skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it going to be encouraging to other team members to be honest in the weekly meeting and tell everyone 'oh I didn't feel in the zone this week so I haven't done any of my tasks'? Aren't they going to think, well I never take a week to have a rest, maybe I should start doing that?

I can't see the boss being fine with this more honest way of handling it either.
This. By transforming and evaluating things that really could be constants beforehand, V8 has less to do when it goes to run the javascript.
I'm just pointing out that the intent of a great deal of criminal law is deterrence and that should be factored into this discussion. Whether that's effective is a different story.
I can't find it anymore, but there was a leaked pdf of their review guidelines. It was about 50 powerpoint slides and it's certainly more specific than "delete what you don't like". They had quite a few examples, usually in pairs (one to delete, one not to) to highlight the demarcation. I seem to remember stuff like "Sean Connery is stupid" (allowed) vs. "Sean Connery is stupid, like all scots" (delete, because it insults him based on his nationality).

(Not sure about the specific example–"stupid" may be too weak an insult)

They also devoted a surprising amount of pages for when to delete pictures of people urinating. Must be a much bigger problem than I would have thought.
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Very cool, thanks. Would still love a mostly automated system for home enjoyment; I've spent many a good hour lost in music and MilkDrop.
>Also in 2013 Musk's company claimed the Model S makes 176g CO2 per mile, controlling their claim gives "346g per mile - more than the 312g per mile the EPA says the Toyota Highlander emits."

The EPA mileage calculation is based on a set ratio of city/highway miles (35/65 IIRC). Obviously that does not reflect reality perfectly. It is also a description of ideal driving habits, which of course people do not follow.

That link is wholly ridiculous. Its rejecting the EPA data as over-optimistic and then comparing it to... EPA data. I'm gonna go ahead and say that those ratings are also optimistic.

Your quote appears nowhere in the article, which says that the Model S emits 228g per mile, just shy of two hybrids.

The grid will continue to add renewables. Hybrids will be very quickly left behind. Plus, this is a massive luxury car- the model 3 will have much lower consumption, being a smaller car.

>My main argument stays -- there's no reason to believe Musk, and every for an independent careful control of his claims.

That's not an argument- it's a character attack. That's not a counterpoint to actual information.
I'm wondering if you're confusing nodejs with HTML/CSS web renderers like Electron, which have received a lot of criticisms for being slow, and also use a nodejs runtime internally.

Electron uses nodejs/v8 as a backend, with Blink/HTML/CSS rendering the UI - the latter introduces some of the well documented performance challenges. This appears to use nodejs/v8 as a backend with your terminal (of choice) rendering the UI.

Perhaps I'm completely misreading your question though.
>same way you ship any code

Well, the article is specifically about Go instead of generalized universal advice so she put concrete syntax examples using the Go language (vs "any code" in any language). There are examples to wrap errors, report panics, and using structured logs. The specificity of real code snippets is useful.

>Useless, ad ridden article, frankly.

I'm guessing this is the real root of your complaint. In my view, the ads are tucked away to the side, not obnoxious, and are simply related to other O'Reilly offerings.

The actual programming advice in the article looks like it has value and I think you're being unfairly harsh.
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It's not the font-rendering he's taking exception to. His argument seems to be that UI elements like the chevrons and icons in vim-powerline shouldn't be rendered using fonts at all. They currently are because traditionally terminals only have text-rendering to work with, but it's clear he'd rather have that UI be HTML instead.
Bit of a cringey statement to say "bigger than the internet" considering almost every AR/VR application will rely heavily on the internet. I think the spirit of his statement was that it'll be bigger than the Web.
What percentage of typical code is packable like this? What I really need is a way to easily determine, "is it worth bothering with a tool like this?"
Shooting a virtual reality movie requires a different mindset and skill
While this was super interesting to read it was fairly disappointing. I'm hoping the entire series focuses on VR and this wasn't our only post. They lead off with

> We talked to college students interested in engineering, business, and technology to figure out what resources would be most helpful to them. Then, we reached out to experts from academia, industry, or some combination of the two.

But we all ended up with was a blog post with some links to online courses and books. Is yc doing ...more? I was expecting something like an actual online course/intro with low requirements to get in. IE let me use my laptop camera and some html/css/js to see what building in AR is like.
No no, you're right, but the fact of the matter is that deterrence has always been an inspiration for harsh punishment.
Show HN: Lifeboat, a distributed YouTube radio
A couple years ago I made some of my first online friends in a radio station on grooveshark. When it got shut down, we scrambled to find each other and a new home. After a few false starts, I decided to make a new home for us.

https://github.com/swimmadude66/YTRadio became that new home. Its just a simple MEAN (with mysql and Angular2) app, but its worked for us for a little bit. It was written to be distributed, with one "room" per instance, including its own self contained chat.

We have our own instance running at https://lifeboatradio.com

Its still very much a work in progress, but I'd love some more feedback/contributors!

P.S.
The name "Lifeboat" came as a joke that this would keep us afloat until we found a real replacement for grooveshark. At this point, its kind of a lifeship, since we don't do a lot of looking for other services anymore
There's a sense of types of "anything (computable?) you can statically say about your terms". Representation is just a part of this, and often not a very important one. "How can I use this?" is usually much more interesting.

From that perspective, "treating the shape of your dicts as its type" certainly makes sense - it determines how you can use it correctly. It's incidental that you're not encoding this information in the "type system" your language provides (and that may or may not be a good idea, depending - there are always tradeoffs and we've left an awful lot of context unspecified).

From the same perspective, if you can use your IWWSProvider and your IWWSSupplier identically, we can say that they're arguably not different types and only being treated so because someone has given the Java or C++ "type system" an incorrect specification.
Agree. Not much sense in "scaling up sales" if there isn't a fit.
By that tho they use WMDs as shorthand for "none of the WMDs they claimed were there, were". Almost exclusively.

Which is true.
Actually I write Lisp code, but I use neither Paredit nor SmartParens. I don't automatically balance my parentheses.
@julianusti, I asked a similar question almost 3 years ago; it wasn't directly about motivation at work but motivation and inspiration in general:

Ask HN: What are your sources of inspiration and motivation?

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8409926

I think it is very helpful to write down your thoughts and feelings to make tangible the ideas in your head that you are consciously aware of or being subconsciously influenced by. This also may "free up" your thoughts once they are "excised" and transferred to text. If you can write down the negatives, the positives, then work on framing or using a different perspective on the scenario, you may find a new way to approach your work.
The arguments are sound.

If we did have an absolute right, then suicides and late stage abortions would be legal.

So the question isn't whether citizens have an absolute right. Because that's already been decided. The question is where do you draw the line.

Personally, I do think we should have an absolute right (therefore I'm in favor of late stage abortions and suicide). But clearly others, and the law, think differently.
>Chrome OS was a new system to basically be just a browser that made it easy for my mom and daughter who have serious issues keeping Windows or OS X systems stable. I hand them the Chromebook and tell them that if they need anything they can download it. It works for them and I don't have to save them from disasters all the time.

I don't see how Windows 10S is different. It'd be free of malware like "codecs" and spyware that's so common because everything has to run in a strict sandbox plus approved through the Store approval process.

Everything you said applies to Windows 10S as well and if you decide as a parent that you want your child to run whatever they want there's an option to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro. They're marketing it to Education users just like Chromebooks are, not as a 'general purpose computer'.

Windows 10 will still be available on all other devices so I don't understand how you perceive these devices to be so different from Chromebooks. You can hand them to kids and parents and not risk them getting unstable or harmed by downloads.
It depends on how you define `insightful`

If I just want to satiate my curiosity and have free time I watch Vsauce.
Occasionally I watch Numberphile, 3Blue1Brown & Computerphile, but these are more math/CS related. Enjoy!
I just ran this on a huge JS project that has a quite intensive "initialization" stage (modules being registered, importing each other, etc.), and prepack basically pre-computed 90% of that, saving some 3k LOC. I had to replace all references to "window" with a fake global object that only existed within the outer (function() {..})() though (and move some other early stuff with side effects to the end of the initialization), to get it to make any optimizations at all.

Very impressive overall.
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Build a RESTful API with Flask
Not just different headsets but even different content on the best headsets (as will always be the case until we figure out how to zap your vestibular system in an accurate and safe way).
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case study: "Creating Safer Streets Through Data Science"

http://www.datakind.org/projects/creating-safer-streets-thro...
Fischertechnik is fantastic, but I guess mostly unknown in the US?

The tolerances are far worse than with Lego, but there are many more possibilities to build workng machines.

I'm just reading a book about technic history with Fischertechnik, where all kinds of differentials, steering mechanisms, planetariums (yes, with several planets, ecliptic, and so on) and even several types of mechanical clocks are built.
One thing about Go developers that sort of baffles me is their desire to handle HTTPS. Yes, Go makes it easy to do so, but really you should be sticking your Go app behind Apache, NGiNX, etc. instead of putting it directly on the Internet for reasons you've listed and more.
I'm using "dead fish" in the Bret Victor sense.[0] It's a static tool by nature. By the time you're in a live environment, webpack is gone.

[0] https://vimeo.com/64895205
If versioning is the only problem encountered in 6 months, I call it a good platform to work with!

When you get your project running as expected, the velocity is really good.
Yes, they deliver value for money and profit from it! Great and more power to them! It's a show of how much greater in value their product is to their customers than the sum of its constituent parts/labor (or, put another way, its cost).

Whenever someone goes out of their way to complain about the profit someone makes (as though its dirty somehow) I always wonder... have you ever calculated your own profit margin? Having a job is rarely free and, unless you you're just living off prior earnings/trust fund/etc. this is a figure you can come up with. Most people I've known, including myself over time (I've for worked everything from minimum wage to very healthy salaries), have done pretty well in the profit margin percentage area as compared to the 32.8% markup you cite.

To be fair, you certainly didn't register a complaint per se in your comment, but something to think about before making that complaint.
I don't see how though - this ruling is explicitly about a conviction which has been overturned. If there's never a conviction related to the forfeiture in the first place, what bearing would it have?

Makes me wonder, could this ruling create a perverse situation where someone is arrested with a large sum of money, but the criminal case against the individual is flimsy, so the prosecution might be tempted to drop charges to ensure that the forfeiture can be kept rather than risk losing it if a conviction is overturned?
Since I could not load the OP link I read the NYT review (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/books/review/great-cat-an...) . What an interesting phenomenon, has it ever been truly explained? Was this purely a form of compassion by some of those who gave up pets? Surely someone important influenced this decision, an off hand comment or such?
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1) Is there any way to get the itemized receipt as part of the event information? (I don't even know if that's sent by the credit card widgets...)

2) What are your plans for supporting other languages? (cough Ruby cough)

3) How would I make a script integrate with a 3rd service?
Reducing this initial work would really help startup time - especially on mobile. Consider that v8 etc are really fast only after the JIT kicks
in after seeing repeated work: for time-to-first-significant-paint that's too late.
I'm not a VR developer, but from an outside perspective it actually looks like there are a few different crises.

1) Developers seem to be interested in heavyweight VR systems like Vive and Rift, while users (based on sales figures, anyway) seem to be interested in inexpensive, cordless systems like GearVR and Cardboard. Which leads to the awkward situation where all the innovative software is coming out for hardware that very few users actually own. (And then that market gets segmented even further -- with Rift development now orienting around Rift + Touch, for instance, which leaves users without Touch behind.)

2) "It hasn't made me sick in over a year!" is not an answer to concerns about VR making people sick that is going to get people to rush out and buy hardware. Once a product has developed a rep for making people sick (not everybody, of course, but all it takes is enough people), it can take a long, long time to shake that rep off.

3) There's a fundamental problem that nobody in this generation of VR has been able to really solve yet, which is making a headset that is comfortable to wear for long periods. Even simpler solutions like GearVR are heavy enough that you feel their weight after wearing them for 30 minutes or more, and with developers pushing the platform towards bigger/deeper experiences, the trend in hardware doesn't seem like it'll be running primarily towards weight reduction. This could lead to a self-reinforcing cycle of pushing the tech further and further away from a mass audience, as VR enthusiasts (i.e. people who don't mind the weight of existing hardware) demand higher-resolution experiences, which leads to hardware companies pursuing more power instead of less weight, which leads to products that only sell to VR enthusiasts, who demand higher-resolution experiences, etc. Something similar to this happened to the market for flight simulations in the '90s, which resulted in one of the main categories of entertainment software evolving into a tiny niche market of interest only to obsessives.

None of which is to say that VR is doomed, or that these things are in reality as serious as they appear to be to an outsider. But I would say there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical that VR will become a big, mass-market hit, at least this go-around.
femtocells require a local broadband connection to create the connection to the cellular network. This is just a repeater for towers within a certain distance. Requires no connection to broadband for the customer.

Which is to say if there is no sprint tower near you this is a useless product.
A good resource to have info about this initiative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbZzahWakGs
The right top corner of the user interface screenshot has the user name.
As Jay Leno happily points out, some of the oldest and coolest "classic" cars are turn of the last century electric cars. [1]

Whether a current electric car may ever turn heads or have gearhead fans a century from now, you never know, retro fashions are inscrutable from this distance.

[1] An example: https://transportevolved.com/2015/12/29/jay-leno-prepares-to...
> I argue that there are biological differences between men and women, and these differences are causing different representation in STEM fields.

I argue that you don't actually have any reason to believe that the differences are biological instead of social. Certainly, while extremely interesting (I mean that. Not sarcasm.), none of your links demonstrate it. Your links claim to show a difference, but they do not claim to explain the cause of said difference.

> I would also say that today, we're living in the most equal opportunity society than ever before.

You could say all kinds of things and more. But, and I'm not agreeing here that it is actually true, because I'm not fully convinced that it is, even if it _is_ true, being better-than isn't the same as being good.

> Let the free market sort itself out.

Only a properly regulated market ever sorts itself out. Otherwise you end up with natural monopolies, because barriers to entry are historically compounded. This has always been true of marketplaces.

> So, did they use a flawed methodology? Were these studies sexist?

Well, one flaw is that your conclusions don't follow from the studies.
China is cashless. Stores don't accept your cash much. And you have to show a government id to buy anything. And they track you.

But it gets worse than that. If the government wants to punish you, they can just cut you off. Can't buy food, can't pay rent.

Oh you think your friends can help you? China has that covered too, with its shiny new credit system. Being associated with - let alone helping - people cut off from buying food may result in a drastic lowering of score and ability to do business yourself.

On the bright side, used wisely such coersion may he better than outright violence at stopping criminals and terrorists.
> Does this have any implications for the ridiculous seizures of property police carry out every now and then when they pull someone over who has a large amount of cash on them?

The author of the article clearly thinks so, as much of the latter part of the article is speculation about how it will impact civil forfeiture, but I doubt it.

This case addressed money that the state only had a legal basis for seizing in the first place because of a criminal conviction which was later overturned; a ruling that the conviction being overturned is conclusive as to such seizures, and that the state cannot require a separate civil lawsuit to recover the funds in which innocence must be separately proven (which essentially would let them keep money premised on a criminal conviction with only the evidence necessary to secure a civil judgement) is not likely to be applicable to forfeiture cases, where the basis for the seizure is a civil process independent of criminal conviction.
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Sounds reasonable, VR or AR need to be a means to a goal, not the goal in and of itself.

I share that vision, I believe AR and VR will enable some truly amazing experiences and interactions - the currently limited means of communication of the Internet still amaze me, but we can do so much more...
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`cloc` on the `share` folder (which contains all of the python webserver scripts) only adds another 10k. Also I'm not sure those should count when talking about shell complexity, because nearly all of that is strictly a helper tool that most people don't actually even run (fish_config), so isn't particularly meaningful for your day-to-day running of the shell.

Or to put it another way, running `cloc` on the full checkout is extremely misleading. You're counting PCRE and other stuff that aren't particularly relevant to talking about shell complexity. Find the specific folders you do care about (which I still maintain is just the src/ folder) and run `cloc` on those specific folders, not on the full checkout.
>he'll embarrass himself if he actually runs for president..

I think you are underestimating the power of facebook (& fake news). He has money (64 billion USD) & he controls media (44 percent of all adults get their news from Facebook). he has already won, keep watching.
Facebook Camera's First AR Painting / Behind the Scenes
Great news. Being able to purchase BTC, ETH and now LTC easily by card is why I eventually dipped my toes in the water.
Here's an example of using your laptop camera and html to see what building AR is like: https://github.com/jeromeetienne/AR.js
Ok, hit me up if you decide to go the closed-source manufacturing route. I can provide some pointers based on my research for RiffPod.
Tesco have been doing online ordering since 1997, so it seems unlikely is unsustainable.
man, it's super valid point ;)
Who has jurisdiction over a functioning DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Corporation/Organization)?
It happens a lot with parking and traffic offenses. "You will be assumed to be guilty and lose the right of appeal if you do not respond to this within x amount of time."
I have an ongoing moratorium about buying Lego, but extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures.

I will have this set.
Superficially, you're right. But a company that wants to survive has to keep its users happy, and data loss is really bad for PR. How many people dumped Yahoo after the breach? I imagine a lot.

And really the same is true for any company that has any sizeable PR problem, regardless of the cause. Examples:

- Yahoo

- Uber

- United Airlines

- Target
Nope. I just recently did a VR project for school, and we did it all with a Gear VR using Samsung phone's. The interfaces aren't the best, but you can make things fairly portable so you could always move to a PC later if you wanted to.
A similar observation on my part that corroborates this: as I started reading the piece, saw that the hacker being interviewed (Myria) was described as female, my immediate intuition (while knowing no other details about the person) was that she was rather more likely to be transgender than biologically-born female.

Similar to you, I have little provable intuition as to why this correlation apparently exists, though.
Well its a pretty easy theory to test -- take a vitamin w/ the daily value for all the nutrients you need and see if you feel full, and then eat a bowl of rice and see if you feel full.
There's lots of people from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique etc. who come to South Africa because they can make more money here. Then they send the money back home. But if they send cash back it gets stolen 90% of the time. If they transfer the money it from one bank account to another, they don't lose their money.

Making transactions more customizeable/automated is a great advantage. Why would you not want that? Also, this just came out, so it remains to be seen what long term effects it may have.
Equating these two classes of activity is not even wrong.