skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan Unveils Next-Generation, Pascal-Based AI Supercomputer
Why San Francisco keeps losing tech conferences
"Refuctoring" is brilliant! Seen a lot of that lately. :-)
Have you actually read the link you're providing as source?

It doesn't explain what it means to have "taste buds tuned" for water, just that dogs will drink more after eating salty or sugary foods, which could be entirely unrelated to the actual taste at all.

Even if these taste buds functioned like what you allege, they wouldn't be tasting water, they'd be tasting chemicals (flavors and smells) dissolved in the water.
I'd like to add that if you only look at the brands and stores, you might not see a lot of difference.

But if you read/listen to the news, talk to the people or just overhear their conversations in the streets, you'll probably perceive the difference and get to look at the place with different eyes.
In previous years, the people who brought you the Stemwijzer also made the Stemmentracker, which does that. But this year,
https://www.stemmentracker.nl/ just redirects to the Stemwijzer.

I found https://www.partijgedrag.nl/ using a Google search, didn't look at it much yet.
This is how law firms work. In that sense, this is more like a partnership than a corporation.
German regulator tells parents to destroy 'spy' doll Cayla
I dunno - youtube is filled with clips from newscasts...
Yes, the word static is a bit overloaded here.
One more corner case, instead of designing orthogonal features.
What that means is that all of the build scripts in Ubuntu 16.04 have been upgraded to Python 3 and building no longer has a dependency on Python 2. One way of looking at it is that Python 2 is not included with the current release of Ubuntu for the same reasons that MIT Scheme and PHP and Forth are not. The system does not require them.
As mentioned in the article, you have no control, as you would with a desk lamp. The lighting is often direct, stark, and blue as well, which impedes relaxation and "flow."
I'm working on building my third company and although I'm not an engineer, I love all things tech. I come back here every week so I can stay up to date on the engineering community.
The arguments seem pretty clearly presented in the article. What part do you disagree with?
There's http://play.ht that does this..
I think that a view not represented enough about our "rational brain" and our "intuitive brain" is that rational thinking can only rarely lead to useful information in a reasonable time. Determining causation using the scientific method is more robust, but is a massive effort that usually can't be carried out by individuals. Perhaps we would benefit from being able to control the extent of our intuition on the decisions we make, but there's a reason why we specialize and only deeply think about specific areas.
There are useful cases for this. It's much less ambiguous in those cases if your language allows the definition of the variable in the same location, and scopes it. For example, Perl:

use strict;
use warnings;

sub one { 1 }

if ( my $one = one() ) {
say $one; # prints 1
}

say $one; # compilation error, "Global symbol "$one" requires explicit package name"

This case is trivial, but when you want a temporary variable and don't want to clutter your scope, it can be useful.

That's not to say assignment and equivalence might not be better off with different operators, as noted by others here.
Even then I would prefer an explicit comparison:

if ((a = b) != NULL) ...

I think Rust has a happy medium, where assignment evaluates to (), not the variable (important as this means you don't have an implicit borrow), but the idiom expressed here is usually replaced by:

if let Some(thing) = fn_that_returns_option_thing() ...
To become more technical.
Even when you don't have a technical role (especially if you are in a tech biology company) it is valuable to be able speak the same language

And I find the more you are in a leadership role, the more it becomes important.
LINC: The Smart Walkie Talkie
For me, HN started off as an alternate news source to reddit; there's more signal to noise with every article on the front page. Even if it wasn't newsworthy per se, you could (and still can) count on a vast majority as free and surprisingly in-depth knowledge. An example - once their was an article on MIT's free online course; a specific lesson on Chinese Architecture was a godsend when I had been trying to expand my footprint in architecture theory.

I'm an illustrator / comic artist / graphic designer triad, if it counts. :)
My wife (American) lived in Poland with her family during 1989-1990. My in-laws still talk about their big family getting rides in a "mały Fiat".
To me personally, it doesn't matter if I am sitting among a group of 30 people or 3 people, I don't want to hear my coworkers' typing, coughing, eating, drinking, phone calls, chair adjustments, conversations, etc.

Those are all distractions that I can do without and that I think I am personally more sensitive to than others may be. Not to mention that in a shared office you are sharing the lighting, temperature, decor, etc. In a private office those are all things that I control and are personalized to my preferences and comfort.
FB, despite their acquisitions to stay relevant, will follow Friendster, MySpace, and the others. Something will come along to knock them off their perch.

I left FB (and social media in general) 4-5 years ago. I haven't missed any of it. My hope is that people will start swinging away from the frivolous noise of most social media. It provides a valuable service but the vast majority of it is garbage.
It's very dependent on the person. I quit my office job last year and worked contracting from home for six months. It was utterly awful. My study is small, dark (north-facing, and the previous owners painted the walls mid-blue, which makes it even darker) and cluttered. I felt very isolated and ended up very depressed.

Last month, my contracting colleague and I moved into an office in a converted house. It's small (just four desks) but the ceilings are high, the walls are light, the lighting is nice and bright, and there's a south-facing window with a view all the way across the city to Arthur's Seat. I have a good office chair and a big desk to spread out over, and a cleaner comes in to hoover the floors. And I get to see humans every day, which - I was surprised to find - is a key ingredient in keeping me sane. I'm a lot happier, and a lot more productive, even though I don't have as much control over this office as over my own home.

This is just me, and I understand that people feel they need to push hard for private offices or working from home, because the default nowadays seems to be a big open plan office. However, every time I see somebody extolling their vision of the Best Way To Work, I think it's worth emphasizing that different people work differently, and what drives some people mad might be a necessary component for someone else's perfect office.

Of course, as the article points out, having the choice is the real thing that matters.
>It would a lie to use those words describe the view point argued for in this article.

How so? The way they live their lives is in the suburbs with long commutes. This article lists several reasons car use is bad and why we should reduce it. Hence "City liberals think the way you live is wrong"

>One of the points of the article is that by appropriately pricing cars usage by removing subsidies we can remove market distortion.

Hence "and are trying to tax you into living like they do"

The statement isn't a lie. You are raising the costs of car usage to get people to use cars less. You're doing this because you think less car usage is better. Regardless of whether that belief is right or wrong, for much of the country it isn't going to fly. That's my main point. You and I probably agree on the problem here, our difference is on the solution.

>written only to encourage a change in messaging

See the first paragraph:

>But numbers don’t mean much without a framework to explain them, and so today we want to quickly talk about one of those rhetorical frameworks: specifically, how we talk about driving.

This article is all about messaging, it doesn't really discuss the hard policy options they'd like, it just links to them. In that case, I think their rhetorical framework is weak. "Personal Responsibility" works when the right uses it because it almost always accompanies a change that makes their voters' lives easier (in at least the short-term), see tax breaks. Using "Personal Responsibility" here won't work because it will increase the costs for these same people. That's why I wrote that "City liberals" sentence up there. If this article is the authors rhetorical framework, that sentence is going to be the first thing he runs into. Will "Personal Responsibility" hold up? I don't think so.
It's not that clearcut though. My wife (Hungarian) and her friends, who grew up before the Berlin Wall fell, tend to identify as being Eastern Europeans (because Soviet block). I imagine it's a generational thing, though, with elders and youngsters being cognizant about being from Central Europe.
Seems to me more like they used the big copper tube in the center of the room and the aluminum walls of the room itself to guide the current flow. It's as if the copper tube and the room are a big conductor through which electricity flows (actually oscillates) - this changing electric field in the conductor creates a magnetic field in the space around it, i.e., the room. So the electric field is contained and guided through the conducting walls of the room, while the magnetic field permeates the space in the room itself.
What Apple is making is far from appliances. Appliances can be repaired and last 10+ years easily.
While it's good to have a pleasant default, it's very easy to modify everything about the website, including the CSS, the menu, the homepage...

But to me, the most beautiful UI is one that offers the functionality I need while remaining lightweight.
A Better Way to Implement Bit-Fields
Strength Training for Non-Athletes
To be fair, bicycling is simply not a valid option in many American cities. Think of Minneapolis for example: it's simply not safe to ride a bike in -40 temperatures. Of course, this does raise the question of why a city exists in a place that cold.

Western European cities have the enviable advantage of decent weather year-round, just like the US west coast. The central US does not have this; it's more like Moscow: bitterly cold in the winter. And the east coast has a lot of extreme weather too.

Now this doesn't excuse not having good public transit like Tokyo either; it's certainly possible to build that in places like Minneapolis and DC, but they don't (or they simply can't, because the US culturally is unable to).
The biggest win with building a SPA in react or angular is that you can host it on S3 and front it with Cloudfront and never ever worry about it dying. Plus, performance is amazing.
It's a little weird. lvalues and rvalues are different things so a biased symbol feels nice to me, <-, e.g.
NYC and places like it eg London at our outliers most smaller towns and cities don't have good public transport that runs 24/7
Weight is lost in the kitchen rather than the gym. It takes nearly an hour on a bike to burn off one big mac, so it's very easy to overeat so much that you can't make up for it.
You have a small typo in the link to your site. [1] should be http://hasgluten.com
I started on Startup news (which is what we used to call Hacker News before it had a name) 9.55 years ago.

I was a Unix person who was good at 'scripting' type stuff but didn't know anything about making apps with a UI (in fact it kind scared me).

A few years in I swapped being a Unix guy who knew Python to being a Python guy who knew Unix. Then I became a node.js person. Now I'm a founder at CertSimple.
I've been coding for decades and I still find them jarring.

They're also a false sense of security as they won't catch:

if $(value = $someOthervalue) ...
I'm a self-taught programmer, I do programming only for fun and open source projects.
Yeah, and Bach wrote on mere sheets of paper.

Your point being? "A subpar DAW should be enough for everybody in 2017 as long as it's better than 70s era studio technology"?

Not to mention that you compare apples and oranges. These people did rock, punk and/or jazz, not modern r&b, pop or electronic music that are usually more demanding of a DAW for one.

Second they had tens of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars as a budget for a single record, great facilities with top-notch acoustics, multiple producers, access to orchestras and top-notch musicians, and crazily expensive consoles with people to operate them for them.

Third one doesn't compete against Louis Armstrong era sound but against their own's generation's sound and production techniques.
Evolution occurs via reproduction over the span of many generations. Individual adaptation on a single-lifespan scale occurs via epigenetic methylation tagging of the existing (evolved) genome.

You cannot become better adapted to smoke unless your genome already contains a gene that mitigates the damage, or a gene that can regulate expression of a damage-mitigating gene based on that specific stimulus.

So if you breathe smoke frequently over your lifespan, you may have a gene related to mucus in the lungs expressing its protein at maximum capacity 24-7, while someone who never breathes smoke has that gene "turned off" most of the time.

Transfer of individual adaptations, usually in the form of antibodies that can teach immune cells to respond to a specific hazard, is very limited, and will only last as long as that specific threat is continuously endemic. We have mostly supplanted that natural capacity with artificial vaccinations.

Random mutations are usually harmful. Sexual reproduction and selection is the mechanism to shuffle the most harmful mutations out of the genome while still retaining the rare beneficial mutation. If the mutation rate is too low, the species cannot evolve quickly enough in changing environments. If the mutation rate is too high, sexual reproduction cannot eliminate the bad mutations fast enough.
I ran across a bug at $dayjob where someone was clearly trying to use Yoda conditions, but messed up differently:

if "start" == argv[1]:
....
else if "stop" == argv[1]:
....
else if "reload":
....
else if "status" == argv[1]:
....

I think it'd be harder to make this mistake with the conditions the right way around. (Also, never mind that the equality bug isn't even possible in Python.)
Well, you would still have certain data points to make a decision from. If you've been part of an industry for a while you'll start understanding it.

Second, if you already have a ton of money, you might take on the additional risk to get 2x instead of 1x. Say you have $20mm in the bank, generating 10% a year, then getting a $10mm payout instead of a $5mm is probably worth it, since an extra $5mm won't change your life.

If however, you have $100k in the bank, then you should probably take the $5mm.
I'm a product manager working on enterprise software, but do not do code professionally (I do hobby projects). I keep up with new tech, frameworks and tools partly so when I get push back from development such as "we can't do that with our framework", I can point to an article or video or technology that might get them thinking outside the box.

Also, sometimes I wish had gone into a more technical role initially but now feel like I can't switch into an equivalent dev oriented role but at least I can still play around on the side.
Is it a better product, or a larger market? The quality of the product and the size of the market are two almost entirely separate things.
Fair question. I needed both 3d quiver and volume rendering, like this: https://www.astro.rug.nl/~breddels/test/hdz.html
Plotly cannot do that. And this scales to 1 million glyphs, i dont think ploty can do that either.
Aesthetics we disagree on i guess :).
Futhermore, it is build on ipywidgets, which makes interactivity a simple step, and it can be linked to say bqplot:
http://ipyvolume.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bqplot.html
So various reasons, thanks for your question.
Disincentivize Driving
It's not fake that somebody at DHS wrote, and distributed a memo proposing this- that part is not being questioned (the memo itself has been obtained). Linking it the the Trump administration or implying that it was being considered, there is no evidence for.
It'd be nice to not have marketing posted as news here.
YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads
It appears that digital is king for modern calculations. However, digital exists only in the ~millivolt to 5V range, its difficult to get a purely digital circuit to "sense" microvolts or nanovolts.

That's where Analog comes in. You can shape and calculate microvolt and even nano-volt level signals before upscaling them to millivolts so that the CPU can handle the rest of things.

In general, digital RAM will hold a value more reliably for a longer-period of time than an analog storage device (aka: capacitor). True, RAM is implemented using capacitors (DRAM needs to be "Refreshed" as those capacitors lose value).

Its easy to "refresh" a capacitor if you only care about two states: high and low. If you're analog however and care about microvolts / nanovolts, its impossible to "refresh" capacitors.

After all, what does a capacitor at 5000uV really mean? In digital, you can refresh it back to 6000uV every few seconds. In analog, you don't know if part of the information leaked out or not.
Sooth that nasty cough. Show us your preferred alternative to the benchmarks game.
Don't remember how found out about HN. But there are a number of reasons why I am here every day:

1) I may not be a Silicon Valley technocrat, but I do have a strong understanding of core computer science and programming. Part of why I'm here is to further that knowledge for use in both my personal and professional projects.

2) Links cover much more than just geeky technobabble. I enjoy reading a variety of topics from statistical discoveries from big data analysis to political thought pieces to websites designed purely for fun to links about new services. The range of topics is fairly robust and it excludes the stuff I don't care about (sports, celebrity gossip, etc.)

3) I care deeply about personal security and there are solid discussions here semi-regularly about that.

4) Opposing viewpoints. Many politically related comments here are on the liberal/democratic side of the fence. I'm more of a socially libertarian but fiscally conservative person. I like coming here to expose myself to different opinions and, more importantly, the thought processes behind them. I consistently evaluate those ideas to see if they have merit and whether or not they fit into my value system. In is my belief that if there is a well-reasoned argument that contradicts my own, this is one of the places I will find it. I also post my own thoughts here to see how they land with the crowd. More often than not, they resonate. If not, they at least don't get downvoted or piss anyone off. This tells me that when you are talking about intelligent, reasonable, normal people there is more common ground between the various ends of the political spectrum than I had imagined. Finding this common ground and gauging the reactions to politically related material is one of the most important functions of HN for me. It helps me grasp what's going on in other people's minds who aren't just blindly supporting a political party.

5) Comment quality is far above nearly all other sites. This is, almost without exception, the only place on the entire internet I post anything public. I don't use social media and almost never comment on any other forum or public article online.

6) The simplistic design. It's fast, straightforward, and bullshit free. No ads or third-party scripts.
The Secret Ingredient to Photorealism in Blender3d
Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia
And Matthew Perry!

But seriously... angry dudes talking about music nuances without realizing that sarcasm doesn't translate over typing, and cat photos. Things haven't changed that much...

Until you watch about 30 seconds here... remember this is a MARKETING video. Ha, wow that's changed... a lot. Can you imagine any marketing video today going into technical detail like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc&t=44m30s
Maybe Velcro everything that you don't want moved, or put little tape outlines or stick paper shapes under them, so they know where to move it back to when they're done.
Copter Crew Gets Lost, Lands to Ask Directions
Not sure I like the sound of that. It sounds like the floating point wat of "NaN != NaN".
I sold my car through Beepi, and I basically pitched them against Shift on pricing.

Both companies were an order of magnitude better than car dealership trade-in experience, Beepi's guaranteed offer just came a few bucks over Shift's guaranteed offer.

It's a bummer if this model is not sustainable, the customer experience alone would definitely drive me towards Beepi (and Shift) next time I need to buy/sell.
Although I'm a programmer, I visit HN regularly because (frankly) the mean IQ here is higher than for most social media sites.

I posted to Reddit for many years (https://www.reddit.com/user/lutusp/?sort=top) but IMHO Reddit is in the midst of a major meltdown with respect to content quality -- in my view it has attracted too many users of doubtful intellectual abilities.

I find that HN has consistent high quality content, conveniently accessible, with an easy-to-use interface.

> HN's primary audience is "hackers", which generally extends to the engineering types.

I think that was once true, but a quick read of a given day's front page posts suggests a much wider audience, both among those who post articles and those who read.
I missed that, but I'm interested in the answer too. I believe the bitkeeper guy frequents this forum. Haven't tried it, myself.
hear hear! this was my experience too. I was ready to switch to using gsheets as my entire application UI layer when the scaling problems and desyncing started hitting me.

still fantastic for quick-and-dirty tools and prototypes though.
If driving was more expensive there'd be more options than driving 25 miles. You could take a bike to the nearest train station which would arrive fairly frequently and take that to campus.
How to Build a Great Startup Culture
But hairdressers are an outlier and have hideous medieval working conditions
"creeepy"
He didn't add the log-transform, he replaced the linear relationship with the log-transform, which would cause RMSE to increase if there were a lot of high-skewing response values, which appears to be the case from the diagram.(log-transforming the response might help)
There's a really good BBC TV series about this topic, which also covers the MIT Radio Lab that Tim mentions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEqfg2sIH0

"How Buildings Learn" (1997)
Computer came like this; can't find close button
I'm enjoying both very well. My inner Kerbal is quite satisfied with the show; the physics in it is mostly OK.
you mean like TensorTalk?
so they are self employed and not workers or employees - well until the tax man gets involved
Review of Dana Derricks Copywriting Professors Work Books
It’s not the job that sucks, it’s the people (2012)
There's also a tradition for peers to "bestow" that title on someone who they feel deserves it. You don't call yourself a hacker just like you don't call yourself a maestro.
I work as a technical recruiter and have done tech related work since college (covering tech stocks, VC, working at a big data startup in ~6 different roles, and now). I think HN provides good and interesting articles about tech and the world beyond. I don't really ever muck about in the comments because I don't know enough to really make a contribution but I try to check it a few times a day, see if there is anything really stimulating.