skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three reasons:

1) I think there's actually a significant difference between "we think customers will really want what we're building" and "a few companies like our product enough to pay $20k/year for it." (If you a found a few customers like that, you can usually find many more.)

2) The practical reason is that often (but not always), when my partners and I see an interesting pre-launch or pre-traction company, we think "this looks promising, we just wish there was a little bit of traction to validate that this is solving a real problem in a meaningful way." So waiting for a little bit of traction before engaging saves time for us and for founders.

3) Investors can get a lot of insight from talking with one or two live customers before making a decision.
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Well, to be fair, this article is from the 90s. It's probably just a reflection of the times it was made in.
How about "Steady," har har, because it's not Flash.
There is ton of new interesting libraries being compatible with Python 3 only, so you can make this argument in either way.

In the end, you should ask yourself some questions:

Am I starting a new project or continuing an older one? If the former one, Python 3 should be preferred unless some library I need is only available for Python 2. If the latter, I should ask if the cost of migrating my codebase makes sense. If not, Python 2 is still a viable choice until 2020 at least.
Signal can use Cloudflare as well (the article I read first spoke of Cloudflare, not Google, but it wasn't in English). Blocking Cloudflare is going to break half the internet.
Sounds less like an issue with a particular side, but more an issue with the people you are friends with.
BusinessInsider, so no surprise there.
Clearly you're trolling, but in the interest of anyone else who might stumble upon this. The US is not even remotely the only country which asks for or requires information at the border they have no business asking for.

* Canada routinely asks for phone unlocks or laptop passwords at the border and has tried and prosecuted one of their own citizens for refusing to give up the information. [1]

* As the currently top-rated poster in this article thread points out, the Thai government asks for social media information at the border. [2]

* It's common in many countries now to ask for access to laptops or phones. This includes Australia, Canada, and the UK as well as the United States obviously.

* The UK has detained reporters [4] and seizes laptops from reporters [5] simply because they were encrypted and refused to turn over passwords. They've prosecuted and jailed 3 people for refusing adamantly to turn over their passwords, including a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who was a UK citizen. [6]

* Australian Customs requires you to declare pornography at the border, and if you don't or any pornography is discovered which violates the draconian obscenity laws there you can be detained and deported, or criminally charged. [7]

These are all "Western" nations I'm picking on here, but my point is that this isn't some special feature of the "evil US imperialist pigs" as you seem to think. This is a widespread and growing issue all over the world, including in places which most people would consider traditionally to be bastions of human rights. This doesn't even begin to discuss China, or as you mentioned North Korea, or my own experiences traveling in the Middle East and North Africa.

I'm very proud to be American, because I live in a society where despite how far we've fallen, the basic philosophy our country is founded on is one which respects and defends human rights including the right to privacy. It may require a lot of time or something disastrous happening in order to return things to a semblance of reason, but I have a lot more hope for the future of the United States than I do for nations with long histories of being violently oppressive.

Please spread your Pro-NK/China propaganda elsewhere.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/alain-philippon-phone-password-case-p...

[2] http://www.khaosodenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/pre/1460977...

[3] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/smartphone-laptop-searches-know...

[4] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-23782782

[5] https://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/2013_02_25/Outrageous-...

[6] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/

[7] http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/05/australian-customs-officia...
Don't get me wrong. The consensus attainment rituals/processes I found there (Japan, mid-80s~mid-90s) were mind-numbingly slow/tedious/inefficient.

But, in companies that manufactured products intended to compete in the global marketplace (and not something intended to meet some local need), the internal processes for doing root-cause analysis of design, manufacturing or even business model defects was pretty direct/efficient/ruthless and impersonal. To me that makes some sense: If I were on a team of 100 NASA engineers, all of us armed with slide-rules, trying to send some people to the moon and back, I wouldn't want feelings (or social standing) to get in the way of the process of verifying that the calculations were correct.
> There are a number of possible explanations for the different rates at which various groups unfriended others over politics.

Throwing one more on the pile: Perhaps self-identified Democrats were more willing to create social-media links with broader sets of other people in the first place, which now means a correspondingly greater scope for un-friending during controversial periods.

It's easier to avoid un-friending a person if (A) you have very strong requirements before you mark them as friends in the first place or (B) your friend-set is small in absolute terms.
This must be all of that tolerance and diversity that we keep hearing about...

Okay, that sounds kinda snarky. But seriously, the level of hatred, contempt, and intolerance coming from the Left these days is a huge turn-off. Not saying there's no hatred on the Right, but they don't seem to broadcast it and revel in it the way that the Left does. Most of the vaguely hateful stuff I see from the Right is something that somebody on the Left dug up from some obscure place to try and smear the Right. It trips my irony meter pretty hard when they do all this, and then talk about how it's the other guy that's all about hate, in the most hateful tones of voice I've heard anybody speak seriously in.
I think SQLite deserves to be looked at. Not so much for its coding style as for the sheer amount of tests in the code base. It has nearly 800 times more tests than code. Yes, 800, that's not a typo.

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
So pretty close to my imagined situation.
Are the Democrats losing ground? With white, middle/working class voters, yes. But almost every minority leans Democrat, and it's the Republicans who have their heads in the sand about the reasons behind that.

Not to mention, Republican voters were found to be far more likely to share fake news. These two things are connected. Yes, Democrats are disengaging from discourse. But the quality of discourse in 2016 has dropped considerably. There aren't any particularly easy answers here, and heaping blame on anyone but ourselves is a pattern we need to get out of.
I believe this is due to the desire to have 5k display support across all the new Pros, and none of the integrated graphics chips available now can wing it.

Seems likely that the 2017 models will drop in price a bit and have integrated graphics for the baseline models.
There are actually good counter examples where central planning wins. They are often contentious like Medicine, but the advantage markets bring is robustness not effecency. In a famine market economies have some people starve more and others starve less.
That makes sense. I was being slightly facetious, and I think most devices would NTP re-sync after some interval. But it would be cool if my phone did in fact show 3:59:60 (I'm pacific time) and/or analog smartwatch paused on the 59 for two seconds.
Been a Mac/Apple user for 25 years. Owned a Newton, a handful of Mac clones, navigated the crazy product matrix, went through the PowerPC transition and the Intel one, and experienced the clarity of focus and product consolidation that came under Jobs return to Apple.

The trend for the last 2-3 years seems to be steering toward the bad old days of disjointed brand focus and odd/sprawling product matrix, not toward clear consolidation that's driving toward some clear purpose or mission.

I'm hopeful that things come around, because the alternatives are still worse, despite my trying very hard to adopt them, but I'm concerned that in the not too distant future my consumer options for tech are going to be amongst a bunch of middling options instead of a field of mediocrity with one clear standout from the crowd.
Well, both the ECHR and CFREU protect freedom of expression, though I don't know if they are much use here, since it's not the government censoring you.

Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union:

> 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.

> 2. The freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected.

(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights...)

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights:

> 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

> 2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_10_of_the_European_Con...)
Here's a better analogy. Joe has OCD. Every morning, he rolls a d100, and if it comes up 1, he hosts a board-game party that night.

On day XX/YY/ZZZZ, Joe hosts a board-game party and a bunch of people show up. During the course of the party, Joe reveals to everyone his d100 policy.

Tim asks him what his die-roll this morning was. Joe tells Tim that he rolled a 1. Tim exclaims "The only reason we're here is because you rolled a 1! How did this incredible piece of luck come to pass?"

Adam responds "There's nothing incredible about what happened. If Joe hadn't rolled a 1 today, we wouldn't be here. We would never have this discussion, or have it on some other day when he does roll a 1."
Offline UX Considerations
There is absolutely no new info or analysis in this awful article. It's just an excuse to rehash clickbaity complaints from the past 3 months that everyone has already heard.
The OP Secure Browser invented the process isolation w/ kernel model for browsers in 2008. It was based on what high-assurance security did since the 70's. Native Client watered down its security a bit in 2009 to make it faster and with unsafe language. Result + some regular stuff was Chrome sandbox. Far from cutting edge in high assurance security for browser architecture or isolation in 2016.

Lots of potential for improvement using tech developed since then that does way better or older tech that does job little better.
I am reading through some of this, and there is some good advice.

With the caveat that I've only read a portion, I am put off by the anecdote about the Hyena and the Wildebeest. This is where he seems to be attempting to justify social Darwiniasm with actual Darwiniasm, and bizarrely projects his own conception of morality onto both.

He seems to believe that evolution is directional, and moral, which seems rather fanciful to me.

The question of trying to understand morality based on principles of Nature strikes me as pointless.

When the Hyenas kill the Wildebeest, for food, to them it is good. To the Wildebeest who was killed, it was undoubtedly bad, if anything can be called bad. To the Wildebeest who remain, perhaps in a more healthy overall environment, it might go either way.

I'm not sure what my point is here, except that my intuition is that there are some basic principles of morality, and they are not synonymous with "success." This impulse of successful people to extend methods of achieving success to be more than that is weird.
I suppose this an advance for those already using Rust but the core message on the front page doesn't speak to me as a non-Rust person.

FTA: Rocket is a web framework for Rust that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety. All with minimal code.

I'm at a total loss for why I really care about this major part of their message (type safety). If I have already switched to Rust then I care about type safety already and you don't need to sell me on Rust, you should focus on differentiating this web framework from the ones that came before it. But if I haven't switched to Rust then I am essentially unswayed by their messaging. I can't see why it's particularly important or different over other language/frameworks for web development.

Before learning Ruby I watched the Rails blog video sometime around version 0.14.3. Immediately you could the value of the framework and the ease of a language I was unfamiliar with. The win I could see was productivity and it was enough for me and a lot of other people to learn Ruby. I don't see that with this framework or really anything in the Rust world.
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I'm 29, and I still don't have enough frontal lobe development to go to bed at a healthy hour. A flexible work schedule doesn't help either. There's a big difference between going to bed at 11 PM and sleeping 8-10 hours and going to bed at 2 AM and sleeping 8 - 10 hours. The rest just isn't the same. When I really want great sleep before a big interview or something, I turn off all things digital and yoga/stretching, basically a wind down routine.
That may be because the HDMI to VGA adapter either doesn't work in general (there are so many cheap adapters on Amazon, and HDMI to VGA requires active circuitry, that I'd expect some of them to be fakes) or its pulling too much power over the HDMI port. I wouldn't trust any HDMI to VGA adapter that doesn't require external power.

Also, why does your laser pointer need to be connected to your laptop. If you mean USB presentation remote, you need more than one USB port.
>Hedge fund math = regular math. When you charge 2 and 20 but have slim or negative returns, the 2% dominates the 20%.

That's not the real problem. That part is intuitive. The real issue is that "20% of profits + 0% of losses" is equivalent to "20% fee, also you give them free money when the stock drops". People tend to focus on the 20% and that leads to highly inaccurate expectations.
“Michelle Obama. I’d like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortable in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.”

So said Trump's New York campaign co-chair. Today.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/311686-trump-ny-co-chai...

I'm not saying the right is consumed with hate, or that the left has none, but if you don't see any hateful stuff coming from the Right then you're deliberately ignoring it.
And for every one of those you have a 'Dem' spreading nonsense about vaccines causing autism and about how GMOs will mutate you.

While the media might make it look like it does no side has a particular monopoly on stupid.
Ask HN: What paper or PDF forms do you use most in your business
Do you ever mass fill them? Do you wish they were electronic?
I dunno who Slice is, but Phil Schiller claims "our online store has had more orders for the new MacBook Pro than any other pro notebook before."

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/11/02/phil-schiller-new-...
You're hired
Ah, thanks. That's helpful. So would you say that the appeal of the Anthropic principle depends on the multiverse theory (or something similar): the idea that there are an infinite number—or a great many, anyway—of "die rolls", an infinite number of attempts?
I'll add comments later on. After that I'll develop a system where you get ideas regularly based on your engagement level on the site.
>(passing bricks of notes isn't exactly subtle)

But is plenty done out here - not just bricks, even suitcases. There are even slang terms for it in movies (taken from real life, like khoka - "suitcase" - meaning a crore or so, but I'm not a big movie watcher, so not sure of the exact terms ... :)

Again, movies, and probably real-life stings, though I don't have links to show.

See my reply to wyager.
Sounds really awesome - if you'd care to share, I'd love to find out what company you work with!

edit: haha I'm dumb, just checked your profile.
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> Sixty-five percent of your calories must come from fat and the other 25 percent from protein.

It's an interesting read, but inaccurate silliness like this just made me laugh.
A less silly line of reasoning is trying to explain why the constants in physics have the values they do which permit life as opposed to the bulk of values that don't. One explanation for this is all possible universes exist so naturally we find ourselves in one compatible with us which is a kind of anthropic reasoning. Other possible explanations being they result from something we don't understand, or that God did it.
This actually raises my opinion of Airbnb substantially, thought they were all design school guys.
I get about 6.5 hours of sleep every night on weekdays. Closer to 8 on weekends.

I graduated from college a year ago and I used to get around 6 hours of sleep daily with a 20 minute nap.

I'm 23, by the way.
It's actually on Firefox, both on desktop and on Android (and free on the latter). We're not adding new features to Firefox right now, due to the upheaval of their extension framework, but once it's settled we'll be back at it.
You can always go work construction or clean streets. Maybe you get WiFi there. /s
Stop being an entitled prick.
Do you have any actual evidence to support that assertion, or are you just affirming the consequent? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent)
Completely fails to demonstrate the relevance of this as a critique here.

(Proof of Stake, Sharding, and depending on your use case zero-confirmation transactions or shorter block times solve the problems you identify here.)
From the text of the article: "Jamnitzer’s studies possess a captivating artistic merit. With the manipulation, repetition, and layering of basic shapes, they seem like distant precursors to Minimalism and its concerns."

'60 Minimalism in sculpture, that is. e.g. Tony Smith, or Gego.

To be honest, the author seems to be talking more about a more recent idea of minimal sculpture, like polyhedra made out of wire. A google image search for "minimal geometric sculpture" (no quotes in the search) will show a lot of that work.
Regular Expressions for Irregular Rhythms
I need to add a terms of service. Something like: "All submitted ideas are free for all members of the site to use and act upon."

Does anyone have an example of such a TOS? One that basically says you relinquish all rights to the ideas you give on this website.
I don't know how to solve problem of stateful container and data storage so I tried to use a NFS for this and failed.
Fair Game
GTD for Hackers
Or that they are willing to sell at considerably lower margins.
That applies if people leave their money in the fund forever. If some of that cycles then there are no high water marks on the new money.
I don't think it would even get as far as thinking about the "thousands of years" bit. $WE would just think, "OK, we survived, but our neighbors were already weaker than us before, so they're bound to be in really bad shape.".

(I have a pessimistic view of humanity. Individual humans are actually usually pretty nice, but we're just too easily led and since 'leaders' tend to have traits that are antithetical to general well-being...)
I'm curious where you have gotten this trend from, because it seems to be the opposite of what I can find. Compared to Romney, Trump only did slightly better with whites. Trump did much better with minorities.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/el...
What are some examples of "risk-taking"?
(I don't think I've know anyone who could be described as risk-takers.)
I exaggerated, latitude can be determined without a clock from celestial objects. Longitude requires both a synchronized clock and an equation of time (because noon GMT varies). [1] The equation of time is published. Rather than adjusting all the clocks in the world, the equations could be modified to account for additional variation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time
The ARRL Handbook [1] covers all of those topics pretty comprehensively and provides a digital edition with a large collection of supplemental content. They also publish a separate antenna book, but the Handbook does a fine job of covering antenna basics. I recommend the hardcover; this is a large book and it benefits from strong covers.

[1] https://www.arrl.org/shop/ARRL-Handbook-2017-Hardcover-Editi...
You can get surprisingly decent speech output from a computer with nothing more than connecting a speaker to an I/O pin. So there's no more cost to that than a beeper. This is what is frustrating about the beepers!
Or complete chaos. Pillaging, plundering, and warring.
I'd dub it the E-Ticket Elevator!
The point is, you can't come up with a grand theory of why you're playing board games, it was chance.
It continues to baffle me how much on disk cache is used by web browsers, but won't be used to load a page I know is in the cache if I'm offline.
> One wonders who's going to be paying those taxes to fund the pensions of the elderly and the other massive liabilities of the European welfare states.

Can't pay for it. It's all gonna collapse =)
I think you have the right take. Not sure if even with imminent catastrophe there would be any kind of unity.
I may be missing something, but how is this:

let response = await request`
url: https://api.myapp.com/register
method: POST
body: ${body}
headers: ${{
Authorization: 'Bearer: token'
}}
`

better than:

let response = await request({
url: 'https://api.myapp.com/register',
method: 'POST',
body: body,
headers: {
Authorization: 'Bearer: token'
}
)

Perhaps it's just personal style, but the readability of both is similar and it feels like you've created a subset of a JSON or YAML parser that isn't as bulletproof / flexible.

I did enjoy the example of how template literals are parsed under the hood.
But if you turn it off, then you can't use Spotlight to find files at all, whereas if it is on, then one can use it.
I have been testing out VimFx as well (long time Pentadactyl user). I miss being able to do ":b" and quickly find open tabs, but the Firefox awesomebar has a similar functionality if you type "%". That's what I have been using. You can see more information here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire...
>Why is there so much structure?

Because complex structures (brains) are much more likely to form out of self-assembling sub-structures than from random noise.

And Boltzmann brains wouldn't be on hackernews.