skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting point to bring up, but really Japanese web-pages, &c. aren't really quite the opposite of the minimal aesthetic. What sets them apart and makes them seem non-minimal is that they're highly typographic and in a script that is less minimal in appearance than Roman.

This isn't entirely true - Japanese web design is somewhat more informationally dense, which certainly adds to the effect, but it's still a big part of it.
Then the argument of "too high for a political goal" is moot, because everything is a political goal.
I agree, the analogy was meant to convey that, like the puzzle, it's imperfect but it's a quick way to get info. The jigsaw puzzle, Imo is not as great of a "bar" as fizzbuzz but they serve similar purposes to varying degrees of efficacy
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14266501 and marked it off-topic.
As I mentioned to another poster, it depends on your point of view. On one hand, I sympathize with people who believe in a minimal state, are are fearful of our (mostly shitty) government getting involved in the health care industry. It's uncaring if you believe that all people should have healthcare provided by the government and through taxation of other people whether they want it or not. It's not uncaring if you believe that people should provide for themselves.

I am in favor of government run healthcare for a variety of reasons, but I don't consider the opposite point of view to be profoundly uncaring or amoral. In fact, I'd say that if you ignore that the intent of the ACA was to continue to entrench the government into the healthcare industry, it seems quite immoral to essentially guarantee corporate profits for health insurers.

Neither the democrats or republicans in charge really want single-payer. I think at least the republicans are more honest about it.
So You Want to Make Games
Heaven forfend that people should form their own opinions on first principles, even though those opinions might be mistaken.
To me, it seems to come down to:

1. there are evil people, but

2. those people frequently have more social power than nice people, and

3. the evil people will use their social power to paint nice people as evil (i.e. "bullying.")

If you're defining the laws for a community or society, or the Terms of Use for a piece infrastructure for such a community/society to use—then it behooves you to consider that any "hammers" built into your system will mostly be used by those with power against those without it, regardless of which side is "correct."

So: If you let people speak freely, the powerful will shout down the powerless. But if you let people silence others, then the powerful will silence the powerless.

Morally, it really comes down to a choice of which kind of hammer hurts wronged innocent powerless people the least. (Which can often mean offering no hammer that can truly be used to "deal with" obviously-evil people.)
Working remote even 2 days per week would buy you 4 hrs/wk. That's huge. We just moved closer to my work and the kid's school. The 20 min gained per day (in the morning) has been surprisingly valuable.
How? Has anyone actually said how this source code could have been used?

Any modder utilizing the source code would most likely receive a swift Cease & Desist for using their code without permission.
the point is, one party values not redistributing money over saving peoples lives.

the other does not.

one of them got elected by poor rural people who really need the ACA.

i dont think that political goals have value. theyre about the last thing to have "value". "Exterminate all jews" was a relatively popular political goal just a couple decades ago. As far as "valuable things" go, political goals range relatively low on that totem pole.
The logic on this statement doesn't really check out, as if this were the case it would be impossible to retain CEOs, they would all leave after a month. Yet somehow companies do so ...
Looking at my cell phone bill I use far more data than I do actual voice a month. It's kind of an anachronism to call it a phone anymore. It's a pocket computer.
There's no saying more true than you are what you eat (or drink). Soylent drinkers are definitely Soylent people. I prefer a world of flavor, spice, and variety. I also wonder if it's a coincidence that the funders of the Juicero (solving a problem no one knew they had for people who clearly have too much disposable income) are the same as the funders of Soylent. I know there's a high overlap of HN readers and Soylent drinkers, but I think there's a big disconnect with the rest of the non-Silicon Valley populace.
You mean Americans rebranding French Fries as Freedom Fries because France didn't want to get in Irak?

And this is the fucking US here, it's not a backwater country the size of a town. When the US sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold.

People are right to pressure others as long as it's done on legal terms.
I have and idea for a VOIP app called The Stallminator. The app would feature a nice backdrop of Richard Stallman's face http://tinyurl.com/msbkwb3
You grow, thresh, and mill your own grain? That must be a lot of work.
At least TOTP (and U2F) are standards. All sites and organizations should be using them, not something they've created themselves.
The ASA's Statement on P-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose (2016)
It means that you can't use the same data to confirm a hypothesis as you used to generate the hypothesis. Defensible statistical practice would be to throw anything you like at the original data set, come up with whatever ridiculous idea, and then collect a new data set for the purpose of investigating your ridiculous idea. The original data set provides zero[1] evidence for a hypothesis that it inspired you to think of.

[1] Not really, but this is the cleanest way to sidestep multiple comparisons.
And yet calling it Pocket PC would be frowned upon :-)
Economics is a huge field. Is there something specific you want to learn? eg macroeconomics, microeconomics, economics applied to business, behavioral economics, finance, etc

Khan Academy has good material as well.

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain
Or maybe Google should put out a self driving car product of some kind? They don't seem very business savvy at Google, imagine if they didn't have their ad revenue to fall back on.
Same story on https://usesthis.com

It got to the point where many interviews overlapped so much they may as well have copy pasted and switched names.
The Swift originally shipped with CyanogenOS, which is not the same thing as CyanogenMod. CyanogenOS already featured Truecaller on the dialler to show names on incoming calls.
I was confused too when the dialler disappeared from my launcher, but I use it very rarely and essentially to receive calls so not a big deal for me. I understand OP's concerns though.
That is insanely low. Odd to see that it gets basically a passing mention. They acknowledge the absurdly fast development time. Gave the language an "on par" evaluation (though, how they account for a C in prototyping support in what was hands down the winner here is, interesting), and then move on.

For those that didn't click through, it was about half the time of the next fastest solution.

Edit: I am a really forgetful person. Seems I've made this same observation on this same paper every time it comes up. My apologies if the same people are reading it. :)
Is anyone here able to compare this FUN3D CFD solver with open source CFD software, such as PyFR, Fluidity or OpenFOAM? In particular, has anyone done any benchmark comparisons?

I'm wondering if maybe NASA would be better off over the long term, if they ported their models to a more accessible platform. It sounds like they are having trouble hiring people who can work on their current stack.
Absolutely, this is true. I'd say your 28 hour estimate is high by a factor of 3x at least. But without exercise, the risk of developing health problems that destroy all that kid-free time is higher.

Getting a back injury from lack of core strength or losing your energy due to obesity harms your entire life.

I'm suggesting regular exercise as a cautionary piece of advice.
Should be able to easily reflow text as long as it's using newline operators (T*, ', "). Might still need some basic heuristics for paragraph breaks. But much better than the alternative of attempting to correlate individual lines of text together based on positioning.
75% sure is bad enough, even if it isn't you.
No, this is simply proof that consumers must pick carefully the hardware vendor they decide to buy as which software it comes with will vary greatly between devices. This is simply not an issue with Google Pixel/Nexus devices, Samsung or any of the other major vendors.

Running Cyanogen (which has now no longer developed) nor 'GAPPS' (Google's standard package of apps that gives you access to the Play Store, and the stock dialer) is a pretty fringe use of Android.
> a ton of syntax to learn

A handful of keywords (same as any language), fewer (mandatory) parens & braces than any other language, no (mandatory) semicolons, the same sort of indentation one tends to apply in any language anyway --- Essential-Haskell's "ton of syntax" in a nutshell.

Precedence rules for the built-in `Num` and `Bool` operators are equivalent to all languages. Other operators are either custom-defined (outside the scope of language's "syntax") or entirely inessential convenience-vehicles such as for composition (unnecessary, just handy in practice) or avoiding even more parens (dito) --- of which there are 2. Any tutorials or text-books that rely on such or other operators as part of "syntax" are, in that respect, simply a bit flawed.
I've almost buyed the Wileyfox Swift last week, but I'm glad that I've seen discussions around Truecaller and the Zen ads, which changed my mind and opted for a BQ Aquaris X5 Plus instead.
I'm gonna call a hard citation please on "most accountants don't recommend" you taking a deduction that could get you a boatload of reduced tax liability.
I'm not sure I understand the argument. The publicly traded top trading firms are much smaller than the banks. They're in the $1-2 billion range.

Of course you need money to compete. You need money to compete with Facebook too.
The PDF "format" never fails to amuse me. Check out the talk "OMG WTF PDF" [0] from the 27. Chaos Communication Congress, it's eye opening.

0: https://media.ccc.de/v/27c3-4221-en-omg_wtf_pdf
> The fact that your child has fetal alcohol syndrome.

Trust me, people will find this out after it's born, and they'll be plenty judgmental then.

And hey, rightly so.
Printing bricks from moondust using the sun's heat
You're the only person in this thread to talk about "democracy vs technocracy," debating a point I never made.
Market makers typically have a requirement to be in the market a certain (high) percentage of the time. In return, they get rebates (which can be a significant source of revenue) and protections from the exchange against overfilling. This can help them for certain shock events.

Most likely, though, their profitability % is tuned by edge and risk parameters. They can adjust size, widen out, or tighten up the spread to tune trade frequency and profitability. They are finding a sweet spot between # of trades and profitability.
You basically just said what I'm saying, but in a different way. If you're not biotech, you're not particularly interesting to the Boston VC community. Not to say that you can't start a company without VC. But if you need VC, the Boston non-biotech venture-backed startup ecosystem is dying a slow death.
It's a fun and infuriating past time of mine to check the now 38 page 1password feature request regarding adding Linux support from 2010.

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/2846/new-produc...
Okay, so aerial combat in the form of interceptor dog fights is an anachronism. Big deal.

It's still worthwhile to develop high-performance piloted airframes, since people are still actors in any conflict, and will need to operate within the theater of combat.

Even if primary operations are handled by unmanned systems, redundancy and fallback systems are needed. Not just troop transport from A to B. Well-armed vehicles capable of deploying weapons will still need to be piloted and maintained.

Police still use horses. The military will still find utility in piloted warbirds.
This is why I ported my phone number to Twilio and now I get an email when someone calls me with an mp3 of voicemail + transcription. And I make free outgoing calls with Google Dialer.
Average age of jQuery
Wordpress shouldn't be using any globals at all. That code doesn't just smell, it reeks.
But it's 100% true: https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/13/14599186/google-waymo-sel...
Ask HN: If you were to do it today, what would you do?
I am by day a linux/windows c/c++/python developer. I suppose I should mention, I've never written a lick of javascript. I have been kicking around an idea for about a year now for a website, and I think I'm going to try and take a swing at developing it.

The website is fairly simple. It'll have users who need to somehow authenticate. When they log in, they'll be presented with a simple interface to select something. This selection will be stored, and if the correct selection was made, they will "earn" a "point" which will be added to their total. There will be a leader board showing the users who have earned the most "points" thus far, until the season ends, and a new one begins.

In a nutshell, this is the idea. What I am wondering from HN is, what do you wish you had known when you were in my shoes? Should I look into multiple modes of auth, like twitter/facebook/google logins? What security concerns should I have? What do you wish you'd thought of in advance that you needed to "bolt on" afterwards?

If it matters any, my research has been in python frameworks (bottle/flask) just to get an mvp up and running, but I am in no real hurry and have also bee kicking around rust/go, just to learn something new.

Thanks!
Would love to read the 80 page white paper mentioned in the article.
Yep, same here. Having kids completely destroyed my productivity. I now understand why people like to spend money on apps like Farmville, because it's mindless and you don't feel stress. I feel the same way with reading reddit and HN at night, because I'm too tired to think about reading. If I pick up a book, I'll fall asleep within about 15 mins. So it's hard.
This is the most spot-on reply to my comment ever. YES. A thousand times YES. THIS is the problem with Boston. It's probably a fine place to start something. But an almost impossible task to get it funded and supported. This is why I think it's on the downward path. Boston VCs are ridiculous.
Anyone know the difference between Soylent and a good quality weight gainer like Reflex Instant Mass Pro?

Nutrition Facts

Reflex Instant Mass Pro
https://www.reflexnutrition.com/instant-mass-pro/

Soylent
http://files.soylent.com/pdf/soylent-nutrition-facts-1-8-en....
I don't feel I have particularly "long arms", but years at bog-standard corporate issue fixed height desks left me with worrying pains in my wrists.

I've dealt with this by setting my chair height so my thighs are pretty much horizontal, then setting my desk height so that when I am sitting, typing, my forearms are horizontal or nearly horizontal.

I also use a laptop whose palm rest is not huge/deep, so that the front edge is not pressing against/into my wrists, particularly when I am somewhere else and don't have control over the height of the work surface (nor the chair, sometimes). I like the somewhat older Thinkpads for having a palm rest that is not too deep and that has a rounded front edge, e.g. +420, +520 (barely), ++30.

When using a desktop PC with a keyboard, I place a gel wrist rest directly in front of the keyboard -- making sure the final result matches my height/posture/ergonomic preferences. My PALMS rest on the wrist -- ok, palm -- rest, not my wrists.

I mention this last with regard to your situation. I you can get a keyboard / palm rest / posture combination that leaves the ends of your arms resting rather neutrally on your palms, while you type, this might help?

P.S. As I got more senior and less caring in corporate land, I sometimes just brought in some tools and rebuilt my desk, myself (off-hours), to get it to the height I preferred. Going through formal channels might make this a misery, but people wouldn't bother with the fact that I'd "just done it", as long as the work was getting done.
The SEC doesn't have infinite resources, but has to enforce somewhat selectively. It's possible that they disapprove of some kinds of HFT activities but doubt their own ability to persuade a jury sufficiently well to justify the cost of prosecution.

I don't mean this as a comment on HFT or the law, I really don't know. I'm just pointing out that the SEC is bound by budgetary constraints and that litigation is very expensive, so they have to do cost/benefit analysis and prioritize the cases that are more likely to win.

And this is before political considerations come into the picture. News articles described the 'resident's SEC pick as being more interested in capital formation than enforcement; that seems a pretty reasonable assessment to me, given that S&C was representing Goldman Sachs during the epic CDO litigation, the cabinet is stuffed with GS alumni, and the administration's general attitude seems to be less regulation for more muscular and dynamic capitalism.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-sec-idUSKBN14N1Y...
Yes, and flying as fast as a bullet directly into another bullet travelling in the opposite direction means an impact at twice the speed of each.
This might have changed since it's been a few years, but I think Google used to use high resolution 3D maps together with LIDAR on their cars to do accurate positioning. If I understood it correctly, it was basically a 3D pattern matching.
Hah! I tried hard to avoid bringing the Holocaust reference as a political goal, but I guess it clearly shows that saying something is a "political goal" is a moot point, which you seem to agree with anyway :-)
The internet is full of people who seem to believe (at least for rhetorical purposes) that their insurances rates never went up before the ACA and were never going to go up, and they were never going to be dropped from their catastrophic deductible plan halfway through medical treatment for reaching a lifetime limit.
To be honest, I don't have any idea why ANYONE keeps working after they have F-YOU money, CEOs or otherwise.
So, why don't we have these restrictions in Canada, Japan or Europe? Many countries have advanced aerospace programs. The only reason that I can see for those export regulations to exist, is because eliminating them would require effort and PR risk on the part of politicians.
mfix is somewhat low-level. It’s used in the desugaring of Haskell’s “do rec” notation.

I find it useful because it lets me take a recursive structure[1] and a multi-pass algorithm[2] on that structure, which involves side effects[3], and express it in code as a single pass, without mutation.

This conversion of multi-pass algorithms to a single pass while retaining time/space complexity guarantees is one of the key benefits of laziness in general.

[1]: e.g., an AST

[2]: e.g., type inference, where pass 1 is generating type constraints, and pass 2 is solving the constraints and annotating the tree with the final inferred types

[3]: e.g., generating fresh type variables
Here's a meta-study that claims possible positive effects for small, frequent meals: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26024494

On the side bar there's a bunch more.
1937 and 1967? I'd hope Blizzard have figured out some sort of offsite backup in the past almost century.
This issue echoes many privacy-related discussions and the same approach for android applies here:

- unlock
- install minimal 3rd party ROM (ie LineageOS)
- choose what you want from Google via Open Gapps or use F-droid
My great grandparents ate nothing but potatos, no thanks.
If I were to jump into a random c++ project, which version would I expect to find?
I don't know about that particular implementation, but I can use my citizen card (also a smartcard) to login to government sites on Linux. The site uses a Java applet, which connects to libpcsclite to use the reader.
In some respects, yes, it's about the messaging. You'll attract certain customers, and they might be willing to press for certain things that might not be legal, depending on the message.

There's a difference between a gun company that markets their products as protection and sports, and one that markets them for revenge. In both cases, the usage of the gun is up to me, but in one case it looks like the company might be willing to assist me, or point me towards helpful information that assists me, in circumventing safeguards put in place on the purchase of weapons.
please stop linking this paper. it is too old, endlessly debated, and does a disservice to any precieved motive of promoting or demoting any of the mentioned languages.

previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13275288

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7050892

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7029783

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1v0z02/haskell...
> <h2 class="h1">

wow, i just threw up in my mouth
Canadian Govt Announces Recall of Galactic Empire's AT-AT Walkers
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13161879
What if consciousness is just the illusion of free will?
Orange juice, from your example, is pretty bad for you, especially compared to the low glycemic index carbohydrates found in things like Soylent.

File under "false dichotomy".
> Proposing that it's not entanglement means proposing a new phyical process by which that information can contribute to a single, non-local value, which people researching the brain haven't even taken a stab at.

I've never seen a brain researcher claiming to have seen any non-locality. It would be the kind of thing everybody would be talking about. Mostly, people seem happy to accept many speed-of-light delays on something that is centimeters wide and counts time in dozens of milliseconds.

You want a way to keep coherence overall through the brain, but there's no reason to think that coherence is needed.
True! :)
Do you really want to out every trans person who has told a doctor about it?
Report: Smartphone owners are using 9 apps per day, 30 per month
I think Haskell has a future in machine learning.
If I had months, I'd choose Rust. I'm excited to play around with it and would love to help move it toward web-friendliness.

If I had weeks, I'd choose React (server + browser with a single code base) in TypeScript with SCSS.

If I had days, I'd choose React (via slingshot boilerplate) in JavaScript with SCSS. The only reason I'd ever start a React project without TypeScript is that the fantastic react-slingshot boilerplate doesn't have TypeScript support and ESLint + WebStorm is decent for type-checking.
> I'm not. I'm assuming these decisions are made because people in physics/ME/chemistry are not programmers and don't know about the latest and greatest our field has to offer. It's our fault for not advertising our successes to these people.

I can understand having some of the other opinions you expressed, but this just seems egregious in the casual assumption that "the latest and greatest" is somehow universally applicable, or specifically applicable to scientific contexts.

Sometimes in some cases new isn't better.