skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem. As someone who is a firm believer in social equality across gender, orientation, race, culture and religious identity., it irks to me see the subtle and cleverly veiled micro-aggressions that women face in this environment where logic regardless of it's merit dominates all else, even empathy.

It's also the result of being around highly technocentric where we've erroneously optimized for logic as the driver in all debates. Unfortunately, dialectics aren't very popular.

For example, I regularly see transphobic statements that simply go undownvoted/unflagged on HN. I was even downvoted for adding Chelsea Manning, a transgender whistleblower, had full rights to be the correct gender because it was a human right.

Ever since Trump got elected, I find HN picked up a bit of intolerance.
I was immediately thinking of the hummingbird example and then looked up the stats and it has a wing beat 70 times per second; So this is more than fast enough as I would imagine are many other cheaper offerings for that refresh rate.
I was speaking partially from my experience and, as another poster put it, IDEs help considerably in areas of syntax usage.

Besides, with more stable languages (C++ has a 3 yr standardization cadence and new features are not covered well on SO) you can find in-depth answers on SO. Otherwise, many mailing lists (yes, they still exist) are a better source of more current and more detailed treatment of the topic than, "hey, how do I do X so that I can move on to my next thing at work."

Don't get me wrong, I love SO, but I feel it's more about, "how do I solve this problem now?" vs "I want to learn more about this topic." It's real value is in the comments that others contribute "around" the accepted answers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149570
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My Pale Moon (Linux) clocks in at around 200Mb less than latest Firefox. It's faster, too. And runs the addons I want it to run. Not going back.
I didn't really get it until I heard a radio piece where a guy being interviewed remembered factory jobs running a stamp press were paying $30-40/hr. Those wage levels aren't coming back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYpN8Uii6ng

It was fairly similar in the original too.
> I'd personally rather have an optical viewfinder than all of those features, impressive as they are.

Why? OVF doesn't show you what your picture is going to look like. You have to move from the viewfinder to look at the LCD to check exposure then go back to the viewfinder, repeatedly.

EVF shows you exactly what your picture going to look like.
Minimalism, as I like it.
I worked with Node all the time and have not really found this to be a problem unless the package maintainer fails to publish a change log or fails to follow semvar correctly.
Fascinating move, a tech giant publishing a ToDo app as a flagship product. I kinda like it.

You could pretty much replicate this entire app in an hour or two, including multi-device sync/collaboration, we have a 10 minute tutorial on this here: http://gun.js.org/think.html . As most people do, but what I think is interesting is this:

Microsoft doesn't need to worry about how easy it is to build, or how many thousands of even polished competitors there are. All they need to be is Microsoft, and make a stance of "competing" with basic products that Google and Facebook keep pushing out: Duo, Allo, Messengero, Yellow, Chello, Instagramcopysnapchato, Pillow, Fellow, Hippo... ahem. Or else Microsoft doesn't seem "relevant" if lay people aren't bombarded with news article after news article about some new app. :/
I saw that Redwood City robot. In it's current state, it's just for show. There was a guy trailing it with a joystick control.
I am disappointed Windows Phone has not survived.
These excuses are getting increasingly silly. If you want to know where your food comes from it's not that hard to find out. If you don't, that's your choice.
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>> big innovation deficit.

>> not enough fundamental research going on to generate new technological opportunities.

And on the other hand, the news is full of items about technologies with large market impact, in almost every industry, and a lot of new technological building blocks. Some of it is crap, but still.

>> We see this in the returns to innovation .. rareness of those returns.

Maybe this is because of more intense competition - in the past you could had some years before someone copied you. Today, it happens much faster, and barriers to entry are often easier, at those stages.
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Without heating up the discussion. I think it depends. If you want you tool or else be just "a damned x whatever" then you can feel free to use whatever lingo you want. But if you would like to be taken seriously then a more appropriate language might be needed. And it's not to be uppity or anything, it's just that the broader the audience, the more understandable and out of your "in-group" it has to be. If that's what you want obviously. There is nothing wrong with wanting something to stay just "in".
we've been in the dystopia column for a long time
I'm 100% the opposite. Have been working alone from home and couldn't be happier. I don't want to chit chat or have anyone in front of me.
Naturally this comment won't go well on HN.
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Basically more lockin to a single cloud provider.
Another characteristic of the data which would make random particularly bad is if reloading/recomputing the most popular items took significantly longer than reloading unpopular items. This could be the case for instance if item data size grew in proportion to popularity.
The reason why I bought a bluetooth toothbrush...

Phone apps...for a goddamn toothbrush. Were someone to ask me, "Mike, you do a lot of Bluetooth work, what if we BT-enabled our electric toothbrush...what kind of value could we add with that?" Because I'm horrible at coming up with creative ideas for new technologies, I'd come up with something lame like, say, maybe a "ranking system". I could add a "brushing timer", but a plain ol' Sonicare can do that without adding radios, so why bother? And my manager, because she's smart that way, says "meh, I guess it was a dumb idea, but never hurts to ask, right?" Except at Oral B they say, "outSTANDING, Jones! I think you're in line for a promotion!"

And don't take this personally, ecomhacker. You bought such a beast for your own good reasons and need not answer to me. I'm just both astounded and horrified that such a thing even exists.
If we imagine for a moment that it were 24 or 30fps continuous- could that output be used for video as an alternative to the designated video modes? What would make the results different?
Sure, it's more expensive in both initial and operational cost and provides a strict superset of the functionality. This is a fairly common description of what distinguishes higher-end professional products from lower-level and consumer products.

Until digital viewfinders on camera are indistinguishable in quality (both accuracy and latency), there will be a qualitative advantage to having a through-the-lens optical viewfinders available (even if there are circumstances where it remains advantageous to disable it), which means SLR with lockup mode is going to beat mirrorless when that matters.

Eventually, sure, the viewfinder gap will narrow.
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Clearly you're not drunk enough...

;-)
Because it takes skilled thoughtful effort to design an interview process that gathers sufficient information, corresponds reasonably to the work required, but which doesn't require a whole bunch of company-specific context or impose prohibitive costs.

The company I work for tries to focus our interview challenges on knowledge that you would actually exercise and think about while on-the-job but isn't language and framework specific. It has trade-offs (we have a take-home test, which does impose a cost on candidates' free time) and I would be interested in seeing someone more experienced than I go through the process and evaluate how well we do.
Is this eventually going to compete with Cloud9, Koding, and other cloud IDEs?
We'll need a new entry added to AWS in Plain English: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
Yes, but no thanks to myself. I wasted about a decade being a crap entrepreneur that didn't have such goals. It was easy to rationalize spending time on the work I liked doing under the pretense that I was improving the product's fundamentals. In retrospect, I would have been much better off facing my fears and doing clearly delineated 3-month efforts with revenue targets rather than persisting with products that don't quite work.

I'm still a crap entrepreneur, but I've become slightly better at teaming up with people who can make it happen.
This, absolutely. And if you're not willing to spend your free time learning, then you're probably not really tuned in to be a business man either.

Yeah you can make a good business. Yeah you can make a living. But you're probably not going to make a unicorn.
Honest question - do you think dietary fiddling around with different intakes / vitamins / fibers / sugars might also be worthwhile avenues to test on a case-by-case basis? I mean, I ask simply because I've seen a couple anecdotal tales of behavior changes (just a difference, not all Pro/Con) by eliminating cow milk. Switching that out changed, well, something and it seemed to have significant effects.

Considering I agree with you that drugs / compounds are like hammering a sewing needle into a pillow, I wonder about diet (+ exercise?) that could be started with cheaper and lower risk.
ReactVR 1.0
AFAIK there are non-trivial tax liabilities and reporting requirements in the US for non US persons investing in the US. Just to be on the safe side, I wouldn't directly invest in another country without consulting a tax professional first.

If you want to invest in a US index, you can probably find a ETF traded in your country of residence that tracks a US index.
It'd cost a bit more than Vanguard's, but would cost you much less in hassle, effort, and regulatory requirements (which would be handled by whoever manages the fund).

You should ask your broker or bank about that before rushing to try and buy Vanguard's ETF directly from the US.
This is a community, and they're using alienating language. The fact that they did it for free has nothing to do with whether or not we should discourage that behavior.
Amazon has fulfillment center generations. They usually don't automate existing fulfillment centers; they build new ones and close the old ones. Kiva robots went in at Gen-8, in 2014.[1][2] Breinigsville PA was built in 2011, so it's not a Gen-8 center but is too new to replace.

[1] http://www.scdigest.com/ontarget/15-03-03-1.php?cid=9051
[2] https://vimeo.com/113374910
They actually have an x86/x64 emulation layer for ARM well underway, so most likely they'll release such a phone soon, and have it run PC apps via emulation.

The performance should be decent, considering most apps are no longer CPU intensive.
I think leisure in that context refers to doing-what-you-enjoy not to not-doing-anything. Or as the old saying goes, if you do what you love you never have to work a day in your life.
>Why?

Uses less battery and works much better in low light.

>You have to move from the viewfinder to look at the LCD to check exposure then go back to the viewfinder, repeatedly.

If I want to check the histogram then I shoot with the mirror locked up, but modern DSLRs have very reliable autoexposure systems, in my experience at least.

>EVF shows you exactly what your picture going to look like.

It shows you what it will look like on a small screen with low dynamic range. You have to look at the histogram to see if you're losing shadow/highlight information.
Technically they are legally (and arguably morally) obligated to act in the best interests of the business on behalf of the shareholders who own it. It's up to the govt. and the market to define what falls under "best interests."
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what does "push human progress forward" mean?
Not only that.I recently caught MS lying - When I bought XBox One I had to create Live Account. When I did that I was then asked to provide my cell phone number because "Recent spam activity from your account" required me to verify the account. The problem is that between creation of the account and that supposed spam, there was only 3 minute difference.
I would debate that this is less racial privilege and more locality based. These areas that are now becoming economically depressed are ones that could support the wage depression that drove jobs out of the city decades ago ( and with them drove anyone who could afford to flee out of the city ). I think you are right on, but we need to understand that, while race provided differing social and structural factors, the issue is not someone's race, and to make the problems focus on race distracts from the real issue. This is everyone's problem.
(I can't edit the parent comment anymore, so a clarification: when I wrote "not a hard goal", I meant that the $10k number is just a rough ballpark -- not that the goal would be somehow easy to accomplish.)
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This is less secure. You're down from requiring Something You Have and Something You Know to just Something You Have. Meaning, anyone who has your phone and opens your browser history can find and access your Outlook account.
I think "opportunity cost" is the phrase for which you're looking.
Well, Sony has been the "co-king" of consumer P&S cameras for a long time, but those are in steep decline due to ever increasing capabilities of smart phones, where Sony (unlike Canon or Nikon) continues to make money with their Xperia line.

On the high end, they lack one key "ingredient" in my opinion which can be best described by one word: ecosystem. Ask any serious Nikon user and they'll show you a $15K collection of lenses, flashes and even old film bodies with high sentimental value to them. They will also talk for hours about "Nikon approach to color" if you'll listen. Competing against this takes time: Sony needs more lenses, more famous photographers walk around sporting their gear, consistently communicated "vision", etc.

This can also be a tough cultural problem to overcome. I've been shooting Canon on and off most of my life, Nikon gear is very similar in that it feels like a computerized camera system, i.e. a computer is an add-on to an excellent camera helping you take better pictures. Fuji cameras have the same feel. But every time I try Sony it feels like mm... hard to explain, maybe like a "computer which happens to take photos"? Very subjective, of course, but since you asked. ;)
So recalculating the virtual DOM is fast, but it does have a cost. The easy way to combat this cost is to realize that if you're doing things right and using pure functions, you'll get the exact same UI if you're state hasn't changed. So if you know the state that feeds into a certain component hasn't changed, you can get much better performance.

This library basically encourages you to use React's "PureComponent", which automatically does that calculation to see if the props have changed for you, thus giving you a huge speedup since only the components that need to update will.
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Does this take away the need for customers to develop their own tooling to interact with various AWS services? It's hard to understand what this is doing.
Author of the Benchling mixin / blog post, here. Thanks for including the credit and for making this technique more easily usable!

I'm quite happy that this is being utilized by so many people :-)
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When the page is loading I do see an icon for the iOS App, but not when the page fully loads. I see an iPhone pictured. What's going on here?

Also, how does this integrate with other products such as Outlook?
This is cool but every time I see something like this I think that this kind of data could be seriously skewed by individual language communities. For example, in the Elixir community we have our own forum, IRC, and Slack channel. Because of this, I almost never visit SO for my Elixir needs. However, I do when I am working with JavaScript, C, Java, etc. I know other languages like C++ have similar communities which take care of much of the questions which would otherwise be posted on SO. Does anyone else feel that their language is misrepresented by data such as this?

(Not trying to knock SO here, this is a very cool analysis, but I do feel that some of these problems are relevant.)
economic self-interest is not even close to the top priority of people when making their voting decisions.
Amazon bought Cloud9 last year...
First, you've presumed that my grandfather was white. Second, I'm not connecting the dots anyway. How does this involve race or privilege? One would assume that illiteracy is a substantial disadvantage regardless of one's family background or ethnicity.
I've seen it running around without anybody visibly controlling it. They have these things running in a few other cities.
Would it be unkind to suggest that they could look into hiring a designer or two?
sony mdr-1000x

*edit put the x in the wrong place
The Atlantic actually ran an interesting article recently about how autism is also unusually susceptible to the placebo effect, as far as disorders/diseases go* - that certainly doesn't help matters.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/spectrum-...
Not really. Diffing and rendering still cost a little, and pointless renders that results in zero differences often indicate a possible performance problem. This tool highlights such situations. If there is no difference after an action, it shouldn't happen.
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I'd assume that if you were to not be disturbed for 8 hours for work, someone else would be there to take care of the children, so ummmm, lock the door?
You clearly don't live in SEA. These girls are frequently abused by the shithead white supremacists that come here in droves. They wouldn't choose this arrangement if they had any other decent options on the table. Exactly how much time have you spent in SEA? Do you speak a native language of one of these countries? How many prostitutes in these countries have you talked to about this? I live in Cambodia, and you are either deeply unaware of what's going on or you are intentionally misrepresenting the situation.

I am all for legal prostitution, and I have no problem with it as a profession when men and women enter into it out of their own free will. But that's not the case in SEA. The reality is that many of these girls have been getting raped since they were little children, and now they're abused filthy geriatrics who succeeded only in being born in a rich country.
I don't think you and he are in disagreement. Obviously you should do what will give your business an advantage. He is just saying that it is easy to think that certain new technologies will give you an advantage, but then realize later that what they cost you in bugs/complexity/maintainability etc. make it not worth it for the business. So it's usually better to go with tech that is tried and tested rather than always reaching for the latest new thing.
I think this coupled with their acquisition of c9.io is beginning to look like a real "cloud killer app".

My vision for AWS is being able to login to AWS and see c9 with one click deploy and configuration.

I'm patiently awaiting for this. It was one thing that really woke me up to Azure with their wizard form directly from Visual Studio. After AWS reinvent 2016, the Azurphoria wore off and I was an AWS fanboy once more. Having the ability to edit/deploy inside my browser would be a huge tide turning moment.
Cookie containers are a feature that I really like a lot. The problem is the UX for them is terrible. There are no keybinds and they only show up in one place in the interface. I wanted to add keybinds but I found this very difficult.
Another feature it is lacking straight out the gate is being able to read things like "Pick up milk tomorrow at 3 pm" and then automatically set the due date for tomorrow at 3 pm. (Even Wunderlist did that.) It is definitely an early stages product. Unless it comes out with some incredible feature, I'm sticking to Todoist.
But if you would like to be taken seriously

I'm not sure this is. And if it really bothers (the collective) you that badly:

git clone && rm README.md

There is nothing wrong with wanting something to stay just "in".

The relative tone of this thread and its popularity has me convinced that many are willing to change their culture to match random demands regardless of the objective merit of those demands. Hell, without even critically examining the merit of those demands.

"This language is alienating!"

Says who? And why? Why is this a statement to be taken at pure face value by someone who isn't even claiming to be offended?

I find that lack of principled objection to be horridly offensive, but that's just me.
I don't think it is a cloud IDE since it asks you to choose between Visual Studio/Eclipse/Command-line to edit code?

It seems to just be something that makes it easier to get started with AWS. A bit like how you can choose Azure when creating new projects in Visual Studio, which will take care of Azure-related boilerplate
Which does the exact kind of shallow equality checks I was just describing :) The point is that for shallow equality checks to work properly, you do have to handle data immutably - such as using `someArray.concat(item)` instead of `someArray.push(item)`, because otherwise passing in the same references is interpreted as "nothing as changed".
The unsettling part is most customers don't seem to mind.

A lot of consumers don't even know, as we see here.

Those who do know often don't understand the full implications.

The state of privacy and security in modern cars is particularly disturbing, as you say, and really needs a blunt, in-your-face public information campaign and preferably statutory regulation. But that would require the relevant governments to understand the dangers themselves, and I don't think most politicians are any better at knowing and understanding these things than anyone else.
What? Who demanded changes?
alienating language

By what definition created by who?
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Looks like they're still working out some kinks. Getting a nice 500 error from the management console.
Malheur County, Oregon has a population of about 30K people in 25,610 km2. It is very rural but still needs good journalism about local events and politics.
So...Spinnaker except with vendor lock in.
Render does not mean render to the dom, render means render the virtual dom. Rendering the virtual dom still has a cost, so this lib is just lett you know there are situations you can avoid. You can tell React to avoid the render if you'd like

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/react-component.html#s...
* Solving your problem first > Solving the worlds problems

Any chance you could expand a bit on this one?
"He was lining things up, switching lights on and off"

That's Autism right there.

I guess that depends on what you read into it?