skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I see articles discussing how Texas has sizable influence on textbook content and their Board of Education pushing for creationist or anti-evolution content to be taught; or when I hear Alex Jones is promoting some new conspiracy theory; or that the actual Governor of Texas has called out the state troopers to keep an eye on the Army's Jade Helm training exercises...

Look, maybe the sources I rely on are biased, but I never hear about stuff like this from other states. When your governor starts buying into conspiracy theory material, and acting on it, I start to feel that "know-nothingism and retrograde thinking" may actually fall a bit short.
Ask HN: What is the flaw of online education?
I am trying to build a website that makes online self studying much easier. Nowadays there are a lot of resources available online of varying difficulty level. You have coursera, edx, OCW, online Video Lectures, access to Sci-Hub.

My question is what are the necessary flaws in the online education that is preventing a rather large number of people to learn stuff on their own and understand the field they are deeply interested.
I didn't say WASM was a restricted subset of JavaScript. I understand that it is a lower-level virtual machine, and that in fact it provides some primitives that asm.js doesn't (e.g. 64 bit integers). My point was that if you're looking to WASM to be some kind of silver bullet, you've got the wrong expectations. The causes of people's JavaScript fatigue have little if anything to do with JavaScript the language.
That 150KB js needs to be executed in the browser, most of which could be simple HTML and CSS.
The most important - and as yet, unanswered - question I have about fasting is: are the benefits (if they exist) the result of absolute fasting or is relative fasting just as effective ?

If I require an extra 600 calories per day due to exercise, but I "fast" by cutting caloric intake by 15%, do I receive a comparable benefit to someone who does not exercise but also cuts their caloric intake by 15% ?

All evidence seems to point to exercise regimens as providing quite pronounced longevity benefits - equal to or greater than what we expect from fasting. But this is counterintuitive since exercise - and the calories it requires - represent an absolute increase in total metabolism.

So if we each fast our way down to the same trim and lean low calorie existence, but you are consuming 2000 of your previous 2500 calories and I am consuming 2400 out of my previous 3000 calories (assuming we are the same size, weight, etc.) who gets more longevity benefits ?
If you truly wanted people to mind their own business, getting them off facebook would be a great start.
Depends who you ask. I did a 12 day fast once, nothing but water. I intended to do a 10 day fast, but I felt so wonderful, so healthy, so clear, that I decided to add 2 extra days.

For those interested, most of the benefits (for me) happened after the 5th day. Thats when the hunger and caffeine withdrawal ended.

I don't know all of the science behind it, but I can honestly say that I never felt better/healthier in my life.
"Well, I'm a user and I don't want this."

You (and myself, and anyone reading HN) are not the target user for this, nor are you representative of the typical internet user.

Remember, India has more internet users than the US has people.

And you can just not click on AMP sites if you don't want them.
No, people should be less neurotic about their nutrition, eat less, and let go. Don't over think it or put up barriers to health.
Ugh... I haven't used this, but in general management GUIs are a cheap veneer over the goodness of Linux. You're still going to need the terminal when things break or just can't be done with the GUI.

I will admit that I started managing Linux through GUIs, but ultimately CLI utilities and configuration files lead to a deeper understanding and a wider set of options.

Run Arch Linux for a few months and you'll get over the textual interface hump.
Most of the time it's not an issue. Especially in numerical work it is though, and libs like numba have your back.
From https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glv057

We found no significant adverse effects of CR [calorie restriction] on a broad range of quality of life variables including mood, self-reported hunger, sexual function, and cognitive function, using validated measures of all constructs. These results are shown in online Supplementary eTable 3.

> Trying to keep calories at or below 2000 is hard enough.

How much of a reduction from your baseline usage is 2000 kcal per day?
I'm agree that something like cc0 is a good idea for sample code, or code that is otherwise intended to be copy&pasted. I don't think libraries are usually intended to be copy&pasted though, so a license like MIT or BSD is more appropriate.

I'm not familiar with the Apl license.

My personal preference at this point is to dual-license under both The Apache License, Version 2.0 and MIT. The Apache license has a patent grant and it also has the nice property where it doesn't include the name of the copyright holder so you only need one copy of the license even if you're using 20 different Apache-licensed libraries. And the dual license under MIT is just because MIT is a simpler and more well-known license, so this is to avoid scaring off anyone who isn't familiar with the Apache license.
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I work and live in Toronto. I can provide some anecdotal support, I think.

I was, like you, previously working independently doing mostly simple websites for small businesses (and volunteering with the UN online service[0]) after leaving a job I really didn't like. (Though I'll add, I'm capable beyond that)

It took me months of pursuing, piping out applications and receiving no word back in order to get a job. Ultimately I was hired by a very large company for a developer position in media. It's not my dream role, but it's great for learning, getting a feel for a corporate environment, and good for the old resume.

From my experiences I would say that if you have had 5 interviews in and around the city, you're doing pretty well as it is.

Just keep applying, and do so in a variety of ways. If you can get ahold of a person, then try writing them but don't grovel. Try out other services, too.

Hired[1] operates within the city, and they seem to have a healthy pool. Get on LinkedIn as well. While it might seem a little hokey or geared toward corporate lifers rather than tech professionals, you'll find Toronto seems to still lean heavily on it and as such there are a lot of recruiters on there constantly head-hunting. I say this and I very rarely use it.

edit: I'll add if you've been solely focused on tech companies, then try branching out. The big banks are always hiring iOS devs. So are companies in media and many other places. Thomson Reuters labs operates here, Amazon operates here now, there are so many and they're all hiring. Granted, you'll see a salary lower than what's expected for the same roles in the US, but it's a starting point at least.\\

edit no 2: I'm also without a CS degree. Completely self taught, started when I was a kid.

[0] https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en
[1] https://hired.ca/
Indian users are the worst example for this, given the regular 2G connections. Hundreds of KB of JS is not helping this, especially not on low-end mobile devices.
I generally try to avoid sugar and refined carbohydrates. I find if I eat too much of them my appetite spikes later in the day or the next day. So my "normal" diet low-carb, hight fat. I eat a lot of protein and vegetables but I'm not religious about it. If my family / friends want to go out for pizza or whatever, I'll have it, and dessert. :) But most days, except for those when I'm fasting, I usually eat chicken or fish and vegetables. I only eat breakfast once or twice a week (on the weekends with my family) and then it's just eggs and bacon, maybe a slice of toast. I fast a day or two a week. The meal plan for those days is simple: water and black coffee.
> For starters I probably have the JS cached.

Caching is not an excuse for giant JS files, they still need to be executed by my browser.

> And the videos almost always going to play faster and more smoothly from google CDN versus some homebrew solution.

That is indeed usually true.
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I am rewriting the new version with c ++. It will use a maximum of 20 mb ram. In a very short time, I will release the new version with more features.
> I mean, I still can't make Get Cryptolocker[0] show up on Google.

Hmm, I wonder if that's something to do with the fact that you're literally distributing malware...

Surely there are legal issues here too?

[0] getcryptolocker[.]com/get/

Edit: According to the about page, it isn't really cryptolocker, but VirusTotal still isn't happy about it: https://virustotal.com/en/file/0a2816af8a0580b0f58cb4ee1f102... I'm sure that in itself will hurt rankings.
I was implying that AMP leads to a reduction of JS in practice. Of course, if you have a very simple blog which loads very little JS to begin with, AMP could make things “worse.” But these types of blogs are an exception—unfortunately.
Tests are useful even in typed langs. Though Python is dynamic, the sort of code you want in production is statically analysable and tools like flake8 and mypy can find many of the issues that a a compiler would find in a static strong language.
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The in-the-wild code I've seen that uses Sweet.js has been atrocious. Of course I'm not saying that this is necessarily the case. I'd love to see some real world examples whter this is used effectively.
That doesn't sound like a Gitter issue but a lack of activity in that particular project/community.

Some projects prefer email/github issues over chat as there isn't an active community around it 24/7 for anyone to just jump in and ask away.

I maintain an open source project where we have set up Gitter awhile ago. So far -even with a really small community like ours- I'm answering questions and interacting with users regularly.
Thanks! The article is useful indeed.

It seems like people tend to say Yocto is a bad idea, but that's just their gut feelings (and mine as well) with no substance in it except yocto's complexity.
How is Facebook different from other advertising networks. All of them track you across the web, on any site that use them. Why is FB a special case?
And that's why they have gas taxes. Canada has a federal one, and maybe your province has an additional tax.

In Vancouver, public transportation gets half it's funding from property tax and fuel tax. And more than 70% of commuters drive. So not only are car drivers funding roads, they're also funding public transportation.

http://buzzer.translink.ca/2013/03/translink-101-where-does-...

Then what happens if people stop driving and take public transportation? Their costs go up and revenue goes down. Double whammy.
None of these measures protect you against tracking, though. And if they don't, why use them? It's better to be honest with yourself and admit how effective tracking is nowadays.

Your user agent plus unique plugin installations plus fonts installed equals a unique fingerprint across IP addresses. The above isn't an exhaustive list, either. There are dozens of tricks to track you.
Are there any good examples of Julia doing serious work that can't be done in Python?

With libraries like Numba in Python I just can't see the reason for Julia (aside from the neat type system but that's not enough to switch imo)
So slow page load speed is a non problem and speeding up delivering content is not a solution? Whether you like it or not, if you search on Google, you are using THEIR platform and you are THEIR user. What they have determined is that their users want to consume content faster than what is traditionally available on the web. So you'd rather wait 3 seconds to see your ebay listing than half a second? For the open web, javascript bloat and google is taking over the world reasons. That suits you fine but not the majority of users on Google. Why would Google be implementing a technology that is BAD for their users?
What is Data-driven UX?
> "Every one of these graphs has a unique chromatic polynomial"

This is incorrect. Two different graphs may have the same chromatic polynomial. For example, all trees of N vertices have the same chromatic polynomial: x(x-1)^(N-1)
> For starters I probably have the JS cached.

this is one of those fallacies that people keep repeating and actually believe as truth. if you look at the headers of the youtube player file i linked, you'll see that anyone who had it cached prior to Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:12:45 GMT is out of luck as well as myself when i request in > 48 hours. i dunno how often it changes, but it's safe to say "very frequently".

date:Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:23:58 GMT
expires:Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:23:58 GMT
last-modified:Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:12:45 GMT

also relevant: https://twitter.com/HenriHelvetica/status/877924754195324928
It is helping this when you consider all the JS is cached because they've visited an AMP page before.
I haven't used AMP, but my impression with all of Google CDN JavaScript files for AMP is the end user has to download them just once per version (which I agree will lead to a bloated first load experience) but on subsequent requests throughout the AMP network they'll be loaded from cache. Similar to how Google recommends you load jQuery through their CDN since millions of people already have it in cache.
> It isn’t about climate – anyone that believes that isn’t paying attention

What? The science is very clear that it's real and requires drastic action to prevent.

> Suggesting that climate change activists are purely altruistic isn’t supported by fact. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-03/un-official-admits-....

One woman is not the entire global scientific community and environmentalist movement.

Look, I do get disappointed when the far left tries to co-opt the conversation about global warming and shoehorn other issues into the subject. I get that. But it doesn't make it any less real and the changes needed to fight it any less drastic.
The Study of Anglophysics (2014)
The last bit can be said about anything. It might be relevant if the notion is intrinsically motivated by an instinctive search for closed forms. "Space" being emptiness would be isomorphic (dual) to many experiences of limits. In contrast, mystifying the unknown might inspire curiosity at best, reserving free space in the back of the mind, or philosophic arguments at infinitum at worst.

The article is somewhere in the middle with its talk around gravitational waves and einsteinian curvature of space, without directly mentioning them.
If you've ever compiled Chromium before, you may understand why I don't sympathize with this argument too much. If what we're doing is actually so simple, we lost at step 1.

And maybe, maybe we have.
While it looks nice, I can't find any use in it :-/

I mean those desktop widgets displaying CPU/Mem usage integrate much better into the desktop. If you want to uninstall something you should better know what you are doing and the same goes for init jobs...

Don't get me wrong I love visual tools as long as they do something better than their cli equivalents. For example, I am a huge fan of filelight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filelight because it enables quick insights about disk usage.
So how do Linux and Mac graphical terminal emulators manage to use monospaced true-type fonts? Granted, sometimes box drawing characters don't appear fully seamless, and sometimes a character printed on console isn't in the chosen font, so the fallback font mechanism kicks in and the glyph is rendered with some non-monospaced font and looks ugly and out of place, but by and large, it seems that most terminal emulators manage to work just fine with true-type monospaced fonts.
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Separately, could you point to some examples of the bad Sweet code you've seen? If it's anything like C macro misuse, it'll at the very least be educational to see just how badly one can shoot oneself in the foot.
Isn't the "rubber sheet" analogy better than "space goo"?

The goo analogy makes it seem like "ripples" and "bends" are something space does, where as it's (from my understanding) actually the influence of gravitational fields/aggregations of mass.
Customer's 20-year-old email account shut down over unusual address
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Great name :)
Looking forward to it because there are concerns that the current version on github is CPU inefficient (as you know).
Car owner, avid cyclist, and bike share user here. I live in Chicago. Driving is still a necessity, unless you want to spend your life wholly in the city.

Sure, there are rental options, here and there, but for someone like me who leaves almost every weekend, there's not a much better option financially than a few years old used car. I almost never use my car for in city trips, it's primary purpose is to drive my bike(s) to places worth riding them.

Bike share is great for getting home from the bar. It's too far to commute via bike share for me (~11 miles) without having to stop and exchange bikes to meet the time limit, so I ride my own bike to work every day. I'm pretty fast, as someone who's been an off and on racer most of my life, and my normal non-racer friends that commute much shorter distances on the bike share bikes (like 4 miles, from the loop to wicker park) tell me they occasionally go over the half hour limit as well. I think doubling the limit to an hour would dramatically increase the utilization of the divvy bikes. Which would then be a problem, as access to them seems almost perfectly balanced now (although the largest problem I have when using them is finding an open place to drop them off). The bike share infrastructure is very dependent on large vehicles moving bikes around, because of the rush hour problem - everyone's taking from the same places and dropping off at the same places.

All that is to say, Bike share is nice, but it's one piece of a much larger problem that public transit works to solve. The single biggest thing I believe would help the transit situation is more office buildings with free showers that allowed people to bring their bikes inside. Not having to worry about being smelly, or getting your bike stolen would in my experience double the number of bike commuters.
What is ESNext? Is it same as ECMAScript?
Never a single leak about Russian spying or intelligence gathering techniques / apparatus. Those Russians must be so proper in granting privacy to their "citizens".
Facebook can't track you by those metrics if a filter like Privacy Badger blocks requests to their servers.
How long does AWS Lambda keep idle functions around?
Thanks, but I know what trouble tickets are.
Self-driving cars just had one of their best months yet
Bizarrely, in English, the most common vowel sound has no single glyph to represent that sound. Among the many variations of sounds that vowels can make, all of them can be pronounced as 'ə' (schwa) in certain circumstances. This is part of what makes English orthography a nightmare and then pronunciation of written words difficult.

As an example: "banana" has two different vowel sounds, 'ə' and 'æ' (in American English at least). If English allowed for 'ə' it could be spelled bənanə.

Other words with schwa:

amazing - əmazing

tenacious - tənacious

replicate - repləcate

percolate - percəlate

supply - səpply

Not all spoken Englishes might agree with all of these, but every English variant uses the sound.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/06/05/schwa_t...
No... it's really confusing :)
Yeah, good clarification, thanks!
There's a traditional view in math that most great accomplishments are had before 30, based on past mathematicians' successes.
I just don't think that more than 5-10% of the population wants to mess around with the guts of their tech.

Maybe 1%-2%.

Most "Internet of Things" devices just don't do very much. They lack any actuators.

There are lots of things that can be done to make heating, ventilation, and air conditioning more efficient and comfortable. But the good stuff requires installation. Mechanisms to open and close windows. Dampers. Sensors for humidity, CO2, CO, temperature, rain, and fire. Wired connections to everything. (Battery replacement is unacceptable in commercial environments.) All this is available from major HVAC vendors. Usually for too much money. (Window openers seem to start at $500 per window, so nobody buys them.)

A few years ago I went to an IoT meetup in SF, in the Dogpatch area. This was in an old industrial building. Skylights overhead had openable windows on manual chain falls. Outside windows overlooking the bay were openable. There were overhead fans and a standard HVAC system.
None of this was powered and controlled. So the place overheated and became uncomfortable with too many people inside.

In a space like that, as more people come in and the CO2 level goes up, the overhead windows and side windows should open and the overhead fans should go into reverse to bring down the CO2 level. Then the side windows should be adjusted to maintain temperature. As evening comes and the outside temperature drops, the side windows should close more. At some point, heat may be required. As people start to leave, the CO2 level will drop, the overhead windows start to close and the fan speed drops. When everyone leaves, and the motion detectors see no movement, everything closes up and the temperature is allowed to drop to 60F or so for the night.

Some hotels have systems like that in function rooms. Any space with a widely variable people load, such as a classroom or conference room, should be equipped with CO2, humidity, and temperature sensors connected to actuators which can do something about it.
I appreciate your attempt, but we don't need any more astronaut-architects. We have the tools.

It's 2017 and high time for JavaScript tooling to finally slow down a bit and settle into its bigger britches.
OK, if that's your opinion then fine. I just wanted to challenge your claim "type bugs just aren't that painful". On the contrary, they can be and should be!
Messenger is the default mode of social organizing among almost all my friends, because everyone has it. I barely ever touch Facebook proper these days.
"and the truly great ones are dead before they're 40 so all old mathematicians must be worthless" I've heard that one, too. Doesn't make it beneficial to the field.
less whining, more gifs of talented cats.
The downvoters have really come out of the woodwork on this thread to protect the idea that it's okay for the Texan Republican party to gerrymander itself into permanent majority, drive elections off of social wedge-issues instead of real policy, and to use anti-science rhetoric to abandon any sane environmental policy.
The whole food industry is based around carbs [especially here in US, where you have corn syrup even in meat]. The dietary recommendations in US are still based around eating low fat [0] instead of massively limiting carbs.

However study after study shows that "keto" and IF (intermittent fasting) is probably the way to go. So now it's a pretty uphill battle. Seems like millennials are pushing for change more quickly and many massive corporations are changing directions, but slowly. So I think we will see a massive dietary change in next 20-30 years, but it's going to be a battle.

[0] https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/executi...
Boston is also characterized by its lack of interest in becoming a truly international city. The prefer to be regional and provincial. I respect them for rebuffing the Olympics.
You really should get an AOL subscription. If you ask nicely they just might let you use the 1994 edition which did pretty much all that you describe. And then we got the web.
Heck even Mr Carlson's lab is making nearly $4,000/mo! https://www.patreon.com/MrCarlsonsLab