skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While their current focus does seem and probably should be on politics due to the wide reach of that topic, I think the idea of perspectives in general is a great idea for such an encyclopedia. The problem, in my view, that leads to the culture of deletionism at Wikipedia is the inability for one article to coherently explore all aspects and interpretations of a topic, so editors start deleting all but the parts they care about. Facts that are relevant to one perspective are not relevant to another. For example, Jesus-the-historical-figure is a different topic from Jesus-the-religous-figure.

I think the way Infogalactic solves the problem it is trying to solve is that people no longer have to argue if a particular fact is worth including in an article and have an edit war. It opens up a third option of recognizing that including or not depends on the circumstances of what the reader is looking for. I'm not sure what potential new problems you are thinking of.

As for corporate sponsors, they are bound by the same rules as the rest. I don't think explicitly recognizing corporate interest in the topic would be worse than trying to have an objective page which would probably be subverted anyway.

As for terminology, I don't see how "Infogalactic" as a name is more confusing to new users than "Wikipedia". Most people didn't know what "wiki" meant before Wikipedia. And I don't think new contributors would really have a problem figuring out "Galaxians" and "Starlords" with the obvious context.
Ha. My FireStick is the one device that can't get its shit together. It's about 6ft line-of-sight, hanging out the back of my receiver, to the Meraki 802.11ac AP on the wall above it.

Naturally, it insists on connecting to the AP 60 feet away down the hall and around a corner, and keeps insisting that "connection quality is poor."
Ask HN:GPU to Do Numerical Computations as a Hobby
My hobby is Numerical Computations, however, I am doing everything on Intel CPU using C++. I am thinking of buying a separate GPU to run numerical computations on it and learning OpenCL. What would be reasonable choice with the budget of $1000.
Unfortunately, Tesla is out of my budget.
Thank you.
Yes, that would be true on all counts :) as one of those Jython maintainers. Jython 2.7.1 is currently bottlenecked on finalizing support on Windows for pip/setuptools. It should be the last fix.
No, I am not.

I'm not happy with everything he's said and done. But unlike you I'm not so quick to dismiss people as "happy-ignorant-foolish" just because they don't agree with me.

If you are incapable of understanding why people act in a certain way when it differs from yours then that's your failure, not theirs.

PS. It's clear from your reply that you did not understand what I wrote in my previous message, in fact you seemed to understand almost exactly the opposite of what I wrote. Is that my fault for not being clear? Or are you uninterested in understanding Trump any other way?
I WANT WINGS
> Discord is always completely free to use with no gotchas. This means you can make as many servers as you want with no slot limitations.
Wondering how we’ll make money? In the future there will be optional cosmetics like themes, sticker packs, and sound packs available for purchase. We’ll never charge for Discord’s core functionality. [0]

[0]: www.discordapp.com
This is the setup I recently made and has been working great so far. However, most of it was purchased on black friday - you can probably replace any of these components with comparable parts that are currently on sale.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgTpPbLdRDvw3Mf_d1W0...
But they don't, really. I tried this with a Meraki security gateway+AP, plus a separate AP. Same subnet. Handoff between the gateway and separate AP took up to a minute.

Meraki insists you need to disable the wireless on the security gateway and ONLY use a "combined network" of APs to have the same SSID for roaming.

Granted, I know very little about how it actually works -- I think they use separate channels, unlike what folks here discuss for Ubiquiti.
It seems pretty clear to me that it does indeed address your point.

That you can build up sophisticated actions just by knowing the primitives and text objects is the point, right? And not having to memorize different commands and different selections.

From the article:

But now let’s look at delete commands. Let’s say you want to delete a word, delete to the end of the line, delete to the end of the file, or delete to the end of a paragraph.
Emacs only has two of these functions: kill-word and kill-line. Atom has the same two, more or less: deleteToEndOfWord() and deleteLine().

Vim, though, is different. Vim only has one command: d, which is “delete.” What does it delete? You name it, literally. The d command gets combined together with those commands for movement: dw deletes to the next word, d$ to the end of the line, dG to the end of the file, and d} to the end of the paragraph.

This is where Vim’s composability leads to its power. Emacs and Atom don’t have commands for deleting to the end of a file or a paragraph — even when they have commands to move to those places. But in Vim, if you can move to a location, you can delete to that location.

And composability is about more than just power, it’s also about learnability and consistency. The command for copying text in Vim is y. Do you know how to copy to the end of the line/file/paragraph? Of course you do: It’s y$, yG, and y} respectively. The command for increasing the indent is >, so you instantly know >$, >G, and >}. Convert to lowercase is gu, so… sure enough: gu$, guG, gu}.
For example, every revision of every product has to be signed off by Jony Ive.
Tell HN: Downvotes and Upvotes
Just a suggestion, but it strikes me, votes in general should be disallowed.

Simply make your points and counterpoints.

I vote that the Earth is not flat. I don't want to hear down votes or up votes, I want to hear coherent and concise theories why I am right or wrong.

Down votes are cowardly without comments at the very least.

This place should be a venue for peer revue, not an exercise in US politics.

Just a thought.
> The possibility of creating a laser through the interaction of light with water waves has not been examined, Carmon said, mainly due to the huge difference between the low frequency of water waves on the surface of a liquid (approximately 1,000 oscillations per second) and the high frequency of light wave oscillations (1014 oscillations per second).

I think that's a typo - unless the light actually has a frequency of 1khz, or I misunderstood the article.
> "twice ... pick a candidate who's lost the popular vote"

interestingly, those two elections were massively different. Gore won the popular vote and lost the electoral vote both by tiny margins. The election was statistically speaking basically a tie, and settled by something only slightly stronger than a coin flip. The largest margin in terms of raw votes in any single state was 1.7 million (Gore, NY). Two states were closer than 0.1% (NM and Florida).

Clinton won the popular vote by a much bigger margin, and lost the electoral vote by a much bigger margin. She won California by over 4.2 million votes (blowing Obama's 3.2 million vote edge out of the water; he won that election by a total of 10 million votes.) She had stronger-than-expected showings in areas where she was already strong, and weaker-than-expected showings in areas where she was weak. It was a much more polarized election, with fewer close results (no states under 0.1% margin) and more blowouts.
>16 foot lanes aren't a voluntary activity, they're infrastructure that everyone benefits from

So is ensuring that parents get to, you know, be parents.

>If you don't benefit from them somehow, you would have a valid complaint against subsidizing them

They did say they don't. They ride a motorcycle, and as such, don't need the full lane size.

>On the other hand, I distinctly don't benefit from random people diverting what could be my income to keep overpopulation going strong.

You would be wrong on all counts there, buddy.

>Simple arguments are better than complex ones. You're right, my argument is simple; it's morally wrong to force people to pay for things they don't want, and it's especially wrong to force people to pay for things where the benefit is obviously less than the cost.

And yet, the simple argument completely falls apart once you think about it. For example, you said they shouldn't be able to not subsidize wide roads. So why roads, and not childcare? Why roads and not police protection? Why roads and not healthcare?
PathFinding.js
That wasn't the assertion. The assertion was that internet has become (read: "is considered by most to be") a basic requirement for participating in society. In other words, if you are not on the internet, you are not effectively participating in the function of society, because so much of that activity occurs over the internet.
Ah, you're correct. I misread it. Tired eyes....
Founder here. We've been using this code as an in-house tool for a while to alert us to things happening around the 'net via email/SMS and thought we'd share with everyone here.

If you have requests, feedback, or just need help, let us know!
I'd be interested more about the steering (attitude control). Where did you find that? I don't see it in the article.

It seems like the dominant force here is going to be the radiation pressure of the laser hitting it, at least in deep space. There isn't going to be solar wind for most of this journey, they will be past the heliosphere and in the interstellar medium. But I guess all you need is for it to be correctly oriented when it reaches the distant star?
I think he means that the actual drawings are mostly fading, but photos can be enhanced so they look better.
Everything is relative. Can someone say, if that pipeline didn't exist, how much more or less theoretical damage would have happened had it been shipped by truck on highway instead?

The Dakota Access line is running a few miles from my workplace here in Iowa. I'm not opposed to the pipeline, per say, but the politics behind it are crap. It's approved by our utility board, which is composed of persons selected by our Governor, who has personal financial interest in the pipeline company. What's worse, the pipeline doesn't start or end in Iowa, so it just runs through here and is a total loss for us. No new jobs created. Needless to say, the utility board approved it along with eminent domain. (Shouldn't eminent domain be illegal when the land is going to a private company and not public use? The constitution is kind of clear on that, not sure how they get around it.)

The pipeline workers here are causing lots of trouble too. They're trespassing and tearing up land well outside of their easements. They're littering. They bury the scrap pipe and trash instead of hauling it out. They tear up the roads and hold up traffic.

Honestly, it's just such a net loss for us. And this is before the inevitable leaks. It's a racket.
Can I publish an app with HackerNews in the Title?
Hey guys I just made a really simple mobile app with React Native which uses the Hacker News API and pulls news from it. Can I publish the app with a name like "Quick HackerNews Articles"/can I publish it at all? It looks rather similar to the web app and contains "Hacker News App" as a header within the application. Thanks!
I didn't get the sense that the sound effect for dragon attacks was meant to be interpreted as being produced by the dragon, I took it as being in the same vein as the "BRAAAM" effect in the article.
Des Moines, Iowa, at the Jordan Creek mall. The MagSafe could have been temporarily out of stock on the shelf for all I knew, though. They've shuffled things around a few times and I don't visit often - around once a year to replace a frayed power cable.
Tbf, I viewed Farnham's Freehold as being intended to be as explicitly anti-racist as Henlein said he was (cf. I've never agreed. The racist son is an utter imbecile whose racist comments are repeatedly shot down by the hero protagonist, and the ultra-civilised future black society they run into that assumes that white people are less than human (and tasty!) but are otherwise very congenial is obviously a clunky parody of Jim Crow era America rather than a depiction of impending threat posed by black people (it's been made abundantly clear that the white people wiped their own civilization out, and the Joe character even gets to explicitly point out the enslaved white folks really aren't treated that much worse than a household servant in 1960s Alabama.)

Of course, it's done with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, but somehow it's far more forgivable in its consistently tone deaf naivety than if it appeared Henlein actually had a decent understanding of race relations.
(like the District 9 filmmakers ruining their perfect race-relations satire with comedy savage Nigerians...)

The daddy who's such an ubermensch even his own daughter wants to sleep with him, whilst he's actually busy screwing her best friend is much harder to accept, of course.
How to Use Arduino Serial Read??
You can say that a strategy to regain power is an ideological action in the long run, but then what is the difference between ideology and partisanship?
Are we not discussing the "origin of species" ?
Sure, you can call adaptation "an evolution" in the same sense you can call a subset of something "something".

Just because there's no evidence that natural selection leads to speciation it doesn't mean speciation in an of itself is not an important part of the evolutionary process unless of course you don't consider emergence of new species a part of that process.

Defining a framework/requirement for "something" to be called "something" is not a fallacy, removing the requirement because it doesn't fit your narrative is though.
A retail banker, with little understanding of technology and little clout. Having served in the investment arm of Barclays during his tenure, I'm not sure he can add much.
Ah, but why not expose the DOM on /sysfs and just hack away using sed and awk. What could possibly go wrong.
USB replaces a huge number of different cables[1].

[1] With a bunch of incompatible and identical looking USB-C cables.
I think coverage can influence effect here

Talk about it like "Someone stood on the tracks and killed themselves", and now every suicidal person who sees the track think about that. Many suicides are impulsive acts (helped by a state of mind, but few have the willpower to plan their suicide), so these tiny facts that can influence people in need can kill them. Avoiding specifics of the death can be enough to avoid copycat behavior, because it remains a bit abstract.

Instead, covering it as "we want everyone to know that there are these programs that we have in place for those suffering" (and of course having a real feedback loop). Then if only a couple people go in after reading this, you have done some good!

Our mental state is the combination of many tiny positives and negatives. Contributing even just a small amount might be enough to get someone into proper treatment.

(Amazon should also be doing its own work to figure out if changes are needed. We spend a good chunk of our lives in the workplace)
Fake News Is Getting Out of Hand
We use machine learning to detect anomalies on our customers' data and alert them of potential problems. It's not fancy or cutting edge, but it provides value.
> Shouldn't eminent domain be illegal when the land is going to a private company and not public use? The constitution is kind of clear on that, not sure how they get around it

There was a controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision on this in 2005, Kelo v. New London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
The best freelancers sell solutions to pain, not hours.

Worth remembering.
Yup. And since most of the frequent contributors on HN think basically the same way, they don't even notice the ideological stance.
>Don't review for free.

As an academic (who hates Elsevier as much as OP, and who has also signed the boycott), I can't agree. If we accept payment from publishers then we tie ourselves into their ecosystem even more.

I personally think of academic mathematics like a giant, collaborative, open source project. Research wants to be free, and there is no reason it shouldn't be. Fortunately (for now at least; researchers are being replaced by adjuncts in too many places) the open source model is sustainable. Universities hire us (at somewhat modest salaries) to teach classes and to write TPS reports from time to time, and to actively maintain a presence in the research community. And grant-making agencies such as the NSF are delighted to have the results of their funding disseminated as widely and as openly as possible.

It's not perfect, but to a large extent (at least outside the laboratory sciences) we have the luxury of simply contributing to knowledge without worrying too much about where our next paycheck will come from. That is one of the reasons why we're willing to work for half the salary that we might get in industry.

For a good model I recommend Discrete Analysis [1], a mathematics journal started by Tim Gowers. It is an arXiv overlay journal, meaning they do not publish articles (even electronically). They have a top-notch editorial board that handles peer review and lends their imprimatur to papers which are hosted elsewhere (on the arXiv, a free preprint server). It's everything that academics could want from a journal, with none of the cruft. If I ever do any research in the area of the journal then I am definitely submitting here. And I will dream of it getting accepted.

[1] http://discreteanalysisjournal.com
I can only speak for myself, but I dont really buy it. As early as two years ago I was super excited to buy the retina iMac, and my perception of the company then was about the same as it is now. I think this new generation of products has just had too many issues, and apple gets judged more harshly because the tight lockdown of their ecosystem makes moving harder. If dell came out with a bad laptop I can go buy an HP, but if apple comes out with a bad laptop I have to switch all my software.
Potentially where the "all balls" term originated: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/bsf2-3.php
> Apple has limited resources

Well come on now. Apple is one of the richest company in the world and has a tiny tiny product line to care about.
They have skipped a whole year of refresh on their entire Mac Line so they can focus on those 3 laptops. They also dropped their network equipment division and outsourced their monitor division to LG which must have freed some resource people or money.

This MBP release is catastrophic, even by Apple "don't buy iteration 1" standards. There is no excuse for the indeed poor story telling.

The Mac line is secondary business does not work either when they fucked up similarly the iPhone release. Promising that the world has moved from the headphone jack yet failing to deliver any headphone several months after the events, despite owning a whole business dedicated to that.

2016 is a miserable year for Apple. Hopefully that just an off year and they are preparing a unforgivable 2017, or it is just one of those crisis large companies goes through.
I totally would almost all the time. I use my phone's camera maybe once or twice a week, otherwise its just a useless extra, and I know the occasions on which I'm going to want a device with a camera so I could easily plan for them and take my phone (or a real camera) with me.
There's definitely an issue with people claiming their own pet theory is supported by "evolutionary psychology" when it's not even supported by data. But it's the framework we currently have, so that's to be expected. When people thought God invented everything, people fit their theories into that too.

And what's the alternative? Evolution has no effect on psychology? Our perfect mind came from divine inspiration?

Evolutionary psychology is threatening as a concept to many liberal ideals we've worked hard for. Men and women are equal. People are rational and can be trusted to make their own decisions, or vote intelligently. Liberalism can be boiled down to a kind of "faith in humanity", and like the earlier faith, thou shalt not question it, especially with science.

But like before, it's better in the long run if we face the uncomfortable truths, whatever they be.

edit: everything I'm trying to say here has been better said in The Blank Slate.
Have you seen "La nuit américaine"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_nuit_americaine
There's a bunch of problems here. For a start, laying off the team is probably the worst thing a startup founder wants to do - he likely wants to protect them and so sending them as a unit to FitBit is better. But if we was to go down to 10 people, then if he sent the rest to FitBit they'd be competing against the current team! So he's given the choice of the company succeeding or the employees finding a new home with little disruption.

Secondly, the cap table is probably fucked. It's hard to go down to a 10 person company without fixing the cap table. It's probably something like VCs own 55%, founders 25%, employees 20%. So for it to "behave" like a 10 person company, you want to recap it and make it more like a Series A company (investors 35%, founders 50%, remaining employees 15%). If you don't it's shitty for the founders and remaining employees.

If you do, it's shitty for investors. Who wants stock in a Series A company at Series C prices? They wouldn't even have product market fit. And given they have the option to get their money back instead, I'd wager they'd all vote to sell.

A final reason is that the culture of a company changes as it grows. They'll currently have a "big company" mentality. They'd have to switch to a "small startup" mentality, which might be tough: they might not even have "small startup" employees left (it's not uncommon to see early employees leave when the company gets too big for them to enjoy).

Whereas if he starts a new company, he'll find it really easy to raise money, he can probably pull away the employees that he needs from FitBit, and he'll own almost all of it.
I own a Pebble Time Steel. It is wonderful. People really underestimate the impact battery life has. I get annoyed when I finally have to take it out to charge (about once a week). Heck, right now it's at 10% and I don't really care. It didn't even tell me yet when it's expected to run out.

The screen may not be as gorgeous as a phone screen, but it is on all the time.

It's also very developer friendly. Heck, you can even create watchfaces in Javascript.

Before the acquisition, I would not trade it for the first generation Apple Watch. Maybe the second one, just maybe, if the community does not find a way to keep the current Pebble devices running.
It is, but slack seemed to go for a more corporate angle (along with Microsoft Teams), and there's not really anything for more casual users. On the other end of the scale we have Skype but that's more for personal chatting and their group conversation support is very week.

They have found a pretty good niche with a lot of users. Just like how reddit did with subreddits. There are a lot of "smallish" communities out there, based around games, likes, twitch/youtube channels, etc, and they all need some place to hang out when they're not in saig game/channel.

I think right now what matters most is who comes out winner with the biggest community, monitezation can come later.