skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just read the report, its +20 pages long, and there is a reasoning by the equity analyst in using the mentioned companies. It does also mentioned other companies not mentioned in the article. This article is just clickbait, and this type of reports are produced every day by dozens of research analysts.

FYI, here is a screenshot of the seven target companies mentioned, as well as the impact these will have in Apple's revenue and EPS growth: https://cl.ly/0P1m0E2f043B
I know. I was speculating why some website creators prefer dark grey on bright white, as opposed to pitch black on slightly off-white (which I think is easier on the eyes).
>And that power could be invested into more convincing graphics and lower latency.

Fortunately, that problem is pretty close to being solved on a consumer level. A foveated rendering addon module for the Vive is expected to be shipping soon in China, by Q3 in North America [0].

For anyone unfamiliar with the term, foveated rendering means only rendering high-resolution images in your field of view. Basically, you don't see full detail across your entire field of view - only at the point where your eyes are focused. Everything outside that point can be rendered in lower resolution and you'd never notice the difference. It requires high-speed eye tracking to pull off, but it can greatly reduce the required horsepower to render a convincing VR environment [1].

[0] - https://uploadvr.com/7invensun-eye-tracker-for-vive/
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNX0wCdD2LA
Are you trying to program us? Or do you mean == ?
OnlineSchemaChange rebuilt in Python, with more features to update MySQL schemas
My six year old loves scratch. I got him started, and a couple of hours later he'd figured out how to make a character jump around the screen, shoot laser beams, and make sound effects. I was thoroughly impressed. I think the way they lay things out is great for kids and gets them introduced to logic and control structures in a really simple and intuitive way.
You seem to have missed the forest for a pedantic tree. You're avoiding the fact that there are lots of sick people who never smoked, don't drink lots of soda, don't abuse drugs and exercised who didn't have to face crushing medical debt because of the Democrats. This bill is throwing all those people straight under a bus and why? Because you're upset you might also subsidize a smoker? Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Somehow you didn't notice the graph added up to 250%, and you snark that the author needs to brush up on statistics?

Please explain how 50 of 250 is actually 50% of everything. Especially when the author writes iPhone sales are only 9.6% of the chinese market.
3.25% is the annual interest rate, it compounds and will cost considerably more than a one-time 10% tax would.
I think Vinay has great insights into gun control, the hexayurt, and some other topics, however, on ETH, I think he's totally in error. I'd be happy to livestream chat him about it.
The syntax isn't meant for you to have to create a temporary variable in order to use it; that would be pretty pointless. It's meant for cases when you already have a variable with the same name as the key you want to set.
> I think it seems very likely that there would be a sudden influx of Starcraft clones and other RTS games made from the engine flooding every app store.

I don't see why. Even if the code was leaked, it would still be illegal for people to use that code. Blizzard still owns the copyright, and I doubt it would be hard to show that a game was just StarCraft reskinned.

> Blizzard doesn't want people making money off their IP, plain and simple.

I'm sure they don't, but it's not clear that it would have any real effect on them. If they've released the game for free, would it harm them in any way?

I don't know if it's right or wrong to distribute the source or to return it to Blizzard. Obviously it's against the law to redistribute it, but I'm not sure that it would be immoral. Mostly, I see a lot of half-baked black-and-white arguments in the comments on this article, and I'm just trying to point that out.
Agreed, a placeholder="your@email.com" works just fine.
I googled it, and --dump-dom simply dumps the output of document.body.innerHTML. I have not used headless chrome at all, but I imagine it would not be that hard to get it to dump document.documentElement.outerHTML instead.

(execute JavaScript on the page is most likely possible?)
To be fair, I also hate every other init system.
Nope. It's called developer ergonomics.
By those numbers it would take only about $425.6 billion to manufacture all 100 factories, which I think is probably an estimate that's off by orders of magnitude in the wrong direction. And of course time and materials are a large factor as well.

I still feel like the reluctance to invest in pumped storage is ultimately going to be what does us in.
I totally agree. When working on React, Redux drove me insane. The way it expects you to wire actions/data is completely stupid in my opinion.

It took me a bit of time to fully understand MobX and I think it's still rough on the edges but its modelisation and usage make so much more sense.

MobX is an elegant solution compared to Redux's brute forcing approach.
I wrote a similar library that is more restricted and "obvious" in what it does:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/jsane/
18 months after discovery, the “Nintendo PlayStation” is finally working
That's an interesting question, and I think it reveals something about the difficulty of studying consciousness strictly in a "scientific" way, i.e., based on experimental results, empirical evidence, falsifiability, reproducibility..

How can we test the existence of a wholly subjective/interior experience? This seems to relate to, for example, if it's possible to measure and quantify pain (or pleasure I suppose) objectively.
I'm a lead data scientist and I don't have a degree. I do have programming/technical chops though which helped a ton.
No one on this thread seems to have read the article - the article is about trust-busting Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. As far as I can tell, everyone on here (at the time of my posting this comment) is squabbling over the title, arguing whether oil or data is more valuable, the dubious definition of data, hard vs. soft goods, etc.

The central thesis of the article is that these companies have become large and the barriers to entry which come from this size may be perceived as being against the public good, as in the case of Standard Oil. That is what is meant by, "Data is the new oil," - it has nothing to do with the actual perceived or actual value of oil or data, but rather the idea that while it is impossible to compete with these companies. The Economist goes on to state that it is no proponent of trust-busting because, "size is not a crime," as they put it so therefore we have to regulate the capture of data in different ways.
I don't disagree with you, and I agree the numbers are slightly off (more like 2200 per day required and 800 per day burned, according to a number of calculators.)

But even still, at 220 lbs, your estimate of 1500 calories a day should not cause weight gain.
I find this interesting. While Google's culture and perks are fetishized in any sort of online thread, I haven't heard much about Netflix. As an outsider, all I have heard is that there is a lot of pressure to deliver, or otherwise you're out.

Genuinely curious, what is better at Netflix vs. Google?
People, I respectfully do not agree with this blog post.

How people can notice that work is not being done if they don't do meetings? How to assure they are communicating correctly?
How to prevent a bomb explodes a day before the deadline?

If you discover problems close to the deadline, you already have a big problem. My opinion is that these daily meeting are to prevent problems, like integration between systems.

People are comfortable on their own doings, they don't like meetings, they prefer a problem occurs and share the blame than doing daily meetings. We must do daily meetings because it's good for the project and not because we enjoy it, we do to avoid that some lazy or introvert collaborator don't share a problem that can affect everybody.

That's why we have a scrum master to do the dirty job and assure everyone is talking each other.
If your talking about the Priv, then :

Updates: It still gets consistent security updates, as recently as last month.

Build Quality: They already outsourced this a while ago, while maintaining high build quality. (The Priv was designed, but not assembled, by BlackBerry. This KeyOne is also designed, but not manufactured, by BlackBerry). Chinese manufacturing isn't inherently bad -- MacBooks and iPhones get made in China too.

I understand and agree with your concern about the BIS private key, but in terms of execution, BlackBerry really has done as good job with these recent phones.
Line ghosting [0]. Which can be alleviated with more spacing between lines and a larger font size, but even then I still find it problematic personally. "Ghosting" is a lot less noticeable on light backgrounds, which I think is just how the eyes "work".

[0] http://www.ironicsans.com/owmyeyes/
Project Name:How to Create Overwatch Game
Hi I am Yan Malinovskiy from Reute, Germany. I have 5 years experience in modeling. In the past I was working on Orange Cast and Forgotten Sector.
In this project, we are gonna build a game like "Overwatch" using: Unreal Engine 4, Maya, UV Layout, Photoshop, Quixel, Substance Painter 2, Substance Designer. This is going to be a very funny project . if you want to learn how to develop your own game then you are on the right stream.
This tutorial will cover all the details (resources, tools, languages etc) that are necessary to develop a game like Overwatch. You will be guided through all the steps and concepts, starting from the basic ones like setting up the right tools and programs for development. And ultimately you will be able to create your own shooter game like Overwatch.
Weekly 06 pm EET Berlin time on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday

https://www.liveedu.tv/highspeed039/Ze6mP-how-to-create-clone-of-overwatch-game/
You are so right! There is a significant movement in the education industry to move toward "Project Based Learning." Papert is one of the founders as I'm sure you know.

Here's a book I recommend if you're interested in learning more about this subject too: https://www.amazon.com/Loving-Learning-Progressive-Education...

I have been inspired by Papert/Little when building my curriculum to teach kids to code: http://block.school . Would love to hear what you think :)
Yes? From the Wikipedia:

"Because malloc and its relatives can have a strong impact on the performance of a program, it is not uncommon to override the functions for a specific application by custom implementations that are optimized for application's allocation patterns."
On a flight a year or so ago, I had a TSA agent open up a book I had in my carryon to half a dozen different places to swab for explosives. Not sure if that's standard procedure though, I think I had annoyed him earlier.
There is a big difference between Microsoft's Minecraft: Education Edition product and MinecraftEdu. Microsoft's product offering is a pale shadow of the much-loved MinecraftEdu. Educators are still complaining about it: the subscription named-user licensing model, the lack of the ComputerCraft Lua programmable robot turtles, the lack of classroom management tools, on and on.

It is a great example of a company buying an awesome product and then throwing it on the trash heap of history.
I was going to use "heat pump" but then was sure to get corrected on a traditional heat pump (like in your AC unit) vs a ground-based heat pump.
Ask HN: How do I pick a printer?
I need a printer for my co-working space (~70 people). I guess laser. Color, A4. Just a basic printer that won't cost a fortune now or in running costs. Our current one died after I bought some knockoff ink.

The best rated laser printers on Amazon quadruple in price when I look to add compatible/official toner. Some don't even seem to sell official toner. I'm traumatised by the "compatible" ink.

Surely printing is just printing, why so many options.

Is there not one simple printer I can buy, that just works, that just prints?
> One of my TODOs is to get full-page screenshots working as well.

https://medium.com/@dschnr/using-headless-chrome-as-an-autom...
In another sense, no progress has been made. We may have explained why consciousness is experiencing sadness as opposed to happiness right now, or red instead of blue, but not why "it is like something" to be conscious in the first place (i.e., the "hard problem").
This is an incredible and timely resource for me. I'm currently building a spaceship cockpit for my young sons. I'm a former EE, so I've got the blinky LEDs, switches, LCDs, keypads, and other physical UI components covered, but I'd love to add a sophisticated GUI component. Unfortunately, I'm not much of a coder. Do you know if any sci-fi GUIs are available as Android apps for tablets? I have 3 Kindle Fire tablets that I would love to turn into dedicated GUI touchscreens for the cockpit.
There are several state managers on npm, some very simple and small, as an alt to redux (or even mobx)
You can perfectly go to a daily scrum meeting and say that you are doing your job on schedule and have no problem to report and, maybe, are available to someone who need a help. These meetings must be rapid.
I agree. As soon as Apple bought Twitter people would want to hold Apple liable for some of the more unsavory things that happen on there. Apple will want to nip those complains in the bud quickly, else risk their brand reputation. Quick changes to appease the loud minority would likely overreach, frustrate the majority, and most of the user base just move on to some other service and think less of Apple at the same time. All while they'll be making no money off of it. It's a no win proposition for them.
As much as I'd love them to buy Netflix, people have been saying it for years and still doesn't seem to make sense, since in general Apple get's everything it needs from Netflix through AppleTV. Owning it wouldn't greatly increase their profits vs the cost to get it. More importantly, when its time to renew all the shows, all the major networks could simply increase all there rates knowing Apple can afford it. Yes, Netflix has a lot more original content now, but even that may suffer with a company at the helm.

For Tesla, Apple can build their own car if they won't but it sounds like they have decided against that and instead will focus on building the intelligence of the cars and then sell that to all the car manufactures through licensing which is much more lucrative based on the effort involved.

Instead Apple will continue to focus on smaller companies to gain more control over their supply chain and the companies that they have to pay licenses to. That is guaranteed savings in the long run vs something like Netflix which could devalue itself with a new owner.
So the AMT vuln was related to a lack of security on their web service? Somehow this does not increase my confidence in the rest of their code - if they didn't get this right, what else is wrong?
Well, the thing is that quite possibly professional swimmers say, might claim that the theory of hydrodynamics doesn't explain how moving through water feels to them and so say hydrodynamics doesn't answer the question of water movement "beyond conjecture".

An experience people would label "conscious" exists in the sense that many people would label their state of mind with it. A scientific explanation would involve describing why people are attracted to this position and might or might-not involve describing actual brain states could be considered "consciousness states". There's no reason to think such an explanation would be "subjectively satisfying" - that it would make people lean back and say "oh, now I understand".

But the problem is the "theory of consciousness" folks want to create a theory that is both scientific and "subjectively satisfying" and indeed they sort of start their argument with a unit of that thing that's subjectively satisfying and try to go from there. That seems like recipe for non-science.
what if my address is bob@accounts@localhost ?
How West Virginia Lost the Workers' Revolution
If you want readonly access using dot notation instead of keys then I have a simple gist [1] I use that works well for tracking nested dicts - even nested inside lists. It's a good way to pass a dict into a function expecting an object in some scenarios.

[1] https://gist.github.com/mmerickel/ff4c6faf867d72c1f19c
Yes but it's harder to fight then than it's now. There is that poem, First they came.
lol. that would've made me a really young father, but he's only 9.
Beware: Wikileaks are Russian. She said so.
Anything declarative is pretty much going to be unreadable to the average coder, who equates readability with "able to follow the Fortran-like step-by-step recipe of what the computer is being told to do or calculate".

If you've had a 30 year career writing imperative, OOP and functional code, with zero declarative experience (logic programming and that sort of thing), it's not magically going to be readable to you. You have to, ... ahem! ... backtrack a bit, and go down a different learning path.

It's somewhat telling that the Lisp shared an A score in the "Executable Specification" area with Haskell and that Proteus.

The subjective panel could tell that there is a wonderful executable specification there; they just didn't quite grok its notation or semantics. :)

Or maybe they did grok it: they started with an A+, and then docked points down to a B for all the meddlesome parentheses. :)
Scratch is the tool I go back to over and over for teaching my middle school (age 11 - 14) students. And it keeps getting better. The classroom feature they recently added completely resolved my number 1 issue with Scratch which was the difficulty in getting parents to follow through and approve their student's accounts to share projects with the class and teacher.

I do really really wish they would get off of Flash however. Managing the Flash installs on the shared laptops at our school is a headache.
Po-teh-to/Po-tah-to

https://energy.gov/energysaver/geothermal-heat-pumps

If you have an issue with how it's marketed, I'd suggest inquiring against it.
I think if 'Box' was broken down into smaller 'ZipLockBags', it would be better; it is doing too much things.
Model interest in design for them through your behavior, and provide opportunity in the form of tools, supplies, books, and exciting examples. Then encourage them in the right way when they do things. The child may or may not develop a lasting interest in design, everyone is different.
You can (and should) ask those questions about any kind of UI.

How to make sure you don't hit the wrong button?

What happens if the image recognition misinterprets your gesture?

What happens if the voice recognition can't understand context and misinterprets things as commands? (Hey, turns out the last one is a real problem people struggle with at the moment)

That's why the field of UI design exists at all - and I don't think neural interfaces would be any exception to that: They will require their own kind of UI design.

Of course today, we don't know much about the possible design primitives, but I could imagine it becoming interesting...
I'm eagerly awaiting mobx-state-tree. Basically the best of both worlds.

https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx-state-tree
Labor Board to Hear Employee Complaint Against Google
My son's school does a lot with Tynker. He ends up spending lots of time with it when he's given an option on what he wants to work on.

I know originally it was seen as a Scratch rip off, but they've really done some cool stuff, including having the ability to easily deploy Minecraft mods that he's created, and invite friends to join him to play around with them.
I don't care about Tesla but please don't shit on Netflix.

http://imgur.com/gallery/NnYOrNd
If you think status is why Apple succeeds, you don't really understand the PC or smartphone markets.
As a Darwinian just-so story about why consciousness is adaptive, that is fine. As an explanation of what consciousness is and how it works, it lacks specificity.
Yes, sorry - I'm simply speaking as an user of a given language runtime connecting to "C" exported functions. I understand that given a different implementation this would've not be needed.
How to get started in NLP
My point there is that so few do that the market doesn't respond to capture those who do so. The justification isn't about why, it is about the money in capturing them. Making an offer for people who want to buy cell phones without arbitration, and advertising it so those people know about the option, won't cause a positive return on investment and as such doesn't happen. It is a comment on why 'just go buy from someone who doesn't do it' isn't a solution.
WordPress's admin UI may be a good start: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/tree/master/wp-admin/...
>Would the people who chose employment through them as a preferable choice to other options (or unemployment) agree with you?

It's not just about them. These drivers are effectively working for 50% of what other drivers are making. This drives down the median wage for all other drivers, because more middle men will be able to step in and outcompete independent drivers. Overall, you get more people working longer hours for less compensation.

To what end? Who really benefits from this trend?
I agree, I had a legacy code base with this as well. It was a giant pain both in prod as you say but also for green developers. Really slowed down development.
The UK has been rather effective in preventing other terrorist attacks since the metro bombings. Just look at France. Ok, nobody expected terrorism by car until 2016 but there are also solutions to that one.
This is only tangential (I don't think the TSA is doing this), but this is similar to a fascinating technique for finding writing on discarded paper used as filler in bindings and such in old books.

https://medievalbooks.nl/2015/12/18/x-rays-expose-a-hidden-m...
At UN chemicals meeting, political will clashes with narrow commercial interest
Yeah, I understand exactly what the definitions of them are in detail, and somebody saying "It's differentiated because I like it better", which is what the person I replied to wrote, doesn't fit under the definitions.

I never said that attributes of Apple's product lines can't be classed as 'differentiated'.
Why & what exactly?
Or do yourself a favour and use Elm.
For limited set of problems templates are fine, like char/wchar_t for strings, double/float for vector algebra, template containers, etc.

Also there’re another evolved parts of the language that don’t suck. Such as the standard library: when the article was written, there was no STL _at all_.
Not really. With gravity, we always basically agreed on what we were trying to explain: why things fall or attract each other. With consciousness, we don't have anything much better than "why is it _like something_ to be conscious?" Even if we agree on such a definition, what do we do with it? And the more objective our definition ("why do organisms respond to their environment?") the further we get from the thing we seek to explain.
Or possibly 'extrapolation'. We've seen science explain magic time and again: eg, what was previously an evil spiritual infestation is now a bacterial infection. Think on the analogy, a metaphysical phenomenon became physical (and observed/manipulable). Unless you're a dualist, you buy that the brain (a science-accessible object) equals the mind in a fundamental way (from MRIs, brain damage, etc). Whether it's connected to a separate physical phenomenon yet unobserved, or creates the mind by emergence in a way that's not inductively accessible but only deductively (through information theory and the like, per this article). So yes, 'faith' in science to do what it does best - but 'extrapolation' from prior scientific achievements in explaining magic.