skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Today this would be even harder, with the prevalence of web pages that are actually _heavily_ dynamic apps. Navigation to a new "page" is a much fuzzier concept now. What gets indexed?

This kind of stuff is why I am an advocate of progressive enhancement. It's not about whether someone has JS disabled or not. It's about using HTML as a semantic representation of information rather than a mere rendering layer. The second option might seem more convenient at times, but the first one opens a lot more doors for innovation in the long run.
RePEc already implements this index

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.euclid.html
Better Mac support would be nice too. Using Swift in a larger code base in Xcode often results in long compile times, auto completion and code syntax highlighting failures and other terribleness.
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It depends on what you're trying to figure out. If you're trying to figure out just the effects of location (which pretty much means zero G and extra radiation) then you're right, you need to control all the other factors. (You could even isolate the zero G effects by subjecting the control subject to extra radiation, though that might not fly with the ethics boards.) But if you're trying to figure out the sum total effects of space flight, including all the ancillary effects (like decreased social interaction) then it makes sense to let the control subject just live a normal life.
Let me know if you figure it out.
Exactly right. Lack of content blocking is why I don't use Chrome on iOS. I strongly prefer its UI and sync, but can't go back to seeing ads.
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> 188 TB of storage

> personal use

Who needs that much storage for personal use?
I understand now. A good point, I agree.
What would you say to those who have an entrepreneurial spirit but struggle with idea generation?
I wrote in Lua the source-to-source compiler that takes a ".ceu" and generates a ".c" (the code is a single-threaded state machine), which is then compiled with gcc.

The compiler is slow, but not the final binary.

We wrote a paper [1] that compares flash,RAM,CPU usage from Céu vs hand-written event-driven code in C.
The differences are negligible.

[1] http://www.ceu-lang.org/chico/ceu_sensys13_pre.pdf
The point made in GP is no less valid if you swap minority with majority. But, yes, the American electoral system is exactly that defective (the distortions in the thread institutions you name aren't independent of each other, as they are directly linked.)
I agree, flexibility and autonomy seems like a large roll in this discussion. I think acknowledging life outside of work is really important. Better yet work that suits your lifestyle can be very motivating.
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> But that framework is missing various things, such as content blocking

Not really - SFSafariViewController uses content blockers, autofill, etc. There's also WKWebView for those that want to implement their own content blockers and autofill engines.

Curious why you'd want safari's content blockers to run inside chrome or firefox though? That's not how browser plugins work anywhere else, and it seems like if content blockers were forced in to 3rd party browsers there'd be a lot more angst over that decision.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Safari...
I would agree! While I'm not looking for handouts or anything like that the email blasts (company wide) really do sort-of shove it in everyone else's faces unintentionally.
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Thank you!

Hmmm.. As far as the process for design. I use Sketch 3 to prototype the design. I definitely stretched my abilities a bit as I'm not usually a designer. I basically just tried to focus on ease of use and to make it feel nice to use. There is certainly more work to be done in this area.
Yes but they controlled a majority of the market so it was a monopoly- unfortunately in this case apple does not have control
This is mostly a SWAT team storming through all doors and killing dogs if any an then taking away all your documents, interviewing all employees. In short that is end of business to you.

Yes. That is exactly what I want employers thinking when the offer of cheap H1-Bs tempts them. Let's have a lot more on-site enforcement, please.

And a few horror stories in the media would be a great benefit to Americans.
H-1B draft with proposed changes [pdf]
> Well, you need some level of government

While I disagree, let's start with whatever you believe should be reduced or eliminated. Let's work together to make that happen, and once that's done, we can look for the next area of agreement.

> That's for the most part an illusion that may give you some comfort but that will likely not be of much practical use if and when tshtf.

For an individual? Yeah, pretty much. That's what the third part of my statement was about.
Yes, we can take advantage of all existing libraries in C/C++ for free.
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I interpreted "these people" to mean wealthy Chinese-born Chinese nationals who are taking their wealth out of China and parking it in British Columbia real estate. This would exclude Canadian-born Canadian citizens of East Asian descent.

This man obtained Canadian citizenship. He must have ties to one province or another. British Columbia is the most likely candidate since it is on the West Coast.
Clinton won the electoral college vote — except for Texas.
> The major issue is that the assessment process is directly tied to the learning process within a single institution, leading to both being done incredibly inoptimally.

Very good point. There are no feedback looks between the two subsystems which makes them both suck.

One point I'd like to raise though is that I'm not sure if it's really optimal have 'assessments'. I have some fundamental issues with assigning numerical values to things that are sometimes hard to judge numerically.

I think that a much better system would be that each student's work is stored in the cloud where it's accessible and everyone can judge for himself.

And I think that we should move away from test to projects that are largely designed by the student under the guidance of teachers.
Silicon Valley is a great example of growing inequality. Most of the rewards go disproportionally to a select few at the top.

That's a good thing: http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html

"Decreasing economic inequality means taking money from the rich. Since risk and reward are equivalent, decreasing potential rewards automatically decreases people's appetite for risk. Startups are intrinsically risky. Without the prospect of rewards proportionate to the risk, founders will not invest their time in a startup. Founders are irreplaceable. So eliminating economic inequality means eliminating startups."
that! and yet nobody is willing to revisit that topic
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clarification: after testing out the app, it seems clear that passenger and driver could agree on any mutually-agreeable payment method. But it would be nice to have something integrated.
These two studies were part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) dataset, which investigates post-menopausal women. The study linked in OP used a published dataset, while the exercise study used WHI participants, meaning there was already a lot of data on the participants' health. So, the studies show effects on only women because they investigated only women.

Why post-menopausal women? Because menopause is a threshold event for aging that isn't seen as clearly in men. Also, it's easy to simulate (ovarectomy) and reverse (hormones) in model systems.
> Spend some time in the kitchen preparing your breakfast and lunch. Do some laundry or house cleaning. Get your things ready for the next day so you wake up without stress.

This makes a big difference: set it up so that all you have to do in the morning is jump out of bed and put on shoes then head out the door. Have everything you possibly can packed and in the car/bicycle trunk. Shower before bed, or after your workout in the morning. Virtual inertia can make it harder to get going in the mornings; eliminate it.

> Possibly the number one greatest thing about waking up early is that you all of a sudden have an extra two or three hours all to yourself. You can work out early in the morning,

It's funny too, because I had the exact same response to the "luxury of choosing when they get to work out." Getting up earlier is the perfect life hack to jobs that you can't take a workout break from, because you now are getting your workout in before you even get to the office, when the gym is least crowded. Bonus: sleep in your workout clothes, then you only have to change clothes once instead of getting dressed for work in the morning, then changing to workout clothes at the gym, then changing back to office clothing.
No, I meant what I wrote.

He holds properties in Canada, and has diplomatic status from Antigua, but they were purchased and he hasn't shown loyalties to those countries.

He didn't take up actual residency in either of the countries, he used their names to suit his international agenda.
Not true at all, and also nothing is stopping you from building your own ad-blocking logic in to your browser either - iCab Mobile for example does just that.
reddit, now frequently a primary news source, was in the first class of YC companies. I don't think there's any inherent contradiction, though I would be concerned that HN would only want to promote news sources that had reddit-like audiences and outcomes.

I have some loose interest and IMO some relevant experience in creating a next-gen reddit, would like to try it some day. I have no intention to apply to YC.
Sadly, you're probably correct.
Does an average server have much to dampen vibration? Something like [1]. I occasionally replace drives in similar machines, and I haven't noticed anything that looks like it helps with vibration -- but I don't look very much.

[1] http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r530/pd?ref=PD_O...
As an entrepreneur you should look for gaps or things that could be improved first.
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Super Mario Run Updated with 'Easy Mode' Has Made $53M Over 78M Downloads So Far
It could have great potential, and I see the virtue of this kind of thing globally, but my first thought was "This seems like a great way to get murdered." Maybe that's a gender thing?
Team up with someone who has a good idea but struggles with implementation.
Extensions like 1Password work in Firefox and Chrome but not content blockers. I know because I tested both.

Mozilla also made a statement about it: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/heres-why-firefox-for-ios-...
I think there's a distinction between an HTML App like those made with PhoneGap/Cordova and a Web Application like Gmail.com. And I personally don't think that's a bad thing to restrict most of those APIs from Web Applications. Do I want or need a webpage to be able to turn my Camera Flash on and off? Nope Nope Nope.

I think a lot of the newer APIs being exposed to the Web via the Browser are not very well thought out and will eventually be removed because of the risks they present.
Posted too soon: the GH Engineering writeup is much more useful.

https://githubengineering.com/recover-accounts-elsewhere/
Curious why you'd want safari's content blockers to run inside chrome or firefox though? That's not how browser plugins work anywhere else

Because there's currently no way for those browsers to get any content blocking without switching to the slower WebView.

I'm fairly confident that both the Google Chrome team and Mozilla's Firefox for iOS team are better informed here than you are.
i run a lot of small projects with docker-compose on a single host and it makes deploying my changes very easy. Maybe there is a low cost setting it up, but i think eve with a small project it pays it divides pretty fast.
This seems like a solid advance. There aren't any odd nanostructures or high-maintenance components that I can see.

Why can't we use these to solve drought in Australia/California/etc.?

There are a couple of reasons.

One is that vapor based water purification is very energy-intensive compared to reverse osmosis (where impure water is mechanically forced through membrane pores small enough to exclude salts/viruses/bacteria). It takes at least 2258 kJ/liter to vaporize water. Reverse osmosis desalination of seawater currently requires in the neighborhood of 10.8 kJ/L (3 kWh/m^3). There's a modest factor-of-5 advantage for using solar thermal energy without first transforming it to electricity that can drive pumps, but it's swamped by the factor-of-200 higher energy requirements for evaporation. (Incidentally, this is why even "cheap" nuclear heat sources can't beat electrically driven RO plants when it comes to large scale desalination.)

The second reason simple thermal desalination units can't solve California's problems is a consequence of the first reason: you just can't get enough water from these units. They're fine for providing a bare minimum of clean drinking water. They are nowhere near capable of providing enough fresh water for everyone to water lawns, bathe, and wash things -- much less supply the real 800 pound Californian gorilla, agricultural irrigation.

If this system is so inefficient, why would anyone use it?

The advantages are downward scalability and low infrastructure requirements. There are a lot of parts of the world where there's enough water to irrigate crops but it still might make people sick to drink it untreated. Solar distillation can remove arsenic/bacteria/viruses from water and make it safe for direct human consumption. Reverse osmosis units are advantageous only at larger scale, they require more maintenance, and they need electricity. Solar distillation can serve locations that lack reliable electricity and/or maintenance workers. (Solar-PV electricity might be an option in the future, but that would still be more complex and would require further design iterations on RO; current units are designed to operate near continuously.)
> If my mom arrives at the airport and needs a ride, am I supposed to refuse because of the strike?

Do you intend on charging your mother for the ride she needs? If your answer is "of course not," you aren't providing the same function as a taxi.
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We should absolutely not be dismissing his seeming intentions. There should be massive focus on this. But that does not excuse conflating opinion/analysis with fact.

Accurate reporting of the news is so tremendously important. Every single time that the mainstream media is called out for presenting opinion as fact, the public lose a tiny bit more faith in the veracity of the media.

The Trump administration media strategy is so crystal clear I do not know why there is any confusing about what is going on.

Every time a mainstream publication presents an analysis/opinion as fact, when it turns out Not to be true, Trump admin. calls them out on it and erodes trust further. This is their strategy. Keep the mainstream media falling into this trap and erode public confidence.

I think the ONLY way to counteract this very effective strategy is to clearly separate the two.

Report on the facts as they are. Also provide analysis and opinion that is clearly marked as such. This is so damn important, regardless of where you stand on the issue discussed.
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I think this is the first time I see anyone like the OCaml syntax.
I wrote up some free startup ideas around digital work.
http://blog.kirigin.com/digital-work

tldr: smartphones are a platform to learn skills, to facilitate a network of contractors, and to do work. Put that together for something powerful.
SFSafariViewController essentially IS safari. It isn't appropriate for a third-party browser.

While it is technically possible to use content blockers in WKWebView, it can only be done via private APIs, and Apple capriciously bans apps from their appstore that use private APIs.

Reference: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150479
That is awesome! Do you have a community within work that supports this hobby? I know that we take time to support peoples hobbies and lives outside of the scope of our product and jobs. This can be a huge motivator and brings us a lot of joy and bonding for the team. We are people first and we take pride in our different skills and hobbies supporting each other any way we can. We would love to play test a board game!
Asking ignorantly here -- are you saying that those API's are accessible to Google Chrome and not to other browsers? That Google is playing in an unfair playing field?
> And IIRC, load average is represented usually as 3 numbers, which are over the last 5, 10, and 15 minutes

1, 5 and 15 minutes is the most common intervals
Byteball is the future.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14622
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It's not possible to do that and use the fast JavaScript engine from WKWebView. I'm sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about.
>that they're basically slower to market than the clones

This raises an important question about economics, free markets, and what it is for a product to be a 'clone.' Is it only necessary to have an idea for a product and market that idea or must one also bring it to market quickly?

Apple wasn't successful because of the ideas but because of the implementation behind them, is it wrong if another market participant moves faster? What does this say about the crowdsourcing model for inexperienced manufacturers/designers?
This is again very generic, but while this may be true to a certain extent, the view from the other side is that the expectations for Linux vs Windows are nowhere near the same.

Linux is for some reason expected to behave perfectly, while Windows routinely screws with audio, borks updates etc. and nobody calls it unusable on the desktop or similar, another thing - most of these kinds of posters just refuse to read or understand the Linux way of doing things and try to apply their Windows mentality to Linux and if it doesn't work the same way, complain.

But in general if you have a question that is not worded in the Linux sucks! sort of way you'll get tons of great help.
How much is there even left for Chrome to do, once you are building on top of a WKWebView? Seems like Chrome would be a very thin layer on top of it, with WKWebView doing most of the work, and Chrome just implementing a thin layer of user interface widgetry on top of that (next and back button, url bar, etc). Sounds to me like it's just a branded "white label" version of Apple's standard Safari browser.
> the US isn't a population based democracy

Incorrect. Population corresponds to representation at national and state levels. This is enforced with a Constitutional base.

"One person, one vote" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims
> maybe that's possible if you manage to stay current in a sane niche, frontend js is not

Good thing my career has nothing to do with frontend js. Most of my background is in platform & infrastructure, and I'm currently in NMS... I'll be happy if I never touch web/social/mobile.

I can see myself doing NMS for a telecom for many more years.

> build your own base of clients

That's incompatible with the idea of being a 9-5er working for a large company, which is specifically what I want to do for the rest of my life.

> it will be hard to allow for a consumeristic life-style.

Well, I'm currently living a pretty consumeristic lifestyle right now... I just want to keep sustaining it till I die.
Why? How can you be sure your beliefs/convictions anti-correlate with the ACLU every election? How do you calibrate it?
You think that Canadians should essentially be immune from local enforcement while outside of Canada?
Monsters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_(2010_film)) is my response to that. The problem with "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" wasn't that it was low budget, it was that it decided part-way through to become (relatively) high-budget. A carefully constructed film with $500,000 budget made $4.2 million back on good, but limited, effects. The problem is Hollywood's approach; instead of making a handful of single-A movies, it's all either B movies or AAA.

Video games were (?) having the same problem, so-called "indie" developers have largely stepped in to make single A-quality titles.
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I'm pretty sure any negative feelings about H1-Bs are not directed at the workers themselves, but rather the companies that use the program as a form of indentured servitude. That suppresses wages in our industry.
I'm not trying to claim that I'm more well versed on the subject than you. Almost certainly the opposite! But I would like to push back a little on a couple of the points you made.

> the publicity of the drive has damaged Chinese public confidence in their institutions of government

If Mr. Xi's goal were to stay on past the customary 10-year term, wouldn't he need to discredit the current institutions of government and portray himself as the antidote?

> many of the people taken to court have been in Xi Jinpeng's own circle

My overly-simplistic model of China's government is that it is basically a one-party system with a veneer of formality over back-room intra-party struggles (along with a regular calendar of leadership replacement to prevent too much consolidation of power around an individual, as happened to an extent with Deng Xiaoping in the aftermath of Mao's death). Under this model, official political power tends to correspond directly to internal party clout. So wouldn't anybody with enough clout to be a threat to Xi be likely to be found within his own circle (AKA, higher ups in the current government)? I admit I could be way off base in my analysis here, as I haven't studied China's government in depth.

> Documents and communications from Jinping or his circle discussing "who to go after" would represent a smoking gun (of course we haven't even smelled anything like this).

Just out of curiosity, have we seen any such documents or communications (on any subject) that weren't intended for public consumption? That seems like important context as to whether absence of evidence can realistically be considered evidence of absence.

Again, since you seem to have studied this in more detail than I have, I'm interested in your thoughts on these questions.
Reputation. Reputation is the problem.
As a Latin American this is very ironic and surprising.

Latin America is painfully emerging from an age of populism fed by resentment (e.g.: Kirchner in Argentina, PT/Lula in Brazil, Chavismo in Venezuela). The economic policies being proposed by Trump (protectionism, discretionary subsidies for corporations, big spending...) are precisely the main cause of our misery.

The fact that the developed world is flirting with the disaster we are trying to fix is astonishing.
Interesting. Can you provide some links to the DTA situation?
Some people just don't care about how it looks as long it's readable (to a degree).

If you are not doing website design as a job, and you shun frameworks, and it's just your personal bit of space, then I don't see anything wrong with doing a 'Save As...' in Word and calling it 'index.html' (for example).

I too shun web-frameworks (as a hobbyist, you don't learn anything by using click-to-run frameworks), but the downside is: Is it worth spending hours cranking out a pretty layout, just for the 3 people who might accidentally read your site that month? No, not really.
> so who are you speaking for when you use the blanket term "these people"?

I'm not the GP, but I think it very clearly means corrupt people.

Still, I have almost as much problem taking China's government accusation of corruption on face value as I have believing somebody can honestly become a billionaire in China.
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The issue is that getenv's API is fundamentally unsafe. setenv is fine.