skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: article has new infornation/anecdotes compared to previous articles about this topic.
But the point is you did end up learning it. I didn't claim you need to understand them before you understand React... however, you also don't need them yet when you are learning react. You can use React just fine without them; it gets cumbersome, but by that point, it's time to learn about the toolchain - which is the ideal point to learn about it: you are now facing the problems they are solving.
Someone just copy/pasted your comment to reddit. Congrats.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/6163gu/7000_unde...
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A couple of questions concerning this announcement.

1) With the removal of SMS from Hangouts on Android does anyone know if this affects SMS in Hangouts on ChromeOS?
2) Is retiring a euphemism for killing in terms of Google Labs additions or does this mean they will still work, but won't be made available to new users?

Thanks.
time to switch to matrix I guess
I'm getting the impression of a running pattern of argument when talking about Crystal:

Crystalist: "Crystal is very Ruby-inspired. Welcome Ruby devs! What makes Crystal great is it's as fast as alternatives to Ruby, without sacrificing Ruby syntax and functionality! Port over your Ruby code! Crystal is Ruby on steroids!"

Rubyist: "Why does Crystal diverge from Ruby here, here, and here unnecessarily if the goal is to be similar to Ruby and allow porting more easily?"

Crystalist: "Crystal is not Ruby. Crystal has no goal of being similar to Ruby. Any similarity to other languages is purely coincidental. What's Ruby?"
This battle will never be won by those who oppose the pop-ups. The reason? They work.

If you put one on your site the metrics show a definite upturn in conversion, be it sales or sign-ups or whatever you're pushing. Then you take it down for awhile maybe, then you put it back up with something different and you get the upturn again.

I personally despise them with every bone in my body, but I don't see them ever going away.
I guess we just have a difference in interpretations of the term. My recent (admittedly amateur) interest in behavioral economics and persuasion leads me to believe that even sophisticated people are susceptible to the effects of framing. If you prime someone to read something with a bias towards skepticism, they will either avoid it due to confirmation bias, or potentially read it differently than they would have without the prime. That may not even be your intent, but in reality it happens. And as for "outside the mainstream" - whose mainstream or Overton window? My "mainstream" actually takes Mises very seriously. It sounds like yours does not. I suppose under a broad definition, a warning could be warranted for nearly every article depending on the audience.
God damn it. I do not want to use the Google Hangouts experience. Talk is a simple, elegant chat application. That is all I require and all I desire from Google. And I do not want to be patronized about how I actually want more "integration" with google products.
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Let me phrase this question in a slightly different way:

At what stage would a company like Dropbox (or any other successful YC graduate) benefit the most from going through the YC program?

(And I realize this varies depending on the industry or the founders' backgrounds)
i know what you're getting at, but they started to address this. Send some stuff to Goodwill with your box in the meantime [0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/xde6cauvpfp66o2
This is not related to the typescript aspect which, I realize, is the point of this contribution.

I really like these code playgrounds but my main issue almost always comes down to flexibility regarding which code I can keep private, which I can make public, and so on.

Just something to keep in mind as you decide to take this ahead.

Now to play with some typescript.
Very possible. But a warning about potential bias may induce an (un?)intended bias of its own!
Thanks, this is very helpful.
This is basically "top people" have told me.
It seems ... very very wrong.
I think it'll still work, right? Google Voice is still supported.
Please don't use ableist slurs :^)
It’s a narrative that gave Americans a hero for the latter part of the 20th century, a female scientist and writer smart enough and brave enough to take on the establishment and win. It’s a story about the power of social movements to remake society for the better.

That was an enlightening sentence. I had been asking myself for years just why DDT would be such a touchstone for the conservative/libertarian faction, even though it's so well known that the compound bioaccumulates and becomes concentrated in fatty tissue as it is moved through the food chain. It's not the action of the compound, it's the fear of citizen action!
All you can do is gently request that the google updater deamon (keystone agent) please not update. It is still running. And the way to disable it is very obscure, and no user would be able to discover how to disable it on their own.

If you remove it, and then try to run any Google Software, it will first lie to you and say that it needs you to authenticate so it can "function" properly. If you refuse, it will try to install it's code in ~/Library instead. If you intercept that, it will stop asking and work properly.

Google software does not depend on its updater in any way. There is no technical reason to keep asking you to install it. They just don't respect your agency. And if you say no to root installation, they will settle for just a user installation.

A lot of software that asks for authentication on first run is doing it solely to install it's helpers.

Not just is it creepy asf and wrong, but sometimes features will be removed or changed without my consent.

Software that was free when you downloaded it just got "upgraded" to shareware. Or maybe it just irreversibly converted all of its saved data to the new format that isn't backwards compatible.

You would never have agreed to install that update if you actually knew what it was going to do. That makes it dishonest.
GameStop expects the Switch to be hard to find through 2017
I'm a firm believer that all laptops below the 2000 range are terrible so just pick one that has enough RAM and solid build quality. Probably Dell XPS or a Thinkpad
> Amazon is the most untouchable, irreplaceable company in tech.

100%, yes. Totally agree! And it is probably a very non-ideal situation to be in from the customer POV. For example, Amazon ate up the .book TLD away from consumers and very few eyebrows were raised. Their strength and position in business is an impressive thing to talk about until someone at the top decides to flip the switch. ;)
I've used it, but I never took the time to figure out how to make it run code / debug and I like how fast Sublime Text / CudaText are by comparison.
If the tape on the boxes was not meant to be cut open under any circumstance, and the tape was not a part of the art itself, doesn't the blame fall upon the person who put the tape on in the first place?
> The smallest of the robots weighs 200 tons.

How will they do work on these robots, or bring them home, if they break? I just saw a zany Mark Wahlberg movie about how hard it was to do underwater repairs... they should give it a watch.
Everybody upvoting this without any discussion.

I suppose "It's not Paxos, so it's probably wrong" is beyond discussion (not that I disagree, of course).
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> Amazon is the most untouchable, irreplaceable company in tech.

I disagree, Amazon is the only big player which have yet to master the international market. I live in Europe and there are plenty of small players here which offers similar or better deals with faster shipping so most don't even bother with Amazon. Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are as dominant as everywhere else though.
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http://www.allreadable.com/5b354QWp

"every consensus protocol out there
or every fully distributed consensus protocol
is either Paxos or Paxos with cruft or broken" - Mike Burrows
I'm always amazed at the quality and cheapness of the options provided from some third world countries' private medical care. It's amazing what can be accomplished when patients and doctors cooperate without the meddling of a third party. Sadly such arrangements are not accessible to all.
https://github.com/calebegg/codewich#features:

>>> Code snippets you write are automatically saved in a compressed form in the URL. This has a few benefits:

- Your code never leaves your machine unless you decide to share your URL. Since the snippet is stored in the URL fragment (the part after the #), the CodeWich web server doesn't even log your code snippets.

- You don't have to rely on CodeWich's availability. You can download your own copy and run it locally, or host it somewhere you control, and you'll always be able to decode your CodeWich URLs to get the original code.
Really cool idea. Only, there's no way I could sensibly use my car's steering wheel to control a game without having the engine running for the power steering... I couldn't make it out in the video, but wouldn't this also wear out the tires in less than no time (due to friction with the ground)?
An Asus PA328Q (32" 4K monitor) specs say "Power On: <138.3W".[1]

For the tv comparison, choosing the first 55" 4K tv on Samsung's site: "Typical Power Consumption: 65, Maximum Power Consumption: 170".[2]

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[2]: http://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/4k-uh...
Yes, because of two things:

1) it's not one person/group who's choosing who you can vote for. It's a product of the system as a whole, which has competing actors. The GOP does not decide who runs in the Dem races, and vice versa, for instance.

2) you're not as limited in who you vote for as you allege. There are always 3rd-party options. The only reason they never win is because no one votes for them because "they'll never win", a self-fulfilling prophecy, just like believing you'll never succeed and then never trying. If nothing else, voting 3rd-party shows that you cared enough to vote, and didn't like the 2 mainstream choices. If enough people vote that way, one of the 3rd parties will then get more recognition, matching funds, a place at the debates, etc. We've had FPTP voting since the very beginning, but we do NOT have the same political parties that we started out with.
I doubt they have any coherent strategy in the messaging space.
Just to followup, someone privately pointed out to me there appears to be at least some privacy protection afforded here by section 222 of the communications act:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/222

I think it's important people get a fair view, regardless of whether i may be initially right or wrong, so thought it was worth mentioning.

I have not delved into "what is the definition of a telecommunications carrier and do ISP's meet it" (or is there some other exception).
Interesting points and Amazon is a great company not disputing that but the older I get the less I want. My spending on Amazon has fallen over the last 18 years to so little I am thinking about dropping Prime.

AWS is in a competitive market with Google, MS, etc.

Logistics are more self serving for Amazon in my opinion. I'm under the impression their planes are used to move fright between US Hubs and maybe to bring higher dollar freight from China instead of 2 weeks on the water. Walmart already leases (and has for years) it's own container ship. It's on a 1 month month cycle out of China. Container ships typically sail out every Friday night out of China. Spend two weeks loading and 12 days on the water to US and Canadian ports. So Walmart still uses others to ship freight. The last mile for delivery is also competitive, USPS, UPS, FEDEX, DHL, etc, aren't going to sit still. Trucking is incredibly competitive industry. Most fright moves by rail coast to coast with trucks picking up at regional terminals. There is still a lot of long haul but it's more expensive. A full 52ft trailer from NY to TX can run around $1700, it's the LTL where most Truckers make their money. I was under the impression that Amazon leased trailers and didn't lease any tractors. Giving private operators contracts to haul.

No cash register stores might be a hit with some folks but price is really important to a lot of America if you have a family. I also wonder if RFID ink could be used for bar codes where you just push your cart through a reader portal and it scans the whole cart at once. No lines and seconds to check out with just the bagging to do.

I appreciate what Amazon has done. They basically made anyone they compete with become more efficient. Quite the driving force and fantastic for the consumer. Lets hope they continue.
Ask HN: Why can't I star stories?
Often I want to bookmark a story on HN but I have to go out of my way to do it. Navigating and organizing bookmarks is a pain. Why can't there be a simple read later button on stories? I sometimes just want to comment on something just so I can refer to it later.
What does that have to do with affirmative action though? It sounds like you are advocating that we should be improving our high school curriculum, not using race as a basis for admissions to certain programs.

If you ever bring up the point about, say, how the rate of criminality among blacks in America is so much higher than whites/asians/latinos, you'll frequently hear a response about the lurking variable of poverty(poor people are more likely to be criminal -> blacks are over-represented among poor people).

So, why doesn't that same logic carry over to affirmative action? If you made the test about income levels, and not race, it seems like some of the absurdity of the system that people hate would be lessened. Right now with AA, we implicitly say that a black kid from a multi-millionaire family is disadvantanged, and needs help, relative to the son of a poor Chinese immigrant.
FedEx will give you $5 to reinstall Flash
I'm sorry, I'm not really into chat protocols, but what does XMPP federation mean?

For what I understand I will be able to login via Pidgin into my Gmail account, but not from a custom domain, am I right?

Either way, GTalk was such a clean, centered and small IM experiencie +10 years ago, Hangouts is just a mess.
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A terrible idea. One way or another, someday there won't be a Trump. Then the union has to find a new reason to exist, because very few organizations that size simply dissolve. What's going to be the new animating goal that doesn't result in internal political infighting to drive the union unto its destruction, with no principles like "Get the workers higher pay" which for all their issues are at least simple enough for all the participants to rally behind?

I'd also like to hear the putative advocates of "diversity" explain the virtues of what would almost certainly swiftly degenerate into "having a silicon valley development job requires you to conform to silicon valley political opinions". (Though I can easily imagine funding my retirement via the lawsuits I'd be filing against the union when it turns into that.) Again, if you can't possibly imagine anyone disagreeing with your "resistance", can you imagine disagreeing with chosen tactics, or perhaps someday, having some other political issue come up that you disagree with? Typing unions to politics is a terrible idea.

Form a PAC, not a union. Or form a union for more conventional union goals too, that's fine. But don't form a PAC and call it a union.
Oh wow, so is that why someone can paste an example and when I click on it, I can see the code?

Codewich reproduced it from the URL?

p.s.: the more I think about it, the more I like it but is there any fear that some programs can't be compressed into a url?

p.p.s maybe not:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximu...
After I added the rule to try i didn't see the comment :)
This is a very good analysis.

I think it makes a slightly stronger argument about MultiPaxos than it needs to. There are other correct ways to use single-decree Paxos, as long as you recognize it's limitations. The true limitation is "use every register once", and a log is the gold standard way to do that. Another correct pattern could be a set-only K/V store, or a store for monotonic finite state machine states (at the cost of O(N) rounds for every contender). One real-world example is 2PC coordination, where the state machine is very simple, and can be modeled as an ordered pair of three registers.
> How much memory will it cause to be allocated?

In Go, it's impossible to tell because "a" might be captured by a closure, in which case it will be heap-allocated. But if escape analysis promoted it to the stack or a register, then it will not allocate memory.
>Taking someone somewhere against their will is already illegal, which of these extra laws (and taxes) prevent that?

For the same reason that regulations help in all sorts of areas; you pre-vet the people authorized to do the service to reduce the likelihood of this occurring. It's exactly the same as regulating doctors, lawyers, financial planners, truck drivers, teachers, daycare workers etc, etc, etc.
Apropos?

https://developers.google.com/talk/open_communications
I think this relates to apps that utilise gtalk. Obihai is integrated with gVoice.

Is there something I'm missing?
Do this and employers will come after you
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> If you're meaning to say you can write "multi-platform desktop" apps using Electron... I suppose you're technically correct, but they don't feel native on any platform,

You know, people say this, but I'd like to push back on it. "Platform native feel" is not something that I think most folks care about. You may need it if you're looking to ship an app for a pay-for-a-copy model, but the vast majority of computing hours people spend are already mitigated by their web browser of choice, and that seems to not really cause any substantial problems.

Electron is a flawed framework for building an app, sure, but you could argue Cocoa or Windows Universal are equally flawed in many ways. They also require a lot more code to get equivalent layouts, are almost never very good at reactively resizing (you may say it doesn't matter, I say I unplug in an external monitor and expect to have something sane happen). The fact that a bug exist causing repeated simple draws to be more expensive than expected is normal for text editors. You can find issues caused by similar problems in Sublime, Emacs, and even Notepad++.
1 arc second is 4.8x10^-6 radians. For small angles, sin(x) is approximately x. Thus, sin(1 arc second) = 4.8x10^-6 is the ratio between pixel width and viewing distance. At 3ft this is 5240 dpi, and at 10ft it's 1720 dpi.

I think the 1 arc second threshold is too strict by about an order of magnitude.
I'm not too annoyed by modals but I'm sick and tired of websites whose content shifts around due to inline ads loading.

It's very frustrating when you're trying to read something and the page keeps changing its layout for 10 seconds, especially on a mobile device where you can accidentally click on a link or ad pretty easily. Makes me wonder if they do this on purpose...
I agree that execution is everything, but when people say "ideas are worthless" -- I just have to assume they've never had a good idea.
GTalk was an amazing simple-to-use application. Should I say it was simpler than Skype. I don't like hangouts at all.
Ha, I remember hearing that too in KL long ago. Though I took it to be a shorter form of "I can". La is another sound they add on to the ends of sentences, a sort of exclamation, I think it is.
BackstopJS: Catch CSS curve balls
Lots of predictable complaining. OTOH, email marketing works pretty well with 'average folks', or it did in the past. So: maybe avoid it on your geek oriented site, but on something meant for regular people, it might work well.
Hi Aaron, as mentioned in the YC video tips about volume I wanted to share with everyone that today after a friend watched my video he complained about low volume even though it was fine on my machine. I wanted to let applicants know that there is an adjustment in the edit section of youtube as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvxTWXVMikg

Which I am doing now haha. although i think it does change the link to an unregistered video so you may have to edit your application.
Yes, cannot vote up twice
While we're here, it's also not true that all correct consensus protocols are Paxos. For example, Viewstamped Replication is correct, but a different algorithm (see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.5671v3.pdf). There's a number of correct algorithms, and they all smell an awful lot like Paxos, but aren't all exactly Paxos. That's the hard part: nearly all Paxos-like algorithms are broken, but not all.

Also from the "variants of Paxos" department is Flexible Paxos (https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/27/flexible-paxos-quorum-in...) which changes the rules about how to select a quorum.
It does, inasmuch as objective metrics for "correctness" don't exist in our field. The best we can do is show "incorrectness." It's absurd to say, "My tool is correct and therefore should be used," when all we really can demonstrate is, "My tool lacks these specific deficiencies I can identify in another choice."

This bug comes nowhere near demonstrating that Electron or VS Code or Atom are built incorrectly or incorrect tools
Naming things is hard, but you've captured the essence of it really nicely.
Welcome to The Cloud, where you basically void all rights for long-term support of any product.
Will my earning potential be severely limited as a felon?
Last year in February I was arrested and charged with 4 counts of possession with intent to distribute (I had small amounts of 4 different drugs). My case is a few months away from coming to a close. While there's a small chance I could receive a deal that drops my charges after successful completion of probation, it's somewhat likely I will instead do probation and receive the convictions.

I fear that if I receive the convictions (which cannot be expunged in my state) then I will be limited to small companies with mediocre pay. Is this true? Are my hopes of making a great living in this field squandered because I screwed up, admittedly totally, at one point in my life?

I'm re enrolling in school this fall and still have 3 ish years to go due to switching majors to CS. Showing that I can finish school will work on my favor. Are there any other things I can be doing to improve my chances of finding a great job after school if I do indeed receive convictions?

Thanks :)
What the OP suggested might not be the best approach (that'd be for the pro to decide when shooting) in terms of display photos, but making the claim that '"Large sensor, low f number, go wide angle" means absolutely nothing [to a photographer]' is patently false.
Depends how far along you are. Feel free to describe both.