skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An age where "idiots are getting promoted for baseless ideas" is closer to the truth. This is why people who were traditionally more humble now have the obligation to speak out - but I often see them silenced at the tech companies they work for... These companies are often selectively listening to exactly the wrong people, who are usually in the minority in the company anyway!
The flows to Vanguard are largely driven by retail investors and I think you are grossly overestimating the pricing value that "active" retail investors provide.

Retail investors don't act as a rational pricing mechanism. 99% of them don't discount future cash flows, examine balance sheets, or evaluate growth prospects. In fact they statistically buy high and sell low which only serves to make boom and bust cycles more severe. They are the greater fools in the Greater Fool Theory.

Turning "dumb" retail money into passive index fund flows can only serve to make markets more efficient and stable. That said, if I had to guess the massive flows to index funds will come to a grinding halt as soon as the next market correction.

While indexing has historically been the best strategy over the long run, the low interest rate environment has made it appear to be the best strategy even in the short term. This is not normal and is due to the high correlation still lingering after the effects of QE. Once interest rates rise enough to make alternatives more appealing this will balance itself out since investors chase returns.
> heavy metal poisoning

Actually I'm tempted to dismiss your account as complete quackery. Heavy metal poisoning is a common bugbear of quacks. What metal, and where did it come from?
Oh, I was thinking about this upon typing my message for the first time, but then forgot it upon retyping (my browser was being erratic). Thanks for the note.

At least parts of the server are open for a long time though[1], and they also recently exchanged some stuff into WebRTC. Could anybody clarify what part of it is still nonfree?

[1] https://github.com/whispersystems/Signal-Server/
I've been using Google Keep for years now, do you guys see an advantage in To-Do?
I'm not sure whether you're saying that sabotage of infrastructure performed by the populace is a good way to perpetuate unrest in a way that a militarized state can't squash, or whether you're saying that the state can quickly destroy key pieces of infrastructure to cause pain to people who refuse to fall in line. Because both are true, but the latter is far more likely and effective: after all, who wants to destroy the last remaining enablers of their comfort, shelter, and livelihood just to prove a point... and then what?

One only need to look at the city of Flint, whose water pipes continue to deliver lead-laced water to households black and white, but society has largely routed around the damage: we carry on with our lives and ignore it's a problem. It's only a problem for those in Flint.

Meanwhile, the military and police can turn off utilities, blockade towns, enact curfews, and isolate even the flow of information, all without firing a single bullet. This way, pockets of unrest can be abated before they become a movement so pervasive that the military themselves defect.
Here's how React works, in very broad strokes:

You have some data (props and state) that defines the current state of your program. This data is passed to a rendering function, which creates a virtual DOM representation of the component based on the data. After this has happened, the virtual DOM is diffed against the previously built virtual DOM to see if we should tell the browser to render the real DOM based on the new virtual one.

So the general cycle works like this:

Data was updated -> virtual render -> diff new virtual DOM vs old virtual DOM -> real render if necessary.

However, both constructing the virtual DOM as well as diffing the DOMs takes considerable amounts of time. That's why React offers a short-cut to avoid it, if necessary: shouldComponentUpdate. This lifecycle method is called after your data updates and before the virtual render takes place, allowing you to short-circuit the process if you already know that your data didn't change in a way that changes the resulting DOM.

So with the short-circuit, there are two general pathways.
If you know the data didn't affect the DOM:

Data was updated -> return false in shouldComponentUpdate -> nothing more happens.

If you know the data affects the DOM or you're not sure:

Data was updated -> return true in shouldComponentUpdate -> virtual render -> diff new virtual DOM vs old virtual DOM -> real render if necessary.

The value of the tool is that it monkey-patches some React internals to notify you when you have missed a chance to use shouldComponentUpdate properly.
I think G+ was dead on arrival. Don't really know why that was the case but it just never made any sense. They had Orkut and killed it which kinda makes me wonder how management at Google thinks.
They keep climbing up the stack. The final step would be to provide ready-to-go outsourced development teams. Maybe they should acquire Gigster to plug the last gap. ;)
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Whenever a new Firefox release drops, my favorite thing to do is to see if this (now ten-year-old) bug [0] is finally fixed.

Spoiler: it isn't.

This bug (and many others similar to it) are one of the main reasons I dislike using Firefox. It just feels out of place on macOS. I'm fine with non-native UI elements as long as they're not elements as fundamental as the select dropdown and the right-click menu.

Edit: Turns out this bug has been fixed, but only if you have Electrolysis [1] enabled [2].

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402625

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402625#c32
So where do we draw the line when that "cheeky, mischievous humor" actually excludes people from our community?

When it can be reasonably proven that this is actually happening in this case. A reasonable start would be finding a real (as opposed to straw) person who feels "excluded".

If "bruh" is legitimately "excluding people from the community" in this context (And let's be honest here: a job posting is not equivalent in any way to a readme on a git repo), then by all means, let's have the conversation.

If it isn't? This is all just noise. Worse, actively harmful and distracting noise.
Gastrointestinal issues are common is ASD, and can aggravate ASD symptomatology. This is a hot topic of research.
That's cool. However, there's no fundamental reason why a DSLR viewfinder couldn't show a histogram too. It's not an important feature for me personally, but YMMV.
What's Google+?
I've flown between the USA and China several times, and each time it seems the route is at least slightly different. I've seen the Shanghai->Newark flight range from directly over the north pole, then coming down over upstate NY; to going over Japan, just south of Alaska, and paralleling the Canadian border. So there's clearly not a single correct route.

My neighbor at the time was a commercial pilot, and I asked him about the difference. He says that anything else that the airline or anybody else tells you ahead of time is only tentative. The final call on the route is made by the pilot on departure. He's considering things like wind speed and direction along the way, weather along the route, and weather at potential intermediate airports should an emergency arise.

Bonus fact. He told me that he dislikes flying the newer Boeings because of the location of the cupholder. On other planes it's closer to the plane's major axis, but these planes put them farther away. This has the effect of magnifying the plane's motion, and leads to coffee spills.
It seems like this is a tool that simplify the process of creating and managing services to help speed up the development process, while still leaving the typical services that AWS provides available.
> OVF doesn't show you what your picture is going to look like.

It's more accurate in many respects, and lower latency, than current EVFs.

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

An idealized EVF with perfect quality and a resolution equal to that of the sensor would do that, sure.

But real EVFs don't.
Why do you people at Facebook use a patents clause and destroy integrity of open source license of BSD?

Better create a proprietary license which allow you to protect your predatory patent claims instead of acting benevolent and releasing with this kind of corporate malarkey.
Indentured servitude was a system where you would enter into a basically unbreakable contract to work in exchange for passage to america (specific case, but general idea). Once you got here the captain of the ship would sell off the contract to whoever and that person basically owned you until it was done. You don't get to quit, they will have someone hunt you down and bring you back. You are not much more than a slave until you finish the contract.

There was good reasons why it was outlawed along with slavery in the 13th amendment.

Having to jump through some hoops to switch jobs, or having to leave the country if you quit/get fired is not nearly the same thing. Not even close.

Getting an I140 takes about a year, and you can transfer it after 180 days. Yes it takes a long time for Indians to get the actual card. That's not a result of companies trying to get you into servitude, it's a result of poor immigration policy and massive demand from India.
Not sure why parent is being downvoted. "Bruh" is a term with a bunch of connotations, including gender.

Are people really that uncomfortable with the idea that the words they use affect people?
Because the data rate on 6000x4000 pixels uncompressed times 60 would be insane? 4k video is only 4096x2160.
Remember though that every condition is different, and it sounds like you're looking at drugs for people on the spectrum to solve these things: " sad, or bored, or distracted"

So i'm not going to focus on these - but give just something else to the topic.

But for many it's not just about these. Drugs can help relieve sensory issues for example, where heightened senses can cause literally physical pain.

I'm not pro drugs btw - as someone with a mother/brother and countless other family members on the spectrum, has worked with kids on the spectrum, goes to talks and conferences on this - therapy and acceptance are the goals I strive for.

But unfortunately - THERAPIES AVAILABLE ARE REALLY SHIT. Really. Really shit and not autism specific. They can cause far more damage than help because they attempt to "normalise" a person(make them appear to be normal to be "cured") and in the long term this has serious repercussions.
People still use Google+?!
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This camera, priced at $4500 _and_ too large to fit in a trouser pocket, is irrelevant for >>99% of photography, but I think that's irrelevant. I doubt Sony plans to sell millions of them each month.
Thank god that we get masks on the internet in 2017 and must not wait 10 years more ;)

Many bloated png can now retire.
I've tried the fujifilm mirrorless cameras, and they've also had that feeling of portable camera with a computer attached. I've personally always loved the feeling of a computer engine driving the sony camera (a7 evf is wonderful).

If mirrorless is the future, and partially what allowed Sony to make 1/32000 possible, then does that mean Canon/Nikon are playing catch up?
>The Authenticator app is available for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile, but regrettably, while the first two include the new feature, Microsoft has not seen fit to add it to the version of the software that runs on its own platform, citing low usage. The eternal chicken-and-egg situation of low usage both causing weak app support and being caused by weak app support continues to be something that Microsoft has little interest in fixing.

Is this really still surprising people? Hasn't the messaging that Windows Phone is a dead platform been loud and clear for years now? The still haven't released the current-gen Outlook client on it.
Ah yes, I do recall reading that. And now they're proudly launching products with shit like this: https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/AWS%20CodeStar...

I get that the graphics aren't the important part, but jeez.
I completely agree with the "write shit code" approach. That's how I learn any new language. As long as you adopt an attitude where you are aware that you're writing bad code and are willing to adapt and learn better processes as you progress, then it's the quickest way to getting proficient. Much like that immersion technique of learning a foreign language by moving to another language.
I wonder if they're mistaking economic factors causing more drug deaths for the new and lethal Fentanyl-laced heroin on the streets.
You should actually remove Wunderlist from your list since their team announced that they will no longer be working on the product. They are working on Microsoft's To-Do now.
No, you are not understanding how it works. Your portfolio can be in the black every single year, but you can still use TLH to improve your returns every single year by harvesting losses in individual securities.

See:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/taxes/08/tax-loss-harve...
There are two mods on HN: 'dang and 'sctb. It's not clear to me if you're referring to the two of them in particular or using mod in a more general sense to refer to anyone who is voting or flagging. If the latter, I'd recommend not using the term mod this way on HN. If the former and you believe you have legitimate concerns about their activity (which they're quite open about), I recommend contacting them via the Contact link in the footer and raising the issues you see. In my experience they're very forthcoming.

In my experience, people often have a (completely understandable and human) selective view of downvoting and flagging activity. There's a wide variety of opinions and perspectives on HN and I've seen all of them downvoted or flagged at one time or another, just as I've seen commenters of all persuasions be civil, well-reasoned, and, unfortunately, egregiously trollish and ranty.
But I think that's the crux of the matter, although the article fails to hit the nail on the head.

The marketing was completely misleading. The bags seem to be filled with prepared, liquid juice.

You don't need a machine because they are just sending out Capri sun bags of juice.

The machine is just a lie to make you think something is being prepared fresh.
...and this has what to do with the posted article?
Not that I care that some cultures do it, but the whole concept of living with your parents as an adult is pretty much unique to humans. Across nature - you get the boot when you can take care of yourself.
thats great link, thanks
I don't think that really answers the question. If your customers are developers, then you need to bring something new to the table or you won't have any customers. You can't sell them someone else's products...
This article kind of resonates with me, since I was briefly prescribed Adderall in high school. It was more an effort to strongarm me into paying attention than it was to treat a medical condition. And this sounds very familiar:

>But when the Adderall wore off each day, Connor had a tougher time than ever. He spent afternoons crying and refusing to do much of anything. The stimulant made it difficult for him to fall asleep at night.

The thing about Adderall is, it's a close cousin to crystal meth and has some serious side effects. When it wears off, there is a serious come-down, both emotionally and physically, so if you're taking it to focus in school, you're going to be a lethargic and miserable wreck by 4:00 or so.

To me, this is insane and enormously harmful. How could any parent see this, decide that the ends justify the means, and then double down with more drugs to deal with the side effects is completely beyond me.
I second this. Learning less popular languages, you drive off a cliff when you get to the intermediate stage. I wasted a lot of time because I didn't which language extensions (developed over last the 20 years but never added to the base language) and modules are generally seen as essential. Books and web tutorials didn't talk much about them, but the real world was different. I was like I was thrown out the tutorial-door into a wide world of questionable documentation and implicit knowledge known only by wizards in IRC, if ye dare idle to find 'em.
I love the compact themes - it always unreasonably annoyed me how much vertical space the browser chrome "wastes"!
I was under the impression that the plus movement died a while ago internally at Google. They had an initiative to switch all of the user ids to plus ids and have everything revolve around your plus account.
Perhaps GP believes he does not have the skills to identify market inefficiencies, or believes he does not have the skills to identify fund managers who have the skills to identify market inefficiencies. Those would seem to rule out picking securities himself or choosing an actively-managed fund.

Or maybe he just believes the market might stay irrational longer than he can stay solvent.
Having a name, logo, pitch, passionate doesn't equate having customers. Having customers means you know who you are going to sell to, you have gotten commitment in terms of cash or signed contracts that they are going to going to buy your product if you build it.
To be fair, plenty of printers are >$400
> Apparently you think that anything other than being at the peak of one's profession is a 'stupid job.' [...] Stop devaluing hard work just because some people choose predictability over risk.

The "stupid job" was what the kid himself called his employment making wooden pallets. It wasn't a job in sports or cooking and I nowhere implied that I agreed with his assessment. If he had been hard at work and passionate about a line cook job that didn't pay well, then we'd be having a totally different discussion.
You can assume it's only a matter of time.
It was a better twitter, but the people were already on twitter It is a better subreddit community feature then reddit, but people were already at reddit.

Single sign on made people mad, but YouTube and Google passwords being different needed to become the same. They made it look like it was a conspiracy for everyone to be on Google+. Then this tied people's real names with their YouTube content and outed some people. Just a bunch of mistakes.

Heck I think if they stayed with Waves they would have been Slack but then again ....
Globalization naturally results in regression to the mean for countries like the US and UK, both in economy and culture. Still a long way to go.

Without borders or a culture, what's the point of a country other than being a sort of municipal corporation? And what if the stakeholders are outside shareholders looking to extract value?
Being drunk also really helps in dampening the excruciating pain from shooting yourself in the foot.
Yeah, the key is to start out writing shit code, but to skim over and get a feel for when you might use the more advanced concepts so that when the time comes that you think you might be able to apply something you know what to look for quickly.
My ideal HN would be one where this kind of thing could be discussed. It's sad to see stuff like your comment's parent down-modded when there could have been enlightening discussion.
I was sure you were joking at the GP, now I'm not sure anymore :)

You mean, I go out and get a machine, something that will take constant handling at home, and waste some precious space, so it can make juice. And as a bonus, it's slower than the no-machine alternative (so it will make me wait). And I didn't even come into the cost of finding their brand of juice for buying, instead of any other one.

I did never hear about this company before, but I'm surely not becoming their client.
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Ya, that's the real point. They are lying. If anything, it's full of pre-juiced chopped fruits and vegetables.
I switched to Chrome in 2016 because I needed to easily switch between multiple profiles. With Firefox I have to launch with a command line switch. :(
Another OT FYI - where you wrote "stuffs", a better word to use would be "things" (because I imagine "thing" is countable in English). It would make the sentence more fluid to most other English speakers.

/for what it's worth, your English is already better than my French, which is virtually non-existent! Also - it's already way better than a lot of adults here in the United States, which isn't saying much...
Yeah so I don't know what's going on. For some bizarre reason they didn't cut one open before squeezing. So we don't know.
People tell me that my long hair is unprofessional.
I think that depends on the quality of your psychiatrist and physician. ADHD treatment with pharmaceuticals (e.g. adderal) is fairly effective and proven. Outcomes are frequently worse when left untreated, as they too frequently seek to self medicate (leading to drug abuse) or end it (suicide) when left untreated.
Windows Phone = Windows 10
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Markets worry more about political turmoil than encroaching autocracy
C programmers start the day a bit later, keep using the language in the evening, and stay up the longest. This suggests C may be particularly popular among hobbyist programmers who code during their free time (or perhaps among summer school students doing homework).

... or they're the only ones stuck down a rabbit hole chasing some obscure memory leak that keeps bugging them until late in the evening.
I don't care about lock in, and I just want something secure and easy to deploy an application. Pricing is important, but heroku gets expensive fast, and I'd eventually like something that I can manage myself once released and I can dedicate more time to.

I think this looks great.
It will still exist as a product for awhile though, so I think it warrants it place on the list even if I transitioned over to Todoist a few months ago.
Google had a chance to be the open standards communications platform. Just as Gmail succeeds in the world of federated email, Google was poised to do the same with standards based chat, RSS, etc.

Vic Gundotra, with apparently passive approval from above, killed all that and Google lost its only real differentiator in this competition: not being the centralized bad guys.
I have actually started doing this. I write a text post, but then include a topical, memey, feed friendly image with it. Engagement is much higher.
Still no hardware accelerated video for Linux :(

Everytime Firefox releases something I am reminded of this:

https://xkcd.com/619/