skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I frequently have that many tabs open because I use them as lighter one-shot bookmarks (although see onetab). Basically things that I need/want to refer back to once or twice but don't want to bookmark. So they tend to stack up until I go through them and close out the stuff I'm no longer interested in. Really I think FF/etc should probably just garbage collect most of them if they haven't been active for a few days.
Hidden is a lie
Not sure why this is posted. But I'm working on a straight port of re-frame in javascript, it's an abstraction on top of react-redux, a true 1:1 port. For me re-frame's api is the holy grail (for now) of UI programming.
In 2012, early warming of the Gulf of Maine precipitated an early and voluminous lobster molt. (The summer lobster are soft shell, meaning they have just molted). This glutted the market, creating dock prices near $2/ lb. During this summer, someone in Maine could buy a lobster for ~4-5 dollars.
It's confirmed: the OnePlus 5 will ship a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
What an absurd chain of logic. Interviews are conducted by human beings, of course their reproducibility sucks. It's not like non-whiteboarding interviews are going to be great at that either.

You could replace them by software, ala "here's a coding problem with a set of unit and integration tests to validate against, go nuts" but that would have its own set of issues.
"Last week, Uber notified Levandowski that he either needs to deny that he downloaded and took any documents from Google, or to hand over the documents to Google. Otherwise, he would be at risk of getting fired from Uber. Uber has already removed Levandowski from working on any projects related to LiDAR technology.

Levandowski’s lawyers argued that the court’s order to Uber, as well as Uber’s threat to Levandowski, would violate his constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination."

This is the actually interesting part of the article. Judge Alsop directly addressed the Constitutionality of compelling Uber to use any means necessary, including termination. I doubt that Levandowski's attorneys will prevail.
Yup, which is why it needs to eventually change. For the first version, I was okay with the trade-off.
The controversy in the US and Canada revolved around vehicles that did not have DEF systems, in particular those with the EA189 engine.

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/company-car-tax-advice/news/whi...

VW has since announced a EA288 engine that deprecates the old one, and the new engine uses DEF.

But sure, there is suspicion that a lot of other makers cheat to degrees. Use less DEF and it's more convenient and less costly for your users. Use the EGR less and improve fuel economy and reduce possible maintenance issues. Etc. That was not the primary problem, though.
s/STANDARD/ALL/
Generating Fingerprints with Deep Nets for Presentation Attacks
How about Hyrothrax? That name got a fine Anthrax-vibe going for it!
A bit confusing that this article starts out stating that HR is flawed fundamentally and irretrievably because of the nature of its inherent purpose, and then goes on to suggest ways to reform HR. Can you reform something (and also, why bother reforming something) that has, as its purpose, something diametrically opposed to all of your supposed reforms?
I'm finding that the "web" link bypass option no longer works for me. I even tried it in Chrome incognito mode. Is anyone else having this problem?
This site is so pretty.
Snark and gratuitous Nazi references are bad here.

Beyond that, there's something degrading about comparing corporate HR to the Gestapo no matter how much critique corporate HR deserves. When you blithely escalate to historical atrocities, you're doing two things to the discussion: (1) dramatically diluting it and (2) making it explosive. Internet forums can't withstand that kind of thing for long, so please don't post like that to HN.
Show HN: Blog2Cast – A service to convert blogs to podcasts
Hi guys,

I am working on a side project and will appreciate any feedback !

The idea is real simple, if you have a blog, and want to increase your readers engagement, one way is to convert your blog to a podcast, helping your readers listen to your blog on the go.

The core idea is working, even though limited, the blog cannot exceed 1500 characters, but that's mostly technical and can be solved with additional work.

The feature set is quite limited, and that were I am mostly interested in feedback, what feature should be next ?

I was thinking about:
1. Supplying the blogger with an HTML snippet for easy embedding in the blog.
2. Re-scan your blog daily and produce a new audio file, if changed.

I am also searching for a new name, blog2cast is just a temporary name, What do you think about vocalitic.com ? That name is not too specific and it does relate to the 'vocal' part.

Thanks Allot !
Maybe a state political office first. Governor, perhaps?
I don't know but it seems to me Ruby is dying the same way anything else with 200,000+ questions on Stack Overflow is dying (i.e. it isn't).
This. As a millennial buried in student debt I can hardly afford to put any money aside for a emergency fund, let alone a down payment on a house. Unless I get a major pay bump or cost of living reduction, I'm currently on track to pay almost 200% of my initial borrowed amount. All that money that could have gone towards a down payment will instead go towards a degree that I was told was necessary to "make a living".

So my options are either find someone willing to loan me the down payment amount at an insane interest rate, or continue to throw money into the trash by paying rent.
I think the advice in this thread is generally good. The only thing I would add is to at least ask for half cash upfront and half stock vested. That way even if you end up quitting, you still get rich.
Its a validation and transition in the right direction. That said - I much prefer https://status.im/ -- focus on decentralization and which will be community governed.
I'm a Rubyist and don't know much Clojure, but that sounds pretty reasonable. I'm not sure if Ruby would have taken off if it wasn't for Rails. AFAIK, Rails pushed forward a lot of new ideas in web development and really brought Ruby into the mainstream. Going by that comparison, I would think it'd be hard for Clojure to really catch on without a revolutionary framework that you need it to work with, which may be tough to pull off considering that it's all on the JVM.
I don't hate emacs, I have however invested a lot more time and work into vim than emacs so that is why I do not use it.
Python has metaclasses, and they're used extensively in many of the frameworks that were critical for those startups (Django etc.). They're coming to Javascript too, in the form of ES6 proxies, which have been long awaited.

I actually think metaclasses are probably a better solution than prototypes, because they let you write the majority of your code in a class-based style and only incorporate funky abstractions when they're really necessary, which is typically infrequently. My point is that prototypes are strictly more powerful than (non-metaclass) class-based systems, and that this power lets you build powerful abstractions that can dramatically decrease the number of lines of code you need to write for an initial system.
Yes. This. Exactly this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/is-big-tech-too-p...

Scare quotes should be required for that phrase. "Free" market.
Thank you for writing all this out. It is very exciting!
These types of arguments on whether something is or isn't Christian or so prevalent on my FB feed, especially in regards to current politics, even being posted by non-Christians trying to convince their Christian relatives and friends to renounce a policy or politician.

My take would be - this is arguing within a nonsensical framework, and we are prolonging the hopefully last stages of the superstitious demon-haunted world era of humanity.
I have enough saved for a full 20% down payment, but I still can't afford a home in this area because the mortgage would go above the recommended 30% of my income.

But apparently that's still my fault, because Millennials Deserve Their Suffering.
I think the disappointing thing here is that the anti-neutrality voice is most entirely corporate suggesting someone has paid to get these comments added.
I use Datomic everyday. While it's certainly a stunning piece of technology and you could pry it from my cold dead hands, I don't think it has that much bearing on the growth of the Clojure community.
Zesty (YC W14) Is Hiring a VP of Engineering
Agassiz, who is still remembered for his contributions to geology & fossil taxonomy, can't possibly be a great scientist as he committed wrongthink over a century ago.

Eventually, the only great scientists will be ones who are still available to have their opinions policed by modern progressives.
> Instagram is both a "media organization platform"

In what universe is that? Certainly not the Instagram I've ever seen. Mediagoblin's core compentency is 10000x more like Flickr than like Instagram. Now maybe that's not what they want to make, but damnit it's what they present themselves as trying to make and failing to make major progress on.

> One use case I imagine is to add media files to my local Mediagoblin instance, and then have them show up on my friends's federated social media feeds on various platforms (GNU Social, Mastodon, Pump.io, etc.).

Look, that would be a great secondary feature to add onto an already functional and installable tool. But you make the darn tool first and try not to invent imaginary problems!
Because GNU Social and Mastodon are social networks, and Mediagoblin is a tool. Do you know what you can already use to post images to social networks with tools? An authentication API and hyperlinks. Not a database redesign.
I think Clojurescript might be the thing. With advances in the Google Closure compiler, it's getting better and better. And the front end developer tools and libraries in Clojurescript are _the best_ out there. The holy grail for javascript exists in Clojurescript. Until then I'll keep making my Javascript env look like Clojurescript. With janky react devcards, Immutable.js, and react-redux.
> it probably has more to do with the weather conditions and the phase of the moon than your abilities as a person

You could say that about sailing across the Atlantic solo too but it wouldn't make any sense. It's all part of the journey and the accomplishment.

The "abilities" you speak of also encompasses emotional fortitude, decision making, pushing yourself, etc. The challenge doesn't need to be about being a world class mountaineer. For most - it's reaching a personal best and accomplishing something that scares you. That can make you feel even more alive.
That's like suggesting that heroku isn't competing with aws on things like database management. It is.
I guess something I have trouble wrapping my head around is when is it acceptable to give up on a11y? I mean, it seems improbable to get a11y into an expansive CLI application. Or a 3D game. When does it become OK to give up?
Another is to wrap the first option in _.memoize so you only create functions once per argument and you don't get unnecessary rerenders. Just remember that _.memoize only uses the first arg for cache lookups.
I don't understand why anyone would want telegraph neutrality stop
Most people don't want to work on their cars, true. I question whether the new, more complex cars are truly "more reliable" (how are we measuring and over what period of time?
Compared to cars from when?) or that the average person is "delighted" that independent mechanics can service less and less of their cars.
That is a difficult question to answer as there are many factors involved, not just the choice of language. JavaScript can be really fast, but WebAssembly may provide more predictable performance and faster loading times. The project website is a good resource to learn about the differences: http://webassembly.org
> They likely don't know of the prior art.

Anyone who's ever installed software on Windows has seen a wizard in action. I think "wizard" is actually in the titlebar in many of them, since these are often autogenerated.
Whoever modded this down thanks. When you mod a comment down it makes the post stand out more. Keep this in mind if it wasn't the original intention.
GitHub – Deeplocal/mocktailsmixer: Make a DIY Robotic Mocktails Mixer
Can you point me to the videos that you found enlightening?
I think there are plenty of DAMs out there that address your use case, even in GNU land. But the social aspect to media cataloging, organizing, and curating is an aspect to working with digital media that does not have a GNU solution besides MediaGoblin.

It is very important to content creators that such functionality does exist. In today's world of digital media, this precise feature, which enables easy collaboration, addresses one of the industry's biggest pain points. Even the monolithic media companies struggle to implement useful solutions to this problem.
"space" is the Processing files for detecting the hand, "web" is for showing and reading the data on screen and the .ino for Arduino. If I remember correctly I struggled quite a bit with the hand detection system and then we had to adapt it to the light conditions of the place, finding a good way to do it, etc.

Also of course I was just a couple of years in with learning programming while studying an unrelated degree.
> It would be interesting to see a IPC system that abstracted away where the other process was running or treated processes running on an entirely different machine or VM as another local process.

Forcing everything into the same abstraction can have issues. For instance, calling a different machine has orders of magnitude more overhead and different error scenarios than making a call to a local process. If you make them look identical, you obscure that.
It doesn't work with your screen reader because the site is rendered after the initial page load. The content is not prerendered. However, the technology allows prerendering, so it actually works with screen readers. Some pieces might need improvement (e.g. missing alt tag on images at the moment).

By the way, blind students use the education platform, and they are really happy that such an amazing, ad-free platform exists.
> vi wasn't designed to efficiently edit text.

That's entirely my point. It's not about efficiency. It's a lot like using an alternative keyboard layout. Sure, it isn't faster, but it's a lot more comfortable.

Vim is great for editing text. There are functions that can easily be used to accomplish the editing task you want to do. Having tools designed for the task at hand makes working easier, and more comfortable. It's akin to having more leverage.

> It was designed to deal with shitty keyboards of the time. And now it is a cult.

That's very true. Like many other projects, with age Vim has held to tightly onto tradition. The functions available in normal mode are the same functions bound to the same keys. Any change to that behavior is so fundamental, it simply doesn't happen.

> adopting vim vs. a top grade IDE

That is not what I, or most others are asking. Most people who use vim enter the "vim cult" simply because they enjoy using the tool. Even after decades of stagnation, they prefer vim to an IDE.

If there is something the "vim cult" wants, it is for you to let them use the tool they enjoy. IDEs inherently push tools out of their tightly defined (integrated) ecosystem. If someone wants to use the tool they like, and an IDE, they have to integrate the two. More often than not, that means a minimal implementation of vi inside the IDE.

TL;DR If I am in the "vim cult", you are in the IDE cult. All I want from you is to let people use their tools.
I agree; I think the "you steal the documents, we'll buy your fake company" agreements did take place, but they were all conducted verbally and so we're never going to see a smoking gun. But this will help establish that Uber knew or should've known that Levandowski had the stuff, at which point they will be hard-pressed to come up with an alternate explanation as to why they went ahead with the deal.
Cars are no longer built to the same degree of metal because in the old design the passenger cabin was the weakest part of the car, meaning you were far more likely to be killed in a crash.
This is already happening. Right now the most popular SUVs are in the "crossover" category, which have much better fuel economy. It appears most American drivers want:

1. Elevated driving platform.

2. Room for extra passengers and cargo.

I agree that the vast majority of pickups (utes) sold in the U.S. are much larger than necessary for their usage and in comparison with pickups sold outside of North America.
I'm not sure there's much in the way of news here and I doubt there will be a bombshell in the term sheet. If there is, the real news will come when the terms are actually disclosed.
What it's going to come down to, is whether the Chinese government has enough control to tell the general public to eat the loses and to make them take it (relatively peacefully).

If they do, this sets the basis of the play and outcome.

Yes, elites are escaping what they can of their personal assets -- and eventually, if necessary, themselves or their next generation.

As I stop to think about it, that could actually prove to be something of a safety valve, from China's perspective.

Anyway, with the Great Firewall and a thousand other things: It's not exactly as if they haven't been (at all) preparing for this.
(Source: ~25 years experience working with horses as a hobby)

At least in the US, inbreeding is indeed extensive. The vast majority of male horses are castrated at a young age, since intact males are considered more difficult to train and control (therefore more dangerous to humans) and more expensive to house than castrated males or intact females. Therefore, a small percentage of males end up fathering all the offspring. There are American Quarter Horse stallions with literally thousands of offspring (sometimes to their detriment, as when a popular stallion was belatedly discovered to carry a recessive genetic disease[0]).

It's therefore interesting to a modern horse person to read that "the Scythians maintained the natural herd structure" (a "harem" structure in which one male tends to sexually dominate several females - but several, not thousands, and not generally for his entire life).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressive_(horse)
While not on the list above, there are certainly others like Opal (Ruby in js)
I'd argue being able to know what you need is actually the critical part of the marriage – standing up for it is only one route – but it's the self awareness (or lack thereof) that seems to drive so many relationships (marriage and business) into the ditch.

So, I think your point really was spot on. Introspection is critical.
That's reasonable. Politicians have long searched for a way to exploit the dead vote.
>> get your hands on some meds that help you acclimate easier/faster

Do such drugs safely assist with acclimation, or do they mostly mask symptoms? It would be very dangerous to take them if it's the latter. I'm thinking of any similarity to pain killers - just because you can't feel the pain does not mean you should be running around trying to operate at 100%.
One of the most fascinating things to me about these sorts of proceedings is the multiple levels on which they operate. From a top level (the complaint) all the way down to preparation for various exits that try to minimize damage.
In my opinion, this is the way to go: all the funds go to the org. or don't fund raise.

Fundraising for yourself is a little strange, even if you use, "part" of the money raised to donate to a charity. Technically, the money you collect is taxed, which is a big chunk of what you've raised. You would need to start a non-profit for this to be 100% kosher IMHO, but even then, I've caught "organizations" that just say they're a non-profit or are, "waiting non-profit status" and it turns out to be a big scam. It really irks me, as it casts a bad shade on people doing it the right way. Just sell something to raise the funds - anything: stickers, a t-shirt, a dinner date, and drop the whole charade. Using a platform like Go Fund Me sounds fine with me, as long as you're giving everyone deliverables. There's too big of a chance that you won't put on the trip altogether, and it's tough luck for your backers.

Saying that, I have done something similar - partially funded a trip and gave some to another org, but it was for a local needle exchange organization, which operated in a major grey area as what they were doing wasn't legal, but was done with the knowledge of the local police. Since then, needle exchange has become legal. The experience was rough - fundraising is just another way to employ yourself - it's just easier to find another job, honestly.

Alan Arnette is a standup guy. Wish him luck with his unfortunate leg injury and recovery!
Mine occurred during a culmination of overworking and family acting outside of my expectations at my expense.

Here's the harsh truth. Burnout is going to cost money and time to fix. It's not simple. It's likely your brain is saying that things aren't right in your world representation. The best long term solution is understanding yourself and learning to explain what your subconscious is telling you.

Maybe your startup is taking more time to develop than you thought. Maybe your anxious about the market impact, the usefulness, or something else related to your timeline. Or you might just be watching too much CNN. You have to identify the variables that are contributing to your state(disbelief in your own world model will do it).

I don't believe that the root cause of depression is always nihilistic, although existential crisis' do exist. That's more about the state of being - and not everyone who faces the truth of reality crumbles.
> Elm, Elixir, JavaScript, seem to be better at prioritizing the humanistic aspect. Both in the affordances of the software (Elm’s famous error messages), and in person-to-person interactions.

Can't stress that enough. I have observed Elixir community and I have to say Jose and others did an excellent job fostering a healthy, friendly and warm community. That is such an essential component. That combined with standing on a solid, reliable, battle proven platform (Erlang's BEAM VM) makes for a powerful combination. You see them interact and learn, and ask for help and you think as a new comer "Right on, I want to hang out with these people". Then you run some benchmarks, check out some docs, tutorial and think "Yeah I made the right choice".

So my recommendation if you want to build programming language community - copy what Elixir did and it will be a good start. That means both community, outreach, documentation as well a technical foundation.
Thanks! That is quite intuitive.
If Uber knew about the stolen documents, then presumably they would be super careful not to put anything about them in writing.

I assume the whole lot to be verbal promises between friends and printouts of documents which can later be "lost" leaving no trace.

Uber isn't stupid - if they're doing something wrong, and suspect later litigation, they aren't going to let anyone write about it.
There was a shortage of nitrous oxide last fall... Airgas' Florida plant had an explosion, and the canned whipped cream manufacturers had to cut their production.

Xenon is an anesthetic too; I think pure nitrogen just knocks you out. My cousin-in-law is an anesthesiologist, maybe I'll ask him about it.

http://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2017-archive/jan...
It honestly doesn't matter. Nobody at the FCC is going to read these things - it's there because it has to be there, not because they intend on listening.

They've set their agenda, now they're executing it. They have absolutely no plans on listening to anyone along the way. Nobody in this entire administration does.
Analyzing Accessibility of Wikipedia Projects Around the World