skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Faster? Probably. Faster at making mistakes, certainly. More talented? Absolutely not. That's the myopia of SV's cult of youth.

We're all running the same hardware, and there is very little that does not get better with experience.

If you want an analogy in a different field, consider Dale Chihuly. From his wiki page:

>In 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield.[6] His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye. After recovering, he continued to blow glass until he dislocated his right shoulder in a 1979 bodysurfing accident. No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to do the work. Chihuly explained the change in a 2006 interview, saying "Once I stepped back, I liked the view," and pointed out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster. Chihuly describes his role as "more choreographer than dancer, more supervisor than participant, more director than actor."

There is no inherent reason a more managerial position involves less creativity. It can frequently enable more.
Hey, ho investment opportunity!
Aren't those patents expired already? And there is competition after all. The point of the article was attempts to blackmail states to ban competitors without actually having legal basis for it.
It seems that it would uncontroversial and acceptable to both sides of Congress if they pursued creating a legal framework for making this sort of activity both illegal and with meaningful punishment. We can ban people from playing baseball for life, why not ban them from participating in the healthcare community?
I read this in high school and years later in university learned economists named this concept 'marginal utility.'

It's an important concept to understand in many aspects of life. In social and economic policy, it's important to remember resources are allocated per marginal utility, not by what they're worth. I.E. water is worth more to me than music, but I spend more money on music than water, and the music industry makes more than public water utilities. Seems obvious when stated like that, but it's often forgotten I find.
This is more of a meta-comment, but is this being upvoted because it's on github? I think this is a great list, but there are many similar to it not hosted on github.
Yeah, the SSHD offerings from Seagate et al. are atrocious. It's almost as if they don't want to sell them. Perhaps they're afraid of cannibalizing other product lines?
I beg to differ, as a young adult I became enamored with English, for its simplicity in structure and vocabulary, I was annoyed by French redundancy and diversity and almost started to think in English.

Few years later, English feels restrictive and too simple. French aggregated many influences from centuries at a crossroad, and it seems it kept a lot in order to be able to add subtle layers of information by using particular sets of words fitting together well to propel metaphores and other succint yet precise description of the world.

Now I say that, on average, about mainstream incarnations of both En and Fr, surely you can find poetic and tailor made English wording, in France it seemed part of the culture, but recently it's been on the way out, only elders speak a bit that way.
Trump's FCC Votes to Allow Broadband Rate Hikes for Schools and Libraries
According to high performer Joshua Waitzkin (who is not an introvert), people perform at their best when what they do is aligned with their personality. So if you want to be successful, don't try to avoid what you are. Embrace it.

And read this http://introvertdear.com/
Well the hippie lettuce situation is an interesting outlier. Just as much an exception, it's also not in the main workflow of pharma because of the heavy agri origin. But that also means big agri is also probably keeping a close eye on it along the lines of either the delivery method will remain primarily like that of tobacco, or pharma will take a huge chunk of the business selling a synthetic in pill form. Either way, if it turns into big business, I don't see a place for boutique operators. Big agri or pharma will squeeze the the small farmers out somehow. Larger pharmers with thousands of acres might do well with it. Third tier pharma will again be squeezed out unless some investment the magnitude of Berkshire takes an interest.
For some historical context, mod_perl development only started in 1996, and it got to version 1.0 in August of 1997, which is probably the first version that anyone would seriously consider for "high traffic use cases". It caught on pretty quickly after that, though, rapidly killing off any prospects something like this WebL might have had.
wouldnt this version you suggested, along with the postponed sieve generator, be Numba complaint code?
From a quick read through, i think so.
So then you could achieve, minimal JIT compiled code for your Project Euler problems :D

http://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/0.18.1/developer/generator...
It took me a while to make sense of that. Apologies for the (corrected) downvote.
Really?
I think exactly the opposite. Compared to a lot of other tech, I found nodejs to work pretty well on windows. For example, recently npm switched from a nested to a flat directory organisation in node_modules. Windows has a limit on the number of nested directories, so this new organisation helped a lot.

Maybe that you use a lot of modules with c dependencies?
> "I started my app with React 15.5.0 knowing that my code is deprecate before even starting" (addressed by dan)

If you buy into the fairy tale that a complete rewrite isn't going to break anything, all the power to you. I don't, and have no reason to, I've experienced it first hand what such a major change causes. So, not incorrect.

> "in mobx you can prefix your store actions but “it’s just for the glam” because it won’t preserve overriding any observable property of your store as it was a normal object store.message = ‘hello’ from any component of your application!?!" (strict mode, right there on the page he even links to)

So... it is possible but not when done a certain way? How that does make the point false? "well duh, you're using react wrong!" doesn't help react and doesn't address the criticism.

If it allows to do something, it does, and so it can be used to make bad code, which is where every criticism of every language/framework ever originates; none of it invalid.

That's just things one learns to live with, none of the tools we use is perfect.

> "React-router is not officially maintained by facebook and the maintainers had the great idea of bumping 3 major versions in 5 months completely not backward compatible to each other" (in the link he provides, you can see version 4 was released 03.2017, version 3 was released 10.2016, version 2 was released 02.2016. Even a charitable reading of "bumping 3 major versions" doesn't get you to 5 months)

... Except it does? At the start of October, the official version was 2; at the end of March, it was 4. That's three different versions in five months.

I gotta thank you for this one, because it precisely requires a very charitable reading of that.

And even a strict reading gives us two major versions in five months, hardly all that much better.
I guess you could just require that, in the case of competing chains that have n linearized entries in common, the winner has to build a chain n+2m long as the next-best contender of n+m length, rather than just a constant n+6 as long as in current chains. So if there were two active pluralities with 33% of the hashing power each, both trying to rewrite history, you'd just have two active chains forever and never end up linearizing (which might be a good state to end up in; sort of a "SybilAttackException raised; hard-fork with added policy rule choosing a winner to continue.")
These filters were already optimized so the sum of their stimuli would match the tristimulus. (So you still perceive the same baseline as normal trichromats but with another asymmetry on top.) By removing a frequency range, you're just losing information and deviating from the standard perception, so I don't think it increase resolution, unless you were proto- or deutero-weak and needed the distinction boost anyway.

They do touch on expanding this by splitting all 3 photopigments, but that would be a much more challenging filter to make.

I was thinking that an active display could add more resolution by adding some time-dependent dimension to colors. Say, "high" reds/blues/greens would pulse quickly and "low" ones would pulse slowly... sort of a fourier transform aspect going on that could get you some scalar gradability rather than a straight up "left blue" vs "right blue" contrast.

It's all really cool though regardless.
My objective observation of many entrepreneurs I know (i.e. not all of them, but a majority that I know), is that they do not take any meaningful risks: they use other's people money, not their own, they have a pretty good paycheck, a lot of equity, often at an age where hard responsibilities are nonexistent (e.g. no family, no house, sometime they have a dog), and they get to play boss no matter how good, or bad, or clueless, or not CEO material...

So, I did acquire a bias toward agreeing with parent.
I'm wondering now what these machines might be good for as parts. After this company goes belly-up, surely these machines can be had for pennies on Ebay. What can we do with them?
Not OP, but here is one related source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin02...

I do not think the technology involved artificially generated voice though, but simply morphing someone's voice into sounding as the target voice.
Does anyone remember matrox? I do...
The CFAA is absurdly broadly worded, so much so that it's extremely easy to wield against people accused of violating it. The DoJ uses it as their hammer, if they targeted everyone who violated it the jails would be overflowing.
I used a J2ME Twitter client where you paid via Paypal and entered an activation code - the shareware model.
It's amazing public schools are permitted to do this. There's nothing for the kid to grow from in a child sitting around doing nothing. Children grow from experiences and challenges. Minds forced into isolation with no stimulation are stunted, and there's scientific evidence to support that. Obviously one week is not going to make or break a person, but this school policy is exceptionally ignorant.
Guess people forget you can get pods that let you use your own coffee and it's reusable and you put the grounds in compost.
In most places "I don't know" doesn't have much effect. Just means the estimate comes from somewhere else. Another developer, or a PM.

People are just trying to make decisions about spending money, keeping clients informed, etc.

There are some research and moon shot type exceptions. But, for the most part, estimates are a necessary evil.
> providing a good customer experience

No one is having a bad experience because of a paper wrapper and lack of 10 cent cleaning cloth in the box.
Agreed. Public schools, in my opinion, are as much about control as they are education.
Actually, no, that's infinitely higher than their original selling price, literally. They were given away for free at Radio Shack. I used to have one; I spent a few minutes playing with it, then stashed it away thinking I'd eventually find something useful to do with it, but never did. I eventually gave it to Goodwill or something.
I am an extrovert. I had a corporate job for over five years. During that time, I was too sick to glad-hand everyone I met like I might have done in my twenties.

For this reason, I did a lot of communicating via email. I felt like I wasn't doing as well as the more extroverted types who were more obviously able to suck up to our immediate superiors.

Then me and some of my teammates were moved to a new team. My very professional and established track record of sending emails most of the time meant my questions were still getting the answer I needed. The seemingly successful extroverts were incredibly frustrated and tearing their hair out. They didn't know how to function in the new conditions. They began turning to me for advice on how to get things done on the new team, physically separated from the people they had established relationships with.

Learn to play to your strengths. Being an extrovert isn't necessarily all it is cracked up to be. Most of those so-called friendships are more shallow than you think.

If you can find a nice and sympathetic extrovert, they may be able to do some introductions and the like for you and bring down your stress levels. I did that sort of thing sometimes for a painfully shy teammate. But, beyond that, don't believe too much of the hype.
I'd like to try it too without signing up. And would be likely to convert to a full account, fwiw.
Hum... Yes, I could see many people investing in a way to get rid of their own food industry discards. Selling it to other people disguised again as premium extra fruit (instead to pay another company for removing it) would be a smart move.

I can't see so clearly the value for the customer. Finely chopped fruit, even if convenient, should be cheaper than entire fruit. In fruits being entire, clean, firm, and as close as possible to the thing hanging in the tree is a sign of extra quality. Each time you cut a fruit its market value diminishes.
Service Faces Backlash Over a Widespread Practice: Selling User Data
Oj – Optimized JSON in Ruby
CIA Releases Declassified Documents Detailing Investigations into Alien Life
The distribution algorithm options are either a) rate or b) utilization. Re rate, you can configure the Requests Per Second but this doesn't mean much in a long-running connection context because some connections can be drastically longer (hours, days?). This may lead to starvation or overloading an instance.
From where React Native is headed it sounds like it is going to significantly devalue the experience of a lot of native iOS and Android developers.
Context Collapse, Brands and Content
The point is, simplified characters are easier to write, say, when they're leaving a note on the table before having to leave in seconds.

Why are the cursive forms invented in the first place? Are they only artistic? They got their use in real life as well. People are lazy and always in a hurry.
If only it would load again (too much traffic I presume). I'm prepared to fork over some serious cash.
Read that comment again: the guy is seriously considering going on a shooting spree with a train full of commuters and robbers. What do you think the chances are of that working out? Do you think this upstanding citizen and class-A marksman will be able to place '10 to 15 rounds' (his words, not mine) with the precision required not to injure anybody else?

http://americablog.com/2013/02/vigilante-walmart-shopper-ope...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3252074/Police-looki... (uk)

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/264755/carjacking-gone-wrong...

http://www.masslive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/10/vigilantes...

How many links do you want?

Those were much less complex situations.

And you think putting all that in a crowded subway car is going to improve matters?
Look at Rebol 2 docs. Or try this (enough for me to get started): http://redprogramming.com/Getting%20Started.html
Taxes went up, class mobility went down.
I'd say it's being upvoted because people think it's a good list. I don't recall seeing other such lists submitted to HN (which doesn't mean there haven't been, just that my memory's not perfect and I haven't seen every submission), and what hasn't been submitted can't be upvoted. I don't think where it's hosted has anything to do with it.
Oracle signs lease, fueling downtown Oakland expansion
With this kind of endurance and $/GB, there is no reason at this time to buy Optane over more RAM, NAND SSDs, and battery backups.

Maybe the next generation of Optane will be worth it, but this generation certainly is not.
There's a ton of them on eBay right now, many of them pre-modified to remove the DRM.
The JavaScript Phenomenon Is a Mass Psychosis [NSFW Image]
This assumes that Lyft's ToS forbids this type of access, which I'm sure it does, but it also conflates legal behavior with moral behavior.

Read literally, many terms of service would block any access whatsoever, as phraseology blocking "any automated or manual access" is popular. [0] Isn't all access either automated or manual?

The question is not if you're going to violate the ToS, since in most cases, just using the service invariably does so. Rather, the question is whether your misuse is going to make the company upset enough to sue you. And if it does, it doesn't necessarily mean anything unethical or unfair occurred; it just means something that upset that company occurred.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22automated+or+manual%22+%2... ; 131,000 results
I wonder if, with the right set of gears, someone could make a zero-emission, disaster-ready and eco-friendly version that says "please insert the pouch, step on the juicer and gently hop on it until the juice is ready."

Hey if any VC is listening I'm willing to sell this idea. Only asking $10M.
What startups are solving for Anxiety/Depression on a biochemical level?
I'm looking for companies that are trying innovative ways to deal with human depression and/or anxiety using more scientific/biochemical methods (rather than meditation / happy thoughts etc)
> It would be potentially interesting if the upvote/downvote thresholds and ranking took into account your Facebook or other social graph

I think this would be a cool thing to have, but one of the key things for YY was the anonymity. Linking with FB would have killed that (as forcing users to create usernames did).
Heated topics absolutely don't give us permission to spark flamewars like this—we need to do better on this site. We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14188392.
> careful politeness that's expected these days.

I've more often heard, or gotten the impression, that discourse is getting more polarized and vitriolic these days. So which is it?
Toddler powered FTW.
The way Vocaloid voice banks are created is a highly sophisticated and guided process that involves sampling every phoneme the engine supports at various different pitches. Vocaloid is merely the engine that pieces together phonemes and apply things like vibrato, intonation, and other modulation. Very different tech.
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Everywhere I look, engineers are over-engineering everything. I just don't get it.
Very, very cool. Thank you Netherlands Bach Society!
See older comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7720708
Ah yes, I remember not realizing I had obsessive compulsive disorder until I turned 30 too.
Seems like a great way to cite secondary sources. How does this model work for a primary source?
2017 Wechat statistics
Tamper Chrome extension to modify requests in flight
That totally sounds like a scene from Freaks and Geeks involving hippie guidance counselor Mr. Rosso.
Quality without a definition, surely. Quality Without a Name was Christopher Alexander's idea, described in A Timeless Way of Building. Though the two are related. I've read both ZatAoMM and Lila, and can recommend both.
I tried to donate and got a 503 after inputting my credit card. Guess I'll wait for that to settle out for a while...
Red Green is archived on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/user/RedGreenTV
That's made by Griffin. There are other companies making equivalent products with smaller tips.
Yes, which is $50k more
Site's down, but here's an article about it: http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/04/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wal...
That would be terrible.

There are[1] short story write with hanyu pinyin(a latin alphabet system) which all words with the same pronunciation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
Ran into the same issue. I received a purchase notification from my credit card, but now I don't know if I donated or not...
There was a period where Opera had the fastest javascript engine of all the browser. It was a stack based runtime like all others at the time and, as a side-effect of being developed for mobile devices, was small enough to fit on a cache line. That was the key to the performance advantage. Then came V8 and everyone changed over to JITing compilers.
I agree, that's the point I was trying to get across.
Why do you say ducted fan?
An upward-pointed male Lightning connector can be used directly as a freestanding charging dock to "hold up" devices, with no other support, because it's just a piece of solid metal. Docks are important! (At least, in Apple's opinion. Probably in large part due to their stores, where people are constantly picking devices up and then plopping them back, roughly, onto their docks.)
Good to know! I had no idea about that. I'll have to check it out.
Geological Insights from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search
I recently read a post on Quora that asked how an introvert could succeed as a doctor.

Like that poster, it seems you are experiencing more than introversion. Perhaps you are shy and/or suffer from social anxiety. These are distinct from introversion and can be treated. Introversion by itself is nothing to worry about.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-place-in-medical-school-for...
I really, really hope that flying cars never come to pass.
Right now, when an accident happens, we know where it will happen: on the road or right next to the road (more-or-less).
If flying cars were ever to become a thing you could be killed by a drunk driver crashing into the roof of your house / top floor bedroom, hundreds of feet from any road.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the article (It keeps asking me to pay money to subscribe)(which is fair to do, but I'm just not doing that right now)
"I've found the guiding star to be "Is this really immoral, or have we just been socialized to believe it's impolite or in bad taste?" One should realize that a lot of this socialization is provided by people who simply don't want you to become a strong competitor, and have indoctrinated this imaginary, soft, cushiony world into everyone's brains so that it's easier for them to come in and take what they want, and their constant empty blathering draws attention away from their dirty deeds. There's no need to allow ourselves to be victimized like that."

Simply brilliant!
Without disputing any of your comment, I find it interesting that "the customer" (or what we might call the "end user") is never mentioned in this graph of stakeholders and their competing concerns. Neither customers nor the serving of any sustainable purpose are mentioned in TFA either, although outside investors are added to the mix. The ideal business model would be (I should say, is) to make money without doing any particular thing at all. Indeed, last I heard, that is a growth sector.
If you lack job skills before you go to college and yes I do mean 17-19 year olds, then you may never have adequate skills for any profession. If you think just attending a school gives you the upperhand on the job market, grow up. I really feel sorry for the ignorance of those holding tightly to this self infatuation of ego.
The "cult" underlying this phenomenon is our celebrity culture. We fetishize the 0.01%. The role of overpaid CEO is established; it no longer needs any more special justification than top athletes, entertainers, or TV "personalities."

Conveniently, we have lots of companies that need saving. And it seems to me that, for a country where people still like to pretend there's a "free market," we sure hate to see companies fail. I think of the old saying, "Many a good hanging has prevented a bad marriage." But hey, who asked me.
It'd be an unusual landfill to start with, because caterpillars generally don't like anaerobic conditions. More like a compost pile that's kept well-aerated.