skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did a military long tour in Germany in the 80's. Returning was jarring. There were TV series that I had missed entirely or major parts of, ("V", "Miami Vice", etc) that had become part of the culture. Public trash cans freaked me out -- all the ones on military bases and in major German cities had been removed because of the Red Army Faction terrorist threat.

Walmart went from "Who?" to "OMG this place has everything!"

Finally got to eat Pop Tarts again.
Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes
Comparing Uglify to the Closure compiler
Yup. It'd be like someone stealing your letters from the mailbox, copying the contents, and sending that data to the highest bidder.
Haha, yep. That or a complaint about their man assignment changing and it being hard to keep up.
What languages do you all recommend for compiling to Wasm? I know Rust is an option and something like Nim would probably work well. What is the future of Wasm?
I'm in the field (recent MA in art).

Colour theory, beyond the important concept of complementaries, is very unscientific. I'm not aware of any credible, rigorous scientific findings about colour and emotion that are actually used by artists. (I'm not saying that no credible research will ever exist: see links here https://designshack.net/articles/graphics/the-science-behind... )

Painters (etc.) choose and apply colour in an intuitive way. Some artists are known as "colourists" for their skill in orchestrating colour effects. The way to learn is to look at that kind of work and absorb the aesthetic.
A relevant scene from The Hurt Locker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PgbNQU3cYo

In this scene, the character has just returned from a tour in Iraq defusing IEDs. The movie portrays him as a total pro in the battlefield, but stunned and anxious as he returns to civilian life. Great movie not just about war, but about the psychology of war and purpose.

Edit: here's a better dissection – http://www.cinemablography.org/supermarket-scene.html
Thank you. I'm still a big fan of Gitlab and the vision you guys have. You've built an amazing organization and you'll definitely keep doing great things. Look forward to using your platform again in the future :)
they do seem very willing to give rather long (12-24 month) massive discounts to new customers and people who threaten to leave. would seem to be in line with huge margins that they would behave that way.
> The adtech industry isn't full of idiots, it's thousands of people like you and me.

> The advertisers who hold all the money could do something by only spending it on good vendors - but who's going to tell them that?

I guess I always figured (hoped?) that the folks like you and I, but in that industry, would speak up to the folks buying the ads, but you're right: Us folks aren't the ones selling the ad campaigns to the folks with the money.

Vendors can't be that aloof though.. can they?
Surely they're aware of the impact that poor advertising campaigns can have on their brand?
Are you seeing any hints of that?

> Also the most annoying ads are the ones that show the most "engagement" - precisely because they are annoying.

From what you've seen, would you say that despite the growing prevalence of adblockers, these types of "engaging" adverts are still the most profitable today?

I mean, I figured one of the reasons ad companies were getting so vocal about adblockers lately is that it was starting to impact their bottom line. Perhaps just not enough to spur real change yet.

Do you think ad companies will change their ways when adblocking starts to have a more significant impact on them financially, or do you see them as too stuck in their ways, perhaps needing to be unseated by startups who aren't afraid to push respectable advertising and raise the bar?

One of my takeaways from watching the documentary "Art & Copy" was that advertising can be respectable and engaging without being intrusive and in your face, but I can't think of very many recent examples of that. A diminishing art form perhaps.
I lived 3 years in the UK, and now I am back in Denmark for a while, I hope to return, but lets see what Theresa May & co figures out. I always thought I wanted to go for the dual-citizenship, but not anymore.

It is difficult to live in a new place, you don't really feel integrated even though you have friends, speak the language, go to events, pay your taxes, and get the jokes, you will always be the dane and a foreigner.

A thing I noticed when I was away is how stupid and mundane Danish everyday local politics look, and the same with the news cycle. I think it is refreshing and healthy perspective, and I would encourage everyone to go to another country just to get out of their bubble. And also to get some ammunition against people that keep spouting "If I moved to another country, I would assimilate".

When I returned I had adjusted to British service levels, and how fast it is. I was used to get a coffee within minutes of ordering, and when I went to a store and looked a little out of place, I would instantly get help. I got to observe my fellow Danes as a tourist, and oh boy, I now understand why they all seem to think we are rude, and don't really care at all!

But the most odd thing about being back home is that I don't really feel at home, my thoughts and language is some sort of strange danish/british amalgamation, and I feel like a foreigner, even though I bike the streets of my childhood, say hi to people I went to school with, and walk the forests and beaches I was going on adventures in as a child.
+1000, thinking about digital products like books as assets akin to investing in stocks has been an important realization for me over the past few months.

Most of us who participate in communities like this have this insane super power of being able to create something out of nothing (but time and effort) that has value to people.

We can build little things that work their asses off for us forever, just requiring a nudge once in a while to keep them moving.

I've released two digital products in the last year, a book and a video course. The book will be a year old in May and still makes me $2500-5000/month, and the course (which came out in November) is still making ~$30,000/month, although I expect that to slow down soon.

Even still, with a little bit of maintenance marketing effort, I can expect those products to keep making a few thousand dollars each month for the next couple years while being able to dedicate the vast majority of my time to creating new products (assets) for my portfolio.

It feels a lot like the mentality that's pushed in "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" of owning things that generate cash flow, but instead of having to find money to purchase real estate, folks like us can invent these assets out of thin air. Really blows my mind.
Those notification APIs still get triggered by Javascript running in those tabs. As far as I know, there's no equivalent to the mobile notification APIs where there's a single dedicated socket listening to a central server.
>Still building on top of a browser

Yes, that's what I want

>normal performance bottlenecks there,

I've never found the DOM to be a performance bottleneck, and I build UIs with thousands of elements.

>I don't see them overlapping anytime soon

I hope not. Like I said, I don't want React - I want WASM and good high level languages. And I want more device support with WASM.
I can sympathize. Whenever I come back to the US from Japan, I find myself bowing at the supermarket and persisting lots of little Japanese mannerisms. Sometimes for days. Japanese culture seems to demand more...commitment...than some of the other places I've visited and lived. Perhaps Japan is a stronger source of reverse culture shock.
And greedy algorithms always fail to reach max optimization.

Balance is the gist of the article.

I can't possibly stay sane _and_ write something if I have to account for every possible reception by every possible buyer of that data. There are too many variables in play, and the data is too easily bought and sold. If we don't regulate, the least scrupulous agent will overtake the competition and it's Thunderdome beyond that.

Do you want to joust for your supper, because I don't.
I don't use okcupid.com, but gmail, for me, leaks ~4KB per second, even under Chrome 57. Years ago I reported the issue, but it remains unresolved, and I've never received a response. It's not clear to me if it's a gmail issue or a Chrome issue. Either way, leaking 4KB per second is not a good thing. I've only had gmail open for about 2 hours, and it's already using about 325MB of RAM - and there's only 5 messages in my inbox.
You might want to check out Rockstor - it's basically the same thing except with Linux and btrfs.

http://rockstor.com/
It sounds like the article is making a case for their product.

While I admit that I have mostly moved on to Spark, for many years Hadoop was a reliable way to process lots of data inexpensively.
Firebase's Realtime Database does this, too.

https://firebase.google.com/pricing/

(Disclosure: I work on Cloud Datastore, which is another Google Cloud product; it, too, does pricing based on ops and storage rather than provisioning, as my colleagues note.)
Indian Scientists Develop Credit-Card Sized ECG M/c, Costs Just Rs.4,000 ($60)
There's a certain kind of person who want power, or the appearance of power, more than anything else. They tend not to be great people, for a number of reasons. In the same way that really exceptional pro-athletes (and I don't mean ones who do their thing in their teens/early 20's) tend to be a very particular kind of person, and that's not always... you know... a good person.
SCO/Linux controversies
Market Validation 101: Test Any Startup Idea in 9 Easy Steps
you are correct, my bad. I did think before I spoke though so that was not necessary. It is interesting how angry people get when you say anything negative about tesla. And my point stands that anyone has access to battery technology - Samsung sdi and LG chem can scale up with any partner just as tesla and panasonic could
Honestly I'd only use C and C++ with this. It's not going to be a good target for anything that currently requires a VM (most garbage collected languages)
I'm in Japan now but being a Japanese-american I "look" like most Japanese. That being said, I'd say almost every Japanese knows I'm a foreigner before I open my mouth. Just the body language, way you walk, approach people, and what you wear seems so homogeneous that I am easily distinguished (it could just be my clothes or something like that of course).
This is very cool! I can see that there are some major restrictions to its application (you cannot do changes after it's built, and the type restrictions about the value), but in the cases you can bypass the restrictions, this could be very very efficient.
> One of his big motivators is that dealing with people is hard, even for just the brief interaction of paying for his purchase.

this is a fine line though. If you have some level of social anxiety, avoiding social contact is about the worst you can do for it. It's allowing the fear to control you. A better solution is to work your way through the social anxeity, learning organic ways to "grease the gears" and make situations pleasant to both parties.

I had to learn this in my late teens/early 20s. I was withdrawing more and more, stone-faced all the time in public places such as the grocery store. I'd park behind the store just so I didn't have the hassle of interactions in the parking lot. That's letting anxiety reign over you. Cognitive distortions [1] can send you on a downward trajectory where avoidance is the norm and you to go greater and more extreme lengths to mitigate the "problem". I learned that a smile, saying "hi, how are you?" or "excuse me" seem to make most interactions at least 50 "percent" less uncomfortable compared to unemotional silence, which I've seen in psychology books as a sign of hostility.

Now, if you are autistic and have something inhibiting your ability to understand social cues, then "just facing it" wont work, but even people on the spectrum can learn to improve their situation through a skilled therapist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion
Uber as a ponzi scheme of ambition

1/ Basic premise was they keep highlighting their entry into larger and larger markets and so investors keep ponying up $ for the ambition.
2/ First, it was taxis

3/ Then, it was taxis + logistics

4/ Then taxis, logistics, vehicle ownership

5/ Then taxis, logistics, vehicle ownership, autonomous

6/ Then taxis, logistics, vehicle ownership, autonomous,
trucking

7 / Then taxis, logistics, vehicle ownership, autonomous,
trucking, drones

8/ I might have the order wrong but each spins Uber into addressing an even larger Total Addressable Market

9/ While they never actually own even the first one (taxis) yet. But investors love the ambition and keep ponying up.

10/ Hence, the ponzi scheme of ambition

https://twitter.com/asanwal/status/820365771834531841"

It's hard to say whether Musk is doing something similar or not. Satellites, boring company, mars mission, electrified grid, etc....Obviously, Kalanick is much different than Musk, but I can't help but feel pattern recognition creeping up on me.
EASTL's PS4 codepaths are now available
I've lived in other countries a handful of times for fairly brief periods (no longer than 6 months), and it is really true. I've know some people who've spent years abroad, come back to the U.S. and nope right back out as fast as they can find employment back where they came from.

It's not a statement about the quality of a place, but really having to go through an adjustment to get used to your new home and then having to readjust back to where you came from (only you keep telling yourself you shouldn't have to since it's your home) and then constant comparisons between places, which you already did as part of your learning of a new place, but now you start to see all the bad stuff about where you're from, but you were used to doing the reverse instead.

It takes a while for all the differences to average out in your mind.

I don't think I've ever had to too bad, but I've definitely spent a few weeks angry at how terrible Americans drive after coming back from Germany, or how bad service is when coming back from Korea.

But I've also had kind of the opposite feeling. After one long stay in Germany, and feeling very foreign, I remember coming home and it not really registering that it happened until I got in the taxi and the driver was playing some R&B. I'm not even an R&B fan but the Americaness of it, after hearing weeks of Europop, hit me like a stick and I suddenly felt very very home.
What is HipHop for PHP?
You leave out the critical question: how do we best protect society? The cycle of abuse, and circumstances that explain how abusers become abusers, does not absolve us from the necessity of protecting potential victims. It does, however, forces us to treat inmates humanely and to not engage into pure 'retaliation'. There's little evidence that punitive sentences actually do anything for preventing crimes. You can acknowledge the dangerousness of specific individuals and the necessity of preventing (further) crimes, while understanding how they got there.

It's also critical to intervene early. By the time they're adults, or have started a criminal career, it's much more difficult for someone to change. At this point potential sentences, however 'punitive', do very little dissuasion.
Most of the problem with middle America not having jobs is brain drain.

There's no jobs because it's very hard to find people to fill key roles.

But there's no people to fill key roles because there's no longer any jobs, and they're in more populous centers.

If you're pushing policy that prices the few businesses there out of the remaining pools they can hire from, you might as well just close up the middle of the country and admit defeat.
She says "tell him you have to sell a LOT to be a bestseller. And if you're an indie, you need someone at the NY Times to like you or you'll never make the list no matter how many you sell."
To say nothing of what it does for public faith in any officials administering such policy. It's not hard to imagine a large group becoming entirely untrusting of, for example, the police by such a brash pursuit of family-breaking.
I always thought good chicken tasted a bit like pork and peanut butter. It's a strange taste, but it makes store bought chicken always feel like it's missing something.
Good read. I am wondering, why did you decide not to do a free HTML version of the book; aside from the obvious, it is tedious to do.

Did you consider Physical printing of books?
Why not? Once someone implements a good-enough garbage collector that can be used by a multitude of garbage collected languages.
Beautiful Racket v1.0
Practically uninhabitable is rather a strong claim. What sort of climate did you grow up in?
You're talking about _marketing_ not really writing a book.

Just like with software, you can build the most amazing tool or product in the world. No one is going to buy it without marketing it.

Same with a book, it's all about the marketing.
How come? I thought WebAssembly was designed with GC in mind.
At some point we should stop calling them investors and start calling them what they really are: idiots.
Although I never worked in Toronto or Silicon Valley, I've had the same experience in Taiwan.

Salaries in Kaohsiung are low, but the cost of living is much lower. Many young people move to Taipei to earn more, but end up saving less.

People who stay usually aren't here for the money. That reduces inequality, and I feel subjectively safer. YMMV.
I lived abroad 6 years and coming home always feels weird. Comparatively, I always feel more relieved when returning to my second home, so I guess I still haven't ever recovered from the change that living abroad had on me.
I think its because outside of rap there isnt many songs with the lyrical density and complexity required for anotations to work. Even most rap songs are very up front about what they are talking about.

Their only other major play is annotating things like scientific papers but I cant see the market for that being big enough to make money.
Patients Lose Sight After Stem Cells Are Injected into Their Eyes
Brand new Node.js rails like framework
That's actually the first thing we tried, but then discovered pretty quickly that the unit economics don't work if you use a phone. Android is great way to prototype the idea, but sadly that's as far as you can go.
What is the correct way to achieve, say, the example that article uses for inline-flex?
It's important to note that the rollout of the Model 3, along with other Tesla vehicles, is done in spite of many laws that are explicitly aimed at preventing the sale of Tesla vehicles. Many states completely hamstring the ability to sell EV cars directly and some states are downright hostile towards Tesla. Additionally, one has to consider the current administration's position on fuel economy standards and any company such as Tesla getting the leg up with subsidies. Which, according to Elon, would be completely fine to get rid of so long as we are getting rid of all subsidies (including the massive ones for Oil companies). In general, this is and always has been an uphill battle and rolling these products out to market is met with great enthusiasm but at the same time hostility from many states who see them as a threat.
Huh. That's a really good point. More of the value in a breakfast cereal is in "intellectual property" and less is on the inputs and labor that produces the marginal next box. I hope that's true, because it's a neat little explanation.
Not sure if the author is limited by his trial account but to get more than 6.5GB of memory you need to dial up the number of cores which then gives you up to 64 cores and 416 GB memory
There's also Beyond Meat, which is textured vegetable protein run through a complicated extruder with hot and cold sections. This gives it most of the appearance and physical properties of real meat, at least at the burger level. That's much simpler to make than growing meat from cells.

Beyond Meat ought to be a low-price product, but it isn't.
He's bending his knees before the jump. I could never get the timing right in that game, though :(
Taste is acquired, it is not in your genes. Of course you will find foods and tastes that were present through your whole life better than new textures and tastes. It's normal.

Eventually one either gets used and enjoys the new foods or makes tasty meals in combination.

For me, getting drunk and then eating the disgusting thing in the morning made me love it. It's undescribable how delicious things are when one is dehydrated and when the disgusting taste of beer was the only thing in the mouth the night before.
I just recently returned to the USA from living in China for 9 years, and damn, I think I have PTSD.

One night while I was asleep, there was a clap-clap-clap next to my window at 3 AM in the morning. I just assumed it was some old guy exercising early in the morning by clapping and walking backwards...not a weird thing in Beijing. I ran outside ready to confront whoever it was, and it was just...water drops hitting a leaf.
This is caused by media sites/blogs abusing block quote typesetting for pull quotes. If the quote is in the text of your article elsewhere, it should be placed off to the side as a pull quote, outside of the natural reading order.

This article's author properly used block quote positioning, but our minds have been trained to skip it as we assume it is a pull quote.
> Tesla's prospects today aren't noticeably different from how they were on November 8th, 2016

I think the evidence strongly says otherwise: Tesla closing stock price, a quantitative measure of the market's view of their prospects and actual financing for those prospects:

I'll pull out a few from around Election Day, as a more representative sample. But for better data than the excerpts below, go here and look at the 1 year and 5 year charts:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA?p=TSLA

* Tue, Nov 1, 2016: 190.97 (1 week before Election Day)

* Tue, Nov 8, 2016: 194.94 (Election Day)

* Wed, Nov 9, 2016: 190.96

* Tue, Nov 15, 2016: 183.77

...

* Generally, on Dec 2 it was 181, then it vectored mostly steadily upward to Feb 21 (277), then there was a dip and it stabilized at the current level.

* Peak: Feb 13, 2017: $280.60 (about equal to approx. all-time high, last seen July 2015)

* Today: 255.73

----

Remember that Musk criticized Trump before the election. Then Musk made a dramatic turn and became Trump's supporter, to a significant extent at least, and I think in December or January (but it would be good to know when).

* The stock price has shot up by 31% since Election Day, and ~50% from its ~ Dec 2 low to its Feb 13 peak. Not only does that directly help prospects, but the market clearly views Tesla's prospects as significantly better.

* Multiple investment banks tie the large increase to his relationship with Trump. And at least one investment bank advised people to buy stock specifically because of the Trump relationship. See links in the GP.

* Many other reports, including some I quoted, also tie his companies' prospects to his relationship to Trump, though in ways that are harder to quantify. See links in the GP.

* Many accuse him of supporting Trump specifically for this reason. Again, see links in the GP. Of course, nobody can read Musk's mind, so that is always difficult to substantiate.

* Search for "musk trump", and you'll find much more than the few links I posted.

EDIT: made stock data a little more informative, and more clear statement in the opening
I've experienced it after only three months away from the US.
That's been my experience as well when trying to learn from artists who do this. As you said, they most often will simply follow their intuition built over many years of trying different things and learning what seems to cause what kind of result. It'd certainly be neat to shortcut that process, I don't think there's anything magical about it, it's just that people have likely never had to bother.