skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this technique interesting:

To press an individual key with one finger, drop the hand with the other fingers curled just enough to not strike additional keys.

Anyone uses this technique? I move my fingers down when typing, not my hands, but I'd love to put less stress on them.
I learned sockets from Beej's and Stevens. They're a very synergetic combination.
California filed 15 felony charges against two anti-abortion activists
I also get the feeling that if the process fails during the negotiations, that's the absolute worst way. It will divide the population further and the EU will be the scapegoat again.

The UK has had 9 months to mend its divided population. Get the facts back as first class citizen in debates, firmly drive out the hate-fueled arguments out and draw a picture of how they wanted the UK to be, realistic picture, not the Leave campaign fantasy. Finally with that done, let the houses discuss where the EU helped or hindered and then vote to proceed or not.

That's not how it happens, dialog didn't happen, the UK is at the same stage of division today (or worse) as it was 9 months ago.
That is correct, the 'counted' workforce is at 1978 levels. It's systemically dangerous to have a large disenfranchised population for too long. Eventually they get to the point where they're so beaten down they'll be okay with beheading a King. I mean, it sounds extreme but just look at the last electoral process - a resounding message of sending a demented Chimpanzee with a razor blade to destroy the Federal Government under the guise of helping. Heh.
Depends on the kind of work you're looking to get done. If it's relatively high volume and you need enterprise grade results there are better options like CloudFactory. Check them out.
Layout performance is the biggest problem probably - when things change the browser too often does a full layout of the document. We use tons of CSS containment but there are still bugs where Chrome does far more layout than necessary, e.g.: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=667370

Virtual DOM is completely unnecessary to us. We have minimal problems with DOM calls. It is all to do with layout performance, and VDOM makes no difference at all there.
The Supreme Court recognized on multiple occasions that we have a right to privacy. In this specific instance, protecting privacy comes at no cost to an ISP, as they simply do not collect or sell your data. They literally have to do nothing, as setting up the systems to collect and opening the channels to sell takes work. This nothnig more than money grab.
I don't know, the assertion in the article makes little sense. The white part shouldn't play any role at all in this; easily reversible male contraception has been a dream of many for a long time. These companies want to maximize profits, and it's obvious that they aren't limiting their products and procedures to what they as middle-aged men would want. If they were, there'd be no products or procedures for women.

I think it's far more likely that these companies don't want to fund trials as it won't be nearly as profitable to them as current contraceptive options. If this was a pill instead, I have no doubt that the companies would champ at the bit for it. I think it's not coincidence that they could only find a non-profit to fund the trials for this specific product/procedure.
I went vegetarian for a year. The girl I later married was (and is) vegetarian, and I knew I'd be doing a lot of the cooking, and wanted to see things from that side for a bit.

As for how, I went cold... tofurkey?
Aspiring to journalistic objectivity, I think you have a point.

My impression is that objective journalism is effectively dead, and that the choice of words used to describe things like this likely gives insight into journalists' political bias.

Besides that, what is objectivity? Is it pretending to be a hypothetical, non-human, universally objective observer that views the loss of human life no more important than a meteor smashing into a random asteroid? Is it required that one not condemn the slaughter of innocents to be considered objective? From that perspective, is murder even wrong?

Interesting questions to think about.
Well, Hacker News seems to be hurting this website, so here's Google's cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RD5ZRW...
Yeah. Frakking "Peters" (sic) projection. It's Gall-Peters, and it's still terrible.

By the way, most online maps (such as Google Maps) use a variant of Mercator, because otherwise shapes and north-south vs east-west distances (when you're zoomed in) are highly distorted.

I think Mercator and Gall-Peters type projections are both just about equally as bad for global views. Africa and other equatorial areas are heavily distorted whereas mid-latitude areas are fairly accurate, so it's just as US/Eurocentric as Mercator.

The projections which compromise shape distortion and size distortion are pretty good, like Winkel-Tripel. I think I prefer the projections that preserve both shape and size while ripping the map along oceans. Like Dymaxion.
> “treatment is a right,” and that “to withhold treatment is cruel.”

That's quite the Orwellian double-speak for incarcerating & drugging people against their will.
Same here, EU citizen thinking about the future of my family. I'm in the "wait and see" mode, but if things ugly with the negotiation I will prepare to leave.

I think the biggest problem is not the brain drain, it's the uncertainty. I was planning to buy a house here, but I'm not going to now. This is bad for me and bad for the UK.
In this case people are talking about avoiding ISP tracking, not evading law enforcement and government entities.
Yep. And for those who can afford it: SafariBooksOnline is just too awesome to learn new skills.
Or you can go to astronomy mode (linux):

xcalib -green .1 0 1 -alter

xcalib -blue .1 0 1 -alter
Both sides have said we won't be in the single market.
Ahimsa
If it's not ready to promote, it doesn't need a domain and a landing page. The README file in the repository would do.

If a project puts out a marketing page that doesn't clearly answer the "why should I use this and how will this make my life better" question, they're going to get feedback and criticism.

I found this link on HN. I literally have no idea what this is about.
yes, i think whiteness is purely incidental. it's just another not-all-statement.
This can't be repeated often enough:

If you have some ssh server somewhere (who hasn't), you can very easily create a 'VPN over ssh' by calling:

sshuttle -r user@remote_host 0.0.0.0/0 --dns
>and then we can try Johnson, Farage and the other scumbag liars for treason.

And/or a serious rethink about the value of a free press that is allowed to act as News Corp. (The Sun, The Times) and Daily Mail and General Trust (Daily Mail, Metro, and previously the Evening Standard) have.
Not quite:

> the UK will be able to revoke its notification of article 50 but this must be “subject to conditions set by all EU27 so they cannot be used as a procedural device or abused in an attempt to improve the actual terms of the United Kingdom’s membership”. [1]

So in short, remaining is less likely than ever but still possible.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/29/first-eu-re...
Tell people to use the Opera browser. It has VPN built-in.
> the people interested in "something magical that codes for me" are not the good developers

No matter how much I code, I'll always have to look at documentation. This is just faster documentation, I really don't see the problem from that perspective.
I think a site that feeds me an ad for Nazi Twitter on the first page counts as 'special interest'.
And what happens when many of those people are automated out of work? Too many people at the lower end of the skill spectrum will eventually become a liability that need to be supported with welfare. Communities will generally need to minimize the number of people that will need welfare and maximize the number of people that are productive enough to provide the welfare. If the welfare burden on the productive members becomes too high, the productive members will try to flee because they aren't being fairly rewarded for their productivity.
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Being hacked is only one of many security concerns. The authors of software don't always value the users wishes over their own, open source at least keeps them honest about what they're doing. A closed source browser (that I'm sure has some "telemetrics") who's main goal is to analyze browsing patterns is a privacy nightmare.
but you might forget about it for 10years and it might flush itself.
I haven't said anything about drone strikes, and I don't know why you have assumed what I think of them.
Because none of them received donations or were lobbied?
Interesting work. I'm particularly curious to see how the "Natural Language Datalog" will evolve; it seems to have various potential use cases, from conversation in social and occupational settings to specialized project tasks, learning and building across various sectors, etc.

It reminds me of some previous roles where my key task was "translating" abstracted information and creating interfaces for less technical audiences to interact with technical information.
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The EU is a protectionist island in a global economy filled with large ambivalent actors. It's less evil, more like self-preservation, or an immune system. There has to be surface tension to retain mass, and there has to be barriers because that's it's raison d'etre.
> Oh how nice of Tom Wheeler to play the good-guy now. It took a lot of public outcry for him to change his tune about Net Neutrality.

Tom Wheeler was the driving force behind all of the FCC net neutrality efforts, including early case-by-case actions, the 2010 Open Internet Order and the 2015 Open Internet Order. The idea that he was somehow an opponent of net neutrality mostly comes from ab unfair set of hit pieces in popular outlets (including, notably, Jon Oliver's Last Week Tonight) based around some groups (legitimate) concerns that the first public draft of the 2015 order (written to address the court decision striking down the 2010 order) was an insufficiently strong instrument.
However, this headline is patently false, right? Congress didn't sell anything. They removed protections that were put into place late last year and hadn't gone into effect as far as I know.

It's nearly impossible to find even one constituent who wrote to their Congresspeople asking for this law to be axed. It was a handful of lawmakers in Congress who accepted bribes, payments[1], and other kinds of lobbying from telecoms to push this through... that is the definition of "selling". And yes, the votes did happen almost exactly down party lines.

The headline was taken directly from the NYT article, and it is indeed accurate. That HN changed it to appease ??? is really disconcerting.

[1]http://www.vocativ.com/415350/house-rep-pushing-to-set-back-...
Why doesn't the article explore starting up in different geographies?

Also, the most interesting questions are:

* How much of the pool are employed by those companies?

* How does the largest segment of employers pay? What percentage of top talent do they employee.

I'd bet there is a larger percentage of top talent at top talent at other companies. Many, many people don't want to work at mega companies. Also, many, many people, particularly the best, are motivated, like startups, by challenge themselves, working on something important to them using tools they enjoy, people they enjoy working with and most importantly external factors and how work relates to their own life.
Well, that enters into an existential question of what "will" is, at least when someone suffers from extreme forms of mental illness.

EDIT: Also, I haven't read the original pamphlet, but not treating chronic mental illness is often cruel to the other members of the community even if it's not cruel to the individual in question.
Then hire remote? Don't found in SV? This article makes it seem like startups want something valuable for a cheap price, which is unlikely.
Is it because the customers think they'll save money making the software themselves?
0. Interesting and well designed.

1. If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

2. I am wary of taking a workflow dependency on a new project without an obvious mechanism for a sustainable business model.

3. If the goal is to eventually make money, I suggest charging money now. This will provide feedback regarding what people will pay for and, if people will pay, provide an income stream to sustain the work. With that in mind, I'd recommend $100/month or more -- how much to charge should be a business calculation on a spreadsheet based on conservative estimates of costs and customer closings and churn rates.

5. If you're not going to charge money, why have a signup?

Good luck.
Sounds like the market is telling startups that early engineers are worth more than 0.1% of stock options.
Let's say A has a 0.7 probability, and B has 0.6, and are independent. The compound probabilities are gotten by multiplying the individual ones:

Neither: 0.3 * 0.4 = .12
A, not B: 0.7 * 0.4 = 0.28
B, not A: 0.3 * 0.6 = 0.18
Both: 0.7 * 0.6 = 0.42

Now let's say that they're not independent; in fact, B absolutely requires A. You'd get something like:

Neither: 0.3 (this is reduced to the chance of not A)
B, not A: 0 (B can't happen without A)
Both: 0.6 (only other probability with B, has to make up the 0.6)
A, not B: 0.1 (simply what's left to sum to 1.0)

Concrete examples of independent events: (fair) coin tosses -- the chance to come up heads is always the same, no matter the prior result. Related events: being dealt a face card in blackjack, and winning the hand -- whatever your normal chance of winning a hand, the odds of winning that particular hand just went up.
We run events for total beginner programmers and have actually found Construct to be much easier for beginners than Scratch.

Scratch requires a lot more up-front knowledge to make a simple game, e.g. students need to learn control flow, event loops, etc.

Construct, being event-based (and especially with the built-in behaviors) lets us get beginners started in about 40 minutes, while still being complex enough that they understand variables, instances, properties, etc within a few hours.
The EU have been consistently clear that those freedoms are "all or nothing" - you don't e.g. get free trade without free movement, end of.

I would be delighted if England gets the "all" deal like Norway, but that's unlikely since to the Leavers that's a "why bother" Brexit In Name Only.
Absolutely 100% spot on. We don't even interview Googlers anymore for this very reason. They literally think a "pay cut" means 300k+.
If you are a startup and are trying to compete head to head with Google / FB / Amazon / Apple / Microsoft for the same people, you are going to have a really hard time recruiting.

But there are plenty of great engineers that don't want to work at those companies for various reasons. There are plenty of great engineers that want to work remotely and don't have that option at the large companies. There are also plenty of inexperienced engineers with high potential that can't yet get hired at those companies and can be great additions to your startup. Do what you can to find and recruit those people.
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If you're interested in this topic, I recommend "Nothing to Envy" as an excellent and illuminating book. It follows defectors mostly before they leave, but includes a portion afterward. Money struggles are discussed in detail, along with other difficulties assimilating.
It's used in what's arguably the most used map of our time, Google Maps (as well as most other interactive maps).
Involuntary psychiatric treatment is so problematic that is better not invoke it.
at first it doesn't seem as convenient as a pill but I don't think any man would want to "oops i forgot my pill", or say they took it but didn't and if they did that it's not fair on the woman isn't it.
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We've already been told this won't lead to a drop in immigration as we need the staff. The power to control it will be ours but we won't be exercising it.
Very much so, people have the right to refuse treatment though I do understand they may be thought mentally incapacitated and unable to decide. I kinda lean towards, if they're competent enough to keep themselves alive on the street then they should be able to refuse treatment.
Shut up and take my money/sperm!
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I expect that the problem would be less pronounced in China, given that the Japanese can revert to kana if they forget the kanji, whereas the Chinese have no other choice but to remember the characters.

That said, I've heard of, and even seen once or twice, Chinese people forgetting how to write common words like "sneeze" (喷嚏). So it does happen.
The eu's Parliament has de facto no power and all of the authority rests with the European commission, which is an unelected entity.
>"Celina Alvarez, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Works, said the group needs to make clear that it has no intention of abusing the rights of those with a mental illness or rewriting the law governing involuntary treatment"

Those with a mental illness are in this case unable to help themselves. It controls them. It's the illness that prevents them from getting help. They may refuse medical care but that's the illness talking.

By not committing them to 'involuntary' hospitalization the state is allowing mental illness to slowly kill the suffering homeless population out on the street.
We do not speak of the Greater Beej Occlusion.
"Looking to the future, experts on the region are focusing on what happens ... when North Korea inevitably collapses"

I'm no fan of the DPRK regime, but isn't it naive to assume that any state, even a completely mismanaged despotic one, will "inevitably" collapse?

True, they rely on China just for bare survival, but they have their stuff together enough to create a functioning nuclear weapons program in the face of crippling sanctions, so it's not infeasible that they could find a way to continue on if they were totally isolated - maybe they'd kidnap some Monsanto scientists to provide them with GMO and fertilizer technology. Basically, they don't currently bother feeding their people because they don't currently have to, but there's nothing proving they can't adapt if circumstances change.

And I'm not saying they're likely to conquer the world, but with the nuclear deterrent, it's not terribly likely that the US or anyone will invade them without direct cause.
> USA was neutral (with lots of Argentinian sympathy) until their hand was forced.

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage would disagree with you. Reagan wanted to keep the USSR out of Argentina so the public line was neutrality even with Thatcher pushing him to do otherwise. Behind the scenes the US provided intelligence to Britain.
Yes, you're very clever. https://xkcd.com/977/
One thing that Brexit will prove is whether the EU is in fact the latest manifestation of the German Empire[1]. If this is the case I would think that Germany (and basically France) will in fact make Britain pay a very steep, steep cost. Empires absolutely must punish rebellious provinces... unless they're not really empires.

The funny thing is that this "steep, steep" cost requires that the EU powers do basically nothing but give Britain exactly what it wants. There will be no bombing of London or cross-Channel invasion. All the EU really has to do is forcefully exclude Britain (meaning no customs union) while maintaining relatively open borders with Britain. Over time this restricted flow of goods and services but free flow of people should sort itself out as the best and the brightest individuals and businesses leave Britain for the much larger market of the EU. This "hinterazation" of Britain will be absolutely devastating to a country that, frankly, doesn't have anything to offer but it's people and some choice real-estate. So Singapore is a very optimistic model for Britain's future -- I'm much more thinking Mexico.

But it will be very interesting to see if France and Germany actually do "hold the line."

[1] http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/germany-s-trium...
I don't think the average engineer with 5 years of experience makes 250k; not even in the top 10%. And startups DO pay that much, it's just reserved for powerful exec hires.

Just pay more if you want the best engineers. Asking for a world where top talent works for less money is stupid.
Out of interest: how do your packages differ from the official (MinGW-backed) build at https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2 ?
Here in the Netherlands we let them live amongst normal people, we then wait untill they stab someone or set their house on fire, because then it is clear they are a danger for society.
Oh, and because of cutbacks the government demands that these people pay some cash for their own pills, but these people often don't have a lot of money, so the problem solves itself.
Just don't live next to them.
Hmm, notice how aria-sort isn't working for the TOTALS column? Anyone know how to get it to work properly?
It's about location. Google salaries in Boulder, CO are not that high.
Can you precisely define what do you mean by "lower level stuff"?
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i'm less concerned with what "looks" easier than what's actually easier.

i just can't convince myself "it looks less scary" is worthy of the technical tradeoffs (for me, at the very least).
You might, but I doubt many women just forget to get their IUD renewed. It's a surgery and can be treated as such.
So you trust the company involved in the WoSign debacle with your data?
Yes it is correlation but then there's not such thing as evidence in social sciences. Correlation is all we've got.
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That's adversarial thinking. If the man and woman are in a trusting relationship, the question changes from one of "power" to responsibility.

Today, most reversible contraceptive methods (pill, rhythm, IUD, abortion) rely on the woman owning responsibility (one which they may be unwilling or unable to carry out). Male contraception relieves women of that burden.
How to think like a data scientist to become one
IIRC the difference in volume is small (<10%) and no link has been found between that and any measures of intelligence.
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The article assumes that most of the engineers at that experience level are hired by Gooogle/Facebook etc, but it is simply not the case. The acceptance rates are quite low and there are plenty of 5-10 year experienced engineers who would be willing to work for startups at $130k.
He has accepted the new job. Not only because of Brexit of course, there are always multiple reasons for moving. His wife had been getting racist / xenophobic comments.
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Good to see my great senator, Marco Rubio, is supporting the people's view. Then again I doubt the majority of Florida even knows about this...