skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Firebase isn't going anywhere.

If experience has taught us anything, it's that it's pretty naive to say this about anything owned by Google. I mean, things like Google Wave and Google Buzz were huge initiatives at one point too.
the guy who first brought up gluten sensitivity recanted and now cites FODMAPs as the likely cause. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23648697

which happens to be the article your commenting on to begin with!, just for some reason a dupe from two years later. its in the first sentence of the abstract.
> But if someone can explain the problem better, I'm all ears.

Assuming you mean it...

Here's a youtube video about the benefits and attributes of event-sourcing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JKjvY4etTY

Though the demo project is presented in the browser, I'm trying to demonstrate that I can model the game of Tic-Tac-Toe using a much smaller and comprehensible (I hope) graph.

Additionally - because these are mathematical graphs I'm speaking of - it means the 'program' that the graph represents - can be expressed as pure math ( which is nifty to say the least )

A classic DFA would have to represent all the permutations of the board like so: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Tic-tac-...
I agree. A little bit more demand constraint for taking out debt for degrees that provide little opportunity return would be great. Would save a lot of people from great stress.
The paleo people, in fact, do think they're unhealthy: https://paleoleap.com/beans-and-legumes/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/beans-legumes-carbs/
Guy gets $26.5K fine for flying 4 kilometers above Calgary in a balloon chair
Student loans are not dischargable because there is nothing that can be repossessed and you don't want to allow graduates declaring bankruptcy at 21 to wipe out the debt. (Most people with large debt would be better served to immediately declare bankruptcy than to even attempt paying them off.)

Under such a system, once lenders stopped lending, college would again become available primarily to the wealthy.
> So far ahead of its' time

Or, JSX is so backward, behind its time?
I think it is saying that: if it is true that more precise measurements of time require more energy, then there is a limit to how precisely we can measure time, even in theory.
> On top of that SSL handshake for HTTPS happens at Google front ends which reduces the load on our servers. Also we can send traffic to different sets of VMs based on the URL! How cool is that?

Very cool - let's just hope Google is better at hiding contents of some random memory than Cloudflare.
How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body
(2013) I suspect from the comments on that site. I've seen it before.
As you say, it is academic competition that leads to what American teens call the "free ride".
CTM by Van Roy & Haridi?
In this instance, nothing afaict. I looked at a few of them which are generic "here's how you make a 3D scene with a shark" type tutorials for three.js (a popular browser-based 3D engine based on webgl).

The cynic in me thinks that perhaps "VR tutorial" gets more clicks these days ;)
Are these full-featured Windows VMs, or specifically browser testbeds?
There is one major difference in terms of graphics programming - deferred rendering doesn't work well in VR since it's incompatible with proper multisampled antialiasing, and the edge-detect and/or temporal AA methods typically used instead are too blurry when combined with the low perceived resolution of today's VR headsets.

For this reason there's been a trend back towards forward rendering, with some modern twists to efficiently handle many dynamic lights like deferred does. UE4 for example:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Performance/... | https://youtu.be/6kfMVxNSowM?t=3046
... or free at last.
Regardless of the mode of transportation, the chance of failure of lifting nuclear waste into orbit is much much higher than just dry cask storage on Earth.
> Vocational and apprenticeship programs are excellent ways for people to learn useful skills while remaining gainfully employed.

And the other way around is also true. There is value in people educated on arts or science even if they don't get a job directly related to it.

You are right that the link education-employment is in fact is wrong, I will say it is quite elitist. It presumes that people in jobs that don't require especial skills should not get a high education and at the same time that only people with a degree should have skilled jobs. And that's not true.
Never heard of petri-nets before, but familiar with ES. Do you have some good references as an intro to petri-nets?
I disagree entirely. Government sites should be snappy and accessible to all above all else. Unnecessary font downloads give people with poor internet connections a worse experience for questionable utility.
> jellybean part

...

> In the electronics industry, a "jelly bean" component is one which is widely available, used generically in many applications, and has no very unusual characteristics—as though it might be grabbed out of a jar in handfuls when needed, like jelly beans. For example, the μA741 might be considered a jelly bean op amp.

[Wikipedia]
Which is it? C++ programmers are smart enough to not need the features that Rust provides? Or C++ programmers aren't smart enough to learn basic concepts that they should already know considering their compiler doesn't help them write correct code?
Because they can and they want to make money (even the non-profits). There's no other way to justify a 3x increase in tuition over 10-15 yrs. Teacher's salaries have stagnated or dropped (due to use of adjuncts) and course material costs have effectively gone to zero (most materials are available on the Internet so the only excuse for $300 books now is greed or very esoteric subjects). That's why I refuse to donate to my alma mater. They have more than enough money. They have an unlimited, endless supply of money coming in from these federal loan programs, and they increase tuition to tap into more and more of it. It's a never ending cycle of making money off of students while offering the least amount of education possible.

This is what a society that doesn't value education in the least looks like. Instead of figuring out how to educate our population, we're too busy figuring out how to prevent people from pursuing education because most people are just too stupid for college by the time they reach college age. And why wouldn't they be, considering that in our best public schools, they just spent 12 years being babysat and learning almost nothing?
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> I find CyanogenMod, or LineageOS or something now, to be pleasant to use on a phone. It gives the option to run apps as root, and it comes with a terminal, and it tries to remain as open as it can.

Absolutely. I especially like it because it gives me the ability to restrict network access from apps (I usually just deny background cellular access but some apps I think have no business talking to the network even over WiFi). Moreover, the permission model is much better which brings me to the reason I uninstalled Facebook Messenger: denying start at boot or any other permission to Facebook Messenger (Or Facebook) on Lineage crashes the permission manager. Whatsapp and Instagram have no such issue. They will happily accept not being able to run at boot (I haven't looked into whether it actually works but at least I can set the permission as I want).

I guess my number one request for a custom rom would be the ability to say I don't want any app to run in background/run at boot/use network connections unless I specifically white list the app for the purpose.
Why are there so many links in HN that have pop-up? It seems like every other link goes to a popup, or a paywall.
There is a big range. You can get a 4 year "software degree" from a community college in the US for no more than 20k USD. Most of the big numbers you see toted are for private university, or giant flagship campuses. Many schools do offer cheaper deals at the smaller campuses. Don't buy the hype that any college degree in the US cost $200k.
Nodejs and V8: Getting Started with Memory and Performance
>don't accept cash

What is their reasoning for not accepting cash payments? I have never been somewhere that did not accept cash and can't see how that would benefit customers?
My reading of the explanations on studentloans.gov was that the standard payment was a minimum of $50/month, and that it could be even lower on an income based plan, is that wrong? Was your minimum higher?
The statement in the title that "most recent MIT grads cannot power a light bulb with a battery" is certainly not supported by the linked video, in which a handful of people fail at this task. They may have posed the problem to hundreds of students and shown a small number who failed.
There is a fantastic overview of this by Matt Levine at Bloomberg.[1] (The following is all quoted text):

I am working on a tentative theory of regulation. It goes like this:

1) There are two kinds of regulations: custom regulations and bulk regulations.

2) A custom regulation is designed to accomplish a particular goal. You want people to do something, so you write a rule mandating that they do it and punishing them if they don't. For instance, if you want U.S. companies to keep jobs in the U.S., you might write a rule to mandate that, and to "impose a 'very major' border tax on companies that move jobs outside the U.S." That is an example of a custom regulation, and it is good because it keeps jobs in the U.S.

3) Bulk regulations are the kind that you buy by the yard, ones that you measure by quantity rather than purpose. They don't have a purpose, really; they are just generic "red tape." These are the regulations that presidents frequently announce they will cut in half, or freeze with an executive order. They're the regulations that come not from a reasoned desire to achieve a particular goal, but from a pure impulse to regulate. Bulk regulations are bad because they prevent businesses from doing business-y things without accomplishing anything good.

4) All regulations are custom regulations.

5) All discussion of "regulation" is about bulk regulations, which do not exist.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-24/metrics-f...
Kastor Driver: Fake third party REST services using FakeRest
Before I moved my career to embedded software I was always incredulous when I read articles claiming such and such device has 100s of chips in it. Now I know this to be true I am still amazed at how many "moving parts" each little device has (or to put it more intelligibly, how many semi-autonomous subsystems each computer system consists of) - it's a miracle we routinely manage to make them work. The pinnacle of processor cramming must the modern smartphone which just beggars belief. I'm more surprised there's only one microcontroller on that board.
The way you word the statement and then append "Curious." makes it somewhat hostile. It's a callout, not just an observation.

"I'm curious why you say you're 'very much' in the WWW camp but you don't use it on your own site." would not have the same tendency to register as an attack.
>Any reasonably well built desktop PC does that.

When it comes to off the shelve towers and laptops, you'd be surprised.

And if you mean it's easy if one personally "selects and assembles components." you'd be surprised again on how atypical this is for the average PC buyer.
Create React Native App – 5 Min to “Hello, World” – React Conf 2017
They're not exactly deprecated, they just don't install automatically anymore. As I read it (and use them in npm 3), they're a way to specify "you need this other library installed also" without actually installing it.

In a lot of cases ("we just need some flavor of jQuery 2"), of which I am not sure that this us-web thing is an example, it's handy. The thing you're distributing isn't standalone, it's a thing people will use in an environment that has some installed jquery already, so you're fine.

The way I see it, if you're using a library that you can specify very permissively, peer dependencies are quite handy, and in this particular case seem useful - I'm building some webapp, I need to know that my UI library wants jquery to work, but I have a choice of not necessarily using that part (probably used for DOM manipulation, so if I'm just npm installing it for the CSS, wev), or making sure I meet the dependency with the other stuff I'm using. If not installed by default is a problem, there's an npm-install-peers package that does that.
> Why would you expect your university to provide dorms for you

Traditionally, you go to school hundreds or thousands of miles away from your family. You need someplace to stay, no? Growing up in a city and you will have much more options to "live at home"

> That's what universal health care is for

The US does not have universal health care. So not sure what you are saying, how could a university not charge for something that is required and not provided elsewhere?
² mathbff
This one is old, but still extremely fascinating.

I wish I had the same persistence and willingness to dig as this guy obviously does when facing a challenge.

We need more people like this :)
>Hmm, you're implying that everyone that bought a new iMac appreciates the thinness and bought it because of that?
Or perhaps they bought them because they had no other choice when choosing a reasonably fast desktop machine compatible with their software?

iMacs sold better even when the "cheese graters" were available, so yes.
Thanks mindcrime! I'll read about them :)
Impossible Foods is opening its first large-scale facility in Oakland
If you read my posts further down, Football is one of the only net positives for most universities. So getting rid of Football may raise your tuition by $500.

Now if you got rid of swimming, lacrosse, cross country, track, cricket, etc. etc., that would lower tuition by a bit.
>>I was fortunate enough to be able to live with my parents.

Um, you added this as an afterthought, but it's by far the biggest expense. We're talking probably around $500 per month on average (if you live with others) plus utilities, not to mention food. So you were able to save around $1000 per month living with parents - and that's a conservative estimate.

Many people aren't so fortunate.
Having free university doesn't mean every person gets in. Nor does it mean there are more spots than currently. It does mean the competition will be much more difficult for the current spots.
Here's an older thread with some interesting comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148347
Original title: "Don’t accelerate your startup"

The guidelines ask to use the original title and not editorialize it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Should Parents of Children with Severe Disabilities Be Allowed to Stop Growth?
Introducing Quokka – The Live Scratchpad for JavaScript (free Developer Tool)
Is that relevant to HTTP/2, though? Does HTTP/2 say anything about DNS at all?
Depends on what you call the "older iMac".

The 27" Core 2 Duo 2008-9 era iMacs, one of which I had, weighted 13.8 kg!

The new 27" model is 9.5 kg. That's over 30% less weight...
Worse, "adjacent bike lane" can in practice mean anything from "safe-to-use lane" to "extra-wide parking lane with those weird pictures". From my experience, shared lanes run an even wider gamut from "shared with 0 cars a minute" to "shared with over 9000 cars a minute" ;)
"...a cynic might argue that we haven't really abolished slavery; we've just relabeled it. The cynic would have a point: an ancient Greek would certainly have seen the distinction between a slave and an indebted wage laborer as, at best, a legal nicety."

https://books.google.com/books?id=lliTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT275
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
It's a bit "scary" because this is a non optimized "controller" from 2013. With today's processes and market evolution, anything could be a multicore arm processor in disguise. You can never be sure about anything anymore since it can be virtual information generated by some logic/source.
> Innocents have died in attacks on wrong addresses, including a 7-year-old girl in Detroit, and collaterally as the police pursued other residents, among them a 68-year-old grandfather in Framingham, Mass. Stray bullets have whizzed through neighboring homes, and in dozens of instances the victims of police gunfire have included the family dog.

I think about this almost daily. Sometimes I seriously have trouble falling asleep because I'm afraid that the next wrong door will be mine.

Am I the only one?
Last US elections were strange because it seems both parties chose their worst candidates. Any Democrat other than Hilary would beat Trump hands down, and also any Republican would win with Clinton by even higher margin.
If your into Retro gaming, I highly recommend reading it as he has written it http://www.filfre.net/sitemap.

His writing his amazing and I'm always interested in how pieces of gaming history fit together.

Another way to read it, is as I have come across a theme I'm interested in I just follow that tag for a while e.g. http://www.filfre.net/tag/sierra

All in all, this blog is amazing and well worth supporting IMHO.
How (not) to complicate to profit?
>Traditionally, you go to school hundreds or thousands of miles away from your family. You need someplace to stay, no?

I still don't see why it's the university that has to provide this.

>The US does not have universal health care.

Well, there's your problem
I loved Atrain too. Years later I would discover that many sequels to it were made, although some came out in Japanese (http://www.artdink.co.jp/company/english/history.html).

Thanks to Steam, A-Train 9 came out circa 2010 in English quite recently (http://store.steampowered.com/app/278550/)
Or just `font-family: sans-serif;` in CSS.
You have to careful adding objects at the right size. Too large or too small they will feel out of place and unreal.
I understand the article walks through the technical aspects. However, having seen a lot of non-savvy users use Internet, I am firmly with WWW. Probably because of association and all major "established" companies using www, people associate it with strength. I have learned it to be important in similar ways that a .com extension is.

If the site did not have www, most people assumed it is probably made by kids, who do not have www yet. See, most people do not understand that www is not a domain like .com which you have to buy. So for average joe consumer, it signals strength. For an enterprise customer, it probably does too. So unless your product is for savvy users or zen-like designers, I'd stick with www.

A lot of people think that naked domain is cleaner. It is actually not, since the average mind is conditioned to read www.x.com, and you have https://x.com. It's cleaner in the sense that a face is cleaner without a nose.
The HN filter eats the heart emoji. My suggestion is to change the title to "[heart]² mathbff".

Also, it seams that the videos cover standard calculus/algebra topics. If I only could see one, which one do you recommend?
> topic modelling

What are you considering using to measure topic similarity?
These need to be banned. No, I don't want to hear your pet exception. Loss of evidence isn't enough to justify the state murdering people.
My physics is pretty old, but I'll try: skimming the actual article (1), it looks like they're isolating time in the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (putting all the Δ on the other side of the equality) and then following those Δ's in the other variables, which is a common use of the uncertainty principle). They imagine some displacement, then insert the result back into the uncertainty principle to see how that Δ would propagate back onto time.

I was sort of excited about this because it seemed like they might be suggesting there was actually a window here to explore a quantum theory of gravity. Alas, they say "Although the methods presented here suffice to describe the entanglement of clocks arising from gravitational interaction, a full description of the physics with no background space–time would require a fundamental quantum theory of gravity".

To your specific question "Who's to say that the inaccuracies are merely caused by fluctuations in spacetime?" I don't think they're claiming they found a theoretical cause to explain some observed fluctuations. In fact, they put in some notional values to see what comes out and observe "this effect is not large enough to be measured with the current experimental capabilities".

Now, I think what you're getting at is the idea that you would expect the ticking of clocks to vary over space time. What they're saying is, "Of course, but we believe the problem is even more fiendish: the tick rate not only varies but it accumulates uncertainty to the point that a system which starts out as a clock can no longer be considered a clock at all. Further, [what I believe they are saying] the clock's coherence decays in a way that potentially varies with path and frame of reference. At which point, one starts wondering, why haven't we all flown apart already?

And they're doing this, again, all from a theoretical standpoint. It' the same sort of thought experiment you might get if you modify Euclid's fifth axiom: all sorts of weird stuff is possible, and we don't really need experiments to show the math, although there are experiments that can be done.

(1) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/03/06/1616427114.full...
> Firebase isn't going anywhere.

Yeah, I heard the same about Parse.
If your into retro gaming or even just gaming history its well worth investing time in it. He's done an amazing job and I find myself looking at the blog notes for magazines and articles to do further reading on.
No, the majority wouldn't listen to others
This needs a (2013) tag.
Terms and Conditions as a graphic novel
It would be a huge waste, as it would be unrecoverable. Heavy materials are not very common in the universe, and while these elements cannot be economically used today, they may be in the future.
Is Microsoft boiling the users to death, by not boiling the experts?
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>I think about this almost daily. Sometimes I seriously have trouble falling asleep because I'm afraid that the next wrong door will be mine.

>Am I the only one?

No, but it isn't a very rational fear. Do you have trouble sleeping because you're scared of driving your car? How about choking on your food when you eat? When was the last time you tested your Carbon Monoxide detector? Ever plug anything into an electric outlet? How long each day are you staying seated?

There are a hundred mundane things you likely do daily - each of them coming with a risk of death.

Most people don't factor the risks of the more mundane things they do and they actively overestimate the risks of other, less mundane events.
what means "lots of silver bullets" in this context?
Letter of Recommendation: Stump the Bookseller
A few months ago, we built https://www.forcewww.com/ to make our lives, and that of our customers, and everyone else, easier.
I think whats is absent is the idea of online communities moving together- basically find a half abandoned village with good internet, and move there.
Yes, this was back when the web was all crazy about XML as a data transfer format (redundancies and all). The goal of E4X was to make that data format easier to work with. JSON spelled the end of that.

JSX is more about XML as a development syntax, which makes more sense.
Any language is bound to develop accents over time. Even the way we speak in our household has some eccentricities that the standard language of our country lacks.
(My nightmare is when nanotech gets good enough that you can't trust the written word on paper...)
You're thinking of MXML. Different thing.
I agree and not sure why you've been downvoted originally. I've also seen plenty of non-tech-savvy users use the internet who seem almost confused if a website isn't 'using www'.