skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genuinely can't thank everybody for all the feedback. A lot of you mentioned that we're not comparing apples to apples here, and you couldn't be more right. I take full responsibility for this, and I really apologize if the site's design made it look that way.

Each of the implementations were built at a completely different time by different authors and are not representative as official library implementations at all. In no way was it our intent to make it seem like a reference of performance comparison between the different libraries, so again I apologize if it comes across that way.

We do need to standardize each of the apps so that they can actually be compared, but until then we'll need to make sure that things are more transparent. In the next few days we'll add some changes to how we display each of the implementations for this [1].

[1] https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas/issues/36
it's not free, it's just free of payment by person in need, but someone has to pay the bill, seem pretty selfish
1. How can one still function if you don't care about most basic emotions like pain? Trickquestion, one can't.
I had a visa interview in 2012. It was a few questions, but I think it largely depends on why you are coming to the country and where you are coming from.
You've just described 2nd and 3rd generation AR
I take it people here do not like yogurt.
There's nothing inhuman about asking visitors to prove they're only going to visit and not stay.
Norway.
If they are self driving you can just step in front of them & they stop, right?
Or prisons do discourage crimes, they just don't do so very well if the suspects aren't brought to justice. People are natural gamblers, and will be likely to discount the risk of punishment if there's a decent chance they'll get away.
> How about across different banks?

This is a solved problem in most of the world, except for US and Canada

(Inside SEPA they're almost like a domestic transaction as well though it takes a couple a days)
Not a market per se, but there seems to be a lot of low hanging fruits related to machine learning.
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All currencies are an agreed upon abstraction of estimated future value. Some are less gentlemanly than others (inflation gives more value to the people that receive the money first in the money multiplier cycle.) Inflating digital scarcity by creating endless new liquidity pools which are not fungible with the largest liquidity pool reduces consensus, liquidity, and cooperation. The trade is in the hopes that the other projects create something useful and good beyond their liquidity/currency value. So far, they've caused more harm than good. You can fork technolgy and lower margins to 0, you can't fork network effect/adoption which is why VC's care so very much for network effect in their investments. It's one of the few ways to beat a billion dollars out of a capitalist society built to reduce margins and pricing power over time.

Thus, it's amazing that digital scarcity is working at all, it was tried and failed before with Chaumian cash, this one is working, but it could driven to failure be endless fragmentation, or at least slowed greatly. Speaking a common language is great. Fungibility is great.

If you are building awesome tech, do it, you don't need a "new" token to side step fundraising regulations. This idea that you can avoid securities law by offering securities but calling them "coins" is pretty silly.
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a reaction to technology overreach in ours lives. People are sick of their phones, laptops, sleep tracking, social media. We want to reclaim our mind back. There is place in LA that does Buddhist retreat where you sit in silence for 1 week, its booked 8 months in advance.
I was imagining a solution that I think is equivalent to what you suggest. repeatedly shrink the object by a one (or small n) pixel margin. When there's nothing left, back up one step. You'll have one (maybe a few) tiny object that should be inside your largest inscribed circle and near its center.
I've been putting off watching "The Wire" -- I stopped shortly into season 1 -- because I just couldn't take any more depressing scenarios in my life.

Yes, this is a personal comment, and probably as such, OT.

But, it's time. As another commenter says, "the cycle repeats."

I got on the wrong side of that cycle. As a quippy quote on Facebook just reminded me again, yesterday, "The fears we don't face become our limits."

When Trump was elected, I started rewatching "The West Wing."

(By the way, many of the issues we currently face -- issues, not personalities -- the writers of that show addressed in interesting and informative fashion.)

It's time for the counter-point.

Not quite out there, yet. Still watching a show. But, closer to the world we live in.

Sorry for the personal comment, here, in a way.

Today's little quote from the same source, on FB: "Be very careful what you think. Your thoughts run your life."

A reason I held off on watching "The Wire."

But it's time, now.
I'm sure you're already aware, but the way they got some of the characters helped with authenticity. Felicia Pearson ("Snoop") was found in a club by Michael Williams ("Omar") and her life to date was rather close to those portrayed in the show. Crack baby, killing someone as a kid, prison time etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Pearson
Their economy has also been growing at about 7% per year. That's 40% over 5 years, which is around a trillion dollars (more in PPP).
They had to get it out of the door at some point. The industry support they received was tremendous as it was and I imagine more waiting would have made some people there very nervous. I think it turned out well as it did.
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"Now some dopey kids in Palo Alto get to decide the political future of the European Union based on some coding bootcamp that they went to. This doesn't seem right."
This is a terrible article which autoplays a loud video and has a misleading title.
Well, down here in Europe this works exactly like this. You arrive to the airport, scan your printed boarding pass once, go through gate and pass your bags through xray (no taking off shoes), then go to boarding and scan pass again. No arriving 3 hours early, usually no lines, no extensive security checks. It is normal to arrive 40 minutes before takeoff if i have to check in or 25 minutes if i am already checked in (i have a VIP pass at the airport so i never stand in lines, but that's cheap). About half of the time nobody even asks for my passport, at least when i fly within Schengen.

What you described is the American TSA hell, this is not normal everywhere in the world.
When I first clicked on this, I thought that the guy must be from a banned Muslim country or something based on the title. So I assumed it would be another case of "anti-anti Muslim Ban" story.

But it turned out he just got rejected like any other normal person could get rejected. That is what I meant. Like his position to be a Conference Scholarship Recipient does not have anything to do with this. He is just a normal guy like you and me who got denied for a normal reason.
Could use some more testers. Right now only tested on my roku tv.
thats a pretty standard recommendation from practically all german car manufacturers - to change oil roughly every 30-35k kilometers - which is about 18k miles.
I've found this extremely frustrating because people in hacking culture for the main part are unwilling to invest time to figure out the psychology of the larger population.

Yes, most people are OK with it. Hackers' response to this datum tends to be 'well they shouldn't be because liberty and reasons,' but what hackers are missing is that most people are not logical an also there are far more of them than you so it's important to get to people where they are rather than where you would like them to be.

It's the same thing when people get upset about the NSA or other spy agencies. I have been pointing out for years now that such agencies perform an important task of government (because no government, organization or nation prospers by being less informed or allowing others to gain an information asymmetry over it). Instead of acknowledging this social reality and developing strategies that incorporate, people demand absurd quixotic solutions that ignore everything we know about economics and human behavior.

The sad reality is that most people (~80%) are passive and just go along with whatever they're told to. There's a small sadistic fringe at one end of the political spectrum that responds to all problems by blaming them on the weakest people they can find as scapegoats, and a small idealistic fringe at the other that clings to a nive idealism; both fringes are capable of totalitarianism.

People in hacker culture decry this state of affairs, but most of them don't want to give up their cushy jobs or privileges or take any risks, and so they get co-opted into building the next iteration of oppressive technology by default.
It happened at much much larger scale in 2010. Noone gave a shit.
also on that topic, i am reminded of this story[0] where Salvador Alvarenga survived 14 months lost at sea.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/07/fisherman-lost...
I was going to say that the API is almost identical to Snabbdom's and ask whether that was voluntary or an independent reinvention, but given how similar the "inline example" is[0][1] (down to the comments) I assume either snabbdom was used as a starting point or the inspiration is very much wilful?

[0] https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom#inline-example

[1] https://github.com/snabbdom/snabbdom#inline-example
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Ask HN: What do you think about the Pull request User Experience on GitHub?
I am having frustrations with the current view of the PRs on Github and I would like to know if I am the only one with those or what other frustrations other developers might have.

I think the gist of it is that the workflow for PRs is centered around the conversation and not around the code.

More specifically:
- When looking at the code the comments are made inline, when a conversation gets more than a few lines. All the code context disappear. So instead of having the comments displayed inline they could be folded into a bubble inside the line number (cf how quip does comments)
- The current view of code changes is a list. It doesn't reflect the hierarchical nature of the files and how they relate to each other. Would be good to have a file explorer on the left that only shows modified files hierarchy.
- The view is by default limited to the modifications of the files, removing the context for understanding. It feels like the whole file should be displayed with a focus on the modified parts.
- Would be awesome to be able to select different themes for syntax coloring.

- Code is completely static. There is no way to get documentation or do Go to definition. This is the hardest one to solve but would be really useful for reviews.

Thanks for the feedback!
Its objectively better in every way. He may not even be out the cost of a flight (if he didn't buy it yet -- and even if he did, he may still be able to use it), he won't have to wait around in a terminal or a detention center for an unscheduled return flight, he'll have the opportunity to appeal and, assuming he's really not trying to immigrate, gather the documentation required to prove that and he should be permitted a visa.
I send through transferwise. It's very fast and the exchange rates are very close to the forex rates - it was a lot easier and cheaper than using bitcoin.

The trick is to match flows of cash so they money isnt actually transferred internationally - my cash from the uk was sent to someone else in the uk and my US bank account was credited from some other US-based bank.
Fascinating... I had a similar list, and The company I work for is on it. Drop a line.
Using a developer diary is essential to my work. It's very similar to keeping a laboratory notebook.

Initially I kept notes in Evernote, but eventually switched to Quiver (http://happenapps.com/).
Babel does not require ASM or WASM. It is (usually) simply an ES6 to ES5 transpiler.
I don't know the difference. Only that my parents have loans from my undergrad, and I can choose to just not pay them, but I'm not a piece of shit (aka, my younger two siblings). But those loans can not get adjusted payments based on my income.
Thanks much, this feels like a much better line of reasoning to reach people like me!

Which airline refunds via BitCoin?
Not really. The noun "ship" is neuter (das Schiff), and most boats are referred to in female form.
It can also be useful to keep a diary of your work experience. Not the proprietary information, but the assignments, personal interactions, politics.

Something that is yours and walks out the door with you, every day.

When the system or someone starts to screw you, such a record can be useful and actually viewed with some validity. Better yet, can be meeting minutes and internal communications that document the situation.

There's a reason Comey is known for writing memos about problematic situations.
Low cost cloud providers. No idea why there's not a low cost competitor to AWS, GCE, and Azure. And I don't mean just a VPS. Full service cloud with equivalents for EC2, ELB, S3, Lambda, etc.
IMHO "The Shield" is the only possible rival to "The Wire". Who is the McNulty equivalent in that, though? Surely not Vic? McNulty was never truly that cynical; his cynicism was an act. Perhaps you're thinking of Shane?
Second this. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, billions of people are going to come online over the next five to ten years. If (according to the World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/2-billion-people-worl...) there are really 2 billion people unbanked, we stand to see cryptocurrencies and cell phones lead to an explosion of people connected to the financial system.
This level of deliberate ignorance of history is surprising to see on HN. Lots of people were just as concerned about abuses under Obama (and Bush before that) as under any other administrations.
There are previous major discussions:

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14382184

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374533
Using the world "asking" for the dehumanizing process that is immigration in USA is almost insulting.
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For the of the thrill of not knowing how much actual spending power you have from one day to the next?
> For those concerned about password managers: Leave off something, somewhere in your password.

I like the idea. So what you suggest is to manually type, say, "7&>>", before or after every password entered by the password manager? Or to copy-paste the "7&>>" from somewhere.

A password manager is essential for good security (and I use one) but I'm concerned that it can be devastating point of failure. It can be worse for highly-organized people who keep absolutely everything in there.

It's a single, up-to-date database in a nice standardized format with known filenames and clearly labeled data that lends itself to automated malware that can seek it out when your password manager is open/mounted/decrypted.

As you said, a majority of folks won't be bothered, but a good extra step for someone highly security conscious.
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Stars also don't interact with other stars that way. AFAIK, the bullet cluster is not evidence for WIMPs.
Because you don't want to live in a world where everyone behaves like that (towards you too). I thought we learned that lesson in the cold war.

It's easy to debate from your position of power, but remember that it's easy that you can easily be the one rotting in an slump UK/EU/African or even your own bureaucracy.

All the kid wanted to do is visit a tech conference. Why on earth are you defending the shitty process that tried to prevent that?
You will grow old and die while you are waiting for the general population to learn moral reasoning and com e to its senses.

Hackers need to understand that political fights are not won by logic and persuasion because most people don't like thinking. Most people want to have a Good Time when they're young, then Settle Down, Raise Kids, and retire to enjoy a Quiet Life. For the majority of people political issues are an unwelcome distraction from that unchallenging life script and trying to get them all fired up and thinking like you do is guaranteed to be a waste of time.
It would be impossible to make a realistic show that adhered strictly to a leftist teleology.
currently.. no they dont ..
5 years ago, over 100 million tablets had been sold worldwide and the iPad was entering its 4th generation. Your description is more apt for 10 years ago.
Vision VR/AR Summit 2017
During the presentation, there was a reference to a presentation by YC's Kat Mañalac to the YC batches.

Does anyone have a link to an example of this presentation, slides, etc?

Also, are there any presentions, materials, etc., that are given to the batches that are not used in YC's Startup School, and if so, what are they?
What a waste of energy.
To poor people apparently all the wealthy people look the same as well...
Bitcoin just surged past $2,000 for the first time
It's the end days of internal combustion engines.
I can choose not to use/give meaningful data to Google and Facebook, but I don't get to opt out of elected government.

I agree with GPP that the 2 aren't really comparable.
Seems like a natural progression in the survival of the fittest sense.
Among other reasons, because capitalism trains people to be consumers almost from birth and conditions them to be largely passive selectors rather than investing them with agency. This should not be construed as an endorsement of other -isms that also encourage political passivity to authoritarian ends.
Also the United States tax code is amazingly complex.
I do not keep a developer diary.

What I do keep is a large file of projects or snippets of projects, sometimes with extensive notes.

I refer back to these frequently to see how I did something or look at code samples.

But, as time goes on this has become a bit of maze to wade through. I spend time trying to remember what project it was etc. etc. Grep helps a bit :). It would be better to organize this somehow. Not sure I'm interested in a full blown diary though. DRY.
Don't forget Herc is the one who eventually gave the phone number of Marlo Stanfield to Carver from Levy's desk. That number was crucial in the final season.
Tell that to the RAF. When Zeppelins came to bomb London in WWI the RAF went up to meet them. Other than the fact that it's a daunting prospect to take a single little biplane up against a hulking sky mountain armed with maybe a dozen individually manned machine guns the biggest problem is that shooting a dirigible basically does very little.

When you shoot a Hydrogen filled Zeppelin nothing happens. The Hydrogen slowly leaks out, decreasing lift, but that can be compensated for with dropping ballast. Remember that fire requires those three key ingredients: fuel, oxygen, and an ignition source. An ordinary bullet does not provide an ignition source, and it only just barely helps fuel and oxygen mix.

The RAF developed incendiary rounds and, far more importantly, explosive rounds to take down Zeppelins. Having a round explode on the surface of the gas envelope opens up a large hole, causes prompt mixing of hydrogen and oxygen, and provides an ignition source. Most folks aren't going to have such weapons, it would be just as easy for them to acquire an RPG or MANPAD which could take down any aircraft, so the threat isn't exactly increased.

More importantly, Africa is a huge place, and at any given time most of it does not experience ongoing warfare.
And even if Babel compiled to asm.js, the clever thing about asm.js was that it was valid JavaScript supported by almost all browsers, it just might not be a fast path.

That being said, asm.js in general goes out of it's way not to allocate and invoke the garbage collector, so it's not the best target for other JavaScript anyway.
Airships were used during WWI, and they evidently can withstand quite a few gunshots. Winds pushing crafts into the ocean were a bigger problem than gunshots.
Outcompete Amazon (especially) on prices? Waiting to see who'll achieve that feat.

That aside, there's a cost threshold beyond which it wouldn't makes sense to offer cloud services​ at such ridiculous prices. If anything, I actually think compute prices might increase in future as demand for cloud services become globally outrageous, from Alaska to Zagreb.
It would be impossible to make a realistic show that adhered strictly to any teleology.
>what happens to Direct Law if there is a computer crash?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Are you talking about the flight control computers? If all of the redundant flight computers crash then the plane won't be controllable, but that is incredibly unlikely. It is like asking what will happen if all of the hydraulic systems fail, or if one of the wings fall off. If one of the flight control computers crashes, then that is one way of triggering a switch from Normal Law to Alternate Law.

>Could what is described in the article--pilot giving control input but plane not responding because computer is overriding it--happen under Direct Law?

No. Under Direct Law the pilots inputs are directly translated to control surface deflections.
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I'm moving out of a house right now in the midwest that bumped my rent by $100/mo each year, but they listed it back at my original rate this year. For some reason, being a multi-year tenant cost me an extra ~$3000.
I think pcwalton expressed it clearly here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14380575
That's actually a really good idea, it'd also be in there interest to do so since the UK makes up a good chunk of their users.

We do like our porn.
For those of you experiencing cryptocurrency FOMO or regret, some perspective: every single day, there are stocks which see increases in value of over 50%[0]. Don't kick yourself just because this opportunity was more visible to you than the others.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/gainers
The Conservatives have stolen UKIPs voters by swinging them to the right. They've been able to do this with impunity, in part because of the Labour Leadership, whilst supported on a level I've never seen before in terms of passion, it is frankly not universally popular enough. The only metric you can measure against is how many seats a party wins by. Will Corbyn build on Milliband, or fair worse?

I speak to some hardcore Corbyn supports and their passion is incredible, but alas, only one person get a vote and for all someone passion a pensioner will vote Conservative out of habit and inertia.
>> could something be dismissed if we don't fully understand it?
> No, as the entire concept of "fully understand" is ridiculous. We can't fully understand anything, so if you assume the answer is yes then we could dismiss everything.

It's not a concept, it's just my lousy English and awkward abbreviation of "to the point where" with "fully".

I'm here just to play a game of logic.

Did we dismiss the ether at the point when we managed to understand it better/enough or we managed to dismiss it after we started to play with other cards?
Do you pay the best too? $500k - $1 million a year? Or more? Give them private offices with plenty of sunlight?

Probably not.
Golang for furniture.
If the effect applies to programming languages, it could explain why some people love lisp so much.
Is there a difference? Ones the monkey the other the organ grinder, I leave it to you to decide which is which.
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