skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article mostly talks about religions in terms of culture- customs and ritual practice and instilling traditional values-

But I think there's also in a more positive sense that the government recognizes that there is a lack of values in society - that people don't believe in anything and there's a great uncertainty in society, a national malaise. And they also recognize that most people really don't believe in communism anymore. So they look at the traditional faiths as a way of instilling some kind of morality, basic principles for good living and that sort of thing.

- as opposed to supernatural beliefs. The discussion thread should likewise focus on the social role that religion fulfills in terms of culture and public morality, because that was the emphasis of the article. Commentators are too easily jumping to the lightning rod of the validity of religious claims, ignoring other aspects that organized religion plays.
>>If you want to debate capitalism vs. communism in the glory of full generality, this is not the website you're looking for.

I respectfully urge you to confine the justification for your action to the comment itself, rather than making it personal.
Leaving coastal California is a 'no-brainer' for some as housing costs rise
Let's be honest, Gopher was not that bad, and the Web is quite bad. That said, I'm not sure whether the Web can be replaced with something more desirable; a lot of folks like the Web's inability to protect folks from each other.
> Ruby is more useful for scripts because libraries can be installed and used at the system level

There's no reason Elixir can't do this. Or rather, for interactive scripting under iex(1) without a project scope, there's nothing stopping someone from adding a feature that

1. assumes some default project scope (e.g. "~/.mix/default"), and

2. allows you—even from within the REPL!—to add a dependency to "~/.mix/default/mix.exs", re-run the dependency constraint solver, and (if successful) compile + reload the Mix project, or (if failed) back out the mix.exs change.

On the other side, for the use-case of "scripts as standalone redistributable binaries", I prefer Elixir's philosophy of "everything is vendored, always"—the [redistributable form of the] script just has all its deps inside it, much like SPA Javascript apps do.

It's indeed true, though, that you can't achieve a hybrid of these use-cases: have your own personal set of IEx libraries loaded and able to be used to probe and debug within an existing Mix project that contains its own set of libraries, where these libraries' dep specifications—if combined in a single Mixfile—wouldn't constraint-solve. That is an annoying problem that I run into quite often, especially because Elixir doesn't ship with many tools I'd like to use during debugging, like a JSON library, and I end up having to alter the project's own Mixfile to add these deps, rather than just "bringing in" my own.

At root, that problem is a semi-architectural problem with the Erlang VM: modules are indexed by [fully qualified] name, so—unlike in Javascript—you can't have "handles to" two modules with the same name. (But, actually, there's nothing about the design of Erlang or Elixir that requires the Erlang VM to work that way; it could be fixed, if people thought it'd be helpful.)
Nor does investing pointlessly or burning the money.

Nothing is a sure fix for tanking businesses.

Yahoo didn't do anything to help themselves, there's nothing innovative or useful about them. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram is what is draining the life away from Yahoo.
R and Python cheatsheets
The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist are all behind partial or full pay-walls.

I'm not sure that a subscription is outdated. It still makes sense for a bunch of editors to make a selection of what is news-worthy in their opinion. Leaving it to algorithms to tailor your newsfeed to your exact tastes risks leading to a feedback loop of reinforcing biases. I like The Economist, once a week, the most important news and a bit more in-depth than most newspapers. Their Espresso app seems interesting, but I haven't tried it yet.

I don't know if you can fund good investigative journalism with micro-payments. Maybe we haven't seen it yet because there is no good system for micro-payments, but maybe the market just isn't there...

My biggest beef with all those newspapers is that they never rethought their product when they went digital. It's just the same content as the print edition, only on a screen. It would be relatively easy to link to sources and more in-depth data supporting the main article, but you hardly ever see that. It's all boiled down to a few simple graphics and tables.
$246B is more than a "rainy day" fund. Unless they are planning to buy Disney or a small country, they should return some of that money to their shareholders.

They could pay out half of their fund and still make do with $123B in the bank.
Something I was struck by when reading the Dark Forest trilogy (at least the first two books, as that's all I've finished), is how alien the thinking sometimes comes across as. As my first exposure to Chinese fiction, it was somewhat eye opening. Not just in a different thought process from a different culture, but in how they attribute motives and thoughts to characters from more "western" societies.

Oh, it's also amazingly good science fiction. :)
Why isn't that still a concern?
Do you have any specific reading material on this? I'd be interested in researching that a bit.
The Computer as a Communication Device

J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor

http://memex.org/licklider.pdf
but would they even sell? why would they agree to sell the company?

cool idea though
I said "mostly worked" across that broad list, relative to the competition in the same space.

Summarizing that as me saying
"just worked" for everything isn't really fair.
Apple Is reportedly planning to bid for Toshiba semiconductor business unit. Perhaps they would also want to control critical parts of their supply chain. They can use this cash to acquire foreign companies. I do not expect them to bring this cash back to USA without a major tax break. Perhaps that is what they are waiting for.
The author made a small mistake in this article which may be worth pointing out: -fno-rtti does not disable the generation of vtables (which would break virtual method dispatch) but only runtime type information. The two are connected in that RTTI is generally stored with an object's vtable, so objects with no virtual methods don't get it. The alternative would be to include a pointer to type information in all objects without a vtable, but the amount of memory this would require would be substantial, and it would break expectations about the size and memory layout of "plain old data" structs.
Where are the money they made in the US then?
Yes exactly, they just barely work for the examples shown them. It is caused by the training set, the network structure, and the metric which are all intertwined.

The design of the network is a direct consequence of the dataset+metric because researchers focus on accuracy scores against the test data. Given a better dataset and metric, researchers will solve it with a better network design. I guarantee it.
To see Buddhism as a full blown religion ( and very aggressive at that) visit Burma or Sri Lanka
https://github.com/WhatsNewSaes/Skeleton-Less/blob/master/le...

Give that a try. I used that and broke it into modules for a website redesign I'm working on. It's going quite well. I love using skeleton as the starting point for projects rather than picking some css framework to build on top of.
Because Apple's secret sauce is great UX by vertical integration of hardware/software. Although a car is a much bigger challenge, it is one of the few markets that can move the needle for them. Apple has always placed strategic bets on the future, and now that they are currently the most valuable company in the world by a significant margin there's no better time.

The Twitter case is quite different; it's not as if Apple is going to turn the iPhone or Mac into a car. The problem with Twitter was that the original product vision was never coalesced and realized properly. Twitter in some ways is a beautiful thing that Apple, Microsoft or Facebook could never produce, but for whatever reason that was not good enough for stakeholders and they reached beyond their grasp.
I know they are designed to resist hacking but in practice I bet its possible. We don't know what kinds of counter measures the russians or chinese or even north koreans have figured out over 50 years. There are the recent articles about how we subverted n.k. missile launches, someone could do the same to us.

Based on the long history in the cold war of things like the moon looking like a big missile launches and both sides believeing the other side might try a pre-emptive strike, I think its far more likely for hacking and related confusion to cause a war.
I agree with you completely and suspect there is no evidence to corroborate the claim. I thought I would ask though.
I have a list on a (largely unfinished) site I'm working on here: https://www.lightentheweb.com/libraries/
I expect if a bill passes significantly lowering the tax rate on repatriated profits that Apple will pay a large one time dividend to shareholders.

But until then those profits are trapped overseas. Apple can borrow against them to pay dividends, but that only goes so far.
Flash was much better than Electron. The Macromedia Flash run-time was modest in size. Originally it was under 1MB. It wasn't intended as a container system for video; it just had the ability to use video as an animation object. It had a good approach for displaying animations, and could start playing well before the entire file was loaded. Electron is bloatware by comparison, and it's mostly a kluge on top of the DOM.

Here's a good Flash animation. Fits in 1.9MB.[1] Enjoy. Flash had excellent authoring tools aimed at animators. Try doing that in Electron. Electron is from people who are still stuck at the command line and try to do graphics by writing code.

[1] http://vitenka.com/users/ChanCats/penelope_pitstop_gt.swf
Invest in R&D you fools! Make a laptop to appease power users, many of whom work for you! Capture our imagination instead of kowtowing to mainstream desire for each product design!
That's been Apple since the beginning. They always incrementally improve their stuff. They've never the first to invent and they're always late.

> If you have that much money, it means you didn't "take greater risks and suffer through multiple failures" in the years preceding.

So Apple Watch? Is that a success or failure?

The $3 billion+ purchase of Beats? That everyone said was going to be a waste of money?

AirPods?

Mac Pro redesign was a failure.

The car business that could easily burn through several tens of billions?

There's nothing truly innovative about Apple that no one can replicate but Apple is lucky lately with more people buying more of their stuff like 20m Apple Music subs, popular AirPods, Apple Watch, etc.
I've read somewhere that this is somewhat unprecedented in the history of economics. Traditionally hoarding cash was frowned upon by investors and the stock prices of companies with large cash reserves traded at a discount. That negative discount by the stock market appears to have vanished but nobody is sure why. Maybe it's regarded as an insurance against technological disruptions. In such a case companies like Apple could quickly acquire new competitors.
From the linked article: "Braeburn is a variety of apple that is simultaneously sweet and tart."
The idea was that they would borrow enough money to buy a majority of Apple's stock, and then repay the loan with the cash reserves. For that to work, the cash reserves must be close to half the value of the company.

Since Apple's market cap is now $790B, half the value is $370B, which means that even with the cash reserves, they'd be $123B short of being able to repay, and they'd need it available on day one to execute the hostile takeover. And like they say, $100B here, $100B there, soon you're talking real money.
What makes you think they haven't already hired lobbyists for this?
Despite Something Awful's notoriety for shitposting as noted in this article, the Let's Play forum (the concept of which was incidentally pioneered by SA) is the highest-quality forum on the internet for video game playthroughs, due in part to the registration paywall, chronological ordering of posts, and very heavy moderation.

I do think the older BBS architecture could still work in the 2017 for new discussion forums (e.g. Discourse), although it likely would not be very appealing to venture capitalists who want to see explosive growth metrics.
Both of those are gorgeous. Mini.css, not so much. I mean, Mini is fine...better than I could do. But, when I visit, I feel neutral about it. I can't imagine it improving my projects just by including it. And, the example of Mini customization (http://codepen.io/chalarangelo/pen/YNKYgz) is downright ugly.

I use CSS frameworks (mostly Bootstrap) because I suck at design. I need a hand up, and a good framework provides it. Customization is necessary, but not all that's necessary.
I gave up ~35 slides in.

The app wants to notify you to give you updates on flights. It's a handy feature. I've received Delta notifications 5-10 minutes before it's announced at the gates.

The "Favorite" prefilled locations are United's two major hubs. A significant amount of their travelers start out or end up at those two locations, so it is saving a lot of users time.

The location and notification messages they complain about are Apple's messages. United I'm sure would want to say something more informative.

This review is apparently based on a 10 year old's understanding of traveling and tech.
Wow that site feels slugish on a Core i7 + GTX 970 with 16 gigs of RAM.
The amount of money involved in an Apple takeover now would be beyond enormous. Even assuming they paid no premium on the current share price whatsoever, which is rather unlikely, they would have to stump up $500 billion or so. I strongly suspect it would be the largest such deal ever made though I'm too lazy to look it up.
Yea, that's why they're still selling more MBP than before and their R&D are increasing by billions every year.

Sorry, power users are very small # of users. Making a laptop to appease power users will do very little to the bottom line.
"They" (as in the majority of the shareholders holding voting shares) would probably have been more than willing for a sufficient premium over the share price. Unless insiders have majority control, hostile takeovers do happen. (Though they're less common than they were for a variety of reasons.)
We actually already had "Flash for the desktop". It was called Adobe Flex (originally Macromedia Flex, and today Apache Flex), and it was... not half bad, actually.

It was based on Adobe AIR, a cross-platform VM that used ActionScript as the language, which at the time looked a lot like what ES2015 is today -- Adobe basically tried to make ActionScript the same as "ES 4.0", an effort to add classes, properties and private/public visibility to JavaScript that was eventually abandoned in favour of smaller improvements in what became ES5, then ES2015. Flex/AIR had a pretty rich UI framework with semi-native widgets and access to the OS.

It was unfortunately heavily based on declaring your UI with XML, and apps tended to look like "AIR apps", much like Swing apps look a bit off and non-native.
Who cares what investors will do?

I guarantee if iPhone sales plateau every shareholder who dumps their share will be replaced by a new shareholder. Value investors love nothing more than predictable cash generating businesses with low capital requirements.

No tree can grow to heaven and the growth potential for the most profitable business on earth is equally limited. There are investors for zero profit growth "stories" and investors for proven businesses with tremendous moats.
Customer Churn – Logistic Regression with R
This is pretty much spot-on. One thing, though, it's rental cars; that is, it doesn't cover trucks.

Got burnt by that last summer when I wrecked a rented truck (on my AmEx Platinum) on vacation for the girlfriend's birthday. :/
Is software development really a dead-end job after 35-40?
Why Open Source Software / Free Software? Look at the Numbers (2015)
> A cash horde isn't very helpful if your business is tanking. It prolongs the pain but doesn't fix anything. Ask Yahoo.

I was (in hindsight, correctly) skeptical of MM and her gang's effort to pull more eyeballs into Y! with things like Tumblr and in smaller extent bringing in people like Katie Couric and David Pogue. Personally, I don't know what Yahoo! is and that makes me hard to tell whether they're doing the right thing at all. As much as we love to hate MM, I don't know if any of us could do any better.

Apple, I sort of get what they are. They are a hardware company that (at least presently) sells phones for $800 that has a bill of materials of about $250. They can use the rest of the margin to make the phone as appealing to consumers as possible. Everything else is a side show. (sorry mac fans) Now where does Apple go from here?

I think about the narrative in the iPhone ten year anniversary podcast (listened to it because it was on the front page of HN so thanks to whoever submitted it) that Apple had to cannibalize its iPod business and started thinking about at least two years before the iPhone was released.

Unpopular opinion but I think it is unlikely that Apple will get the next big thing right. I don't think self-driving cars will not be a high margin business. Yes, I want electric cars and self-driving cars to become mainstream because I want one for myself. There's no way I will buy a $60k+ car in the next five years. But I digress.

Like what I read from what GP said, I think Apple will likely fail not once but multiple times. It is easy to forget the bad old days:

> Since then there has been a lot of noise and shouting, but little has changed. The smaller dealership continues to sell sleek Euro-styled sedans and to spend a lot of money on advertising campaigns. They have had GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! signs taped up in their windows for so long that they have gotten all yellow and curly. The big one keeps making bigger and bigger station wagons and ORVs.

from in the beginning was the command line by neal stephenson http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html
Yeah, they sure look like they can't decide what to do with their riches. It's sad. Put money toward self driving car tech if you wish, you have so much to waste. But where are your awesome next gen laptops, why nothing like a chromebook, why their disasterous desktop machines (the coffee warmer form factor, what where they thinking). The apple watch.

The majority of professional devs use apple laptops because they are a great selection of tools and nice ui with unix tools. They can't build off that?
Mix tasks are what you're looking for. You put them inside your application (we have them in /appa/your_app /lib/mix/tasks), define a run/1 function that takes in args, say "use Mix.Task", then you can make sure that things like Ecto are loaded and interact with your program's major entities, or use Poison or whatever it is that you care to do.
Great idea. Are you using WebKit's WebView?

I'm guessing no Node or any other API to interact with the OS (file system, etc), right?
In case you don't know, W3css is much lighter than this. And it is a complete css framework with no javascript required.

W3CSS 6.7KB (gzip)! Beat that.
https://www.w3schools.com/lib/w3.css
I was always confused that it's not an apple of Scottish origin - "Brae" is scots for "hill", and "burn" is scots for "little river"
Nop, but if you want to be fair jQuery's addClass is also not implemented in those 29 lines of code, it also uses these: each, jQuery.isFunction, getClass and stripAndCollapse.

Umbrella's single eacharg() uses in exchange .each() (which is public-facing, so it really doesn't count) and .args(), which is private but used in MANY places through the code. At 11 lines for args(), I'd say proportionally it'd be 1-3 lines corresponding to addClass. So worst-case scenario it'd be the equivalent to 8 lines exclusive for a much more flexible function with no internal dependencies which is still alot less than jQuery's 29 lines with 3 internal dependencies and 1 external.

* I wrongly counted spaces in jQuery's function while I didn't in Umbrella

Edit: the magic for the size of Umbrella JS is really through heavy code reuse and modern API usage. For this example, el.classList.add(name);
No, D is a separate language. A bit too much. Ideally you will be able to move between a version of the language or another at Class level to alllow a incremental migration of the code that must be "modernized".
You can't acquire Elon Musk. First, he's not going to be happy losing his independence. Second, to buy Tesla you can't just pay todays absurdly high price, you have to pay so much higher to convince virtually all of the non-Musk shareholders to vote for your offer.

And if you "win" that auction, Elon will probably just devote even more of his time and energy to SpaceX.
Part of me wants to rebut your points, but the tone is a bit of a bummer. Life's too short.
At this point are they safe from that with a market cap of 740.02B? What financial institutions have access to that kind of leverage?
.. in the US. Probably paid out in dividends and salaries.
You mean like Apple Pay or Samsung Pay? I don't think those have been all that successful.
Atheism is not dogma, correct. But communist systems tend to employ an evangelical version of atheism that seeks to supplant traditional religions. So perhaps the more accurate word should be "anti-theism", not atheism, which is a much more generic term.
Public listed companies have little choice about who they sell to. That's part of being public.
So, like IntelliJ? We should port IntelliJ to Electron?
I would much rather see a native to JS bridge completely decoupled from React.
There was an article that claimed Apple bought so many aluminum milling machines at one point that it was almost impossible for competitors to get their own to make aluminum cases in any volumes. That's years ago and possibly apocryphal, but Apple does have some some big economies of scale in certain key points of manufacturing their products. They tried to do same in Sapphire but that one didn't work out.
I didn't say atheism itself is a dogma. Rather, the Chinese government (an authoritative body) has dogmatized the atheist worldview by requiring that it be held as incontrovertibly true.

This isn't "wordsmithing", it's a dictionary-perfect example of what dogma is. I think a lot of folks recoil at the idea of atheist dogma because of the history of Christianity-as-law in Europe, especially medieval Europe. But this shouldn't be taken to mean that positive religious beliefs are the only possible beliefs that can be held as dogma.
The app sucks, but apparently the critique is from someone who has never flown before.
Collectively at work, we've abandoned the use of import, except when importing DSLs (e.g. Ecto) in favor of explicit function calls or alias. If we do need to use import, we use explicit "import Ecto.Query, only: [from: 2]", so that it's clear where a function is coming from into the namespace. Relatedly, unless otherwise necessary, __using__ macros through our code do not import modules, because it's surprising when something is in scope for no real reason. We often inline the third party __using__ macros to eliminate this.
this is an article from Jan 31st!
There is occasional talk of a tax amnesty that would bring the money back.
With that kind of cash, would it make sense to start a bank?
If BotW is the only game that ever comes out for the Switch, I'd still be satisfied with the purchase.