skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and how your shoes are laced. I use Lock Laces [1] and I can take shoes off and put them back on in seconds now. Lock Laces effectively turn regular shoes into slip ons.

That wasn't actually why I got them. That was just a pleasant side effect. I got them because they make it easier to keep the ends of the laces from getting loose and into a bicycle chainring.

[1] https://www.locklaces.com
Asimov's "Complete Stores Vol. 1" was probably the book that most influenced my childhood. As I get older and see more of the intersection of life and technology, I find myself drawn back to his stories. Lately, the stories "Franchise" (politics and technology) and "All The Troubles Of The World" (an AI that, gasp, isn't trying to destroy humanity) have appealed to me, but I've had many favorites come and go over the years.
Seriously. I'd like to share this, but with that picture attached it limits my ability.
It's a step in the right direction for mobile photography but not really revolutionary. Exposure fusion and pixel alignment has been around for a long time.

Would like to see more options for tonemapping (really like ACR's highlight/shadow recovery), higher dynamic range sensors and most of all 10bit or raw video on mobile phones.

Halide is great btw
Can you provide information as to how much capacity Netflix would need to migrate? Otherwise, this comment has no basis in reality.
I think Netflix is diluting the quality of their original content in the race of creating more and more minutes. Initial Netflix offerings like House of Cards were awesome, it has gone downhill since then. The Marvel offerings are awfully slow paced and boring (except maybe season one of Daredevil). I've been on the verge of cancelling my Netflix subscription recently and will probably do unless they significantly improve their original content.
I think it is less about filtering what a kid sees and more about preparing children for the crazy shit the world can throw at kids without meaning too.

For any adult looking at PewDiePie's shenanigans it is clear that he isn't actually supporting organized racism, or if he is he is astoundingly bad at it (perhaps as bad at being funny. But to a an unprepared kid (or dumb adult) this stuff can seem shocking and the jokes might be missed on them. PewDiePie simply didn't care some kids might see and wasn't concerned about it.

Parents can prepare their kids and create open environments where the kids can ask questions. If done right the parent can create situations where they can simply explain that PewDiePie lacks good taste when the kid asks what its going on.

This is a bunch of idealist rubbish, but at least a few parents have done it.
The pewdiepie controversy seems manufactured to me.

I get pewdiepies humor. I watch his videos anticipating his originality and I guess 54 million subs do for varying reasons.

His ability to express himself and generate content that makes me laugh repeatedly. He's not insensitive despite what some news articles say. The anti-semitism thing is so overused today its a little meaningless. The only way to push its worth is to generate headlines and articles to emphasis its importance.

He jokes broadly about every culture and only seems to have issues with one culture in particular, unsurprisingly.

It's reached a point it feels he's holding back something funny to please WSJ - a huge, huge tragedy and loss to his freedom and originality.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will sell millions of pageviews."

There, updated for contemporary KPIs.
Fascinating idea... offer GPIO ports to read (and write) signals, offer cheap models ("2 GPIO ports? You got it!") to enterprise ones ("You want 1024 GPIO ports? You got it!").

And sell the backend solution too for enterprises, and offer a hosting solution for small scaled deployments. There's definitely a market for that.

And imagine if you're the Mark Zuckerberg ("They 'trust me'. Dumb f*cks.") of all these devices. All that data...
I can update you on that. At the moment the heaviest part of the laptop is the display. But I think it may not be bellow 2kg, but above. I can update when I have a better estimate.
It was politics from a couple decades ago. Medicare historically didn't cover prescription drugs, until Part D was enacted during the Clinton administration.

A tactic to get Republicans to support the measure was to pledge that Medicare wouldn't interfere in the drug market by developing its own formulary – Medicare Part D plan providers would compete for members and negotiate with pharmaceutical companies themselves.

There has been a bunch of talk over the last decade about repealing that particular restriction, but it's never made it over the finish line.
If you believe being mad and outraged is an effective means of ensuring your own chosen words find their way into impressionable, insecure minds, then sure, you should be mad, Mr. Katz.
Here's a very simple web client I wrote if you want to give Stockfish a whirl: https://chessui.com/

Shameless plug I know but I'm posting it for those who want to give it a shot against stockfish.
End of an era. I used to love looking up numbers via the Payphone Project[1] and just talking to randoms.

[1] http://www.payphone-project.com/numbers/
Of course they are, they have less overheads because they game the system.
Is there anything practical I can do if I already know my representative is going to vote against the bill?
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Smart protectionism does help. It's how Japan, South Korea, and now China have developed advanced manufacturing industries where free traders would have told them to specialize in what they did best at the time like grow rice. We need to look more holistically at free trade.
Carnegie Mellon's CyLab challenges high school students to give hacking a try
Best of all, multiple monitors play very nicely with both tiling window managers and virtual desktops. :)
Several articles covering advertisers pulling ads from Youtube[1,2,3] because Google runs them next to objectionable content, a 4% drop in Google's share price [4,5]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/22/15029214/att-verizon-googl...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/17/google-pledges...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/03/big-us-companies-pu...

[4] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/20/google-stock-downgraded-to-ho...

[5] https://www.recode.net/2017/1/26/14402080/alphabet-google-ea...
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Hey, great that a single monitor works for you. It doesn't for me though.

I have 3 monitors and can't imagine going back to one. Different people work differently, but for me I see a significant benefit to being able to glance somewhere to check a job I'm running, e-mail, chat, reference a browser... It reduces the overhead of the context switch, so I can do it and be right back to where I was.

In the past I would change virtual desktops to check e-mail or chat, and once I was in that isolated desktop I would find it much harder to get back. It was better when I was able to set up a hotkey to "switch back to the last virtual desktop I was on".

At the moment I have two 32" displays and a 24" in portrait. I have my terminal sessions on the center 32", 2 browsers on the right 32", and slack and e-mail on the left 24" portrait. I came to this from using a 15" laptop all the time for 15 years.

Caveats: I use i3wm and use keyboard navigation a lot. I'm also a sysadmin, I could easily see programming being different.
We get radio bursts from dying stars and try to interpret them as messages. Intelligence as we know it is pretty obsessed with trying to extract information from its environment, even where none may exist at all.
A River Sutra, by Gita Mehta.

It's a book I've re-read many times over the years, and drawn something different and new from each reading. It's hard to articulate why it's so important to me, but I've learned a tremendous amount from it. Highly recommended!
> Why would anyone even make that?

Right? I thought the exact same thing. Seems like the time and effort and expense it takes to build a queueing system could be put into building a site that could handle infrequent heavy loads.
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Strangely, it takes time and maturity for people to realize the difference between being criticized for airing cruel or insensitive humor on an internet video venue and being locked in a cell and tortured for their political views (as in a police state).
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While I'm definitely not suggesting we replace Curl with a rewrite in Rust (since the current Curl has had decades of good testing and auditing done on it), I am actually very curious how a rewrite in a safer language like Rust, OCaml, Haskell, or Go would fair in comparison in regards to performance and whatnot.

If I were ambitious enough, I'd do it myself in Haskell, but I think it'd be too much work for a simpler curiosity.
> it could be a legacy and baggage if the authors resist to change.

Every few years there is a new batch of programming languages that come out and they all gain a small passionate community that tries to convince the internet how much better that language is.

They inevitably use the argument that code not written in the new language is 'legacy' and 'resistant to change'.

Neither of those assertions are accurate or enlightening unless you can provide a proposed replacement and prove the superiority of the new code.

Simply telling other programmers to rewrite there code in xyz language with such arguments is primarily a case of armchair development.

If you really think it could be done better then do it and prove it.
This has background:

http://kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/searching-for-savings-in...

A summary is that when the coverage was established, the law was written so that Health and Human Services is prevented from participating in price discussions, it's left to the private companies that underwrite the policies.

You can bet that if Medicare did establish a formulary, we'd be talking about the problems with that instead.
Video has killed text. Fair and square.
The interesting thing about NIHCE and its short existence is that it's a startling reminder that the idea that health policy should be evidence-based is still a new one.

NIHCE's greatest contribution has been that, in insisting on being evidence-based as de-politicised any and all questions about what treatments should be available.

I think this week's US shenanigans have showed that de-politicising healthcare is a very laudable goal.
US Mint's seeming priority is cost cutting in metals rather than counterfeit coins, since our paper money is so simple I think counterfeiters are focused on that in the lower denominations..

UK notes are much more sophisticated even for the lower denominations, so probably there is more focus is on coins..
Used correctly, it can hugely speed up the experience by preloading things.

In an ideal case you could have a fast initial page load with static HTML. Then an async script tag quietly loads a script in the background while the user is reading (done properly, this can be imperceptible). Then when the user clicks a link, JS handles it and instantly updates the DOM and location bar, faster than would be possible with a static page load.

That's not usually the reality but it's definitely possible.
Try having one monitor in the centre and the second one off to the side. You'll always be using one monitor as the primary anyway so there's no reason to pretend they're equal.
Drug prices are high because of government regulation. It can take up to a billion dollars and decades to get FDA approval and drug companies only have a limited time to recoup their investment before their patent expires. So they are forced to charge high prices.

This also reduces competition and creates a monopoly in the market. If regulations were reduced, it would bring in more competition and force the prices down.
Posting to multiple relevant sites and social networks has helped my blog to grow. That, combined with a mailing list that I send each post to (weekly-ish), helps drive traffic. Some of the mailing list subscribers share it too. I usually submit new posts to places where I think people will find it useful -- Reddit (r/reactjs), the React FB group, and a couple frontend/JS-specific link aggregator sites. Sometimes HN.

My blog is on a technical topic (frontend development with JS + React), and my posts are all geared toward helping people learn about and solve specific problems. A handful of them do pretty well in Google, and all that in total brings in ~40k visitors/month.

I'm not sure how many people actually click those social sharing buttons. I think most people tune them out, but I keep them around as a measure of popularity/social proof.
While I agree there is some level of mass psychosis surrounding JavaScript, I think there is a lot more nuance to what's going on.

I don't think the onslaught of new frameworks and transpilers has been due to JavaScript's weaknesses as a language. I think it has been due to the rapidly changing landscape of _what users expect from web apps_ and the corresponding changes we need to make in the way we develop.

FRP is a great example: many of the recent shiny new toys have been different approaches to implementing this concept in the browser (React, Vue, Elm just to name a few). But this isn't just a trend because web developers are fickle, it's a trend because web applications are growing in size and complexity, and we're all sick and tired of implementing the same boilerplate to make the value of an input get assigned to some variable, or to make the changing of some variable trigger a change in the DOM.

I think there is some overlap, but in general conflating changing development practices with the problems of JS as a language, is drastically over-simplifying it.

Where I do see a psychosis is in the choice of JS as a configuration/build language. Systems like Gulp and Grunt make no sense to me. Why would you want a build script to be in a language with asynchronous I/O and callbacks? Build scripts are always one step at a time, feeding the result of one thing into another. JS just doesn't fit that kind of workload. I see that as a psychosis, and as the result of more junior devs wanting to choose a tool they are more familiar with, as opposed to the one that does the job better.

EDIT: Another example of a psychosis has been recently discussed on HN: the choice of embedded web browsers for implementing text editors[0]. Again: other than 'psychosis' mixed with the desire to pick a more familiar tool, what makes a web browser a good tool to build a text editor? Nothing!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014
I'm amazed how many people on HN complain about the content on Netflix. Especially compared to any other streaming service, such as Amazon or Hulu, they continue to provide much higher-end content for my dollar, as well as a (far) superior UI experience.

For me, the stand-up specials like Dave Chapelle and Louis CK alone are huge and welcome additions, never mind the many, very good lesser known comedy specials on there.

Their agreement with Dreamworks has only helped, allowing me to enjoy surprisingly good films like Zootopia.

Even great cable channels like FX (The Americans, Legion) and AMC (Mad Men, Better Call Saul) are not available for any reasonable price as standalone cable packages, so I'm not sure what the comparison is in terms of quality. HBO at 15/month?

But even HBO shows are hit-or-miss. And while their movie selection is generally pretty great, I still find myself not watching it all that much.

It seems to me that Netflix provides a pretty high level of content at their price point.
>of the US Navy, individuals have to explicitly volunteer to enter SEAL training, are screened to a very high standard, and are warned well in advance that the training is extremely taxing, both physically and mentally.

They are also conditioned not to question the training, or the missions, or anything much, for that matter.
OA seems like a poor cousin of Stranger Things. Very slow paced and nothing much happens in S1.
A 1 uCi radioactive source is exempt in the USA yet quite easily detectable.

I suspect sooner or later someone is going to try radioactive currency.

I'm so old that when I went to uni we did a neutron activation of silver experiment in physics class because the half life of whatever isotope of silver was about a minute, so after an hour of lab you could put the coin back in your pocket. I don't know if they'd let college kids play with either a solid silver quarter from a few decades ago (probably worth a couple bucks today) OR a low level neutron source today. I could see picking some very obscure isotope of some obscure metal and dissolving it into the metal of the coin and if your xray metal analysis machine that scrapyards have (a kilobuck ish cost in a hand held device) detects the proper amount of iridium or whatever or a simple neutron activation followed by gamma spectrometer shows the right isotope in there...

Aside from spontaneous emissions and activation reactions, there are some weird cross sections out there. Whatever's irresistable to thermal neutrons thats used in reactors, probably a cadmium alloy, could be the core of a coin, and then blasting boring thermal neutrons that are semi-transparent to fakes but the cadmium core coins would look pitch black from eating all the neutrons. Or play the opposite game and make the coins out of pure neutron-transparent zirconium and only the neutron transparent coins are legit.
I cannot recommend Matthias' channel enough! He is absolutely amazing. I love the organic points in his videos where he messes something up and then fixes it and concludes "good enough". A true demonstration of the hacker mindset!

I believe he was a computer programmer full time before his YT channel and website took off. Watching him work makes me want to become a woodworker. Maybe someday I'll have the appropriate space and give it a shot!
> No need to restrict this to generations

Oh, I think this is very different now from when it was happening back in time. Back in the 60s-80s, younger generations were the ones actually fighting for the Freedom of Expression. Nowadays the younger generation is the one pushing for harder stances to make people shut up. Look at safe zones in university campuses, it's actively enforced by students themselves.
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> Rust has a quite unusual syntax compare to any other systems programming language.

In what way? It's very C-like in its basic syntactic structure, just more regular.
I wish I could do single monitor, but I need at least two - one with editor, one with browser for the app/site I'm building. Then preferably one for database admin/documentation/email/chat. Context switching between all that tends to slow me down I feel.
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Your opinions have consequences. They can affect other people in real ways. In this case, the imprecise, incredibly untrustworthy outrage of thousands of people -- fueled by a sensationalist media hit job -- almost ruined someone's career.

You're welcome to your opinion. But you also have to take responsibility for it.
said about little boy are very disturbing
Alt-tab causes me to lose focus much more quickly than glancing to the left. As a front-end developer I ALWAYS have my text editor, test browser, and Web Inspector open.

Among all tasks, I've found using Web Inspector to be incredibly difficult on a single monitor, especially on websites with deeply nested markup.
I'm calling B.S on this story. I don't doubt your friend may have told you this but I sincerely doubt the veracity of the story itself. If either person, your friend or the person they had an encounter with were of significant enough interest to be watched by security services that fact wouldn't not have been shared with them.
> until Part D was enacted during the Clinton administration.

???? Medicare Part D came into being in 2003, well into Bush's administration. The whole rest of your post is based around the notion that it was proposed by Clinton, when it was Bush....
> For those wondering what this is, it's basically a slightly more opinionated Create React App.

Does that mean the top benefit of next.js is to alleviate difficulties with Webpack + Babel + etc?
Similar queuing mechanisms are used on things like Ticketmaster which experience extreme demand peaks when high-demand tickets go on sale.

Presumably the Royal Mint experience similar demand peaks occasionally when limited-release collectable coins go on sale?
That was a great article - his videos also have great content but the style is a bit of a turn-off. I'll have to see what else he's written.
I mostly watch science, machining, DIY or electronics video. In the garbage section I only watch Casey Neistat and Ben Brown. That's the only kind of moving picture I watch unless I'm on a plane, I have no TV.
Not necessarily -

Since most money is held in banks, electronic transactions, etc - the question is more the 'value of supporting this denomination in currency to the economy' than the cost of a coin.. Like of $100M USD worth of tax/federal reserve interest revenue is generated from $10M of $100 bills that cost $15M to produce, it's not really a loss, but a business expense...
The underlying assumption behind free speech, free assembly, the public sphere, democratic assembly, etc. is that some ideas are better than others, that people can argue about these ideas and determine which ones are better, that other people will be convinced by rational argument, and that society is better when the better ideas win.

I don't think this is quite what you're saying, but "Why is your definition better than mine" reminds me of a lot of discourse I see about free speech, where free speech is an inherent virtue, and you should be able to say whatever you want to say without anyone doing anything about it - neither censoring it, nor objecting to it, nor listening to it with a critical ear or responding with anything other than "Yay, speech."

This seems to me to be the most fatal form of censorship. We're essentially sandboxing speech. Say whatever you like, as long as it doesn't actually mean anything. Participate in public debate, as long as it doesn't change. Respond to others, as long as you don't dare to claim that any idea might be wrong. What is the point of free speech in such a society?

If all ideas are equally valid, or at least the ideas of the inside crowd are valid and outsiders get a "who are you" response, why do we even try to have a democratic society? Just let the king do what the king wants, or the CEO do what the CEO wants. Comment and criticize all you want, as long as it doesn't have an effect.

But if we believe in there being a point to free speech, we should respond to speech with "Why do you believe that, and can you try to convince me that I am wrong while I try to convince you that you are wrong" instead of "Who are you to disagree with me".