skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find impressive is how confident Steve Jobs was in 1981 that soon everyone would have a computer -- just like in 2007, he was confident that everyone would soon have a smartphone. I wasn't around in 1981, but I know that in 2007 that wasn't a popular opinion. People talked about the "smartphone market" as if it would stay a fraction of the general phone market.

In retrospect, it's pretty obvious that computers/smartphones would take over the world.

What are the revolutionary things that are starting right now that will be obvious in retrospect?

Best I can think of is that electric cars will become ubiquitous in a couple of years, and they might partially drive themselves, but that's not really a big revolution.

People who tried VR seem to be pretty optimistic about it's future, but I don't see many uses except for games and maybe some specialised applications.

What am I not seeing?
Check out ipfs.io
A working, transistor-scale replica of the MOS 6502 microprocessor
The interview is the less interesting part of the video, at least the Jobs part is "out there" and not really answering the questions.

Which Apple office was that? Bandley Drive maybe? http://www.cultofmac.com/128374/blast-from-the-past-floormap...
Hour-old account, archive.is domain. I feel like that's a hint...
Hydrogen fuel cells. Elon Musk is talking them down like Steve Jobs talked down native apps in favor of a web app.
Hell of work around a few git commands. Screencast, website, promo.

I prefer aliases i configure myself to understand them, most of my colleges don't even bother with that detail of git commands at all and use an ui.
> Only FOSS devs see it as time consuming and taxing

You don't need to see it, it's a simple fact. Engines like Unreal, Cry/Lumberyard, Unity and etc. aren't FOSS. Plus they are commercial products. Ask their developers if current balkanized mess helps them delivering features for game developers faster. The answer is no, it takes them much longer.

So please stop claiming that it's not a problem. It only shows that you aren't sincere.
Thanks for taking time to sign up. We'd like to gauge interest in the research community first, and will be in touch once the mvp is released.

Sorry if it disappoints you.
If you're on iOS You can copy it by long-touching the URL that pops up when you touch the link icon.
How do you tie yourself so tightly that it cuts your wrists?
300 miles of secret UK cycle paths have been discovered [audio]
Bitcoin crosses $2000
The reality is, in house tooling and engines do use multiple graphics api's, and that's perfectly fine. They are not slapdash implementations; professional graphics rendering programmers know and use these API's (See the GPU Pro book series, and Real Time Rendering), it's their profession.

A commercially successful multi-platform game like skyrim, use at least 4 API's (DirectX, NVN, PSGL, and DirectX), but no OpenGL or Vulkan to be seen at all.

Anvil and Frostbite have no existing opengl driven software titles. And that's perfectly fine.
API's are not lock-ins. They are API's.
Open source Tensorflow models (Google I/O '17)
And using those 4 APIs isn't free, don't you think? It means a lot of resources are spent on supporting them, instead of fixing actual bugs or developing better features. I.e. they pay the tax. This applies to in-house or third party engines all the same. And it's not perfectly fine by far.
less relevant
Here's to hoping he takes them to court in a way where he can prove damages.
Humans are fallible emotional beings
Any white hat suggestions?
That seems to me like the wrong way to look at this. The question shouldn't be "who killed X most", but "who did Y kill most"?

Otherwise, you're saying "well Americans are fine because even though they killed loads of people, it still wasn't as many as the Chinese killed".
It's quite smart what Transferwise are doing.

When a transfer is made from country A to country B, the money gets first transferred from the sender in country A to local Transferwise account in country A (avoiding fees and conversions). Then they send the money from local Transferwise account in country B to the recipient in country B (again avoiding fees and conversions).

The magic is how they ensure that the local Transferwise accounts in each country have enough money to do the transfers. They own a bank account in every country they operate in, and the money flows between those bank accounts. They need to move money between their local accounts in each country while minimizing the amounts transferred, but also minimizing the fees and conversions. When they actually move the money is up to them, they just need to ensure they have enough on each account. I guess there's a lot of variables to optimize for, and it would be interesting to know more details of the process.

I've also seen a company called Azimo trying to do a similar thing, but I haven't tried them yet.
Not research, personal anecdote, and I'm not even screaming of scandal and morality here. Consider it a cold statement of things that people cannot perceive. And I didn't mean early teen sexual intimacy, but younger than that. A negative event might block the link between desire for affection (give and receive) and physical contact, the root of sensuality. This will delay socialisation desire in hidden ways, causing alienation. A lack of affectionate human relationship distorts your experience of life, friendship, school, work, and just about everything. When you finally resolve that knot (which can be a morbid "psychiatric" period) you realize how much you just couldn't do because that part of your brain was locked.
> sorry NDA

So, it means you are just speculating.
It's a bet you would win. And not just for Graphic api's but asset API's.

Some engines like idtech4 (mb/ma, lwo) and anvil (max) directly use the asset formats which are created by an artsists desired application, not collada or fbx.
Kill Google amp before it kills the web
This is an illuminating article but unfortunately I think the CIA's campaign to smear and discredit Julian Assange has been highly successful on HN and elsewhere. Many people already disliked him for his libertarian ideology and saw his willingness to be a figurehead for Wikileaks as arrogance. Also, a lot of people saw Wikileaks release of documents and their opinion journalism during elections as giving an unfair advantage to Trump.

> One of the SMS messages makes clear that one of the
> women did not want any charges brought against Assange,
> "but the police were keen on getting a hold on him".
> She was "shocked" when they arrested him because she
> only "wanted him to take [an HIV] test". She "did not
> want to accuse JA of anything" and "it was the police
> who made up the charges". In a witness statement, she
> is quoted as saying that she had been "railroaded by
> police and others around her".

This is utterly crazy. How is this not seen as wrongdoing by the police?

> It is not over, but it is unravelling. The United
> Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - the
> tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether
> governments comply with their human rights obligations
> - last year ruled that Assange had been detained
> unlawfully by Britain and Sweden. This is international
> law at its apex.

Do powerful governments have to listen to the UN though?
This is fairly easily disproved by looking at non-US subreddits. I frequent /r/france, /r/unitedkingdom and /r/sweden and non-liberal viewpoints, although less popular, are certainly not silenced. They're just that: less popular (thus more downvotes).

Things are different for the trump subreddit because it's a subreddit that has actively engaged in hostility against other subreddits and particular reddit users. Calls for brigading, slurs and harrassment of other users and admins, I've seen it all by now. It's reprehensible.

The main Trump subreddit would have long been banned and nuked out of existence if it weren't as popular as it is today. Right now, Reddit would face too much backlash if it outright banned the subreddit for continuing not to comply with the site rules. So it's understandable that the admins are trying to handle the situation somehow -- that's not "an effort to reduce [its] visibility", it's a compromise that doesn't involve removing the sub outright.

There's plenty of pro-trump subreddits which aren't involved in this nonsense because they're not spamming, harrassing, using bots etc. You don't hear about them because they get lost in the noise.
>The article ends up basically trying to state, clumsily, that we don't live in the moment because we're seeking the meaning of life

It seems to me it states pretty much the opposite, saying we spend >99% of thinking about more practical stuff.
Has the tech improved in recent years? Last I looked into it, there were still big problems with lifespan.
Because minified JS and CSS was invented by AMP?

Unless you’re doing tree shaking, which AMP can’t do duplicate, compression has rendered “minification” useless long time ago anyway.
Astronomers on Alert --“Strangest Star in the Milky Way Dimming Again This Week”
It's 2017, dont't expect tabloid "journalists" to have integrity. Gotta drive thoses clicks.
Your first sentence reminds me of the bliss of music. Music is a subtle and sophisticated "plane" say, and predicting where you can walk while keeping some harmonic relationships and sensing it at the same time makes me think that it's a bit like aligning prediction, models and sensation into one.
I think PG has something about this but ideas is hackers are early-adopters and usually a sign of future trend.
Actually we could do even better and let the browser do the tracking and anonymize the data.
Maybe someone should dig up personal information about these journalists...
I am all for ending war on drugs and sentencing disparity. I am also all for change of culture in which father role is primary seen as a walking wallet with little importance to actually spend time with children.

However, none of it will magically change all that much unless school system changes fundamentally. As of now, schools with most difficult students get less funding and less experienced overworked teachers. They can not suceed, realistically.
/r/HailCorporate
Hydrogen is a shitty fuel. Hard to contain, burns too easy, explosive.
>Have you studied economics?

Yes, a significant amount about pricing and market theory. Very little of it supports significant government intervention into markets.

Look at net neutrality for example, the reason ISPs can be assholes is because of regulatory capture effectively granting them local monopolies. Google, one of the richest companies in the world, had to give up on Google Fiber because local regulations blocked them at every step. Now we're left with cable being the only viable high speed connection (fast enough for HD video, etc) for huge swaths of the US because of excessive regulation.

So the only feasible way forward by most left-leaning people is even more regulation on how traffic can be handled. Nothing to introduce more competition, just more fuel for the regulatory capture fire.

>And to make such a broadly sweeping statement is just full of so many fallacies I'm not sure where to start addressing them so I won't because it's pointless.

I'm not sure you are using the word 'fallacies' or the phrase 'full of' correctly. I'm making one assertion in that context, and it's that any large-scale economic study that tries to extract findings by looking at the after-effects of a policy change is little more than tarot card reading because there is no control group.

>Or can you more thoughtful provide examples?

Lookup any economic paper that tries to argue the importance of something like the New Deal. There is no control group, so you can provide as much analysis as you want but there is no way to really say whether or not it was the reason for the recovery because there are far too many confounding variables.

The same thing will happen with the analysis of the quantitative easing programs by the Fed. Doves will produce a wealth of things seeming to show that it prevented the second great depression and hawks will produce a wealth of things claiming that it prevented the important aspect of cutting weak companies from the market.

>I don't need to qualify it.

You most certainly do. You can't state something as brazen the left making the most scientific sense without citations.
Familiar with it. Swear I'd already included it as an extant system, though apparently not.

Thanks!
Ok, since we both know the city, which big restaurant is owned by the blue-eyed daughter?
What do you plan to prove with this by pretending it is affiliated with YC when they are quite clear they don't believe in 'co-founder meet-ups'?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14383526
My gut feeling agrees with that, but I would love to hear a more objective or well-reasoned explanation of it.
See also: https://longform.org/archive/publications/new-york-times-mag... and similar
> No longer does the thing need to be stuffed with hydrogen.

It didn't need to be then - the helium constraint was artificial due to the US not allowing Germany to import the gas. Link at bottom. Nowadays it's a rather rare and precious gas though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg-class_airship
First problem is that you've mistaken an opinion piece for reporting.
There isn't one. Claims like that are just used to make rhetorical points, facts be damned.
>After 10 years it's now as important to kids as Facebook.

Are there some stats on demographics? I know it was cool for kids like 10 years ago, but did the demographics just shift with the initial age group or are they still actively getting teenagers?
Identify a problem, and develop a solution for it. Don't let anyone, even yourself, hold you back from solving that problem. It can be a problem at any scale. With sufficient motivation and commitment, you can solve just about anything.
Although Angleton ultimately was proven correct by Mitroyken.
In 1981 I'm not sure that it was so obvious that computers would take over the world, definitely not to the general public. For context, I was 10 years old at the time, and was the only kid in my school that owned a computer, a TI-99 that used a cassette drive as storage. It was so left-of-field to own a computer, that I remember not even really talking about it to my friends in school, because they had no context for why anyone would want such a strange device.
You just start doing, that's it. Don't overthink just start it NOW! No work is perfect, you have to release it and let people judge so you can improve or abandon but if you release nothing, you will never know.
No one else can answer these questions for you. If your rationalizations don't make sense, they're covering up for deeper fears you may be reluctant to face.

Imagine starting work on these things right now and notice how you feel. Investigate from there.

Or, ignore the feeling, and go work on your dreams anyway :)

Best wishes

Also, an important thing to realize is that everyone is bad at stuff in the beginning. In the words of Jake the Dog, "Suckin at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something!"

Or (can't remember where i got this) "Every artist has 10,000 shitty drawings in them, it's best to get them out as quickly as possible."

Deliberately making something bad (because it will probably end up sorta bad at first, whether you want it or not) can help you overcome the delusion of "it has to be perfect or people will judge me!"

Aim to fail because failure is an essential part to success. You keep sucking until one day you wake up and realize things are going really well. You have to make it to that day though. The only real failure is giving up.
Advertising has given Google tunnel vision with respect to search, I think.
99% of the human species blows their time on Facebook so don't feel too bad about it
Over the years, there have been many "friendly interfaces to git", in both UI or command line form.

They all suffer from the same issue: in the face of conflicts they just failsafe to good old git.

I think these tools are good if you want to do something more productively but in the end you will still need to know about git.
I'm not a native so can't tell about West. I admire Elba more as an actor though, maybe it's that authenticity thing.
http://mdk12.msde.maryland.gov/assessments/high_school/look_...

Looks OK to me, for an 18 year old. Nothing on integration/differentiation or imaginary numbers, and the use of matrices doesn't really show why they're useful - but that stuff can be covered in the first year of college.
I know it would be a major undertaking but I can't help but think that building a similarly dis-integrated but complete computer would be a really interesting project.
Use zip ties and tighten them with your teeth

Tie one hand very tight. Use a loop of rope for the other wrist, and loop it round the wrist too many times squeezing the hand though.

Use unsuitable rope

Use ratchet handcuffs and over tighten.
They don't have to in the strictest sense in the same way as they don't have to abide by the Geneva Convention even if they were a signatory. However, in the long term it affects their image as a country, allies trust it less, are less willing to make deals based on good faith, and so on.
You missed the point, it's not supposed to be 'comparing' anything. See the thread I linked to.

(Also 'performance' is a broad term that encompasses load time. If a page loads faster it performs better).
You can skin a cat in many ways. For one case where the architects of the genocide did not get away with it there are multiple where they did.

I am not implying that what US did was a planned genocide.

I am just pointing out that above is not a rebuttal of it.
For more than a decade I've refused to read the newspaper or their web equivalent and haven't watched an once of TV news. I usually just get wind of the big lines via reddit or hackernews, and almost never read the article but read the comments instead.

I honestly do not know if this is a good way to get my news, but at least I'm not getting depressed daily, or being lied to by one journalist. I only get the important information, and I get to see different educated and community-sorted points of view on the subject.
This reminds me of a quote attributed to Van Gogh. No idea how accurate it is, but the sentiment is great.

> "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

(ofc: Replace PAINT with anything you like!)
You're overthinking it. Assange only has to be afraid of being arrested, for fear of being extradited somehow. The specifics of the UK/Sweden situation really don't matter.
Other way round: you're feeling a desire to contribute, but you're not seeing an unmet need. Start by finding an audience, even if it's just one person. Maybe you actually want to make a different kind of contribution such as through volunteering.
> to handle the situation somehow -- that's not "an effort to reduce [its] visibility", it's a compromise that doesn't involve removing the sub outright.

I'm certain what will happen is that the admins will keep adjusting the anti-voting ring algorithms until they effectively nerf all of the accounts that frequent the_donald and vote there.

Then they have a cover for any backlash because they didn't do anything specifically targeting the_donald, it just happens to be the case that the_donald "unfortunately got impacted" by the new algorithm due to the community's behavior.
Hey, that just makes me feel worse!
Another great alternative that I use every day is https://hub.github.com, especially if you work with GitHub.
For example, correctly merging a finished feature branch requires up to 15 individual Git commands!

Am I missing something? Does `git merge` imply fourteen other commands?
I don't understand why should you delete any piece of your work. Disk is so cheap you can keep it forewer.
For your Youtube channel, I'll advise you to prepare a few more before launch: this way you'll be able to skip a week or two easily... which should lessen the fear of not being able to keep the pace. Also you can choose a two weeks release schedule which is easier to keep (video is a lot of work).

Having deadline helps a lot to start and finish projects. Procrastination can also be change in productive procrastination: instead of making you video you can write a blog post. For example, I'm right know programming a game I wanted to start for a long time instead of writing a research paper (and oh, commenting on HN).

Finally I use visualisation before starting something. Instead of just thinking or writing down "write the blog post about XXX" I envision the final product for some time and how it will affect positively my life. Then I have more motivation to actually start it!
Another useful perspective to have is to start thinking in terms of other people's needs.

Eg. instead of "how can I make a million dollars" ask "how can I provide a million dollars in value?"

Thinking in terms of people's needs is also beneficial to relationships and mental health, ie. noticing the needs of those around you, how you are / aren't meeting those needs, as well as your own.

This way of thinking helps me make decisions in my life.
Uber is trying to outdo the U.S. healthcare system. You can't know the price until you need to leave. They have your calendar. Sure would be a shame to be late to your meeting/date, better pay up. They know where you live. They will happily take you from your home into the city for cheap. Need to get home somehow? Train shut down for the night and you have no alternative? Add $30 because fuck you. Oh by the way, if you try to make any software that compares our prices with anyone else's, we'll sue you. It's like having to do battle against HFT bots by reading the stock prices in the back of the newspaper. No thanks, I'll just drive and avoid all of this hassle.
https://github.com/Originate/git-town/blob/master/documentat...

I think it would be good if the docs had the git commands that are run for a git-town command.
> I don't think they're actually are a lot of Apple fan is claiming that the one benevolent company should control everything as you posited earlier your post.

True, of course. But I think many like the fact that Apple is not an advertising company, that Apple has a transparent business model, that Apple (for now) defends its users' privacy.
I think that's quite a common experience - I tend to find that I develop small pockets of mutual trust (usually <5 people) in highly political and competitive companies. I think aggressively metricised environments are very hard to feel comfortable in because you don't feel like you have a stable footing.
Git Town looks thorough to me. It includes well-written source code in Go, plenty of edge-case error checking, good messages, and excellent feature tests. Kudos!

If you're interested in branch aliases, here are some that may be helpful that I use at GitAlias.com.

topic-start = "!f(){ branch=$1; git checkout master; git fetch; git rebase; git checkout -b "$branch" master; };f"

topic-pull = "!f(){ branch=$(git branch-name); git checkout master; git pull; git checkout "$branch"; git rebase master; };f"

topic-push = "!f(){ branch=$(git branch-name); git push --set-upstream origin "$branch"; };f"

topic-finish = "!f(){ branch=$(git branch-name); git checkout master; git branch --delete "$branch"; git push origin ":$branch"; };f"

branch-name = rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
> let, const are slower than var, for example.

They aren't slower anymore in V8. Most ES6 features are now about as fast as their ES5 counterparts.
Vaguely related: I've been experimenting with positive visualisation - you picture yourself in the future achieving something or other. I think it may help focus the brains pondering / neural pattern recognition on positive stuff rather than what junk's on TV etc.
Using simple things as much as possible is always a good idea until you need a more complex thing.