skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm basically obligated to reply to a long long list of mudslinging and disfavorment on your part here- section by section:

1. You randomly talk about BaseX ad nauseum but brely mention what I was actually critical of- it's advantages vs base64. I still have no clean picture why not base64, like everyone else, which would serve the exact same needs.

2. You just finish talking about compression then slam me for mentioning compression as a relevant factor.

3. You criticize deser speed as not important, say decryption will dominate. But while the message format may be competing with PGP it's inner payload is msgpack and I expect inside the firewall systems to have canonical text as msgpack, and performance is relevant. But I didn't initially grok that msgpack is the inner payload, that the BaseX text is the normal messaging format.

4. You try to pull some technical distinction nonsense about msgpack being just a messaging format by talking about how competitors also have other stuff too, while also being a message format. I find this distinction in bad faith and believe most techs could reasonably see there is way more overlap than differences. Your advantage ends up rather accurately being "msgpcka has fewer features" and chalk up the advantage as some nebulous political one, while ignoring the fact that Thrift is owned by the most reliable open source org on the planet Apache whereas Msgpack is just some rando project.

5. You obviously don't know what Salmon is for. Your decision to focus on some apparently unrelated technical things that it corresponds with ignores that it is a (XML)signing format for arbitrary content. HTTP and HTML have no bearing on what Salmon Digital Signing Protocol is, yet you harp on them to draw a false contrast, and as usual you refuse to acknowledge that there could be some bearing or relationship that I had validly called out.

I'd like to better understand some of your valid points, but some of your arguments seem done in very bad faith and there to argue rather than explain or demonstrate. I have a hard time understanding how I can start to reconcile our two point of views with what you have written.
Hey, Jan here together with Lee from the Relay team. Happy to answer your questions.
Facebook launches the VR application from Mark Zuckerberg's keynote
OSMand has the worst UX I have ever experienced. Hands down.

Personally I use Gaia GPS and Pocket Earth for hiking/nature.
I find the whole claim that people, who are otherwise hard-working people, doing whatever it is they're doing to make a lot of money (running a business, lawyering, doctoring, whatever), are going to look at an increased tax rate and just stop doing whatever they're doing. That doesn't make sense to me, from every business owner, lawyer, and doctor I've ever known.

No one would say anything even remotely like, "well, my practice is going well, I saw 20 patients today, oh what rewarding work, but what with these taxes I'll just stay home".

Every single wealthy person I've ever known, their motivation has been the thing they do first, the money a distant second. Maybe I just know pretty decent wealthy people, I dunno.
Theranos Agrees to Pay $4.65M in Arizona Refunds
I'm excited for relay's new core api to be released, as well.
Do you have an Android or iPhone and did you get a new phone of the same type? If they were tied to your account on your previous phone (such as your google account) it is possible your ex had set it up before and you never noticed and when you installed the app again your old settings were kept, which included all of the information your ex entered.
Is there any sci-fi book out there that describes something similar? Since we have no clue on what this is I'd be interested in reading far-fetched theories.
Boeing also did a near-vertical take off in the 787 during their initial tests (and a few times after at air shows) This video [1] from a past Paris air show, shows a 787 ready for a delivery to Vietnam Airlines doing a very aggressive & short (but not vertical take off). Pretty ballsy to do such a thing in such an expensive jet that's on its way to delivery to a client.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_8D8HCnS4
I think "human beings vary much more within our 'races' than we do between them" is a disingenuous way of describing the relationship between genetics and race.

"So, although there might be
little variation among groups, it is highly structured
and therefore useful for distinguishing groups and
allocating individuals into groups" -- from the first article. In other words, statistical description of variance within groups is greater than that between groups, but it is still possible to distinguish between many racial groups genetically.

Another part of the article points out that even with the US census' very coarsly drawn racial distinctions, it is more likely that individually are found to be more similar to individuals of the same race as opposed to those of different races.
In summary, absolutely nobody thinks about your startup or product as much as you do.

You need to pitch at their level, not your own.
Shower curtains are often terrible. My periodic table shower curtain is a jarringly awful mixture of Arial and Helvetica: http://fanf.livejournal.com/147327.html
Could it be called a war if non-social animals are waging it?
It's all superimposed economic cycles. It was the same with the rise and fall of all empires: Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, the British Empire, the USSR, the EU etc. Most of them ended in wars/revolutions because those that amassed power and territories would not give it up peacefully when a disruptive event occured (drought, famine, plague usually followed by economic crisis) and public unrest spiked. Other empires and/or outside invaders usually finished things up.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Am I the only one who checks the emails every 1 minute?
Erlang Battleground: About Maps, Lists and Commas
Huh? For an editor in the browser you don't send every keystroke and paint update over the network. The UI is effectively local, you would only need to send regular network updates for 'autosave', and it wouldn't be to keystroke granularity.
> We seem to know very different people

It's all relative.

> Look at the military for a good example of a non-market structure that has a tight feedback loop and, generally, does very well outside of the market system.

The military has some meritocratic elements, but then again it's hugely wasteful: http://fortune.com/2015/08/14/f-35-joint-strike-fighter/

> The government may lack some features of the market that doesn't mean that it cannot be as accountable

And how are the accountability mechanisms going to be implemented? Obviously the vote doesn't work. Data might be slightly helpful, but people don't vote based on data. Look at this Trump election. It was hardly a data driven result. Really the main problem is that voters aren't very accountable for their decisions. Voting is just a tribal team sport thing.
Show HN: Python library with Matlab-like functions for creating JavaScript plots
Correct, minikube emulates a cluster via virtual machines for local development. It's a hack.
What's ludicrous about it?

Especially since it's not just "someone posting pictures of themselves in a van", but promoting a certain untenable lifestyle, helping to sell more crap to people, faking experiences, and a whole lot more besides.
Got invite just now, they started sending invites.
From india.
Sorry, it wasn't entirely clear to me from the article. Is React Fiber going to be a completely new project, or is it just a name for the new release? It seems like the latter to me since there's no API changes...
> "Relay Modern is designed from the start to support garbage collection — that is, cache eviction — in which GraphQL data that is no longer used by any views can be removed from the cache"

Could we go ahead and implement proper caching as HTTP would do: expiration date per field/models, then eviction based on expiration dates? With an optional max cache size using LIFO, last used or the current model.

That way we don't need to refetch data if the API is set up to cache. It's sort of frustrating that staleness is just defacto ignored by UI right now.
This is a library that provides access to Matlab-like plotting functions for easily creating javascript plots from within Python.

No need to deal with HTML, Javascript, or CSS to get some plots with multiple linestyles, colors, markers, and labels. Just plain Python code and a simple plotting syntax. The currently supported Javascript plotting libraries are Flot and NVD3 (which is a wrapper around D3).

One use case for this library is to have Python scripts running automatically and updating websites that serve Javascript plots to visitors.

For example, we used this library to create and update the plots on prespredict.com. During US presidential election seasons, a cron job calls the plotting script daily, which automatically updates the plots on the website with data from the latest polls.

The resulting scripts may not be "Pythonic" enough, but I was aiming for the simplicity of creating plots that Matlab has.
Showing a window is in the same ballpark, but being ready for input is something else. On Sublime this is basically the same instant. On VSC and Atom it takes a bit longer to actually render a cursor.
I think your challenge is to be objective about your co-founder since they're your good friend. From the outside looking in, it sounds like the equity split needs to reflect the amount of risk you're both taking on. You're full-time, they're part time. The words: "financial obligations", "but", "committed", "after" all create a lot of doubt and uncertainty in my mind. The percentage is something both of you will need to work out but I definitely think you should have the majority share, at least initially. If something changes then both of you could reevaluate later. Perhaps you could put something in the contract that would incentivize your co-founder to join full-time in exchange for more equity.
> The time for fixing Social Security with "minor tweaks" has passed, the problem moving forward is Demographics

Eh, if it makes it past the Boomers (which it does in the low-cost estimate in recent trustees reports, but not in the intermediate- or high-cost estimates; so risky-but-plausible with no intervention, certainly achievable with minor tweaks) it's fine, demographically, for the foreseeable future; Gen X is a demographic trough, and the Millennial generation is a gentler boom than the Boomers.
Syntactic Diabetes
Bypass for Windows 7 Update lock on Kaby Lake processors found
I'd like to check checksums for my data, but it's still too expensive to do regularly. Can you provide an api for doing it on your side?
It's a rewrite of the internals, particularly the diffing/reconciliation algorithm. React Fiber involves effectively re-implementing the JS call stack using a data structure called "fibers" to track work that needs to be done.
Thank you for sharing Raph Koster's talk. It gave me a lot to think about that I never really thought about before. I have a feeling this Spaces tech doesn't include a whole lot of what he's advocating for, and it probably should.
> "Why not stay in Albuquerque then?"

Couldn't find the tech talent there.

> "which has a top-ranked Computer Science program"

You do realize this was 40 years ago and as I had already pointed out, things change?

Those that have watched the Arthur C. Clark & Stanley Kubrick movie, "2001 A Space Odyssey" know that HAL was created in Urbana, Illinois, home of the Univ of Illinois which is one of the top engineering and computer science schools.

If you examine the chart near the end of this article, you can see that U. Illinois receives $170 million per year in CS NSF funds. #2 Cornell is < $120 million.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-06/want-a-jo...

As for the business decision of Gates/Allen to locate Microsoft in Seattle so as not to be in the competitive market for talent of SV, I saw it from a reliable source (perhaps something Gates himself said).

Disclosure: I grew up in Urbana (my h.s. is across the street from the U of I CS building) and I programmed for faculty on their supercomputers beginning when I was 15.
live conversation: https://t.me/yc_summer_2017

for all those who click the button every single minute :D
The Flickr Explore page is still really amazing
Facebook launches beta of Spaces, its goofy and fun social VR platform
How We Got 10M Teens to Read Fiction on Their Phones
Not sure what you mean that running Elasticsearch requires compute. I'm talking about the snapshot/restore functionality in Elasticsearch. We use it mostly for backups. As far as I can tell, it should be quite possible to implement a B2 plugin for that (Azure, GCS, HDFS, and S3 are available currently).
Lisbeth Salander (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) Returns in a New Book
> We have been trying very hard for centuries to contact any kind of afterlife, spirits or gods, and failed.

I'd suppose you haven't tried spending time with people who do practice and do this, do you?

> Even if we cannot perfectly rule it out in principal we can rule out anything we have conceived and tested thus far.

Simply put, you can't. "Absence of proof" does not equal "proof of absence".

> That and Ouija boards are made by Parker Bros [1]. Unless you believe that a group of people with a reliable channel to the afterlife chose to keep making Scrabble and Monopoly games with their super powers, then we really should just discount it as an obvious money grab, because it is.

Not at all. The Ouigi boards are just a tool. There's usually nothing in them that would be manifest to a specific entity or emotion. Not even that, but they are made by machine, so there would be very likely no emotion in contact with them.

Since you seem unlearned in this area, divination can use any sort of tools. Tarot, pendulum, sand, tea, coffee grounds, bones, compass (luao-pen), ruler, entrails, fire, water.. Any of these can be learned and used. Or some are versed in doing divination using no instruments at all - although even in the occult and esoteric areas, this is considered very difficult.

And then it comes full circle with religion. These are religious practices. If you're thinking of Miss Cleo, you're further from the truth. Those are advertisement services ; whereas what I talk of are honestly held beliefs. And when understood from the occult mindset, do give valid answers.

It's one area where I work in regularly, is divination. Sometimes, it doesn't work. In that case, I say as such. Usually, it does.
I would argue that deferred consumption and reinvestment would help further, but still not necessarily enough.

Jumping into the article that I linked, the author was missing a critical chain of thought: that currently in the United States, the path to an "upward mobile" job generally follows these lines:

1. Get good grades in high school
2. Score high on the SAT (which has to be practiced), then get lots of help writing your college essay
3. Pick an area of study that corresponds with a well-paying occupation, and then get into a college that is solid in that department
4. Leverage the career and alumni network to find a well-paying job, or apply to business/law/medical school.

At each step, you have to prioritize how you spend your limited time and energy. I grew up with parents who understood this point and focused my energy into each step when it was time to do so, so I was very lucky in that sense. I also worked my ass off, but steps 1 through 3 were very much helped along by parental guidance.
Firstly it wasn't their only campaign promise. Secondly they didn't win so had no mandate. Thirdly it was a coalition and the Tories had a slightly stronger mandate. Finally they had to compromise on some things to achieve other arguably more important goals. This is how politics works. If you don't get this then I don't know what to tell you.
According to this if our universe is a simulation, humanity will eventually become skynet for our creators...
Importantly updates are not handled by LinuxKit itself[1] but the concept is that that a higher level system or packager might take care of via CloudFormation and an out-of-band re-provisioning method.

This was an explicit omission, at least for now. We left update out of scope because it's better handled by the infrastructure provisioning system (in our case, infrakit). We'll use infrakit to supply updates (and the dm-verity hash, for that matter). Thus we treat infrastructure provisioning system as the trusted 'bootloader' for a cluster of machines. Most datacenter clusters end up having an infrastructure provisioning system, so it makes more sense for those systems to have the OS update responsibility. This ends up meaning less attack surface on the host itself, and serves as a good separation of concerns and least privilege design.
The laws are byzantine, and often vague. Eligibility decisions have significant effects on people's lives.

For comparison, there are 665k certified practicing accountants in the US.
What the hell..
I have all those. They're just not integrated into my editor. I use vim; it is my editor, but not my development environment. Unix is my development environment.
Congrats! Go and kill it at the interview.
My take-away is that this is a very 'raw' deployment. i.e. Hopefully they maintain and change this to something much more informative and authoritative over time.
Congratulations good job!!
But if all of that is true, the model doesn't change the equation. The problems you outline need to be addressed upstream. Trying to account for and correct them at the point of sentencing is very problematic.
See my comment above. I recall Gates or other reliable source stating this information and it made sense, because for me, Seattle is boring, boring.
congrats!!!
Thanks for the reference, this is indeed all about it. The solutions mentioned are unnatural patches to the respective shortcomings of FP and OOP. It's ok to patch corner cases to complete the last 15% of a job for which the tool was a perfect fit for the first 85%, however the first patch should be to use the right tool for the right job.

The functional and strongly typed value proposition of FP is very appealing on paper but only shines when you have a level of certainty and knowledge on requirements that you typically do not have in real world software development. OOP by design embraces this uncertainty (but as a trade off is less assertive on correctness than FP).

That being said, certain businesses do not have a high level of uncertainty in their developments while correctness is a big deal for them (banks, scientific researchers, etc...). It makes sense for them to reinvest this slack in correctness. However, for those iterating consumer facing products (which represents the majority of developments), OOP modelling usually is the way to go. Because of the expression problem (which should probably be called the expression dilemma to better highlight the fact that the assessment should be continuous and situational rather than ideological and/or philosophical)
They could, but they chose not to. Maybe they know something about their organization that you don't. Either way, nothing is stopping anyone from writing a cross platform editor that you describe! If it's really so easy you should team up with all the people who show up to complain about electron in these threads. Until you or someone else makes an editor as good as Atom or VSCode I'll keep going to them as my first choice of text editor.
Maybe I'm odd, but I've always felt like I learn better from a well organized reference book than most textbooks. In particular for programming languages or hardware references, it's like having a map to the entire area, instead of a textbook trying to walk someone down a path, maybe too fast, or too slow.
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According to comments, it was nowhere near vertical, which is why they didn't show it from a side angle. Apparently indicator light goes off at 30 degrees, indicating imminent engine stall.
There's lots of simple things to do to address Social Security's budget, including modest raises in retirement age, means-testing benefits, and changing the way we collect FICA taxes (FICA is itself a flat tax, which is kind of silly, and the withholding cap is a travesty).
The idea of using a language with multimethods/multiple dispatch/protocols as the base for extensible collections was further explored in Dylan, which was kind of a Scheme + CLOS:

http://lispm.de/docs/prefix-dylan/book.annotated/ch12.html

Apple Computer, 1992
> As an American citizen, I'm still subject to federal income tax, even on income earned while I'm residing outside the country, for work done entirely outside the country, for a non-American employer.

This is a really unusual part of the US tax code.
>ad revenue is the only way to directly capitalize on your popularity among those people.

Are these people clicking ads, though? I doubt it. And if not, you aren't monetizing them directly via that method, either.
I don't see how those factors are relevant at all, regardless of the race of the criminal. The problem to address is the lack of transparency. Trying to guess what inputs are being factored in is pointless.
Why do you assume they should care? They clearly have a different value system than yours. If you don't like it, don't go.
It's also the case that (most) boomers benefit from a lower retirement age than subsequent generations, so getting clear of them reduces pressure on the system for other reasons.
You might find this book useful:

https://www.amazon.com/What-Your-One-Sentence-Attention/dp/0...

I'm part-way through it and have found the advice valuable so far. I don't think there's a "cookie cutter" formula, but there are exercises and things you can do to help you distill a pitch down to one sentence.
What's wrong with social democracy? Socialism is basically confirmed to be invalid now.
You misread many things in my comment. Go through each of your points here and re-read what I said.

1. The 2001 was recession was minuscule to the 2008/09 one.

2. I never once said the recession "started" during his administration, I said the recession was during, that's it. Big difference.

3-4. The entire point was that the majority of the increases between the years of 2000-2010 were most likely between 2008-2010. I never made any correlation that increases in benefits were a cause of the recession. I said "despite why it happened" to basically say I'm not talking about or blaming anyone for the reasons of why it happened, just the actions that were taken after it.