skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the same price, I had the choice of buying an external SCSI harddisk, a Zip drive, or a Syquest drive. (Syquest soon went bust so at least I dodged a bullet there)

I went for the Zip drive and used it as basically an external harddisk. For the computer I had at the time (a 68K Mac), it was actually perfectly performant as a harddisk replacement - I had one disk of games, one disk of Office, etc.
Remix (YC W15) is hiring designers and engineers to make better cities
Funny, -4 points in 30 minutes, yet no one has disagreed with me. So I'm left to conclude that everyone knows it's deceptive reporting and harmful to the climate change debate, yet four people believe I'm a jerk for pointing it out.

Is that really the level of discourse on this site? Was creating this account a mistake?
Using a fine is oppressive regulation or having standards is?
I liked the interactive workshops linked in the article. Do you have any other recommendation of good ones?
This is why I always tell people: If all we had were technical problems to solve, it would be easy. People problems are much more difficult to solve. As the scale of the project increases, with more people, more personalities, more money -- so does the difficulty of the project. "Space is hard" because the scale of the projects are huge. It is hubris to believe that we are the ones that don't contribute to the problem. It is naive to think that some manager isn't looking at us and thinking, "That asshole programmer is going to sink this project for sure". If we can see the problems, why can we not fix them? Because of assholes? Or because we lack the skills to explain the issue and motive people to fix it? Or because we are wrong? All of those things come into play and if you want to be successful you need to navigate that minefield.

If only it were rocket science, it would be sooooo easy. Alas, it is not.
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'Sea ice' generally refers to ocean water that freezes during the winter though, not iceburgs that come from ice sheets and glaciers.
Strange deal, I would have held out for at least $100. That would at least have paid for a pizza night at home.
Congratulations to the team. I have been using Angular 2 for our internal operations dashboard.

I am seeing : platform-browser / platform-server namespace. Can we expect platform-android, platform-ios, platform-jvm ?

Looking at the angular compiler pipeline, with AST this should be possible ?
Take a look at the code they've attributed to him. I don't think he's overly concerned, not about that anyway. The overreaching attempt at re-licencing others work on the other hand...
This is the first time I've heard about this issue. If this is as severe and terrifying as these comments are making it seem, why has this not been covered more?
> The solution is for affluent nations like the US to reduce its standard of living and cede more control to international bodies. We can debate the merits of the science all we want, but the solution put forward promotes a pre-determined political agenda

Where is this solution put forward? By what politicians is this "political handling" being done? What legislation has been proposed, let alone passed?
He also could be confusing Zip disks with the Jazz disks, which were only slightly better than writing your data to /dev/null.
New release of CLI is running final checks in CI. Should release momentarily!

Edit: it's released! npm install @angular/cli
We pulled a Backbone app up out of storage along with some others. Then we wrote a few more versions in modern frameworks. It's an internal comparison app. Two things of note.
1) We always start from the Backbone app, it's the easiest to convert to other frameworks.
2) It ran right out of the box, no problems. No library muck and no fixes.
That being said I did eventually move on to writing new stuff in Angular2x, but I stand by Backbone as good and reliable.
That last sentence seems to be true as far as it goes, but I agree with the criticisms that it doesn't add much to the debate.

Suggesting that "consciousness" is some kind of smooth continuum is just plain wrong. Empirically, it's more like a series of discrete abilities that kick in as more and more sophisticated neurological processes become available. (We don't really know that for sure, and Chalmers and the animists/dualists may turn out to be right. But that kind of dualism is very fuzzy, and if you're trying to build intelligent systems it's hard to do anything useful with it.)

One tell-tale is the mirror test. Some animals understand they are the creature in the mirror, while others see a different animal - and respond accordingly, driven by instinct.

That's a binary test. You can't "sort of" see a reflection of yourself.

It's true you can get it wrong some of the time - as a human, you can be tired or confused or drunk or ill or simply in a poorly lit environment.

But the ability to make the distinction, assuming you're functioning normally, is either there or it isn't. You either have the self-abstractive processing needed to operate with a self symbol and to understand that you're experiencing it in the mirror, or you don't. And if you don't, you never will.

There are many other possible binary tests, and consciousness seems to exist as a sum total of the pass/fail profile for all of them.

That's why the lion question is irrelevant - it doesn't go far enough to make this point. It assumes - on the basis of no neurological theory - that being able to talk would transform the instinctual and perceptual mechanisms built into lions so completely they'd become irrelevant, and you'd have something that looked like a lion but thought like a philosopher and was no longer even slightly interested in chasing after antelopes.

This is clearly wrong, because being able to talk hasn't made us stop feeling and acting like primates, or - often - even dumber animals.

With those kinds of details in mind, a multidimensional consciousness scale could be defined quite precisely.

But Dennett's fuzzy argument about being sort-of conscious and sort-of not is - I think - hand-wavey vagueness. It lacks the precision needed to do that usefully.
Arctic sea ice thickness and volume are decreasing too.

http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volum...
Try visiting Ireland for a holiday. Your eyes will bleed green.
Get in the habit of going to bed early.
Vue.js? I thought that died when Angular 4 came out.
The cynical view is that it's a way to make people believe they (and/or the authorities) are doing something about the water crisis.
https://www.dealomni.com - domain and source code $2k
Twitter does not support the 10bn market cap. 3bn maybe, but it's overpriced by 300%
> Why are there no chinese or russian leaks?

Because the ruskies aren't dumb enough to keep their secrets on a computer connected to the Internet.

Because the Chinese aren't dumb enough to keep their secrets on a computer in Baghdad that someone can walk in and burn the files to a writeable DVD.
The first two are pretty well covered by our friends at Ionic and NativeScript.

The last one, well, that's a bit more complicated. Let's just say that sort of thing is on the radar.
Now imagine if those two groups were allowed to trade!
The inspiration, motivation and diligence to post regularly.
definitely agreed! It's become one of the biggest "advocators", so to speak. But I think people will want to learn it as a default, async primitive in JS as promises now are. Not saying support from Angular and other projects and also companies doesn't help, since it makes it look less like a "scary, new thing", but I think more people should start to teach it's benefits to be frank and blunt about it ;)
Duverger's Law describes tendencies, not inevitabilities. Canada has FPTP and several parties in Parliament. UK the same. A regional split in the party system, or a conservative insurgency against the Republicans in Alabama, or a liberal one against the Dems in DC, or any one of a number of other scenarios would do it.
Big fan of Postman for quickly iterating on API's, microservice integration tests, and one off requests. However, my team keeps the collections in git and they are very difficult to diff. This almost always require a detailed commit (doesnt usually happen) or me asking the dev what they changed. Any suggestions on how to improve comparing two collections?
Should've gone with a better vendor. Symantec has been a known bad actor in this field for years now.
Hardware for Deep Learning
Hmm, seems like the author either does not know about JSON.mapping [0] or just chose not to use it. Honestly, the corresponding macro for YAML is the main reason I use Crystal for CLI apps since it comes with the stdlib. YAML is easy enough to write quickly that I don't have to do too much with option parsing. Plus you can just use your editor rather than the shell.

[0] https://crystal-lang.org/api/master/JSON.html#mapping%28prop...
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 basically required states to buy electronic voting machines in a relatively short time frame and gave them federal dollars to help. It was a response to the "hanging chads" of the 2000 election.

There was not previously a huge market for voting machines and the three or four existing vendors sucked. The law had strict requirements about making the machines available to people with disabilities, but not so much to say about security or reliability or robustness of the platform.
Maybe if they had some CRM functions for brands to use, maybe using machine learning to automatically pick up on nasty tweets about your brand and add them to a queue of cases to investigate.

Seems like a lot of people turn to twitter to complain about products/services when things go wrong, give companies an easy way to handle those?
This is good to know, cheers!
No they did not leave Washington, that's ridiculous. Their executive HQ is in Chicago but that doesn't mean much. Many executive HQ are in Chicago but that's not many jobs.
Augusto lived with us in the original Airbnb house for a while (apt below us). He even joined our company kickball games when we had 10 employees.
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> there is no way the business will allow us to migrate to v2

We as engineers should not accept this. Business should not be involved in technical decisions like library upgrades. Business and engineering should negotiation development scheduling, nothing more. This means what new features are worked on, what bugs are prioritized, etc. All remaining time should be up to engineering's discretion.

And if business has you working on features full-time, then that's a (really) bad business and you should find a more acceptable company to work for.
There has to be some other factor: on a 2013 iMac it uses under half a percent when idle, with the same versions of macOS and VS Code.
They'll all be caught by surprise and lose their shirts when Symantec releases their financials next quarter and the stock tanks. The market is full of ignorant people.
Angular 4? I thought that died when Scala.js came out
increasingly, angular seems less like a tool I'd use and more like a platform that exists to sell typescript and generally influence the web.

in 2017 I'm curious why I'd pick angular over vue for a web-based project, if anyone has insight. not over "x js framework" -- over vue specifically. vue 2 is pretty much exactly what I wanted angular 2 to be.
Is there data available for this prior to 1978?
OK then you agree, the article was poorly written and didn't give enough information despite that info being important to making a logical argument. Also, if true, then shouldn't sea level be rising? Why aren't we hearing about that?
That book got good reviews. /r/math has lots of threads on this, recommend Abbott, Tao, Pugh, Spivak etc

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/50m4ib/what_are_the_m...

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/4jopme/is_it_prematur...

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/512p2p/analysis_text_...
> That whole discourse assumes things about actualized humanity that cannot be taken as granted. Who's to say that earning a simple living, caring for a family well, and being virtuous isn't perfect in itself? Who's to say that seeking pleasure and avoiding pain isn't a form of perfection? Who's to say that the human perfection isn't a distraction from the commands of a perfect deity?

I'd say that the high-low-middle-mass divide is universal, but the goals that a given high culture aims for are different from civilization to civilization. This includes West European (including New England) versus Celtic (more or less including the South, descended mostly from the Anglo-Scottish Borderers and the West Country).

In the particular areas you're asking about, though, I see contradictions. Being virtuous doesn't have much of a history of being compatible with seeking pleasure and avoiding pain; but being virtuous is a form of human perfection, in fact the one that Aristotle would endorse most readily, and I fail to see how following God becomes easier if you're less able to follow Him. As for earning a simple living, well, look at the website you're on and its long history of destroying the ability to earn them...

On the second point, though, I feel misrepresented. I explicitly said that "it's not just mass culture that the Internet makes available" -- although if you don't share the goals of a given high culture, there's no point in participating it. What does a Celtic high culture look like? Such a culture definitely existed in the Middle Ages, especially in Ireland, but it's been on ice for centuries...

In music, an orchestra can just plain produce sounds that a guy with a guitar can't. There's also more of a filtering effect, which tends to weed out junk... but bigger and/or more formal music don't always mean better music. Music theory can become a burden, and the pentatonic scale is extremely expressive for something that has half the notes of twelve-tone scales; the Irish session is a different sort of thing from a Western quartet or band, with a different set of objectives. And music is something it's good to participate in, which is something in the guy with guitar's favor.

Still, whatever a Celtic (or Quaker? or who knows what else) high culture might look like, there's not much participation in it in the US countryside, certainly not in any organized and visible form (although a lot of cultural activity of all sorts is on the Web these days). I feel like Western high culture leaves a few things out, but I'd rather be around someone else's culture than around cultural passivity -- although Western culture has a horrible case of the middlebrows here in the US. (Has it always? I wouldn't rule it out.)

But if you want to specifically say that life isn't better in the mega-cities: I like urban living, especially walking to work. Of course, that gets challenging and expensive even in the mega-cities; the US needs more walkable areas, more narrow streets, and more trains, subways, and commuter rail. Rents low enough to raise families in the cities wouldn't hurt, either...
Is a person missing half a brain, in a vegetable state with little hope for recovery not human?
Yep. It was horrible to use, but it had type checking, sure. So did Objective-J, from around the same time period, fwiw.
Yeah I like to think of it this way - you've been without food for 3 weeks, and then all of a sudden you get a 24-hour ticket to Home Town Buffet. After that you're without food for another 3 weeks. A large amount of rain over a short period after a long period of time without rain has passed != drought is over.
Does anyone have an good example app using modern Angular?

Looks like cool features, but I have a hard time envisioning on how they all work together.
It's been covered fairly extensively by all the major news sources (Nytimes article here: https://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/03/23/us/politics/a...) but the Trump circus is just DDOSing all other news. If it weren't so likely to end with several of his staffers in jail, I'd think it was purposeful.
I run a small horror news publication and we'd love to spend money on twitter. We've tossed some money towards ads and have had a nice return from it. What we can't figure out is how much money it'll take before they'll verify us. Maybe that's something they could just offer to businesses without having to submit a request and ultimately be denied for whatever reason.

I think it's fair to say I'd be very interested in throwing more money at twitter.
Because we are not unified and working towards the same goal. Tribalism is our roots and they will be our ends. That is the problem with too many sentient beings-everyone believes they deserve something. Thus no intilligent life unless they are a single entity.
I think they're trying to buy time. They really don't seem to have much of a foundation left to stand on.
I once used NATO phonetics over the phone with a Blizzard representative, there's a Z in my name, so they guy called me Mr. Zulu since then.
Do I get more coupons if i use IE7 while we're at it ?
Is Angular ever going to support web standards such as web components?
Simple. You also buy a bunch of old mice.
Yeah, the whole ordeal is almost comical.
The GOP senators who won new seats in the Senate disagree with you.

It wasn't voter suppression that caused this result, it was 5+M people more than in 2008 staying at home and not voting.
That's for a flimsy sheet of paper (i.e. disposable). Card stock for a menu uses much more water, as does the ink.

But you missed my point: The amount of water saved is so small as to be a joke. I was using paper printing to show just how little water it is.
Incentivizing AIs to learn/create language
Check out angularexpo.com and madewithangular.com
Even if it's not superior, this is still false advertising.

But, embedding the app in a browser always adds bloat - there's no way around that. It may not be obvious in case of huge apps, but there are many examples of trivial things shipped with electron - which make a simple single-dialog box app a 300MB monster.
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Tax shelter. Can take it as a loss now against other income.
Define "civilization". I could see a return to the dark ages (or at least, pre-electricity civilization) as totally possible.)
My data does not suggest that, since that's for a thin sheet of paper, not card stock. And it does not include the ink or the plastic lamination.

I was using paper as an example of just how little water this law is saving, but people are using that example literally.
You've obviously never been.
Oh please. The game is rigged, but it's not that rigged. At the end of the day, tens of millions of people voted not just for Trump, but for GOP candidates down the line. Millions of people voted for Hillary in the primaries. We got the people we voted for. We could have voted for other people at all stages of the election (esp. the primaries where it makes the most difference) and we didn't.
It's on the list for next year, trust me.
>> When we tell people we have a native app, they get it. People go to our apps page, download the installer and see everything exactly as they expect things to be.

The term "native" is used to describe apps developed for a specific operating system. By this definition, clearly Electron apps (and hence Postman) are not native apps.

Having to download an installer doesn't make it native. On smartphones, all apps are installed in the same way. Yet, some are native and others use WebViews.

I am making no comment on Postman's quality (in fact I am a customer). However, advertising Postman as native seems a bit disconcerting to me.
Sandbox is a completely different idea. Both native and web apps can have sandboxes (or not have them).
Scala.js ? I thought that died when inferno came out ?
A "huge win" being enacted by a complete disregard for the copyright holders who were kind enough to contribute to the project. I find this behavior utterly unacceptable. If more projects attempted this bullshit the whole world would be a mess. What's to stop someone from relicensing a GPL program to closed-source, and assuming that anyone who might object would have spoken up? This is breathtakingly idiotic.
> We as a species can't even write a secure SSL implementation

s/can't even/can't be bothered to/

If Google dumped a billion dollars into creating a secure encryption library, I'm sure the result would be pretty good.
Signs like that usually say "it takes EIGHT cups of water to wash this cup that you probably didn't even want"
Source on that? IE spread from the Dnieper River area to Western Europe and Western China in a rather short amount of time. Clearly there was a lot of migration from the Urheimat.
So why aren't they?

So farmers can grow some crop, which embodies a great deal of water, and then sell it. Even something like grapes, which are mostly water. Why can't they just sell the water? Maybe process and bottle it.
This should have been explored in its prime, not on its downfall.
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I wonder if Mozilla went through this:

"It is possible that there may be Mozilla source files containing contributed code for which the copyright holders refuse to grant permission for relicensing under the MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license. In those cases we will investigate whether the situation can be resolved by someone writing new code to replace the code which cannot be relicensed. (This may require writing a complete new source file, or simply rewriting one or more portions of an existing file.)"

https://www-archive.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html#per...
Some of the other commenters have spent more time dissecting the writer and publication than the content of the story. If the story contains false or objectionable content I could see the reason for bringing this up, otherwise I personally can't really understand the point.

The article mentions plenty of things to indicate possible motives including wages, unionization, and safety regulations. Besides that these seem to be real stories that I honestly would've probably never heard about otherwise. Naively I didn't think most of these jobs were very dangerous, especially after reading stories about Chrysler workers caught drinking and smoking weed at the plants. After reading those stories I assumed these jobs were maybe demanding, but how hard could they be if they can be done while under the influence..? This story brought new perspective for me. Where I see new information, others are only seeing ulterior motive and maybe there's a bit of both.
True, but this one good year did end the drought in almost all the state!

Click the "One Year Ago" link!
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?...
I'd gladly pay $25 a year just to have a verified account. Be worth $10-20 million a year in earnings anytime they choose to simply turn it on.
I think it's really disappointing that so many of the commenters here have chosen to nitpick on the author's choice of the word native and then debating whether it was a good idea for them to use Electron. How about we all try out the app for a few days and the come report back about our experience?
Sounds great, would love to see fewer shitposts and spam. #BuildThePayWall