skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Screen hinge is a big deal to me. My '14 rMBP can be opened while on a desk with one hand and the screen never moves even during furious typing, and I really like that. I work with someone who just got a 13" XPS and his screen wobbles quite a bit.
I don't think this is a form of trolley problem. If the decision were going to be made unilaterally that either everyone or no one would use net-positive self-driving cars, then it would be a trolley problem. Actually, this decision is made on a driver-by-driver basis by the driver themselves. If the driver is educated about when it's riskier and when it's safer than their normal driving, it's easy enough to punt the decision to them. Clearly that's not happening though https://youtu.be/qnZHRupjl5E
That's the problem with benchmarks. For IQ tests, we measure a small subset of skills, and then extrapolate to make conclusions about other, unmeasured skills.

This works fine as long as the tested humans are unaware of the methodology, because extrapolation doesn't work when the subjects have specialized, specifically, in the subset of skills from which we extrapolate. In other words, if we keep measuring intelligence through IQ tests, sooner or later we will only be good at solving IQ tests -- and that's not very intelligent.
Great question!

Most other "round up" apps send your money towards savings or investing. The problem is that most people pay 6%+ interest on their various forms of debt, while barely earning a 1% interest from a savings account.

We send out payments towards debt, which helps people pay it off an average of 2 years early, and save $1600+ on interest.
If you look at the new housing stock coming on-line there is a dearth of "family" housing stock --most units have DINKs in mind. they have bikes in mind, not strollers. Yoga space, not daycare, an open floor plan with no child's room, etc.

New families don't have the income to pay what 3/4/five professionals can pool together to afford that 2/3/4 bedroom flat.
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OLED is fundamentally different than LCD for 3D purposes. OLED can near-instantaneously flip between the left/right eye views, so your perception in each eye is a clear image. LCD's refresh rate is much slower by comparison, leading to each eye getting a more blurry image.
Here's an example: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

Opening another tab creates a new bakery, not a view into the same bakery. (This only works if you haven't played before or clear your cookies.)

Edit:

If you really want to keep the same functionality then you would need to bring server communication into the mix. It's possible to either run the simulation server-side, or at least communicate the state between tabs using a server.

If you send an email in one Gmail window and it shows up in the other window, then I would guess it receives a message from the server to update.
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Fine, and most "webmasters" are really just hack frauds. On my planet, it's their job to get a room and ours to burn it.

edit: Usage implies intentionality. Intentionality implies awareness. Not being some super guru, but more awareness than "is text, won't read". Therefore, while the drive to shovel hardware on people, to create needs you then get to fill, did indeed bring all sorts of people who now get called users to the table, I don't consider them such. It's like someone who has a seizure on dance floor is not dancing, or like someone you forced to be somewhere is not "visiting that place". And I know people don't find it rude to just ignore a claim of how something ought to be with "but this is how it is, which is why it can and must be that way", which is why I say what I say. If someone does bad things and won't discuss them, it's absolutely up to the people who are aware and care to act. If you don't understand poetic language unless it's flowery that's your problem. So yes, I stand by what I said, just not by what it might evoke in the minds of some readers.
Why exactly would you end up with universally bad schools?
From experience of learning other languages, I feel that reading other people code is one of essential parts of language learning. So I'm seeking first of all for a project to learn from, and only then, possibly, to contribute
There's no right way to do it.
What's hard is understanding which question you want to
ask in any given situation.

I don't see the issue. You admit that answering all of these questions is easy. The hard part is lawyering which question to ask.

This is not a data reporting problem.

This is a data interpretation problem.

A good reporting tool should not be interpreting (or forcing an opinion) on the end user.

You believe this problem is hard because you are forcing an interpretation to exist before you take a measurement. When you should not be interpreting until after measurement. Injecting an interpretation into a measurement process fundamentally changes that measurement.

Measurements inform your interpretation. Not the opposite.

TL;DR You put the cart in front of the horse.
Check out this page if you fancy some horrible scrolljacking. Scroll half way between two industries http://www.rsync.net/industries.html

Let me read the text where I want to put it dammit!
This sounds like a fun question, and seems interesting and engaging for both the interviewer and the interviewee.
If you'd like to better understand the background behind the new Google Voice apps, check out my G+ post here.

https://plus.google.com/+AlexWiesen/posts/EEVjRbbKz65
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>Cars are designed to operate in all kinds of extremes

Yes, and self-driving cars will not be suitable for those extremes. I don't see how that's a major problem?
A great "how would you architect X" is Uber. Lot's of hidden complexity.
Anything that's 3D animated IMO, your pixar or dreamworks kinda stuff - they all work far better than camera-3D stuff as the '3D gimmick' fits with the fact that it's animated, as well as the nature of 3D CG allows for the stereoscopy to be tweaked and perfected far easier.
Right, so real life isn't made of jagged lines, and blurring that gives illusion they are not.

Regarding motion blur, I agree, it's way overdone in games, and I disable as well.
A common use-case is tabs that are streaming music. I'm not sure if most users are even aware of pinned tabs.
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While this is elegant, its still dangerous. There are online payments that could check whether your booking is complete in the background by periodically firing ajax calls, bulk updates or uploads, etc.
Your question is too broad. Which industry? Which type of products? which technologies are you referring too?
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>> "The piece in fact, is more about the author than the film"

There is a whole loathsome, solipsistic genre like this. E.g. novels about wealthy privileged young authors living in Brooklyn struggling to find meaning in their lives, written by---you guessed it---wealthy privileged young authors living in Brooklyn struggling to find meaning in their lives.

The Paris Review is just one of many participants in the proverbial plays-about-playwrights game.
> An incumbent has over a 90% chance...

You're assuming that public officials are automata that don't suffer from risk aversion, don't need to raise money in close races, and don't change their behaviour based on whether they have public opinion behind them. I wouldn't bet on that being true.
Secular declines in cognitive test scores: A reversal of the Flynn Effect: https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2016-dutton.pdf

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/smart-as-we-can-...
Yep, and Android 6.0 Doze even expanded this mechanism to be more aggressive which proved to provide huge battery savings.
You don't have to go to Peru. Just try driving in Boston.
My advice is to seek legal council.
Explain how that is different?
Yeah, if you want to experience presence you basically have to use a Vive - a Rift might just about do it but you'll probably run into a whole lotta tracking issues thanks to their (awful) tracking solution.
I'll get XCode and check it out as soon as I can. I didn't know about the personal device thing.
Yeah, I had done web development for a bit on Windows, but when I got my Macbook 2 years ago it really took off not having to wrestle with cygwin and short battery life. I'm still a student but I have a part-time well-paying job right now that's partially thanks to a great OS and hardware.
lol... I can't believe you're being downvoted.

Hacker news has become totally cucked.
Wouldn't Cookie Clicker be doing updates based on time deltas? There's no guarantees a timer will fire after the desired time even without this update. Or am I missing a feature that requires it to be able to continually process in the background?
In English is it correct to say spiders are insects? In my native language (portuguese) it would be not accurate, as they are arachnida class, along with scorpions,mites and ticks.
I'd he happy to suspend (and even offload to swap) some tabs from time to time. Too many times I get almost unresponsive tabs where I want to do something but it is just too laggy due to other tabs occupying the cpu.
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Yeah, I guess it's a bit like saying "don't think about a pink elephant", but not saying that doesn't guarantee that they won't think of a pink elephant.

And I'd wager that people who would read about the Portia, and would read Blindsight and Echopraxia are the type to think long and hard about such topics anyway.
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Gnuplot is more customizable than matplotlib, more powerful, fastar and handles larger datasets, exports seamlessly to images, LaTeX, PDF, HTML5, animated gifs, among others, etc. It's a better tool than matplotlib, for me at least.

That it takes more effort to produce a "beautiful" output is myth, in my experience. People used to say that in large part because up to gnuplot 4 the default colors were ugly primary colors. On gnuplot 5 and above, it's no longer the case. Plus, you can customize the default colors/styles by editing the .gnuplot file. I've done so: https://ghostbin.com/paste/pvj5m
I was referencing restore costs. You can have B2 send you a Harddrive containing the contents of a bucket and send it back to get a restore for cheap.
Fighting crime is not that much of a discussion topic in the "other civilized nations", because it is not as big a problem there. The US debate about crime might even be counter-productive as it bars the option to do things that have been shown to work (rehabilitation instead of punishment, reduction of poverty/inequality)
I don't understand how lines 4 and 15 don't get caught by the compiler-- a String cannot extend an Integer?

I'm not even sure how you would be able to write this in Scala without violating rule number 1 of Scala, which is "never write the word null in your code".
I really can't communicate how awesome Blindsight is. Have you read the sequel?
So what? It's not like it's an essential service. If it were, it wouldn't be $5/mo.
Your list aligns almost perfectly with JJ DID TIE BUCKLE - the US Marine Corps acronym for leadership.

Judgement
Justice
Dependability
Integrity
Decisiveness
Tact
Initiative
Endurance
Bearing
Unselfishness
Courage
Knowledge
Loyalty
Enthusiasm
Price won't be an issue unless there will be content worth that £350 coming out in the next 5 years. If the VR hype fizzles down in the next year or so, it won't happen.

Don't get me wrong, I've tried most of the VR gadgets out there and I kinda enjoyed using them (except the first Oculus devkit which was awful) and so did my friends. But they don't really keep me entertained for more than an hour or so. And I usually like to play with friends (in the same room) and having only one guy wearing the headset isn't really social.
I think there might be something about his face that make it irresistible for people to throw dog poop at it, like when he tried to speak on a college campus with Breitbart tech editor and unabashed white supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos.

[1] http://usuncut.com/resistance/martin-shkreli-gets-poop-face/
My personal preference would be MPTCP, then BitTorrent, Googles idea for UDP HTTP, then plain TCP HTTP.

Many things can benefit from MPTCP however, including BitTorrent.
I think that sweating profusely and feeling thirsty is the graceful degradation. I don't think there's a way to gracefully degrade from "my brain is a burger patty now".
Give me something to call my own
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Definitely and I'd say the struggle is only there for the first couple of weeks.

This will get shorter as tooling gets better this year.
Meta had a lot of promise but never realized it. I was an early adopter and watched the platform evolve. In the end, their discovery tools were never as good as google scholar: Meta constantly missed papers that would show up in other search engines, and the tools they promised - search by antibody, tool, equipment, organism - were all just vaporware. Good for them for selling to CZI, but the platform was just a major disappointment all around. They'll never catch Scholar.
Unfortunately, it's not economic loss, it's economic gain. By building the great firewall, China kept out Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc., and thus enabled some huge companies to come into existence that likely otherwise wouldn't have, e.g., Baidu, Tencent, etc. I'm surprised more countries aren't doing this in order to enable their own IT worlds to come into existence.
For every person that has my symptoms, there is someone to counter it. I'm not going to get into an argument about how I'm using my browser incorrectly. Every computer / browser combo I've ever used exhibits the same thing, and I'm pretty religious with keeping things trim and clean.
Apparently archive.fo also requires JS via CloudFlare:

Please turn JavaScript on and reload the page.

DDoS protection by CloudFlare
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same here using The great suspender, how does this throttle thing relate to the suspender?
Oh, it's awful, I agree. This is the nicest layout but the JS is terrible.

I've reverted to a plain-HTML layout.
I know, but you can use Chrome for a million years, and have resource hogging tabs crash your computer, without ever knowing about that. Even ("X seems to be slowing down your computer, press shift+ESC for a detailed breakdown") would help. The point is for abusive sites to stick out and have that imaginary free market, with the rational consumers and their informed decisions, do the rest.
He's an attention whore, please stop giving him what he wants. [0] [1] [2]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/01...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/arts/music/martin-shkreli...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/02/martin-shkr...
I made a math game that was ad-free. It started out with a $1 purchase price at first launch, but I decided to make it free since it was not being downloaded. I'm curious if you have any advice on how to market to your audience of "parents that will pay for ad-free kids' games".
See video, network and logs leading up to bugs or crashes
This comment adds nothing to the conversation - please stop. This is not /pol/.
Lots of those kind of people right here on the hacker news forums.
Spiders are not insects; from Wikipedia:

"terrestrial arthropods, such as centipedes, millipedes, scorpions, and spiders, are sometimes confused with insects"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect#Phylogeny_and_evolution
Like they won't get around it with Hollywood accounting.
Hi wingerlang - thanks for the comment. You're right that the features aren't different - the difference is that instead of accessing those features from usually the lower-left corner of the keyboard area (which is out of the "thumb comfort zone,"), the bolt button is right in the middle where your thumb normally is.

Regarding the text, I was trying to keep it friendly and not boring - sort of Mailchimp-like - maybe I went too far. :)
Well, this was surprisingly enlightening
I've never understood this "gross not net" defence.

"You'd save £100 pounds if you didn't buy those shoes, we could spend it on apples instead".

"Actually they reduced the price, they're only £50".

"Yes, but that's just net, I was talking about the gross figure"

That's a logically incoherent excuse for another logically incoherent statement. If anything it makes it worse to admit you knew the figure was wrong and just used an accounting fiction instead because it was a higher number. There is no way to "instead" spend money on something else if part of that money was never spent in the first place.

And as you yourself mention, a chunk of that money gets spent on stuff in Britain, (the equivalent of getting cashback on the shoe purchase that I could spend on shirts) so even if they were right about this gross stuff, they'd still be misleading even with their weasel-worded "send to" phrase.

https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million...
> reason about products

Can you elaborate on this? It's unclear sometimes how much a PM's job is about delivering a predetermined product, vs how much is the PM themselves hypothesizing/strategizing about changes and improvements to the product.
Plot and story are very important. To me the most enjoyable movie of the year is usually the best script winner. Almost never the best movie winner.

But there's this thing called cinematography. And when it is done well, it adds another layer of enjoyment to the movie viewing experience. 3D is part of cinematography.

So, yes, plot is important. But if you are watching a movie instead of just reading a book, it is usually because the added elements are worth it.

And I say that as someone who usually reads the books as well.

3D is fun, and films like Avatar and Tron and Pacific Rim are totally worth in 3D.
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Thanks! Both of those definitely look more beginner-friendly or at least easier to teach. I'm going to have to look more into PureScript in the coming days.
This is probably a good thing in the long run. Timer-based callbacks can generally be replaced by events, which only trigger when there is actually work to be done. Many JS timers I've seen are needlessly busy-polling.

Whether this implementation affects just timer callbacks or all background processing (eg websocket data events) is a bit ambiguous - this blog post seems to suggest major apps like Slack and Discord will break, but surely they are using websockets and not continuously polling for new data.
A timer task is only allowed to run when the budget is non-negative.

After a timer has executed, its run time is subtracted from the budget.

The budget regenerates with time (at rate of 0.01 seconds per second).

I think that would imply that if in any given second, your timer code runs for <= 10 milliseconds, then you will never run out of budget. Right?

So for things like sending out heartbeat packets to keep connections alive, I'm assuming that doesn't count, because it happens asynchronously (waiting for the response, I mean)? If that's the case, and your 10 milliseconds only applies to running JavaScript on the CPU, then 10 milliseconds seems reasonable to me. It's a background tab, after all, it's disrespectful of your users to abuse their CPU more than that.
California is effectively a single-party state, Feinstein (and whoever replaces her) is secure enough in her position to not care about most of her constituents.
PM @ McKinsey & Company (New Ventures group)

-Background in software engineering and human-centered design. The best product managers I've been around have a mix of technical, business, and design talent, with the strong PMs excelling in at least two of the categories.
-Understand the difference between good and bad products. Actively examine products you use on a daily basis, both physical and digital. E.g. why is my shower setting designed this way? why did I push on a door that needed to be pulled? To flex this muscle, read "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman and check out Tony Fadell's tech talk on product design.
-Be a people person. You need to be able to communicate product ideas clearly to everyone from marketing to HR to engineering (obviously).
-Be entrepreneurial. You're the "CEO" of the product, so you need to know the product/service inside out. Everything from the software stack down to the marketing materials to the help center articles should have been on your radar at some point in the release cycle.
-Protect the engineers. Don't let management demand too much and be vested in their success.

Ping me if you have any other questions :)
> they don't want their kids being part of a failed social experiment.

Indeed. You don't see much investigation on the consequences of these experiments; the state is rarely introspective. If there was any bigger accelerant to the white flight phenomena in the 70's than the `integration' experiment I've never heard of it. It went all the way to the Supreme Court and when it was decided that Detroit (and therefore many other big urban school districts) couldn't force surrounding suburbs to participate in the experiment (Milliken v. Bradley) the fate of that city and many others was sealed.
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The article is much less aggressive than the title.
I love 3d movies, I have a passive 3dtv, and have even taken up 3d photography. 3d rocks!
He is parroting what he wants to believe, not what people actually do
I don't know. It's already hard enough to incentivize people to share content they already have (in current bittorrent), I believe it would be even more difficult to incetivize them to download content they're not primarily interested in just for a neighbor.

It works if we don't do naive P2P but rather Friend-2-Friend; this is what retroshare does, your downloads can go through your friends so that only they know what you download. But that requires a lot more steps than traditional bittorrent, so I'm not sure it could work in general.
Why do you say he was furious? They had a pretty rational discussion.
It's different because it can't just slow down a running task.

Say you use up 150ms of CPU time. Chrome isn't going to let another timer fire for 15s. Then, you're late on a whole bunch of work that needs to get done, so the next timer takes 500ms. Chrome then throttles the next timer by 50s. And so on and so forth...
https://www.keepassx.org/downloads
I use the mac client.

[edit]: oops, confused osx and ios. I'm not a mac person.
It's a shill article pumping a false narrative. Hacker News is part of the problem. The headline should read "Martin Shkreli launches website to shame pharma..."

The whole "disgraced" thing is a disingenuous slam to send the reader into the link with a predisposed mindset. The same type of play on confirmation bias that Trump employs.
It does try to reduce what it can in low memory situations (less "pre" optimizations like prefetching, prerendering, even dns prefetches and stuff, V8 gets more eager to throw out "potentially unneeded" code, tabs get suspended and written to disk, heuristics can get shut off, etc...), but it can't change what the page does.

If a browser tab wants to store 300MB of data in RAM, or wants to throw a shitton of stuff at the DOM, Chrome needs to oblige.
I definitely have the same amazement that you have to monthly migrate things. I am curious if manually doing it encourages some behavior, though.

In particular, I have found backlogs to be a common source of neglected shit.
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Or that theatres or studios prefer to sell 3D for various reasons (like they can charge more, differentiate more from watching movies at home, etc)