. It's turned into a bureaucratic mess – which is funny, considering that wikis were originally invented to be quick ways of collaborating with minimal effort and a low barrier to entry.
> The screen wobbled like crazy even when just typing on it.

It sounds to me like you had a somewhat defective model. That said, the surface book is not the best physical laptop computer and will always be less stable than a standard hinge laptop.

> Windows now has the Ubuntu subsystem, but I immediately ran into serious dealbreaker issues. I couldn't get Haskell or Elm to run on it because a core system call hadn't been implemented yet. The team is aware of it and I'm sure it's slated to be fixed soon, but I still couldn't do my work on the laptop without firing up a VM or dual booting.

Why not just use Powershell and the windows builds? They work fine. Powershell isn't going to kill you.

But it's also weird, because I got GHC to compile just fine.
Like a bag of scalpels being shaken around.
When I purchased my Surface Book, I was told it's best to purchase it in the Microsoft physical store so I could return it with no questions asked if I encountered any problems. Whereas if I purchase it online, from a website like Amazon, I would have to deal with Amazon's customer service.

Edit: The only problem I have with my SB trackpad is that I normally use two finger swipe to scroll down with my hand slightly at an angle to the touchpad (since I'm right handed). I've never had a problem with any MacBook, but on the SB it frequently registers that as a pinch and attempts to zoom.
I had the opposite experience. The MS Store was quick and easy. The Apple store was more than a 2 hour wait to buy something I had already picked out. It wasn't even Black Friday. I'd happily return to the Windows store. If I had to go to the Apple store, I'd expect it to be a bad experience.
Radio Garden
You grossly overestimate the relevance of your own experience to the discussion of modern nuclear weapons. Those explosions were all either airbursts, purposefully designed to avoid fallout, or very low yield weapons when compared to modern weaponry.

All of which is of very little relevance to discussing modern nukes intended to cause fallout.
I switched from a MacBook Pro to a Dell XPS 13 (Kaby Lake i7). From a hardware point of view, it is an excellent machine, and I do not miss Apple at all. What I do miss terribly is macOS.
Mystery solved for the 1952 London fog that killed 15000
The grandparent's point wasn't that the people doing the analysis are injecting insider information....it's that the data dump you've been presented could be some fancy encoding of insider information.
I don't understand how this is a "proxy metric".

I'll give you the shortest defense of deletionism I can write:

There are two problems with non-notable articles in Wikipedia.

The first is definitional. An encyclopedia is a tertiary source: a roadmap and synopsis of existing sources. Non-notable sources are by definition those for which existing reliable sources are absent. All such articles are, in a very simple sense, "original research". One of the most basic founding principles of Wikipedia, as old as NPOV, is "no original research".

The second is pragmatic. Wikipedia is committed to minimizing error. Entropy exerts tremendous force on the project, which occupies extremely valuable Internet real estate. Every article on Wikipedia is in a sense a commitment by the Wikipedia community to mount a defense against bias, advertisement, promotion, vandalism, and basic inaccuracy. The notability requirement, which is at bottom based not on "fame" but on the quality of sources available for a topic, is an extremely reasonable boundary to put on the expectations Wikipedia can have of its unpaid editors to combat that entropy: to wit, that we will do so only when available sources make the job possible to do in the first place.
No, even packs of 3 trucks with 1 driver (on the interstates or other long distance routes) would be substantial savings (and a huge impact on employment).
This brings some really nice updates to IPA, particularly regarding replication. I'm stoked.
Show HN: Runway App – Living Styleguides as a Service
In the meantime, add references and statements to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27998978 (item about rsync.net)
Sometimes I feel like work is the meaning life. From a certain (simplified/badly poetic) view, living existence exists just to, and because it can, battle against the 2nd Law of Thermondynamics, and that sort of just trickles all the way up to our complex social existence. If you're only increasing entropy by hanging out and resting on your laurels (again, simplified), rather than making/creating, you're sort of waste from the aforementioned perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life
The idea of Polymer/Web Components appeals to me as a backend developer who has a little experience with JS and Angular 1. Can you tell me a little about how you've used it professionally and what you thought? I.e. scale, scalability, maintainability, encapsulation. I've read a little about Polymer but I haven't spent enough time to grok it. Note: consider me a novice as far as front end goes.
Good for MS, Surface is really a wonderful device.
Looks like it is using the electron framework http://electron.atom.io/

To be sure, JavaScript can sometimes be fairly terrible as the scope of projects grow. The advantage here is how easily rich (or even absurd) UI elements can be implemented across all platforms by using web technologies. It also makes it comparatively easy to create a platform that is highly customizable and pluggable.
So, every runner and key grip that has worked in production of a popular TV series is notable now?

Someone please formulate a 'notability' version of Schneier's law.
I feel a little silly needing to defend it, but the plot is pretty simple IMO. Max himself is more of an observer of the plot than an central character, which is a little confusing, but everything else is a pretty straight-forward hero story. What didn't you understand specifically?
Cause lots of people like to hate on Apple.
Good point on SERPs, and certainly nobody should force Wikipedia to act against what they believe is their strategic best interest. But isn't "the way Google prefers Wikipedia articles over other sources in its SERPs" an epiphenomenon? In an alternate universe where Wikipedia was more inclusive and used some kind of "notability" flag, Google could just as easily prefer those "notable" articles the way it prefers Wikipedia articles more generally in this universe.

Edit: clarity.
Not sure what you mean by workflow, but you can include images like this:

{{file:../../images/image.png}}
{{http://example.com/image.png}}

Vim is of course not able to display images, but they appear when you convert the wiki page to HTML.
I bet all those links weren't 404 errors in 2009. Which raises the question: How are external links in Wikipedia articles maintained? Is there some automated process that checks those links periodically to see if they are rotten?

Is that why Wikipedia hates external links?
Top priorities MVNOs may have before choosing the most suitable technology
Can you point me to some documentation from atom or sublime, where they explain which kinds of selections you can make? I wasn't aware that certain editors seem to have many modes of selection, and a quick web search doesn't reveal very much. I'd like to be able to make a comparison with vim's text objects and movements. My gut feeling tells me that vim will still have more "targets" for a command, and more accurate ones, but I'm biased.

But the "select text and then apply command", as I understand it, still has a major drawback compared to vim's way of working : the dot-command. In vim, you go "daa" (delete an argument - i.e. delete the argument, including the comma which separates it, if you have the vim-angry plugin). Then you move to another argument, you just press dot, and the same thing happens.

Also, does the selection thing accept counts?
>I don't know, do they have parking garages with floors where an adult can't stand upright and can't actually get out of the cars?

My understanding is that there are more sophisticated robotic garages elsewhere (probably in Japan). But attended parking lots with cars up on lifts is very common in Manhattan.
I think I understand the advantage of composability. What I was saying is that it is not unique to Vim. Vim uses "command; motion-or-textobject" in normal mode where most editors use "select-what-you-want; command" (which is what Vim does in visual mode). If your editor has a good stock of selection commands (some have select word, line, paragraph, parenthesized expression, etc. -- I don't use atom but Emacs and Textadept have all those and more, like select LaTeX environment) and a good stock of commands that operate on the selection (like delete, cut, wrap in parenthesis, uppercase, etc.), I'd say you have composable editing.

I don't think the link you have addresses my point at all.
could you please elaborate? What's in the binder?
We use ML for recommendation systems (I work at a Classifieds company)
Windows Subsystem for Linux is still very much in beta; I ran into multiple issues just trying to recreate the Ruby development environment I use on my MacBook.

It's going to be great in a year or so, but right now there are some pretty sharp edges.