skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So if an alien landed here what if they didn't perceive sound at all and saw only in the ultraviolet range?

If they were capable of interstellar travel this would be a trivial problem to solve in comparison so yeah highly implausible plots.
In practice that's not really a meaningful distinction. For a business that survives by selling ads, pissing off your users is just as bad as pissing off your advertisers; you need both to survive, not just one or the other.
I'm one of the core-contributors of Next.js. We are not anit-React or anti-spa.

And we are pretty closely work with JS stuff. But Next.js is inspired by the simplicity of PHP.

### Anti SPA

The whole idea of Next.js is to build a SPA easily. But it's also server rendered by default.
Neither Better Call Saul or Fargo are made by Netflix. BCS is an AMC show and Fargo I believe is FX.
code one for darktable or gimp.
> GitHub Pages is temporarily down for maintenance.

Ironic?
Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber
The formal system for changing oneself is academia. It appeals to some people and not others. That difference in taste is ok.

Sort of made me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc But everyone is not where Hickey is and nobody else is him.
In Barcelona (I fly once a month the LGW-BCN route) I'm frequently asked to take out even my mobile phone and/or cables and chargers (granted, I have quite a few usually) from my backpack and put them on the tray, OTOH in Gatwick I have to leave the phone in the backpack... But then I randomly need to take something out because, who knows. The iPad always has to be out with the laptop, though (in all airports I've flown recently, at least)
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Uhhh...I find pats on the back from strangers to be incredibly rude, patronizing, and uncomfortable. Do that to me and I'm likely to just walk away but not before saying "don't touch me."
My latest venture is https://ForwardMX.io but it only makes half that so far. The rest comes from content sites like https://ascii.li and Adsense
There's also a somewhat incomplete reimplementation in C#

https://github.com/toshok/scsharp
Trump to undo Obama plan to curb global warming
No, I'm charging to 80% of the battery capacity.
Don't vending machines have the ability to check by weight/size? Couldn't a bank just have that in their counting machine? If you have like 50% fakes it is going to look fishy.
I'm sure it can, but I personally am going to go for MXNet in Julia (which is syntactically similar to MatLab) if I find the time.

http://mxnet.io/
You can see two of my current school assignement on Github.

I try to avoid manipulating strings as much as possible. ;)
And the city images that are styled into night were originally taken near dusk so the lights inside the buildings were already on but not very pronounced. It will not take a full daylight scene and decide where to turn the lights on at night.
I read this example as being a stereotypical shallow "aspiration" that is packaged up and sold as being fulfilling in modern culture. The author even points this out:

> Anyone with even a pretty cursory understanding of Thoreau’s life and philosophy knows that such a hedonistic, materialistic, jet-setting lifestyle isn’t exactly what he had in mind with that line.

Given that the article follows up with analysis and praise of Thoreau's approach to finding joy in the day-to-day and taking new, more curious and imaginative perspectives on our everyday surroundings, I hardly think the author is propping up this initial stereotypical example as being a positive role model.
Perhaps they should take the time to make a few distinctions in this interview:

1. Perceptions
2. Constructs
3. Language

For a creature that doesn't have sight at all, they literally can't talk about certain concepts.

Now, does the creature distinguish between objects and actions? If they do, they have a basis to distinguish between Nouns and Verbs.

Finally, humans might be hard wired for some aspects of language. It would be a huge coincidence if aliens had the same hard wiring. (For instance, they could have evolved to give their children negative evidence, rather than pre-constrain grammars.)
It's ironic then that I regard House Of Cards' early seasons, particularly Season 1, as Netflix' best content to date. To me it felt as if they really aimed for a masterpiece.
These days they seem to be fine with catering to popular categories, which might very well be the better approach when it comes to subscriber growth, but average to solid content straight from the Marvel template.
What do you mean by to fit their format?

I've started watching The OA and it's the first series that I've noticed each episode is a different length. Some episodes are around 30 minutes, others are more than 60.
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Thank you for your kind reply. I will take that into account as you say, since when it will be hopefully more complete I'll publish an update.
I have recently migrated my boilerplate code to Next.js and it's awesome to work in. Previously I had my own code-splitted/server-side rendering setup but next does it better!
Fargo is made by FX and Better Call Saul is AMC.
I used next on a side project, zero boilerplate is refreshing.
> I can't stand that who can sit still for that long?

You could... space things out yourself, you know? :)

> Production quality is suffering too which may indicate shows are being made too fast.

Debatable. There's always been bad TV series. And production quality actually seems to be going up. Game of Thrones, Westworld, House of Cards are some of the most expensive and high quality TV shows ever produced, being not that off from Holywood blockbusters in terms of actors, special effects, sets, etc.
FYI although it's called Illustrator it's used for everything from actual illustration to iconography, to web/app design to even basic type layout.
Give them offices, that would be far preferable.
Poor sight from programming probably.
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It's not just being on the JVM that causes the annoying stack traces. It's certainly possible for Clojure to inspect errors and provide better ones. But then it needs to know a lot more about its hosting VM. The crappy stack trace situation was a design decision to keep Clojure loosely coupled to its VM, allowing it to be more easily ported to JS (ClojureScript), .NET (Clojure-CLR), etc.
They did require a form of identification -- the user's password. The user was careless, and so that password ended up being compromised. This is exactly the same as any other scenario where a user's password has been compromised -- they need to prove they're the legitimate user, not whoever has the compromised password.
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I believe it is pay one price and you get as much computing ability as your level indicates.
but some people truly are imposers, although they may not realize it ...dunning kruger effect
I was actually quite suprised how hard it is.
The amount of different LCD and subsequent separated driver panels that are possible in configuration is absolutely huge.
To be honest I am a lot less worried about LCD working then keyboard, since in the worst case I would need to rewire the whole one manually.
But for LCD I will hopefully have everything needed after getting my specific LVDS driver board
They almost certainly do optimise that way, and it's likely the easiest optimizations to do due to their somewhat superficial nature.

However, a data driven mindset should be applicable on deeper levels also, but that probably takes longer to become possible to analyse, and crucially, I belive that it is likely to need a baseline of stylistically optimized content before the value of more abstract concepts can be discerned from the data.

An unfortunate effect of data driven is also that unless you also chase some crazy (possible) trends in the data, you will regress to content with maximal earnings in the short to medium term.

Data doesn't carry visions, at least not by themselves!
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How much lighter is the new coin? I have to say, the old £1 coin is my favorite I have ever seen in the world. It had a great heft/weight/size to it.
You can use Next.js to do server-side only rendering. It uses React idioms for rendering in favor of vanilla templating
I was able to find my copy maybe 5 years ago and added it to my Battle.Net (now Blizzard) account as "StarCraft Anthology". It then could be downloaded and managed from the blizzard launcher like any of their other games, which I thought was cool. They also released an version for intel macs around that time, which was nice since I had just gotten a mac.

Blizzard has maybe the best track record for supporting their old games.
I think the point of his story is that it's easier to be a smooth political operator if you look good.
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Index route is down for all GitHub Pages
> they seem to be harder to track these days. Most of my personal network uses adblock, ghostery, or other similar extensions to stay off the radar, so their visits don't show up

You could still track some of them using server logs, and a desktop log analysis tool (like Web Log Storming [1]). As long as they're downloading the HTML, their access will have to show up in the server log. Not as convenient as logging into Google Analytics, but with the amount of spamming of GA lately, I've been thinking more about going back to old desktop tools to solve some of my metrics questions.

[1] http://www.weblogstorming.com/
Of course, you're right - in my country they are both Netflix-exclusives and it's easy to forget that it doesn't necessarily mean original content. Still, it emphasizes my point.
Seems like the HTC 10 really isn't all that great.

"The real surprise from these tests isn’t the winners, though — it’s how bad the losers are. In some situations, the LG, HTC and Sony phones put out pictures that loom downright unusable, something I’d expect more from a 2013 Moto G than "

http://bgr.com/2016/12/14/iphone-7-camera-vs-google-pixel-ga...
I see. Either way, that's not really obvious from the readme or the tagline, "REST API from any existing PostgreSQL database."
What’s new in Kubernetes 1.6 – a focus on stability
That is my first concern as well but testing and bug counts are not an all-or-nothing thing. If something like this can reduce bug counts in a complicated distributed system while reducing costs vs testing against "the real thing" it still may very well be worth it.
I agree with the gist of your comment but I think it's a bit harsh to say that using C for curl was an error. If I can trust wikipedia the original release of the library was in 1997, at the time it was a perfectly reasonable choice IMO.

I doubt the library would have reached its current adoption levels if it had been written in any other language (and I presume an other C library would've taken its place).
How to win friends and influence people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...

I have to keep reminded myself to apply the rules, but very sound advice.
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That is certainly an interesting problem, one I first saw in a Hackaday post from a few years ago [1].
Personally, I've always wondered how any aliens would interpret the Arecibo message - if they could even decode it, that is.

[1] http://hackaday.com/2015/10/06/electronics-for-aliens/
writing, not using.
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I'd say premature optimization is one form of over-engineering, and not the most common form today. It was more common back when computers were a lot slower and people had to think about performance all the time, but now architectural over-engineering in all its forms is much more popular.
Catch 22. I use Yossarian's behaviour to justify my own.
Gmail, Messenger and WhatsApp received heaps of fake 5-star reviews on Google Play
Think Like a Freak by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner (authors of Freakonomics) was a recent read that I liked a lot. It distills much of their economic thinking into a collection of meaningful practices. You could read it in a day.
Microsoft does research how to improve security at OS level and sometimes those efforts do end up on Windows.

Latest examples, Windows 10 secure kernel and Device Driver protection.

https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/36925

Or the new Windows USB stack, written in the P language.

https://github.com/p-org/P

UNIXes, not so much beyond patching C exploits.
If I put on my Product Manager hat:

1) Invest in good art

2) Tell me how long it takes to get up and running. Is there a walkthrough that can get me on the leaderboard in 10min? If so, I want to see it (and I don't want to pay).
I just left a low paying 80 hour a week job for a high paying 40 hour a week job with that exact logic - I can do what makes me tick in my spare time.

As it turns out, that's a lot harder than you're making it sound. I absolutely loved my previous job, where I was building a quality product that I knew my customers would enjoy. There were some leadership-related issues that came up there, so I thought I could build a product on my own in my extra 40 hours a week. Now I have no product (or product ideas) and no customers. Instead I spend my time networking with people who might have those two things. I feel like I lost out, even though I'm getting higher pay.
Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

He puts into words concepts of life so close to us yet so foreign sounding that makes us rethink everything in our lives.

When you ask people "What is the opposite of fragile", they usually answer robust, which Taleb proves to be incorrect by introducing a new concept, the Antifragilty. It entangles so many things in economic, academic, science, finances and other systems with several tales from the past revisited with a new lens.
I write for a very specific niche (psychology: https://mikolajczyz.com/news/ or https://couplespsychology.com/) and I guess the blog posts have shorter "exposition times" lately. Years back it was the context that seemed important - citations and general neighborhood, referrals from other blogs, people emailing the links. And search engines that followed. Nowadays it's more about the instant spikes of social media powered traffic and then just Google. Even hugely popular content at a time eventually receives almost no visitors from social media.

These are just impressions though. I believe it is harder to attract returning readers now.
There are good points in the article, but I'm annoyed that they bring up the "lobster law" as so many articles about "absurd laws you might be breaking without knowing it" do. There's actually a very valid reason why possessing a small lobster is illegal -- immature lobsters haven't bred yet and if you want to have lobsters in the future you shouldn't harvest them.
The OA did the whole "TV series as novel" thing very well. It was very disorienting for me (but in a good way) when the opening credits played almost 60 minutes into the first episode, with about 10 minutes to go.
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> the large collection of existing (mostly F/OSS) software not going to be rewritten in eg. Rust or some

It is happening and will keep happening and it is really necessary at some point. Sure, I don't expect large project to be rewritten overnight, but every large project is being redone eventually. Especially when C becomes main source of problems. And you can introduce better languages gradually.

> operating systems, drivers

https://github.com/redox-os/redox

> IP stacks

https://github.com/QuiltOS/QuiltNet

Many of those are often written in userspace, where you are free to use any language.
Several of them will provide sufficient performance.

> databases, Unix userland tools, web servers, mail servers, parts of web browsers and other network clients, language runtimes and libs of higher-level languages, compilers and almost all other infrastructure software we use daily.

For all of those you'll find Rust implementations. Some are work in progress, some are already widely used.
Yep, I agree. I signed up based on the rates at the time, thinking they wouldn't change THAT often. But it sounds like this is going to become more common.

I'm in the process of moving everything to Vanguard.
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein

There were many other books that influenced me, but the concept of a "Fair Witness" stuck with me - specifically, the idea that one should be aware of what is known versus what is inferred.

> Fair Witnesses are prohibited from drawing conclusions about what they observe. As a demonstration, Harshaw asks Anne to describe the color of a house in the distance. She responds, "It's white on this side". Harshaw explains that she would not assume knowledge of the color of the other sides of the house without being able to see them. Furthermore, after observing another side of the house would not then assume that any previously seen side was still the same color as last reported, even if only minutes before.
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JavaScript is not perfect by any means, but if it was that bad how come so many companies have used it successfully?

Netflix, Ebay, Uber, Facebook, etc. These are not your average mom-and-pop web dev shops.
> Their popularity isn't due to having the best design, but rather to having a good enough design and being entrenched. They're old platforms, we've learned a lot since they were started.

I think one could say the same thing about C's popularity as a language.
EDIT: I am not defending the policy. I would like to address the specific argument you've used to attack it. (I don't agree with the laptop ban, and I want strong arguments being made against it, not weak arguments.)

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>At some point we are going to have to realise that terrorists are always going to want to target aircraft and just live with it.

I would like you to please pay attention for a moment (try to follow my train of thought), maybe I can convince you of something. So, I think that what you've just written is a particularly/incredibly weak argument and regardless of your or my position on the issue I really would like to take a minute to try to convince you not to make this argument again. Make a better argument!

So, suppose that someone said, "At some point we should just accept that ransoms will happen" and so simply stop supporting the FBI and let bad guys kidnap any family of billionaires whenever they want, and to have these billionaires start paying ransoms.

Or you can apply it to anything really. Suppose you said "violent rapes will always happen", so we should just learn to live with it instead of having infrastructure to deal with it.

I don't know - make a list of heinous things people can do to each other, employers to employees, everyday people, whatever. Think of things there are laws and policies against - and imagine someone suggesting that instead, people just learn to live with the problem.

I think there is a large chance people will misunderstand the point of my comment: the point of my comment is that as an argument, "terrorists are always going to want to..." so "just live with it" is a very weak argument. Instead of this argument, a different argument needs to be made.

It simply shouldn't be made on this, or any other subject, I feel. I would like to expand the topic in question to show how problematic the argument is: I think, conservatively, a sum total of $1 trillion (current dollars) will have been spent on researching/curing/innoculuating against/preventing AIDS. Suppose someone suggested that instead of spending $1 trillion on curing it, we simply "learned to deal with it." (Or imagine the same attitude toward cancer research.)

I hope at least this example will show why the argument itself ("we should just accept that there will always be AIDS") is particularly weak. It's simply not true!

I hope I've convinced you to avoid using this argument again. This does not mean other arguments can't be made - just this particular specific variation. Use a stronger argument against bullshit policies!

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EDIT: as expected people have misunderstood my point. I will give your argument a name: "argument from helplessness." We can't solve it, so we should just accept that it will open happen. Why would it be a given that explosives can always be brought on planes? I am not defending this particular policy, but the argument from helplessness should not be one of the arguments made against it! It's a bad, weak argument, period. It won't convince anyone. Make a better argument!
I had the same feeling. I thought all the pieces of Stranger Things were pretty good, but overall it seemed soulless.
C# team did something similar when it first came out, I can't remember what it was called. You wrote a module and submitted the code to run on their servers. It was a similar 'critter' game where your code hunted for food, tried to reproduce, and competed with other code running in the same sandbox. There was a limited energy budget which was the main constraint on your code and meant you had to conserve energy and optimize your moves in order for your organism to thrive.

It was a really neat way to learn the language and highlighted the security of the interpreter that they could sandbox your code.

I'm sure there must be precursors to even that, probably written in Smalltalk or Mumps or something.
In the news recently we've seen that illegal border crossings from Mexico have gone down substantially just because the administration has signaled that there will be more deportations. This laptop ban could have the same effect. Increase the barriers for visitation from some countries and people think twice.

If this is what the administration is doing, it's very Machiavellian.
Whine, whine whine.
There is this:

http://launchrock.com
This is a discussion website. Being vindictive isn't helpful, but niether is criticism inherently bad. An awful lot of the good content here is experts being critical of new ideas.
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> However lately Netflix' content simply seems to lack substance to me.

I want to echo this as well. One thing about American TV content is that the story plot is very repetitive in nature. Netflix and other similar providers' original contents are very much either a superhero or a crime chaser plot. Furthermore I also dislike breaking content into seasons. It keeps audience around so more money but I am just very inpatient when it comes to TV content. In China / Hong Kong, most drama do not release in parts. So say there are 40 episodes it will have 40 episodes completed when the drama is aired. When you drag your drama plot beyond season 3 the story gets boring. Walking Dead, House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Blacklist, dragging on.

I want some more refreshing content. This is why I love cartoon contents like Bob's Burger or watching documentary. I get some breathing room.
Personally, I certainly wouldn't.
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Your anecdotal experience is not especially relevant to the conversation. It's great your friends think your phone is cool. Literally every person you ever meet in your entire life could tell you the pixel is awesome and that's still too small a sample size to be indicative of anything at all.
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the plural of anecdote is not data