skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know I don't understand math? And if a high schooler could figure this out, then Leibnitz own discussion or contribution to this topic is then meaningless?

The main point is that the finding in the article has cultural significance, rather than purely in terms of mathematics. I think you either don't understand that or are not willing to see that. The article is not trying to elevate a Polynesian people's contribution to mathematics. There is little mathematical significance there as these people from 600 years did not celebrate or promote their number system. Rather, the article explores how mathematical knowledge arises and how it was used. Could there an underlying commonality in the way humans learn and organize knowledge? That's an interesting question to ask and is not diminished - but is in fact supported - by the fact that the same knowledge gets rediscovered in multiple isolated instances.
Attacks on Encrypted Databases [pdf]
This is a good idea. I hope it gets traction (I'd love to work on this problem as well).

As for why some of this isn't done yet: The legal profession is old school. If you want to know where your work is, you can ask for a status memo, and you'll get billed for the time it takes to write it. Or the phone call. Either way. In industries where the product is the billable hour, you'll find things get done the way they've always been done.

You'll find small and mid size firms using more technology, but you'll also find that the more highly a company thinks of itself, the more it thinks it needs a large firm (which will bring its legacy processes, because they do work, even if not entirely efficient). Nobody gets fired for hiring Skadden, but then you also don't get to bitch when they do things the way they have for the last 50 years either. They didn't bring in $2.5B last year by accident - they're effective, and are going to be averse to process change if it risks outcomes.

If you're working on tech in this space, you also need to be aware of that. It's a tough sell to larger firms. They won't sacrifice outcomes or billables because it's all working really well for them, and they always have a glut of un/underemployed contract attorneys if they just need to throw highly educated bodies at a problem.
There's a difference between doing something in your free time for a month or two of the summer for fun and learning, vs making it your full time job all summer long.
paper? What is this 1995?
FWIW, it looks like HN now adds rel="nofollow" to links in comments. So, it shouldn't matter either way.
They still have cigarette vending machines. In Canada I don't think I've seen one since the early eighties.
> Normal people don't put images in emails.

Despite my "Why Be Normal?" visor, I consider myself mostly normal. I send and receive email with inline images. Sometimes they're attached, which is usually annoying, unless they really aren't part of the narrative.

Normal people do it, because it's part of email.

"Normal People Do It" would make a great visor.
Yes the end result of capitalism and communism isn't so different.
> peace of mind knowing that your company can survive without you

And if it doesn't, then hell, it wasn't going to survive with you either! So there's no need to let those thoughts consume you on your vacation.
Skip Twitter.com and start using https://tweetdeck.twitter.com instead.
I just googled these:

http://pushboard.net

http://builditwith.me

http://cofounderslab.com

http://doerhub.com

http://founder2be.com

http://founderdating.com

http://foundrs.com

http://startupweekend.org

http://techcofounder.com

http://venturestorm.com

http://waxidea.com
If you continue and don't change anything,
you will have a break down from stress,overwork,
constant problem solving, not looking after yourself

You need to
- totally relax

try music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yd7An4Ztes&feature=player_e...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrwuKDrJI9c

meditation
Detachment from overthinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSE8iJC51BY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vx8iUvfyCY

For kids BUT My Fav
The hot air balloon ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlv6Y1tq1sQ

yoga, tai chi, swimming pool lengths, run or walk, play with your pet, volunteer

- no work on Vacation & plan next Vacation now

- employ extra help/work experience/volunteer

- delegate

- in your normal routine include
sleep, exercise, good food, good company/ social events, plan future fun things, read positive articles/books, learn something new, go out into nature, cook a delicious meal for someone you like/love

- listen to Mindfulness podcasts about being in the present moment/ focus only on what you are doing
SOUNDTRACKS
http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=107 (weekly podcasts)
http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22&oTopID=22

- find some Apps like http://smilingmind.com.au/

Email me if you want some more info
smith.louise@optusnet.com.au

Cheers Louise

Louise Smith PSYCHOLOGIST
(Assoc MAPS) (QCT), B. A. (Hons) (Psych) (Japanese & Music), Dip. T. Prim. & Spec. Ed. (Hearing Impaired)
> I always had this issue that a div has standard border padding, and width:100% pushes its right to out of viewport.

You likely want `box-sizing: border-box`:
https://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/
Meet the First Batch of Graduating YC Startup School 2017 Companies
> Though HN doesn't make it easy to do inline quoting. I tried it just now, only to have my nicely formatted text block overflow due to the browser's text area idiosyncrasies.

On HN, this is handled entirely by wetware - there's an unofficial convention. You quote the relevant part of a post by preceding it with '>' (but not turning it into a text area!). Many people (myself included) also italicize part after the '>' to make it more visually different from their response.
> What is the relationship between a centrally planned economy as for example Gosplan was trying to run in the USSR, and the presence of these huge market-like but centralized entities like Amazon and Wal-Mart inside a free-market economy?

Amazon may not be trying to turn a profit short term, but they still pay huge amounts of attention to price signals. Prices are composable flows of information about demand and difficulty of production.
New Twitter UI is not as bad as their other new features (algorithmic rearranging of timeline, likes sometimes shown as retweets, autoplay video of sports broadcasts) but still looks like trolling by designers. It's too retro, too much Raygun Gothic aesthetic. It does not fit to rough and casual nature of Twitter.
And this is the case in Idris, where `cast` is a member of the `Cast` interface, and there's an implementation of `Cast String Integer`.

`cast` is a function `String -> Integer`, instead of the (more sensible) `String -> Either Integer CastError`.
I was commenting on what the effects would be from removing laziness. I'm not experienced enough in Haskell to know whether making strictness the default option would make sense, although I've seen a quote from Simon Peyton Jones saying he'd do that if he could start over.

Out of curiosity, would you know whether there exists sufficient strictness pragmas in Haskell to translate your example Idris (pseudo) code into Haskell? I often hear about performance/memory usage pitfalls with Haskell laziness, so it'd be really nice if Haskell were able to emulate Idris in this regards, by enabling enough LANGUAGE pragmas to require explicitly annotating types if laziness is desired.
Do you have an example that doesn't involve children at all? I am not touching one with them because of the other needless complications they introduce.
...and unnecessary for 95% of webapps.
Most of the time user have to click few buttons and refresh few divs and nothing more.
This may be my sugar-drenched American palette, but I don't remember turkish delight being that sweet. The rosewater ones are really good though.
It's not just $70, it's $70 for a closed source text editor when perfectly viable free, open source alternatives exist.

Even if I can afford something doesn't mean I'm going to pay for it without feeling like I'm getting ripped off.

Yes, Atom has its problems, but many of those don't exist in VSCode, Vim, Emacs, even SciTE, I'd advise considering more than 1 alternative option before spending that much.
There is a lot of software for working with Google services via the CLI. Your biggest hurdle is probably that POP/IMAP is disabled for email.
What is the tech scene at Halifax, Nova Scotia? I am landing there in a few weeks and have been researching about it for a while. I could not get much through the Ask HN[0] post I submitted a while ago.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14428966
> Spend the extra dollars to send a certified letter and keep the receipts.

Entirely agree.
Someone submitted the link and others upvoted it.
VS Code's interface is a garbage Metro (or whatever Microsoft is calling it today) implementation with sidebar hell from Office.

>Who cares about 200MB in that regard?
Who cares about anything? Just use everything you have. CPU, RAM, battery life and so on. These things are free for the developer.

Is VS Code actually seven times better and/or complex compared to Sublime Text that it actually needs to use the additional disk space.

Electron is garbage and just an exercise in providing a bad user experience to people for the sake of making front-end developers happy since they're the ones making them. The end result is bloated applications that are slow and use way too much system resources. VS Code used to use a significant portion (>10%) of the CPU just to draw a blinking cursor.
I wonder if instead of Amazon building out their own stores, they're going to use Whole Food's... unlikely but possibility is there if they do it well.
That too for free.
Actually, the whole concept of a per semester minimum is foreign to me. Back in the old days, a few mandatory checkpoints were expected to be reached within reasonable time, but how you got there was entirely up to you.

Very liberal, but everybody I know who went through that system recognizes as familiar the occasional nightmares about university administration suddenly asking for some minor certificate one chose to indefinitely put off years ago. It's part of who I am, I would totally do it again.
LOTS of good ideas in total here !
For most messaging in larger organisations, having "paper trail"-style replies that you can forward to others has its advantages -- it better delimits in a single page who said what, and when.

If I know my conversation is intended to a small group I'll reply inline, but my default is quote-on-top.
I don't know. WF does have a very loyal base of users. Unless Amazon fucks with them majorly, I don't see it changing very much. In fact, with less pressure from activist investors to cut back on expenses, they might actually get more resources to experiment with new concepts.

If money weren't a matter, I would love to shop at whole foods: shopping for groceries seems more of an experience there than at other places. Maybe using Amazon's superior operations management would let them lower prices even further attracting more regular customers.
I think the Slashdot voting system was excellent and loved the multi-dimension approach. In what way did/do you feel it didn't work.

FWIW Steam has a second voting dimension for humour in users game reviews.
Ask HN: What problems are you passionate about solving?
I'm working a boring job solving small problems for a huge company. In my free time I'm trying to find issues or things I'm passionate about but it's been a struggle. Maybe asking others about theirs will help jog my creativity.
The trouble there is under certain circumstances, good will is a commodity. It can be accumulated through a pattern of behavior, and then spent (converted to capital) to turn a short-term profit.

So there's a legit strategy that makes sense to a Wall Street firm, where you specifically go after stuff with good will so you can convert that to capital and then flush what's left. It's not dissimilar to how real estate is a form of storing capital, best used without actual people living in the real estate to mess it up: the wipe-and-flush strategy is about intentionally converting these 'rare gems' into raw capital through using the goodwill up.

As long as that is more profitable than not doing it, good customer service (or 'enlightened' capitalistic activity) is something you can't have, or can only have until it's seized and squeezed. Market forces make the wipe-and-flush phase inevitable: the longer you hold out, the bigger a prize that goodwill is, provided the thing is publically held and subject to this dynamic.
Ages ago I set up my mail client to pipe HTML e-mail through 'lynx -force_html -dump'.
How to Hack Social-Media Stardom Even If You're a 'Nobody'
We (Czechs) have relatively expensive plans that are slowly getting cheaper over time. And this roamimg-cancelling didn't affect that trend at all ...
Is SqliteCipher (sqlite) also vulnerable to the techniques shown on paper?
caps leads to shortages (no place to attend).
>> I have never worked as a cashier, but I can't imagine it's a very fun job. Automating out those jobs seems like a win-win, as long as the former cashiers can find a job doing something else.

Stacking the shelves isn't anymore fun that working the checkout. As someone who has done both I'd say checkout is the preferred role as it's much less physical (stacking shelves gets tiring after 8 hours) and you get chat to customers.
Perhaps we could sell nicotine patches and gum without a prescription? Also, there are substitutes:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/harm-reduc...

"Why have Swedes stopped smoking? Because Sweden has adopted a harm-reduction strategy: it has largely replaced deadly cigarettes with a product that supplies users with both nicotine and tobacco yet doesn’t increase the odds of dying the way smoking does. That product is called "snus" (rhymes with goose).

A modern iteration of snuff, snus are little pouches of moist tobacco placed under the upper lip. Scandinavians have been ingesting nicotine via smokeless tobacco since the early 18th century, a habit that changed only during the Second World War, when cigarettes became popular. Smoking peaked in 1980 in Sweden at 34 per cent of the population. Since then, the growing awareness of the dangers of smoking has brought about a steady, year-over-year reduction in the smoking rate, just as it has in much of the western world."
Oh sure. The "mailing list" style presumes some archive exists where you can find the missing context. I'm not taking sides here (much), I'm just remarking how weird it is that kids today never even see the old style.
Operating systems that pre-dated MacOS 9 had pre-emptive multitasking. MacOS "moved forward" by adopting one of them (NeXT OS) and building their platform on top of it. I'm really unsure what point you're trying to make here.
From Alexander to Jesus
Still up and running :) just watched his latest snap, where he'd basically confirmed the story above.
Hello HN!

We are excited to be building in the legal space. Raising money is a necessary step, but Atrium LTS' biggest accomplishment so far is the great team of experts we have assembled here. My cofounders are Augie Rakow (former partner at Orrick, where he worked on over 100 financings and represented Cruise through their acquisition to GM), BeBe Chueh (lawyer turned founder who sold her last company to LegalZoom) and Chris Smoak (Amazon AWS, multiple time YC founder, founder of early FB payments platform Gambit). I think our early team is doing a great job of moving quickly and we are looking for more talented people to join that team.

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We're discussing asset brackets, so your point is less relevant.

My point was that a middle class family (say, 120-150k/yr) is going to have around a million dollars in assets by retirement age. But that's not what most people think of when they hear "millionaire", because our cultural expectations are a generation or two old -- they don't reflect the effects of the last couple decades on housing value or inflation.

So instead of looking at families with assets of $1mil, it probably makes more sense to look at families with assets of $10mil if you want to discuss the mobility into "wealthy" instead of "upper middle class".
If you continue and don't change anything,
you will have a break down from stress,overwork,
constant problem solving, not looking after yourself

You need to
- totally relax

try music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yd7An4Ztes&feature=player_e...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrwuKDrJI9c

meditation
Detachment from overthinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSE8iJC51BY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vx8iUvfyCY

For kids BUT My Fav
The hot air balloon ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlv6Y1tq1sQ

- yoga, tai chi, martial arts,swimming pool lengths, run or walk, play with your pet, volunteer

- no work on Vacation & plan next Vacation now

- employ extra help/work experience/volunteer

- delegate

- in your normal routine include
sleep, exercise, good food, good company/ social events, plan future fun things, read positive articles/books, learn something new, go out into nature, cook a delicious meal for someone you like/love

- listen to Mindfulness podcasts about being in the present moment/ focus only on what you are doing
SOUNDTRACKS
http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=107 (weekly podcasts)
http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22&oTopID=22

- find some Apps like http://smilingmind.com.au/

Email me if you want some more info
smith.louise@optusnet.com.au

Cheers Louise

Louise Smith PSYCHOLOGIST
(Assoc MAPS) (QCT), B. A. (Hons) (Psych) (Japanese & Music), Dip. T. Prim. & Spec. Ed. (Hearing Impaired)
Do you use GMail? If so, how much pain is was to configure your setup to connect to it reliably? And handle multiple e-mail accounts?

I ask, because in the past I toyed with switching to using Emacs as my e-mail client, but aways got stuck on configuring the whole setup to work reliably and seamlessly.
SHOOTOUT: 2017 iPad Pro versus 2017 MacBook Pro 13-inch
> Have you actually learned a real craft, in germany, or looked at it's curriculum? Because they learn a lot more than could be thought in 6 weeks. You could argue that they won't need it for the things their employer needs them to do when they work, but they learn it anyway. If they switch jobs later they won't need that much training.

Yes, they learn a lot of stuff they won't need for the actual job they will perform. If they switch jobs, they probably won't need it either, unless it's a very related job. For instance, if they become a painter, they learn all kinds of painting techniques that they will never apply. That's all fine and dandy, except if they just want to work painting houses, why they have to spend three years as an apprentice?

> But at the Berufsschule you still learn all the other stuff, for an example how to wire electrical Garage doors. If you later decide to switch Jobs, you'll be prepared.

If you already knew the one thing, chances are you could've quickly learned the other thing as well. Otherwise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
We had the best luck with an electric comb -- that is, a comb designed so that the louse completes a circuit and receives a small (but lethal) dose of current. It is difficult to build up a resistance to that.
Seems to me like that's a Freedom of Speech issue.
> I always had this issue that a div has standard border padding, and width:100% pushes its right to out of viewport.

What you probably want, in addition to the max-width, is

box-sizing: border-box;

Then the border is included in the width calculation.

> Does the meta tag in ur comment needs closure(>), or is it something I might have never come across?

If you're writing XHTML, then you need to end the tag with /> instead of >. But for HTML5, it's valid as is. And browsers get it right either way.

> Does implying a max-width 100 in percentage means every element gets max 100% of "its" parent element, which can be traced down back to HTML as super parent of all tags, and thus if I could use "vw" viewport width as units instead of %?

That's a good question. I'm not familiar with the vw unit, but yea, that sounds basically right.
The 2017 iPad Pro compares favorably on some benchmarks with 2017 13" Dual-Core i7 MacBook Pro.
Is it Faustian? Not to say there aren't tradeoffs, but the metaphor of damnation I find perhaps excessive.
Given the constraints imposed upon those seeking to challenge secret courts, it seems almost nonsensical to use a common-law court model except to present a veneer of respectability. It's essentially a tribunal with members of the judicial branch (presumably) presiding instead of flag officers or civilian bureaucrats.
As a child, I really liked the nut flavored Turkish delight. I never liked the regular rosewater flavor though.
Since you mixed units: there are about 115 million households, so 7% of US households are millionaires, and (to speak to my point) being a millionaire doesn't make you part of the "1%".
The 'abusiveness' is the use of `>>=` as a constructor, instead of its more standard role as member of an interface.

The author is using it to take advantage of syntactic sugar that is now reliant only on names and types, instead of implementation of the relevant interface.

A similar idea is to use `::` and `Nil` as constructors, which let you use the `[a, b, c]` list syntax (desugared to `a :: b :: c :: Nil`) for things that aren't actually lists. It can be convenient, but can also result in confusion.
I saw that too! WTF!
Having implemented a large subset of this stuff for my own .NET runtime, you absolutely cannot implement the fully reified generics without loading in stages like this. The circular dependencies can get extremely tangled.
5 must know mobile UI patterns to consider in your next interactive prototype
So Amazon will create a spin off a distributor company
Meditation alters stress genes
That's my memory as well, although I have only had Turkish delight in the samples they have at duty-free in the Istanbul airport. (I bought other things, so I guess the samples worked to get me into the store...)
How successful entrepreneurs describe themselves
Well, even though I have no clue about Chinese, this seems like an impressive amount of work.
How long did it take for you to build the whole thing?
Yahoo Acquisition Closed
Kube Router (for kubernetes)
When my kids were younger, I took to reading the the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my kids at the dinner table. Just for fun, on some of those evenings we'd have Turkish Delight at the table. The whole experience was really nice overall.

But I have to say, many of the Turkish Delight flavor variations weren't very appealing: rosewater, mint, etc.

We tended to like the fruitier ones such as lemon and orange. (And there was also pistachio, which I recall liking.)
Just wait for Market Basket to do it. Everyone will follow.

We got a Market Basket in Maine I think 2 years ago - in Biddeford. No joke, you'd think it were Six Flags with the traffic it gets on the weekends.
The beauty of inline quoting is that if you don't see a need to use it then you don't. It is in no way arrogant to suggest a method of replying which is unambiguous. Nobody is suggesting that it is used in places in which it is not necessary.

I hate to think of the hours wasted due to ambiguity in email replies. More often than not people end up using the telephone or meeting in person which wastes even more time rather than learning how to be clear. I don't understand why all effort to be clear and precise goes out of the window when dealing with email.
I agree that people who use a dataset for profit should be required for a for profit use. I didn't mean to imply that academics should give their data away for free. Maybe there needs to be a way for academics to sell their data or any other tangible benefit.