skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, to be clear, a month ago there was an announcement about an app called Sketch (renamed to Snack now apparently) that was a playground for React code, but people said it was a bad name choice because Sketch is already a ui/ux dev/design tool in this space.

But this tool is related to that ui/ux version of Sketch (but with/for React), and not the mis-named Sketch (that was for React)?

Naming is fun.
The key thing here is the geography. Seoul is only 20 miles from the border with North Korea. It's within artillery range, and North Korea has the necessary artillery. If there's a war, Seoul gets clobbered in the first minutes.

Few countries have their capital that close to a hostile border. Syria does. Look where Damascus is.
Guess my university was just better at giving options for accessing the material.

A good ~30% of the classes didn't even require books (lectures and chapters were available online), and the other 60% you could easy get used books for half the cost.

The last 10% were classes where you had to buy a "workbook", which were only available new, but they didn't come anywhere close to $300, maybe 80-100.
People want the convenience of having access to transportation 24/7 no matter where they are and when.

Ever call a taxi (not in city) ? 30+ minutes.

Also, tragedy of the commons ... who was the last one to use the car has to pay for clean up.

How to accomplish that ? ... "No the other guy did it ..."
> It's also possible to believe in the ideals of equality and interdependence in society at large while having zero emotional intimacy in the home.

It's possible but may be harder. Home is like your base camp; you can have a crappy time in the outside world but home is the ultimate fallback and sanctuary. At least that's the ideal scenario. There's no doubt that growing up in a home that is broken or lacking warmth will affect you, and many studies have shown that. Take one: apparently if your parents are divorced, then the chance of your own divorcing will be higher [1], not to mention the other psychological impacts. Now imagine that divorce is normal - actually it is now - what impact does this have on society overall? It will be harder to measure, but it is real, just like those Japanese parents who raise their kids with love ultimately cultivates them into caring (amae context) people.

[1] https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/11/09/is-my-marr...
> But then how would you prove you owned the original in the first place?

Are we arguing about how it ought to work now? I'm just telling you how it does work. Burden of proof is on the plaintiff, so no one has to prove that they owned a copy of anything unless for some reason the burden of proof changes at trial. You could make the claim in your example and get away with it. That's why few of these cases are substantiated.
The UN Wants to Adopt Bitcoin and Ethereum
fun fact: Flickr was originally created as a social video game, but the photo-sharing component overshadowed the game component.

Flickr users weren't obsessed with lens quality, they were obsessed with good looking pictures. Facebook spent 10 years (and maybe still) adding horrible jpeg compression to photos.
Well the USSR was the father of North Korea -- and the two had a falling out in the 1980's. North Korea was much closer to China for most of it's history.
Cross-validation (and the bootstrap, a related tool) is a useful technique. It's most useful when deriving the parameters for the model, though, rather than for confirming the validity of the model. Basically, if you have a strong prior reason to believe that the model is basically valid, but you need to know the parameters that fit the data.

The more hypotheses that are tested using the 30% "test" dataset, the more that dataset inadvertently becomes a "training" dataset, by progressively invalidating models. For applications with real-world significance, you usually have to accept that the "test" dataset will expire after some number of experiments into the "training" dataset, and gather a new test dataset to prevent overfitting. Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman[1], which I heartily recommend, cover this extensively in chapter 7.

[1] https://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/printings/E...
So for context that was written whilst I was funemployed before joining Airbnb.

- René etc is more conceptual - it’s obviously not a practical day-to-day tool

- React Sketch.app solves the problems in our org that I can do something about, but also lets you do combinatorial/permutational exploration (see the GIFs in the intro!) because _it’s just javascript_.

Both embrace the paradigm of UI-as-a-function-of-data, and really are indebted to the mark that Guillermo left on my brain with https://rauchg.com/2015/pure-ui
You're a customer too? How much ad space do you purchase?

This might help things if you mentioned it to them...
Mostly it's for stuff like readlink(), which returns a path in a user-supplied buffer. How big should the buffer be? The Linux man page actually suggests doing lstat() to size the buffer, with a note that this is susceptible to a race condition!
It's a high-level goal or purpose for the government, right alongside "form a more perfect union", "establish justice", "insure domestic tranquility", "provide for the common defense", and "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity". It's a top-level overview to answer "Why the Constitution?"

It is not a blank check to let the Government take everything it needs in order to provide everything everyone wants.

Look at the size of the Federal Government before World War I (meaning, for more than a hundred years after the writing of the Constitution). Look at the lack of even an income tax before 1913 (except for briefly during the Civil War, IIRC). If you're going to argue that "promote the general welfare" meant redistribution, you're going to have to argue that for over a hundred years, everyone forgot about that and the government didn't do its job.

But if you say that it's an explanation of the overall intent (as understood by the people of the time), but with a meaning that falls far short of large scale redistribution, then the historical actions of the Federal government make perfect sense, and the current understanding of that phrase is what's out of line.
You're right. It wasn't a helpful tone. I wouldn't heckle a stage performer and so I shouldn't attack the author.
> The study participant went from 456 to 180lbs through the course of a year, and when they checked on him five years later, he weighed 196lbs.

The people who trot out "all diets fail" or "you'll regain!" would class that as his diet failing.
You'll also get the occasional website that blocks or reduces services for you because they (or their IP reputation provider) doesn't understand Tor and grabs the entire list of relays.

Notably, BrightCloud (Webroot) is such an ill-informed provider, and Dan's DNS blocklist offers both exit and relay lists (the latter is an attractive nuisance). Care2 is a consumer that blocks intermediate relays, although only on their http: traffic, not https:. (I'm guessing their SSL termination proxy messes up their IP detection!)

The odd thing is that the Tor Project provides an easy to parse, up-to-date list of exits (https://check.torproject.org/exit-addresses) but these providers go to a lot of trouble to harvest bad data themselves.
My wife actually wrote a (published) poem about the "Radium Girls" who worked in those factories: http://hawaiireview.org/poetry/2016/7/15/meg-eden-radium-gir...

Don't know if anyone here will find it interesting, but it felt topical. She actually did a good amount of research into the conditions surrounding their working environment and what would happen to them as they worked in those factories to get the gruesome details correct.
> "be human"

"The key is authenticity. If you can fake that, you can acheive anything."
> She didn't do "resort to" anything.

You have to give her credit where it's due: she saved the Alibaba partnership from that total fuckup, Carol Bartz. CB was such a fuckup, that she's the sun to Marissa's candle. She insulted Jack Ma in front of his underlings when he came calling to Sunnyvale. She refused/forgot to put someone on BABA's board and totally ignored Ma. As a result, Ma said 'fuck you' and took Alipay out of the group without even telling Bartz.

I wish more people looked at the period preceding Marissa (Bartz, Thompson) and they'd realize that Mayer was a Godsend compared to the cabal of clowns running Yahoo before her.
20 Minutes to a Secure WordPress Website
I don't question that using wrong values can simplify implementations. But if we're going to complain about people using inconsistent lengths, what's the consistent one they should be using? If you can't name one than the inconsistency criticism is null.

As long as I'm already typing, the real problem here is that path lengths do not in fact fit into any practical statically-sized buffer. While statically-sized buffers have their utility and aren't going anywhere, they're an optimization, or a special case, in a world that is fundamentally dynamically-sized. In the 1970s it made sense for hardware reasons to treat "static buffer" as the default case and make dynamically-sized buffers the harder case, but that's not correct today on any level, code correctness, developer convenience, API cleanliness, ease of use, anything.

Yes, I understand that this is a kernel API and I am aware I'm making a deep structural criticism of UNIX kernels here, and that fixing it would be a significant challenge. It would take quite a bit of fundamental rethinking of how things work to do something like pass the kernel a function pointer to allocate a given bit of user-space RAM or something, or pass it a static buffer with a function to call on overflow, or something, and I am not claiming this would be easy.

(Note the distinction between "dynamically sized" and "arbitrarily large"; a 3GB path is 99.9999+% either some sort of bug or an attack, so having a total max path length has advantages too. But you can do something like make it 1MB, something very generous, without making everything that uses paths allocate 1MB per path.)
We haven't written nearly as much as we'd like, but here are some you might like:

Design Ops (the org that contains my team -
Design Tools) - http://airbnb.design/designops-airbnb/

The Way We Build (head of design @alexoid talking about our process) - http://airbnb.design/the-way-we-build/

Building a Visual Language (on our design system) http://airbnb.design/building-a-visual-language/
Gone Home was far from universally hated. Certainly, there's a vocal crowd of people who hated it, but it has a 7/10 on Steam and a 4.5/5 rating on Itch.
Many times I'll read a story of someone who lost weight and kept it off. And then they detail their pre weight-loss diet and I think, well of course you were overweight. You were inactive and had a terrible diet (sugary drinks, processed foods, etc). You started getting some exercise and learned a few things about nutrition and the weight fell off.

But then there are others who seem to do everything right and are over weight in spite of that.

For example. I was never overweight as a kid and relatively active. In college and for the start of my career, I stopped being active and my diet was awful (e.g. I thought a large Jamba Juice smoothie and a carrot cake was a healthy breakfast choice). My weight ballooned up to almost 190 lbs (20+ lbs overweight), my blood pressure went up, I started having rosacea.

I started running and fixed my diet. Quickly my weight dropped down to 150 and I've kept it in the 140-150 range for over a decade. The other health issues cleared up as well. But it wasn't hard work for me. Being thin is my natural state if you will, and I had to do everything wrong to stay overweight.

My wife meanwhile continues to struggle with her weight. She's successfully lost weight through extremely diligent calorie counting, but after a year or so she starts to put it back on. I have never counted calories. Our diets are similar (in kind, not quantity of course, she eats much less than me). She is active, but not quite as active as me. So similar diet and life styles, but my weight stays off and hers does not.

Hereditarily, no one in my family is over weight. There is obesity on both sides of her heredity.

And I see this playing out in our kids. My son has an athletic build and will probably never have weight issues. My daughter takes after her mom and it will take a life time of diligence for her to remain at a healthy weight.

It seems that some people are optimized for famine, and some for feast. :-(

Obviously there are a lot of factors involved in the growing obesity crises. But I feel for people who struggle with their weight despite doing all the right things, I really do.
The full professors are there to do research. I can understand the motivation for having professors teach advanced subjects, but having them teach intro classes is just silly. It's worse for both the students and the professor. Teaching and research are completely different skill sets after all.
For what it's worth, the issue was only on people who were not logged in or their session had not expired. My session was stil "alive" so I was able to use our instance.
> what is the validation strategy to show where driverless cars can quantifiably improve?

That seems like an odd question to ask. There are huge reams of traffic safety data collected every year by the NTSB and others. Traffic accidents are one of the top two or three treatable public health issues in the modern world, and they get very significant public funding for their study.

Honestly I think the question has to be the reverse: what is is about "driverless" safety data that makes you think it won't be well-measured by the existing "validation" regime?
"The final element in the DPRK plan is an extensive deep battle across the entire South Korean depth using some one hundred thousand special operations forces (SOF). An interesting feature of this war is that since both sides look and speak more or less alike, covert insertion and operation is easier for each side—but especially so for North Korean agents who may move freely within South Korea’s open society. ... As with artillery strikes, fighting by SOF on objectives in Seoul will be aimed at heightening panic and demoralizing political leadership, and will be exploited by DPRK information warfare agencies to give the impression that the front has already reached the ROK capital."

This is an interesting point: every major terrorist attack of the Twitter age sees wild rumors flying. An actual DPRK invasion combined with cyberwarfare could yield a campaign of information warfare like nothing we've seen before.
And to add to the confusion unix domain sockets have a maximal length of something between 92 a 108. That's an implementation detail of platform it's running on. This in particular has been biting me already.
I am a very mediocre programmer and certainly not qualified to run a public company, but I think Yahoo could've been saved. Simply because it had a lot of capital (relative to startups) and with her there, the ability to attract and retain talent for a while. She had a couple years of runway. I would've tried:

- making a personalized/customizable search engine.

- making a browser, in hindsight maybe they could've worked with Brendan Eich on brave.

- structure like Google with subsidiaries (even if not formally) and have technology and entertainment as 2 businesses.

- really tighten up security on the tech side; damn.

Then see what works and iterate. Selling Alibaba and Yahoo Japan at the end of this; Yahoo basically had negative value.

IDK, selling to Verizon and then having your value slashd-- Twice, when multi hundred million accounts are breached and getting raked over the coals on valuation was a sad finish. To her credit; I like to believe the sale was poor because she wanted to keep going and didnt expect to have to firesale the firm, but I don't know. Obv. Yahoo wasn't "just her" but they were in a poor state so she probably had a lot of operational latitude. It's super rare; if it even ever has happened; that a company is so desperate but still so powerful-- that they give up that much control. Being a total outsider and having those resources and a canvas not blank, but so f*Ed that you can really try anything; that's once a decade maybe.
Seoul, where almost half of population of South Korea lives, is just 40 km from the border and North Korea have a long range artillery. The war is impossible unless you are good with hundreds of thousands civilian casualties.
Senate ID Cards Use a Photo of a Chip Rather Than an Actual Smart Chip
Not everything is about aiming for the lowest common denominator with the most profitable market. Random funny pics and cheeseburgers will always be greater markets, but that is irrelevant.

When you invest in camera gear then study or explore photography, you will gravitate away from junk food image sharing platforms, and instead find places dedicated to skills, techniques and themed photography showcases and resources.

Nobody killed Flickr. It could use some interface and feature improvements, and probably some new administrators or project teams, but it's still there doing what it does. For what it's worth, I was never a big fan of Flickr due to the lack of control over how your gallery page could look and function.
Very much so -- I had only read the first part of the article when I wrote this reply, having read the whole thing now (and the linked pizza paper) I'm more than a little horrified at what can, in the most optimistic case, be described as extreme carelessness.

I have a pre-existing bias against papers relating to nutrition science, and this looks worse even than I expect. I would love to see a treatment that looks at especially noteworthy research in the area that passes a rigorous methodological review, much less has been replicated with any reliability.
So... basically this entire system is really just a way to render React components in the Sketch App? And any changes to the design cannot be made in the sketch app, but instead must be made in React code? (So Sketch is just a "read-only" tool?)
Tom Clancy's old books (not the garbage that used his name recently). Start with Red Storm Rising and then go through the Jack Ryan series beginning with The Hunt For Red October. You'll find his political views slightly odd if you're younger, but his military knowledge is unparalleled.

Edit: for the HN crowd especially, his detailed descriptions of weapon systems and politics are pretty amazing. You can argue he predicted the Russian annexation of Crimea among other things.
I agree to an extent. It's definitely beneficial to get a paper trail when you can. However, bosses know about the radioactive nature of email and actively avoid creating a trail for anything they're not willing to get on paper. It's also useful to know how to write an email that will get a task done and move things along.

However, I have to disagree 1000% on it not mattering if someone "likes" you. It matters a great deal. Of course, being an obvious brownnoser is contemptible. But being well-liked is the most important task of any and every employee. When push comes to shove, it's going to be easier for them to overlook your professional inadequacies than it will be to overlook their personal affectations.
Thank you, your service seems great and well worth it's price but I really can't afford $500/y specifically for this right now. So far I've been playing the spreadsheet game but it does take a lot of time - I may eventually write a little django crud/workflow app one of these days... sugar codebase scares me!
While this is amazing and I'm certain it's going to save a number of lives.. Does anyone else get the sense that we're going to start seeing "farms" full of these bags in an effort to save time / money / stress on cows and sheep?
Yup. We were aware of the Expo issue, and thought about renaming it, but looking at the landscape of React renderers —

- react-dom

- react-native

- react-vr

- react-hardware

- react-blessed

- react-three

- react-aframe

etc

it felt like the right thing to do was a descriptive "this is what it is" name rather than a "marketing name" that would be more confusing.
I don't have a SAAS app at the moment but I have had success with... Bots, influencers and ads.

Lots of people seem to think ads don't work here but, I believe it is a matter of targeting and your funnel.

I think the main issues people have when it comes to ads is they poorly execute on...

Targeting - have no idea who will actually want the product and target too broadly with a useless message or, in many cases no message at all.

When people here talk about "doing stuff that doesn't scale", what they are often doing is selling the idea before someone see's the site or product for example. Like a tweet to someone looking for a new notes app - you will normally @ them with a feature or solution right, equally with a forum post - once you know they have the problem. Do the same with your ad & targeting.

Poor sales effort - In an effort to make the page look good, people often try to have as little text as possible. In my experience, the more you say the better because you eventually touch on points the lead cares about. You simply need to make it engaging. This can be done well with a screen capture you record on your computer if you really want to have a page with minimal copy. (But test lots of copy either way)

Price/ product - most people are making stuff people don't care about and won't be interesting enough to part with money for. Might not be nice to read but in many cases, it's true.

I hope this helps.
When it came out what Uber was doing to track Lyft drivers that was kind of the nail in the coffin for me.

There's just too much. Companies will always make someone angry, but there's just TOO MUCH.

I will never use Uber, and I'll encourage everyone I know to avoid it as well. Do we REALLY want this company getting a monopoly?
You were already warned several times by a moderator that this is not the place for you to "provoke souls" with your religious harangue and unsubstantive comments, yet you continued to argue with him.

You just directly contradicted yourself in the first sentence of your previous reply, as I already pointed out, by falsely claiming that "I don't use this forum with the intent to spread..." and then continuing on to do just that in the same sentence by mischaracterizing your religious bigotry and unsubstantiated falsehoods as "persistent truths", which they most certainly are not.

Calling people sinners and telling them their souls are compromised is bullying and religious harangue, no matter how hard you try to justify it by proselytizing and appealing to your iron age religious prejudices, and this is absolutely not the place for it here.

You have also made it very clear that you have no intention of following the rules of this site or abiding by any of the repeated polite warnings the administrator gave you to "please provoke souls somewhere else", to "please stop posting unsubstantive comments", and that "continuing will get your account banned, so please stop."

I don't "purport to support" sinners, because "sinner" is just an offensive name with which you choose to taunt and harangue people of whom you don't approve.

I am flagging your post as offensive and as breaking the rules, and if you reply again in the same manner that makes it clear you have no intention of following the rules and every intention of continuing to call people names and harass them with your religious bigotry, then I will flag your reply too. If you apologize for repeatedly breaking the rules and attempting to bully people, and finally end the conversation, I won't flag or reply to that.