skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started blogging a few months ago https://dailyhealthpoints.wordpress.com/ Each article requires me to read on average one science paper, and I spend also quite some time on editing.

Now I have 300 subscribers but sadly it doesn't have the same success as a blog I started ten years ago. That blog was focused on tech and startups. It didn't require any research, every post was only 30mn to 1hr of work, and generated a lot of views and comments.

My assessment is that people moved on. Instead of writing sharp comments on blogs, they would write on Facebook or Twitter. They are attracted by shiny Youtube videos. If they want to see nice pictures, they'd spend time on Instagram instead of going through your gallery blog.

Even the fact that I write long comments here on YC, like many other users, take time away from blogs.

I have changed my strategy and now instead of publishing often, I will only publish twice a week. I will increase the quality and also spend much more time in promoting these 2 articles. I can reformat them for Tumblr, Medium, cross post on various other sites. Also I don't plan for a massive audience anymore. Having ~1000 quality subscribers is more than enough!
Walking and eating are also universal. Because they can actually eat something in front of them and point to it. They can walk in front of the aliens and point to the action and say "this is what we area talking about". Consuming nutrients and locomotion is not a bad first thing to focus on.

Numbers are more abstract. They couldn't just draw a number "2" for example. Or show 2 apples because it might seem they are just talking about apples and not numbers.
How to Whitelist Incapsula on AWS to Prevent WAF Bypass Attackd
Data extraction from Wikipedia seems to be a task for which there exist a plethora of partial solutions, all different.

Partial solutions are perhaps all we can hope for, given how hopelessly intermingled semantics and presentation are in the Wikitext format. If you had a completely accurate reimplementation of MediaWiki and all its templates and extensions, what you'd get in the end is HTML pages, and that's not actually data extraction.

Here's my project [1], which uses Haskell's Attoparsec library to get at the parts of Wikimedia content that I care about. Currently it extracts plain text from Wikipedia articles, and word relationships from three languages of Wiktionary.

[1] https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/wikiparsec
> It's weird that every time a group doesn't fit into an industry or a culture, that group is not white men.

Teaching, nursing, child care. Care to take a guess which group doesn't fit into those industries?
I've tried full stack programming on one monitor and it took forever and was really frustrating. Multiple text editors/IDE's, test browsers, remote SERVER connections, SQL server admin consoles. Heck, a few command prompts. Constantly minimizing and maximizing. My browser had so many tabs open it was ridiculous. I'm totally not against one massive wide screen but they don't make them wide enough yet.
I think the "His Dark Materials" series by Philip Pullman had the greatest impact on me as a youngster. That series opened my mind to some really interesting ideas, and lead on to reading Milton, then taking up a general interest in philosophy.

I don't think I'd be who I am now without having read those books.
I think it was Netflix that said that:

https://gizmodo.com/5980103/netflix-the-goal-is-to-become-hb...
That's a recipe for disaster!

It works well for delivering your MVP and maybe the first version of your product. But then you want your employee to be empowered, to feel relevant and be able to take matters into their hands. Otherwise it doesn't scale. But happy and satisfied worker could step up to this level. Unsatisfied and soldier like employees cannot do that, they will be just soldiers that fear for their position. And not having even patriotism (that is what bond soldiers) work for them, the best will leave your company, the worst will stay.

That's one of the differences between being a manager and being a leader. A leader takes the hard questions into his hands.

But don't trust me, there are years of research in company organization saying that. Go out and read any article on HBS on the topic of leadership, workplace organization or CSR and you'll see that.

So, your mentor was wrong, sorry about that.
saying something is entirely open source is useless if their License Agreement contains riders like Facebook's React license agreement does.

I just don't trust their modified License Agreement.
It more likely comes from a handwritten 'ps', an abbreviation for 'peso' in old Spanish-American books.
Fake It to Make It: The Game of Fake News
> There are offices with 18 or 20 men and 0 women or 1 woman. That doesn't happen statistically - certainly not with the incentives of exceedingly high salaries [...]

It's entirely possible that I am extrapolating from my own naivety, but do young men really get into software development for the money? I don't think any of my friends were thinking about our future salaries when we started programming after school. It's just this hobby that people will inexplicably pay us money for. I know this sounds like a cliché, but I've never seen data to the contrary.
Ask HN: Is Facebook dying?
I've noticed many of my friends have become less active on Facebook over the past year, and my newsfeed is becoming less personal (random news articles and ads being more than half of what I see). I've also noticed myself logging into Facebook less often and when I do, it's usually for specific groups. Quite frankly, Facebook is boring and very different than when I first joined. I've checked with some other people and they all share a similar experience.

I wonder if this is a universal thing -- who else feels the same?
Get your work done and you can go home early.
Every NGO I've worked with as part of Tech Solidarity has stressed that phone calls are the most effective form of pressure short of face-to-face meetings.

Do you think your congressman was more receptive to constituent calls to his local office? Or did he not care about any of it?
Author here: That's the next flowchart I will be publishing.
Controlling a Robotic Arm with Kinect (2012)
I assume because Hell's Kitchen is Daredevil's territory, so it's a thinly veiled announcement of a crossover
Seems like a questionable product launch from Intel - http://semiaccurate.com/2017/03/27/intel-releases-consumer-m...
Amazon's store of the future is delayed
> The only conclusion...

Yeah...no. That's such a distance that "leaping" to conclusions doesn't quite cover it. How about: women are (statistically) less interested in tech? So there is less intrinsic motivation, so extrinsic factors become much more important.

Not entirely coincidentally, that is exactly what surveys starting at high-school age right through professionals leaving the profession show. And "leaving" tech is often "getting promoted to management".

UPDATE: Note that even if this explanation were not the correct one (though I think it is the one that's most correct), it would still invalidate your assertion about other explanations being the only conclusions.
Example:

The FB/google share buttons on websites totally break MVC. It's just a button but it has cookie & network traffic.

I hate those buttons, people often argue they 'break the web' because of weird privacy/performance side effects, but developers use them because it's convenient to 'drop in' the platform integrations.

By comparison -- integrating an android app with GMS requires modifying a bunch of files (xml layouts, java source, multiple build dependency files). You can't just 'drop it in'.
I've had several personal interactions with Prof. Puett. He's sort of like a new American Emerson, spartan in lifestyle, and incredibly inspiring both in his intellectual rigor and dedication to principles. I highly suspect he his having an extremely outsized impact at Harvard.
> The US is 8% richer than Denmark, 12% richer than Sweden and 40% richer than Germany on a per capita basis.

This seems to ignore the obvious discrepancies between income inequality in the US vs. Sweden & Germany. Our Gini coefficient is higher than both, as is our poverty rate.

Our high GDP masks the fact that our world's-highest drug prices have a disproportionately negative effect on our poorest citizens.
So you are the stickler who does understand all that but won't agree to understand something if they don't use a certain term you want.

What everyone is talking about is 'text messaging' or 'texting'. Generally people refer 'text messaging' as 'SMS'. And that is what everyone is talking about.
The same trick worked with Australian $1 coins going into machines expecting NZ $2. imho having $1 larger than $2 isn't right.
Yes, all nice data, but $400,000 is, sorry 'bout that, no matter what it's called, is not appropriately called a seed round.

Let me guess: The usual criteria are all the first technical work done, traction significant, and traction growing rapidly. That's not planting or watering seeds; instead, that's a sapling or small tree.

Indeed, for a Web site, costs can be so low that by the time there is significant traction, there is plenty of ad revenue for rapid organic growth and no equity investment needed.

A useful seed round could be $50,000 or even $20,000 except for the legal and BoD expenses!
>Blogging (and running a website in general) is not popular these days because so much of the oxygen is taken up by social media or sites like Reddit

Do you think blogging on Reddit/Facebook/Medium/Whatever is not true "blogging"? Much of your audience is already there.

HN is a different story.
Samsung plans to relaunch refurbished Note 7 devices
> Visible is pretty smack dab in the middle of the Sun's peak spectrum...

Does this mean that our vision system evolved to pick up the most energetic part of the Sun's spectrum that ends up at the surface? Did it evolve this way so our vision systems' cellular agglomerate don't have to expend as much energy gathering that part of the spectrum as opposed to other parts of the spectrum?

If so, then is there any linkage via evolutionary theory that imply our vision system might be among the first vision systems to evolve on the planet, because it filled the most-favored evolutionary niche associated with the lowest energy expenditure to gain a evolutionarily competitive advantage over other pre-human species?
I don't agree, but let's break this down, comparing to a traditional app in Rails/Django that renders HTML server-side, then progressively enhances with a sprinkling of JS.

> automatic code splitting

By code-splitting we implicitly mean we're also managing dependencies (e.g. via require() or import statements).

In a traditional server-rendered-app, you can achieve something similar to code-splitting by manually breaking up your script tags across pages as needed, but you lose dependency management. With code-splitting you get both, and your bundles are going to be better optimised than if you hand-picked script-tags (at least that's the promise of automatic code-splitting, and it'll only be enhanced as 'tree shaking' techniques mature).

> routing

Really, this should say 'filesystem-based routing', which you don't get for free in rails/django afaik. Granted you get it in old-school PHP, which I think Next is open about wanting to copy the 'ease' of. I think that's cool.

> hot code reloading

You don't get that in server-rendered frameworks. It's a hugely pleasurable boon to development to not lose all your page state when you just changed a bit of CSS or JS that shouldn't affect state. It even won't destroy CSS or HTML text-content changes I made with the Chrome devtools, which would get lost if I used something like 'live reload' to reload the page with a server-rendered framework.

> universal (server-side and client-side) rendering

It's not the server-side rendering that's the advantage, because like you say ... we already had that. It's the fact it's both. The initial load is server-side, which is a big win for mobile devices especially (remember when Twitter switched from an SPA back to server-side-rendering to improve 'time-to-first-tweet'). But every subsequent page load is done by requesting the minimal data needed and rendering client-side, which is faster than loading a full page from the server.
Speeding is also illegal. True, there are no companies that speed, but I think that's just because they can't drive.
I have never understood for profit medicine. There is a very fine moral line between, selling a blue pill that gives someone a "fun time" and selling cocaine for the same resin?
Drug companies are making dugs and machines to "extend life" to drain the saving of the elderly. I've seen who could not pay for a "live saving" drug, give away everything they own so they can go on medicaid to be "saved".
"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand.
Ios 10.3 is out
Ah I meant 1D. My thought train at the time was occupied with our writing systems being 2D.
I don't really know why, and I have heard there are large discrepancies from browser to browser. It is a function call per iteration, or even a closure, so I'm guessing it may often be difficult to recognize and optimize out the function call, or maybe some browsers haven't gotten around to it yet, I don't know.

This also depends on what you're comparing. Map always allocates a new array. In my Chrome 57 right now, map() is 4x slower than new array + a for loop of push().

But it's 100x faster to re-use an existing array... (a for loop of array element assignment)
Note that women now exceed men as college graduates. Meaning for every profession where men dominate, you must have other professions where women dominate more. Otherwise the numbers don't add up.
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Somehow Rick & Morty really reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut. Similarly dark sense of humour about our meaninglessness in a vast, chaotic universe.
Apple releases iOS 10.3
Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction
Amazon’s cashier-free store reportedly breaks if more than 20 people are in it
Unpopular comment alert: This is a good thing.

Guys, I don't think the "Federal Communication Commission" should be passing consumer protection regulations. What's to stop Amazon, Netflix, etc from selling a service where an advertiser sends them an IP and they get back your name and interests? These regulations need to be passed at a much broader level. I think the FCC should focus on anti-competitive behavior on ISPs right now, and leave these sorts of matters to another regulatory body.

And besides, with TLS (and DNSCurve if you're paranoid), I'm not sure this regulation means much anyway.
What I want to know is why would you counterfeit (serious charge) when you can use a similar looking coin? For example

I was given a South African 5 Rand coin in my change in Amsterdam (should have been a €2 coin):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5-za-rand.JPG

Broke a 20 getting intoxicated in a bar/coffeeshop, then bought a kebab after on my walk back. Kebab shop was only place I got metal change that night.

I didn't notice until the next day when a coffee place threw a fuss when I used it to pay for my espresso.

I suspect they often mix them in for drunk tourists.
Teleopathy within Corporations
Show HN: Muriel, an electron app to binge-watch anything without being bored
Nope, the data does not suggest that.
I've only read it in a hurry but it had some rather odd bits

For example, re 1. :

> Every human is a magician, and we can either put a spell on someone with our word or we can release someone from a spell. We cast spells all the time with our opinions. An example: I see a friend and give him an opinion that just popped into my mind. I say, "Hmmm! I see that kind of color in your face in people who are going to get cancer." If he listens to the word, and if he agrees, he will have cancer in less than one year. That is the power of the word.
Wasn't he trying to smuggle 320GB? You can get 512 gb sd card that would easily fit into your anus.
"In practice, that means making code review comments unclear and extremely passive aggressive."

No, it doesn't. It only means that if the only way you can express yourself is by being mean.

"I'd rather have plain, clear statements than statements that on the surface are pleasant and helpful but that are actually meant to be emotional and professional shivs. I've been both."

Again, you can have plain, clear statements without being mean. Just because you aren't capable of writing them doesn't mean the rest of us aren't.

"he proposal is to prevent conversations flowing naturally according to the normal implicit rules of conversation and instead steer the conversation to "inclusive" topics. You know what I'd do in that situation? Grab a bunch of my coworkers and head off to the nearest pub to have the conversation we want to have. Congratulations, you've tried to help and made things worse."

No, you've just proven that you aren't willing to include other coworkers in your discussion. You've also proven that you aren't able to have a discussion about anything that isn't a few topics that you care about, and aren't willing to listen to others talk about what they care about. You're the one that comes out looking bad here.

"This idea is both trendy and dangerous. Some ideas are better than others. I don't want to be around people who think that asbestos and plastic are both perfectly good materials for medical devices and that we should reach a compromise position to ensure that everyone is heard. If person A consistently proposes ideas that work and person B is genial, but constantly proposes ideas that don't work, A has more merit."

Again, you're making false choices here. The idea that you have to choose between someone being nice but not good, and someone who is good but mean. There is absolutely no reason for that.

"This argument is circular."

No, it really isn't. And you haven't provided anything to claim that it is.
The videos mentioned in the article seem to purpose made to scare kids under nine who want to see their favorite cartoon characters.
Limiting the discussion to YouTube, Google needs to acknowledge how many children spend time browsing videos on their site and make a YouTube Kids with only approved providers and strict moderation.
Maybe I'm being too literal, but how can a grammar be Turing complete? The usual definition of Turing completeness is being able to simulate an arbitrary Turing machine. Typical human languages don't do beta reductions like Lambda Calculus, so I fail to see how a grammar (or the language produced by the grammar) can be said to compute anything.
atleast go through initial 4 chapters. then go through the coursera lecture of Odersky.
Though SICP is lisp, the structure is very similar to scala.
> But it remains true that those people are not significantly wealthier on a PPP basis than people making median US wages but living in a city with a lower cost of living.

No, it remains your unfounded - and untrue - assertion. A lot of people have salaries very close to those in Silicon Valley, in housing markets significantly cheaper than Silicon Valley. Haven't you heard of remote work? A lot of us at the high end are able to do it, but maybe you haven't reached that point yourself. For people like me and quite a few of my friends/colleagues, we're winning the PPP game by not living in SV.

> Better developers obviously get paid more than worse developers.

Now who's changing the subject? We're not talking about better or worse developers. We're talking about developers at the same level, often the same people as they move from job to job. Rich companies can and do pay higher salaries regardless of the worker's location. That creates a feedback loop, distorting both labor and capital markets, turning temporary advantages into permanent ones and stifling competition.

I've worked at a lot of startups, and learned a lot about their advantages and disadvantages relative to larger competitors. Over-regulation was never one of those problems, and nobody responsible for setting strategy was ever so ideologically blind that they tried to pretend otherwise. I'm guessing that's not a recipe for startup success, in Silicon Valley or anywhere else.
That is true but it's mostly an argument for higher taxes are more subsidized medical care (including drug purchases) not an argument that the US should pay less overall for drugs than poorer countries.
Yes correct, I have to sell it because of another bigger project.
"Classic" C was actually simpler and safer than modern C.

Before optimizers, C was a WYSIWYG language. Yes, you can shoot your foot (gets) but you know what's happening where, and can manually check everything.

Modern C with language lawyering can "optimize out" your safety checks, leading to exploits.
Friends in the pharma and medical device development industry have told me that the business case for any drug or medical device is built on top of US sales at currently inflated US prices.

According to them, the other developed countries that have negotiated lower rates for drugs serve a different purpose. Those countries have lower requirements around testing of drugs and medical devices, and they are able to move to human trials and market sooner there. The trade-off for those countries is slightly higher risk of sub-optimal outcomes, but this appears to be more accepted by the populations of those countries than it is by Americans.

I'm not writing this to vouch for this setup - it seems like it is pretty unbalanced and ultimately does a lot of harm to people in the US due to drug inaccessibility - but I thought I'd share it for another perspective.
I have to sell it because of another bigger project.
Add them. I'm blogging since 9 years now, and I find comments to be incredibly important. If you are doing a private tech blog, the people you want to reach are people that want to follow you personally. With those you really want to talk, and an occasional comment helps a lot against that impression that no one is reading it. Even if it is just once a month.

Though the most helpful thing for a blog such as this is to write it for yourself. But even then, some external feedback helps.
Check this: https://github.com/kirill-konshin/next-redux-wrapper and usage here:
https://github.com/zeit/next.js/blob/master/examples/with-re...
Show HN: Hypersurface – a modern polling app. (Vue and Socketio)
I believe the dancing being ridiculous as well as the breathing sounds combined could have been the turning factors.
The book is basically a Lisp tutorial using metaphors rather than code examples.
If you want a pretty dry, technical and exhaustive exploration of collective intention, I got a lot out of John Searle's "The Construction of Social Reality".
look. a strawman.

Don't kid yourself, Facebook is much much more than just a forum. It might have been little more than a forum initially, and the amount of javascript it originally had kind of upholds the OP's original statement. It was a pretty slim webapp originally.
If I'm reading this right, this device is slower than a Samsung 960 Evo across the board (http://www.anandtech.com/show/10833/the-samsung-960-evo-1tb-...). It seems that when Intel started developing Optane, they didn't anticipate how much faster NVMe PCIe SSDs would become. Couple that with significant clock frequency headroom for DDR4, and this product really doesn't look competitive.
> Is it a curve of constant width like the 20p and 50p? If its sides are straight it cannot be.

If I'm not mistaken it has to have an odd number of sides, but it has 12.

The sides looks like they might be very slightly curved in order to facilitate rolling. But it not being of constant width could still make life more difficult for vending machines etc.
I am That -- transcribed talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj

Shifted my sense of self in ways I cannot describe. It is logical but not intellectual and transformative in a strange way.

Enlightenment is Not What You Think by Wayne Liquorman, a contemporary Advaita teacher.

Ishmael by Daniel Queen.
The toll both machines don't accept them even though the coins are superficially quite similar.