skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I swear sometimes recently I feel like I'm reading comments from a weird alternate universe HN where I simultaneously claimed to be Elon Musk and also fabricated everything.

Hello, Earth 2 HNer. Back here on Earth 1 I ran a succession of small software businesses. They're anomalously well-documented; BCC more than any other. If you have access to the Earth 1 Internet you can read the first month'a report where I "bragged" about $24.95 and follow the curve from there. Please give my regards to fellow Earth 2 denizens who told me in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 that publishing numbers would bring a horde of competitors to kill me.
> (relatively - anyone on here who isn't a student can afford it)

I know you mean well but this is the epitome of living in a bubble. :)
Umm, would you care to point out where in my unedited post I said "I think"?
We'll also know a lot less about them. What's the point of finding them and leaving them in the ground? You might as well not look for them in the first place.
5 drawbacks to liking SBT
Only 200 lux, according to Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Philips-GoLITE-Energy-Light-Rechargea...
Redux is like 200 lines of code and very explicit without any magic. What exactly is complex about it?

I think too often people don't appreciate that redux, like all frameworks is a trade-off and is often the wrong tool for the job. Speaking about it as if it's a generic framework to trade out for another framework is a sign that it's being selected for the wrong reasons.

If it's not making your life easier, you probably shouldn't be using it for that application. It's a really nice framing hammer, not a multitool ;)

When I got into front end, I used redux for a small SPA with about a dozen actions and didn't really get it. "I could do this with react and basic JavaScript. Why am I writing so much extra?" I refactored redux out and it was much better.

I have another application that interfaces with a number of APIs, is a very thick client and needs to recover from local storage on startup. Redux fit like a glove!
Here’s What We Can Learn from Lyft’s Latest Performance Numbers
I like Elixir and am using it but the large amount of Ruby references is starting to annoy me. I've never used Ruby so all those comparisons add no value for my learning it.

But I do like the language and the environment.
When social media get started loading fun part, then, they should think how to convert into a tool people can use within their daily social activities – increase user coupling grade.
I love IndieHackers!
I sort of see what you mean, but I can’t really agree: A politician is elected, but a diplomat is a civil servant, and is employed. Furthermore, a politician makes decisions and sets policy, while a civil servant obeys decisions and enforces policy.
While true, this is anecdotal data. Are their overall engagement numbers down that much?
I hope it pans out and doesn't become the next "java will catch up to c one day".
Miracast is such standard. Thousands of devices support it. However two major players ( Apple & Google) dont. Apple has traditionally been a closed system, so it is not a big surprise. What surprises me is that Google also removed support for Miracast from Android and started promoting their proprietary casting protocol.
Cancellation falls out of the model: you drop the future, and it Just Works. (drop being the regular old Rust destructor stuff, which happens when it goes out of scope, or when you call std::mem::drop.)

Yup! The danger there is that the ecosystem may fragment, however, basically everyone is rallying around tokio, including the other people who were working on similar libraries, so in practice, this should be fine.
"John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, from the US university's mechanical and aerospace engineering department, have based their prediction on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google as a search term"

Really amusing. Now people type facebook.com and open facebook app on mobile. This research is garbage.
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Summary: Google Brain team hired a bunch of 1-year residents to do research with them. They've published 21 papers already and are loving it. Apply for next year here: g.co/brainresidency
Using a yellow whiteboard marker, simply colour in the LED's face. Problem solved.
I would classify it more as a widget or add-on in that it's use lies in being added to an existing website (much like Google Analytics). The entire admin/dashboard area for managing sites, adding users, integrations etc is like a typical webapp though. The stack is a pretty vanilla LEMP stack on the backend, with some extra bits for handling queues. The trickiest piece is the widget that gets embedded on sites, it needs to be bullet proof across browsers and devices since it's used for feedback and testing. It needs to work on pretty much everything that people visit websites with.
Stay in the same place for 10 years? Sounds like jail.
Garbage research funding should be stopped for these phd students.
I'm confused...how are authentication and "password-based" related? (Yes, passwords can establish who you are...just as biometrics or tokens can. Or they can be used in place )

Using Biometrics for claimed identity is a choice (I guess...it's not one I've heard of before), not a mandate. 2FA doesn't specify what factors line up with with "claimed identity" vs "confirmed identity" - just that 2 factors is more secure than 1 factor.

I've never heard of "used biometrics as username, and a password as password", nor that "biometrics are meant as username replacement". Have I fallen behind, or am I misunderstanding you?

My understanding is that, in CONFIRMING identity, you want at least two of "know something, have something, be something". Every example I've heard/seen (admittedly limited) used these to confirm a claimed identity, not to make the claim in the first place.
Someone needs to give a copy of this book to all the Architects in the world.
Huh. I guess it's worth a shot, then... I'll have to look into using a MAX232 for connecting it to my terminal, as well (I do, in fact, have a terminal: A Z19, in fact).

Might as well build a Z80 system while I'm at it. And Zilog's UARTs are quite nice, or so I've heard.
I feel like I probably should be focusing on something else, but some nice discounts would kick in if I can reach 1000 subscribers. That's still a bit far, but seems possible, so I'm obsessing about reaching that level.
Also interesting to note that they say Facebook Google searches peaked in 2012, which was also the year Facebook shifted their focus to mobile phones according to this MediaWiki article/timeline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Facebook#Product_a...
I don't know.
AFAIK, short men have a higher rate of heart disease than tall men.
http://time.com/3815022/shorter-people-heart-disease/
70% of Americans identify as Christians (source: Wikipedia), and 50 to 70% of Christians are leaning Republican (source: Pew Research) (depends on denomination, Mormons and Evangelicals higher, Catholics lower). So we have 1/3 to half of the population. Do you think it's not large enough group to have strong political voice? I think it is. I'm not sure what "far out of proportion" claim is based on.
I know this isn't Reddit, but the term "loose skin suit" left me giggling
Neural Combinatorial Optimization with Reinforcement Learning
1.79 billion monthly active users.

I guess you might be counted as 4 people if you use all your test accounts regularly, but the average number of Facebook accounts per person must be extremely close to 1.

Facebook estimates that between 5.5% and 11.2% of accounts are fake [1]. So that's still around 1.59 billion real users.

[1] http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2014/02/03/facebook-estimates...
Technically, I think he goes by Gabriel Weinberg. http://ye.gg/

Not to be confused with: http://gabeweinberg.com/
> It does not mean you need to run home and rip all the lights out, though.

From the article:

we investigate, in albinos and pigmented rats, the effects of different exposure protocols

It's much too soon to rip out the lights in any event.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13324514
> I would recommend Cx to all React contractors.

But your licence scheme seems to favour devs who only work for one company a contractor would get a new one for every project.
myira.gov, saves tax credit, pension from their job, ROTH IRA, increasing their income, having many children
$33 per month doesn't seem like that big a deal to me, at least for somebody gainfully employed and residing in a first-world country. Many people spend as much on a meal, or 2 movie tickets (ticket to Rogue One in 3D costs $16.25 around here).
From the Bloomberg article: "And if you're really lucky, you might be able to order a 2005 Sauterne from Château d'Yquem, the superior first-growth winery that was a favorite of Thomas Jefferson and is now owned by LVMH."

My God. Drinking a 2005 d'Yquem is infanticide. Those wines are meant to mature for decades.

When you talk about the "best vintage" of d'Yquem that's still drinkable, you have to specify which century!

For example, 1811: http://sip-bali.com/yquem-1811/
The only bit of Redux I actually use is `createStore`, `store.dispatch`, `store.getState` and `store.subscribe` but it seems stupidly simple to me. I sometimes start re-implementing a bit of it rather than pull a dependency in or if I am working in a language that doesn't have it as a library.

This "Redux in a nutshell" implementation might illustrate better what I mean: https://gist.github.com/MarcoWorms/30758235f05faec844b8c06ce...

React-Redux does seem to complicate things for no reason. I have just been using plain Redux with React because I didn't want to learn it.
I always found this interesting...

I have worn polycarbonate lenses my whole life, well since infancy. Polycarbonate lenses block UV light. If I go outside without my glasses or sunglasses my eyes hurt, even in winter. I don't know if my eyes are super sensitive or they just aren't used to the UV light and the micro-damage it causes.
TL;DR: grow hair in the area -> hair sends signals that regenerate myofibroblasts as fat instead of scar tissue.

I guess their actual breakthrough wasn't covered in the abstract. The full text is paywalled. None of the news articles actually say what the scientists did.
There was a miscommunication. The recruiter intended to communicate that "VP-level committee is usually a safety check and pretty much a rubber stamp".
That's the review layer above the main Hiring Committee.

If you got rejected by VP committee, that is unusual and work grumbling about -- and possibly constrained by amount of funding available for new hires.

The "come back in a year" is absolutely honest. Many people are hired a year, or 2, or 3 later. Google is happy to say "not sure / not yet" to people and "yes" later.
That's pretty cool - riot integrates freenode to bridge irc.
I would assume you are counted as 3 or 4 people. I think this is restricted by the Facebook ToS and is one of the reasons they try to collect real names, which admittedly doesn't really fix the issue.
I like this best too. All it does is add one more click (when you select the auto fill info, it pops up with all the data and you just approve) and it also solves a lot of wrong fills that can happen.

There's often sites that are poorly coded, and autofills ends up putting my phone number in some random field and I have to manually delete it.
AIUI there's been a lot of speculation lately that the price of bitcoin was propped up by Chinese investors, so if bitcoin drops 20% at the same time that the Chinese yuan soars, I don't think it's much of a leap to speculate that the former was caused by the latter.
Everything is potentially dangerous. The article reported an experiment done on albino rats; that's not much indication of a serious risk to people; it only means that someone should look into it further.
That's anecdotal evidence that isn't at all reflective of reality. Some stats about Facebook for Q3 2016:

MAU (monthly active users) - 1.79B (up 16% YoY)

DAU (daily active users) - 1.18B (up 17% YoY)

Revenue - 7.01B (up 59% YoY)

Net Income - 1.38B (up 166% YoY)
For the residents that quit jobs in industry to do this program, what's next for them? How many residents are converting to permanent employees?
Facebook seems to have determined it is a more mature network where kids graduate into it once they are ready for it. Seems like they are making money with this model.
The problem is those numbers are easily faked|manipulated.

I agree with OP in the same way that I believe the story about the shoe shine boy and the stock market. It may not happen tomorrow, but facebook is not cool anymore.
You've made a great list of the downsides, perhaps you could at some point list the upsides? A yubikey you don't move around, and that you don't take extra steps to ensure the security of, seems no more secure or useful than a cert file on your hard drive.
Ed: For clarity the cost delta is not 200+ million, the price is vastly more than 200+ million to make 100 million of chip X.
I went through several cycles like that. But somehow I stopped using Facebook in 2013. I managed to shift the mindset from "it's a waste of time" to "it's very shameful to use facebook" (and maybe connect it with some really shameful thing in your mind, like, "using Facebook is the same as stealing an old man's money") and that magically works! And it doesn't require any iron will for me.

After that, every single time I think about using Facebook the shame engine in my mind generates enough repel force for me to not do it.

I didn't do that whole process intensionally. I remember seeing some meme like "checking out Facebook in the summer -- all my friends are having fun somewhere and me masturbating lonely in a dark room" and that initiated the mindset change.

To be honest, I know using Facebook is NOT a shame, but now I don't have any reason to use it at all. (There are some stupid website which only allows Facebook login, and I use my gf's account for it -- neither I nor her care about what's on her facebook.)
Wonder how research this is, what if people are looking for more engineering oriented experience?
Especially since the GP's author probably is not an albino rat (though I don't want to presume).
Correction: turns out 70% was for white evangelicals (missed a note), so the number is surely lower than half and probably around 1/4. The point still stands - 1/4 of the population is a huge block.
All social media is like that.
You know - as much as I like the Arduino, I have always sincerely wished the Massimo hadn't done an 11th hour rush job on parts placement, leading to the 0.05 inch foul-up on the headers.

That one, oh-so-minor difference is a thorn in many a uC experimenter's side, because it means that standard 0.1" spacing of pins to make custom shields is impossible without special thru-pin headers, bending pins, third-party thru-hold blank shields, or just leaving one or the other header off entirely (which isn't a real solution if you need one or more pins on both headers).

We could have seen a ton of custom 0.1" proto and strip-board shield designs, but instead we are thwarted by this one simple mistake caused by being in a hurry due to a deadline.

Now - we are stuck with it - likely forever, because each new iteration of microcontroller hardware almost guarantees that there will be support for "Arduino Shields" because so many are out there. Yes, I know there are experimenters "blank" shields - but they are rarely as inexpensive as a standard 0.1" PTH PCB - and almost all of them are the size of a single shield, none larger.

It would have been nice, for instance, to be able to put in extra-long pin headers on an Arduino, then plug that on top of another larger PCB with standard hole spacing (whether soldered in-place or via headers too). Instead, the only option is to "build" the Arduino onto such a custom board (ie, program an ATMega328P and plop it on the board with resonator/crystal/power/etc).

/sigh/ - oh what could have been...!
If only it were that simple. Are you aware of anywhere where usage taxes cover all of the infrastructure?
The committee is how you "pass" the interview. Only awful interview performances are rejected on interview scores alone, before committee. Committee reduces the set of interview scores into a single decision.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh my god you're serious.
Lovely to see. Is this just a spec? What does it need for me to use it as a developer? Drivers? Hardware support? Kernel support?
> I'm not planning on Social Security being around by the time I'm old enough to tap into it

But you assume your 401k will retain its favorable tax treatment?

Why? Because it was promised, implictly, when you paid into it?
Show HN: Texting Advice App Made with Firebase, React, MobX, Node, RethinkDB
And most people hated CFs/LEDs when they first came out because they had that cold, blue, jail cell look to them.

Most people today buy the much warmer ones so they don't feel like they're in a mental institution.
Arguments on the basis of "they're a private organization; you have not right to tell them what to do" just don't hold a lot of water in these contexts.

Forcing an organization to do something is a big deal because, unless you are specific about when and what kind of data you can force a private company to disclose, it can be abused. This is why such arguments are important.

But if it wants to operate a business on NYC's streets on a (massive) scale -- well, that's a privilege, not a right.

It actually is not a privilege, it is a right. Conducting business is a First Amendment right. In fact, this is a dangerous argument: if conducting business is a privilege, couldn't the government decide which businesses it likes and it doesn't like? The use of New York's streets is indeed a privilege, but that is already paid for by road taxes - anything more than that is just double dipping.

It's called "rule of law", a concept which Uber has demonstrated considerable difficult in understanding thus far.

Let's leave the attacks out of this - replace Uber with any other company and you have the same set of issues to discuss. Instead, let's just focus on the merits of the idea of government coercion of a private company to release data.

If this data was truly beneficial to the public, couldn't the government buy it from the company through a voluntary transaction, paid for by taxpayers? The company can decide whether or not they wish to sell that information. The only reason a company would refuse to sell anonymized information is if they think the data is important to their competitive success.
Ah... out of curiosity, what about React-Redux seems complex?

Quick summary:

- Wrap your component tree in <Provider store={store>

- For any component that needs to access data or dispatch actions, use `connect()(MyComponent)` to create a wrapped-up version.

- Write a function known as "mapStateToProps", and pass it as the first argument to `connect()`. It will be called every time an action is dispatched, and given the latest store state. Extract whatever pieces of data this component needs, return them, and they become props for the wrapped component.

Dan Abramov wrote a miniature version of `connect` , which shows the basic approach it uses: https://gist.github.com/gaearon/1d19088790e70ac32ea636c025ba...
Maybe I'm just old, but I never got the appeal. I find it hard to believe Snapchat has more social value than Twitter, but that's just my opinion.
I think a lot of the complexity comes from the incredible specificity of the docs. The authors intend to _teach_, which while great (thank you) it can seem overly complex for users who first land there.

I think a "Quick Start" section would solve a lot of the so-called "complexity" issues, showcasing a few common use-cases:

- Without React
- With React

Put bare-bones code under each of those sections and then let the user learn the particulars as they come (and as their projects demand)
How to Overcome Your Fear of Losing
A lot of financial articles like that are actually written by bots now.
That's not true, if the network is ipv6 aware, each user gets his own ipv6 with irccloud.

Not to mention the hardcoded usernames.

I'm against irccloud (you're paying to be man in the middled) but they definitely sorted the "can not ban" problem.
Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)
This really points out the danger of using an analogy to extrapolate other similarities. Bacteria don't live forever, but there's nothing to prevent Facebook users from being Facebook users forever.
There are a couple dealbreakers for now, but I'm seriously looking forward to the day I can migrate our stack ON to create-react-app largely for this reason. Having other people working to make my dev experience better is a huge plus.
One trick that worked for me is to gradually subscribe and like boring stuff like cat pictures, scientific journals ect. Anything that doesn't rile you mentally, i.e low mental imprint. Do this very very slowing but consciously after a while your facebook feed would become 'boring' making it easier to quit.

I did this couple of years ago and never went back.
It's true that most companies die, if you include every tiny startup and shop. I don't think it's necessarily true if you look at companies that are the size of Facebook.

There are a lot of very, very old companies in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

Kongō Gumi is a Japanese construction company that was started in 578 AD, and operated for over 1,400 years until it was bought in 2006.

If Facebook lasts as long as Kongō Gumi, they'll still be around in the year 3432.
From my perspective, the worst months in Austin (July and August) could be doable with a shower at work. Without one--totally unthinkable unless your job involves outdoor labor. I biked daily for 3 years when I lived in Boston but there's just no equivalent to putting on a big jacket for heat/sweat.

Look at the dew point (which far better comparison than humidity because it doesn't fluctuate with temperature). Here are the August daily averages for Austin[0] and Toronto[1].

Toronto's dew point range (~53-63) has a max that is right around our minimum (Austin range: ~63 - 72).

Also keep in mind that, Toronto's daily high temps in August (~77F) are right around Austin's lows (~76), with our highs reaching around ~97F.

I'm going to suggest that you may be misremembering how humid it felt - in my opinion there's no way to bike any reasonable distance for the majority of July and August (and often June and September as well) without showing up a sweaty mess. At least I haven't figured out how to do it--even though I bike commute regularly from October - May.

[0]: https://weatherspark.com/averages/29672/8/Austin-Texas-Unite...
[1]: https://weatherspark.com/averages/28390/8/Montreal-Quebec-Ca...
palaver (iOS) and ZNC do the server-time playback quite nicely as long as you use up to date versions. (and also push notifications)

ircv3 specification is shaping up to have even better capabilities there too.
Its much easier to avoid burnout when your projects are popular. Whats really hard is to avoid burnout when you put hundreds of hours of effort into a project that only you yourself uses.
Really? I live ~20 miles away, and it's pretty common knowledge here...
Without Redux - With Redux
AMD Vega GPU Architecture Details Revealed
This is exactly how signing in to gmail works if the browser has the credentials of the account saved.

Initially only the input field for e-mail is displayed. There's also a, hidden to the user's eyes, _next step_ with the password field that gets populated if the browser auto-fills it.
I must be older still -- I can't believe any of it has value.