skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This so much. Uber/Lyft were shockingly better than taxis. I tried AirBnB expecting the same and wow was that not the case. Went to a beach and was hoping to have a destination ready _with_ cooking facilities(hard requirement traveling with an allergic child). Arived ther & spent 45 minutes wandering up and down the beach showing the listing/owner photo to everyone in sight. Nobody's ever heard of them. Later that day the owner who lives hundreds of miles away airbnb messages us to say that the name of the beach resort and the contact info aren't what's actually shown in the listing. Of course we don't have internet then & have already given up and chosen another hotel. By the time we got back to civilization/internet we've already missed the window to leave feedback/dispute. First time in my life I've ever done a credit card chargeback. What a colossal PITA. I figure I wasted 2 to 4 hours fighting with their website between signup(reproducible bugs), trying to dispute/leave feedback/contact them(gave up eventually), and the chargeback. Totally not worth it for 30 something bucks but darn they need some sort of feedback, because I really _want_ to like them. They _should_ be uber/lyft for apartments because that would be awesome, but my experience was a million times worse than agoda/travelcity/whatever.
A recent piece taking on the topic from a different framing: http://joyousandswift.org/hyperstimulus/

It doesn't deal in addiction but overwhelming stimuli, whether or not they're repeated. Animals can be fooled by unrealistically strong experiences - you can trick a goose into 'hatching' a volleyball - and it appears that humans have somewhat similar responses.

The insights in the two articles aren't vastly different, but there's one intriguing thought: there are actual selection pressures against this. When animals are fooled by superstimuli they're things that are rare (brood parasitism) or nonexistent (volleyballs) - if the extreme stimulus was common they would refine their processing. Some human cases may be hard to avoid (e.g. dopamine receptors) but some might be simpler. It's starting to look like overriding these responses is a major skill for everyday human functioning.
An interesting experiment would be to sent pictures of airports to eachother using this tool to send meaningless messages to different parties and see how good the authorities actually is in detecting it.

Anyone?
Yet apparently Esperanto does have a culture, according to Wikipedia, and that cultural tradition would necessarily inform the language.

The roots of Esperanto are European so it’s rather “privileged” of one to say that it’s the “best” second language.

And who actually avoids learning a language because they are being felt like they are being taken over by another culture? That actually seems like a veiled anti-English can concept, which, if that were the intent, actually indicates that Esperanto DOES have a cultural bias – it’s a culture of being the “anti-English” because otherwise why not just promote English? Who the hell actually speaks Esperanto? There are apparently 300 “native” speaking families worldwide. It certainly isn’t a language you’ll hear at a market or a playground. It has zero practical value beyond being a possibly fun hobby.

English might be “hard” but the benefits are extensive. Why someone in the Americas would learn Esperanto as a second language rather than English or Spanish is beyond me. That’s an exceedingly irrational. Why a Italian-speaking European would learn Esperanto before French, German, Dutch or English – that is also ridiculous.

Esperanto advocates aren’t advocating it as a third or fourth language but a second language. That suggests that they are delusional or at least highly irrational. Why would I spend 150 hours mastering Esperanto rather than 150 hours getting conversational in Spanish?

I can respect it as a hobby that people enjoy, but as a legitimate language? It’s as legitimate as Klingon and spoken by fewer people.
Someone linked me here asking me how I can write good quality code so fast so I thought I would come and drop a comment just in case other people read this and fall prey to the "HN must be true" virus.

I have no idea if I write code better or faster than other people. Maybe I do, but I always think that I don't write very good code most of the time so I have to be extra careful. I spent a lot of time writing code very slowly and being extra careful so that I could make sure it's good quality. I guess after focusing on quality for so long I just got faster at it compared to others. But, I'm going to guess that I actually am not much faster than other people.
Hands down it is raising great kids who have become productive, caring and compassionate adults. They care about the world and the people in the world. As far as accomplishments go they are truly the best, the most difficult and the most rewarding.
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Somebody stole $800m through the swift network from bangladesh. So, yes, it happens in the regular world.
How Kids See the World Depends a Lot on Genetics
Do you read Apple threads? It's like nothing but hate once they do something new.

Also, everyone generally liked paint's simplicity, no we have stuff like candy crush default installed on Windows.

Sure, maybe not a huge deal for most people but I can see how some would be disappointed.
But he did co-found an organization to research AI with the fellows who run the organization we're discussing this on.

https://openai.com/about/
Intel attempting to make a play in the maker market with their x86 cores seem attractive to many software developers. Partnering with arduino was a good move for usability but the boards that they were competing with were players like Beagle board and Raspberry Pi. Realistically they could try to be in third place but to unseat ARM boards proved to be too difficult.
Devs shun smartwatch work, gaze longingly at web-only apps again
Xamuel, where did your old blog go? The one where you talked about Esperanto as a gateway language to get people over their fear of learning a new language? I try to cite it regularly but it’s offline and Wayback Machine is giving me lip. (Sorry to barge in on this thread, I hope it’s the most reliable way to get to you.)
No. This was something that your PC manufacturer might have done after an install but not by default when installing from scratch.

Also, a completely different thing entirely.
Good thing I didn't buy the wifi enabled model I guess.
You haven't linked the program in your assembly example. All the extra code you see there is a result of the libc startup code. Decompilers work starting from then entry point (not your program's main), which is why there's so much extra code. If you look at just the code starting from main, you get something much simpler:

int64_t puts = 0x4003e6;

void func_4003e0(int64_t rdi) {
goto puts;
}

int64_t main() {
func_4003e0("Hello, World!");
return 0;
}
Epic typo fail!

emailcrawlR not emailcrawRl
When there are no public spaces left, there will be nowhere left to exercise your rights.
I question whether either of these guys have a good understanding of AI.
Same experience here. I have a process that I generally go through to compare languages...I rebuild my blog. It's an exercise that I've done many times and it gives me a time-boxed experience that compares work flow, database interaction, web requests, dealing with CSS/JS/assets, potentially caching, routes, email, search, etc.

It's not a perfect measure but it does a solid job of giving me the whole experience of working with a language on something similar to day to day and separates the "this is viable as a tool" from "OMG! BENCHMARK!" type experiences.

Doing this with Elixir and Phoenix was mind blowing. It was so clean, efficient to work with, efficient in performance and the design decisions around the language almost ensure you'll avoid entire classes of debugging / maintenance issues in the future. I was blown away.

Wrote about it here: http://www.brightball.com/articles/insanity-with-elixir-phoe...

Keep in mind, there are a number of things that I did there that could have been done better/cleaner. It was my first experience with the language.
As I understand it, this library draws the image into a Canvas to then re-compress the Canvas' via the Browser's native `toDataURL('image/jpeg', quality);`. You can optionally specify a width/height to downscale the image.

Imho the readme needs to state what the library actually does. E.g.

"This takes a user image from a file input, optionally resizes it, and returns a JPEG, PNG or WebP as a Blob, ready to upload."
basically yes: http://graphql.org/blog/rest-api-graphql-wrapper/
An Interview with Cornelius Goodwin About Coding, Skin Color, and Jazz
MBA Application Essay Advice: Why School X?
Multi-Cores, AI and Computer Parallelism – How Gaming Chips Drive Cars
They never said it was going away, they said it was deprecated. The media spun it, either out of ignorance or headline porn/clickbait.
Sorry, it's been a while since I read about it and I'm having trouble finding the info again. I imagine it's similar to the stroke-based Chinese entry systems because each character would then have an unambiguous key sequence, obviating the need to keep checking the screen and selecting words from the menu.

e: Actually I found some info here: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97%E7%9B%B4%E6...

It looks like some systems are T-Code, TUT-code, etc.
I feel I have to counter this. I have seen similar problems on multiple different machines. I know they are not "my" problems. I've been a Windows user and supporter for decades but my experience in the past 5 years is that it unfortunately doesn't "just work" these days.

Also: your recommendation for resolving reliability issues is to reinstall the OS? Yes I know the historical reasons for saying this, but in 2017 if the user has to re-install the OS to get it to work I suggest the problem lies somewhere other than in the user.
How is finding an issue and reporting it "on the precipice of cyber crime?"
This is the best thing I have read in a long time. I have always been skeptical of "superintelligence" and glad to see I am not alone.
Differences in real money and social casinos. Benefits of their crosslinking
Privatization of public services, the dystopian scifi future I've always dreamed of is becoming a reality. I am really glad that these spaces are being created though. A land owner has the option to do what they wish with their land and I'd much rather have a pseudo public space than a residential block. The rules should be clearly posted though so that everyone knows what game they're playing.

>free wi-fi and big screens showing summer sport, as well as activities like table tennis, climbing walls and outdoor gyms

I would even pay for a space like that, it sounds really nice.
Augmented Reality Is Real, Virtual Reality Is Over?
Show HN: Nexmo Developer – We built a docs site and open-sourced the tooling
true - would make sense to make the identifier configurable and/or just iterate trough all comments in the jpg
> These are not useful applications, we just like them because of nostalgia.

On the contrary; I have Paint.net and GIMP installed, I've experimented with both of them, and I still don't have a tool as quick and easy for marking up a screenshot as Paint is. At that singular task it is superb.

I create a lot of training material, so marking up screenshots is a significant component of my job. This will make my job harder for no good reason.
We've considered video rendering using the H264 encoders on the GPU, another approach might be to create a format that has all info needed for interactions and that could be deciphered on the frontend (i.e in WebGL). So it's something we're definitely looking at.

We already do provide some support for hover interactions in our charting library on top of Vega, but it would be nicer to do this in Vega.

Right now customers still get a lot of value from server-side rendering simply bc we can render visualizations of billions of records interactively and in real time, which is difficult or impossible to achieve in other platforms without some sort of
pre-computation.
OP is talking about Walmart's online store, which has been giving Amazon competition for the last year or two.
I wish HN offered a search function, but they don't. Fortunately, the folks at Algolia offer a search tool for HN here: https://hn.algolia.com
Yeah, it didn't take for reasons I can't really recall offhand. Maybe I'll give it another shot.
Musk is being very generous in his assessment.
That doesn't make him automatically right on AI matters when all he is doing is idle speculation.
Marketo loses control of their domain names due to expiration
Walmart is the largest Grocery Store chain in the US... So that kinda mutes your argument...
His point about hiking is spot on for me. And it's not just a means to get away from the internet, it's also great for removing all social noise and enabling a long stretch of contiguous thinking. Running also works well but it needs to be at least an hour or more before my brain switches into "thoughtful mode".

Even though I make an effort, it's amazing to think how little time I actually spend alone with my thoughts compared to even a decade ago when this was written.
Employee Experience – Why UX at Work Matters
Other links:

Site: https://developer.nexmo.com
GitHub: https://github.com/nexmo/nexmo-developer
We typically use the word "cunt", since "vagina" doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely.
It's not his job to fix Amazon's fraud issues. Amazon has billions of dollars at its disposal, it should invest some in quality control.
Compared with the alternative (bundled crapware, invasive ads, fake download buttons) rampant on the "old school" download sites, authenticating with Microsoft seems like a very small price to pay.

Which would you rather users on your network do?
There is a wiki page about Project Quantum: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum

Currently Quantum CSS (Stylo) and Quantum Render (Webrender) are both in Firefox Nightly, but they are unstable and can cause really bad performance, especially Quantum Render. They won't be done until at least Firefox 57 and some most likely later.

Quantum Compositor is in Release already I believe. It's the out of process compositor for Firefox.

Changes from Quantum Flow are continuing to be implemented into Nightly and later on Beta.

I haven't ready much about the progress around Quantum DOM, and I have no idea for which release it is targeted.
They had a one time token offering.
But yeah, the demo looks good and the CEO of it is well known in the gaming community, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jez_San
The result is dependent on your Browser. This library uses the Browser's native `ctx.toDataURL('image/jpeg', quality)` method to re-encode the image. The actual compression algorithm is not implemented in JavaScript.
Predictive Analytics – Let’s Talk AI – Logical Glue’s Robert De Caux
So, when you say 'socialism', you of course don't mean all the social democracies where taxes are used for welfare (literally a small dose of 'from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs')?

And when you say capitalism, you of course don't mean China or Russia, with their terrible human rights records, despite their economies being very capitalistic? You mean the USA, right? But all the spying and surveillance it does (along with many other countries - the UK comes to mind) doesn't matter, because East Germany was worse.

No, those aren't true capitalist countries. What you mean is some Randian utopia of Free Markets and Free People that will totally exist, as soon as you find a perfect, incorruptible government to maintain it.

Or perhaps surveillance, repression, and social policies are somewhat orthogonal.
/r/politicaldiscussion is ok
Here's a good, quick review of the case-law precedents regarding free expression in quasi-public places in the United States:

http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-01/54-quasi-...
A good decompiler can have a massive impact on the readability of the code. For example, here's a study where the authors found that their decompiler allowed students without reverse engineering expertise to approach the performance of RE experts on some tasks.

https://net.cs.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/ag/martini/Staff/yakdan...

Sadly, DREAM++ has never been released open source :(
Spacemacs is no more and no less than customization code that runs in Emacs. It does not replace Emacs, Spacemacs is Emacs.
In New York they get valuable zoning concessions.

It's explicitly transactional, in consideration for the property owner providing and maintaining the space, they get to build XYZ. And as the spaces are typically adjacent to their properties, they are motivated to keep them well maintained.

The alternative seems to be that the developer build smaller, or not build at all, and provide not public space.
Adventures in bit arrays/SIMD (Go)
In Holland there's a famous 90s detective show with a main character surnamed 'De Cock'. One of his 'catchphrases' is that upon being introduced to someone, he explicitly spells out C-O-C-K to them (because in Dutch the typical spelling is K-O-K), which means 'cook'.

Despite the fact that Dutch people are often fluent in English, and despite the fact that we even had a prime-minister with the name 'Kok', there's a surprisingly low number of jokes, in my opinion, involving this particular surname. I guess somehow the context switch from Dutch to English is big enough that it's just not all that funny.
Given housing prices in London, they could probably use another residential block.
Top ten obstacles along distributed ledgers’ path to adoption
Then it is pretty hypocritical to criticize someone else for injecting "emotion rather than information" into the conversation, don't you think?
Totally reasonable, there's a reason why Redbox/Netflix/iTunes/Amazon/Sony/etc. all offer rentals and I've used them all at one point. If you can't ever see yourself re-watching a movie or only doing so infrequently rentals can make a lot of sense.

I'm a bit of a digital packrat who likes to collect media, but a large chunk of my present movie collection is stuff for my daughter who wants to rewatch the same movie constantly so purchasing content to keep is the way I go 99% of the time.
Indeed, yes. That is exactly what I expected to find here. Encode the message in high-frequency image components. I think the challenge is making that robust against image manipulation, so perhaps add some kind of LDPC code for forward error correction.
The freedom you want is called jailbreaking. Stores created for it never found much success. Or you can build android or web apps, and find similar freedoms.

Apple built a huge market in part because they provided security and quality. iOS Customers like that Apple vets iOS apps so much more rigorously than Google Play and other Android stores.

You want to take advantage of the huge market Apple built so carefully, by having Apple throw out all those protections for you. Or you want to take advantage of it while denying Apple any of the revenues. Both are cluelessly self centered and selfish.
That's one side of the coin. I can spin it the other way: bitcoin is a currency that can't be regulated or seized by democratic governments and justice bodies. The entire point of the Bitcoin design is to evade all regulations, the ultimate free market. In many places (in particular in America and the EU) what you call an "arbitrarily chosen country" is effectively a "democratically elected government". It's not perfect of course, there's corruption, there's lobbies but at least there's some amount of accountability.

It's also a currency where 75% of all possible coins are currently in circulation and in the hands of a tiny amount of people who are bound to become the new one-percenters (if not 0.01%) if it truly becomes the "world trade currency". With the added benefit to be almost impossible to trace and therefore to tax if the holder is even a little be clever.

I'm not saying that it's all white or all black but I'm a bit tired of the cynical libertarian cryptocurrency kool aid. "The current system is flawed, let's break everything and see what happens". And let's make a quick million while we're at it, a new sucker is born every minute.
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That's why I celebrate the death of the mall. The creator of the first mall (Southdale in Edina, MN), Victor Gruen, renounced his work.
https://qz.com/454214/the-father-of-the-american-shopping-ma...
Npm v5 brings improvements that will make dev teams rejoice
I cant agree more. It's so frustrating when the communication device in my pocket fails at communication. Waiting 8 hours to get a push gmail notification is absurd.
Intel could make tons of money by licensing their IP so 5-10 USD SoC could flood the IoT market.
The target, IIRC, is 57.
"Good chunk" is hard to disagree with. In general, we've implicitly agreed to bad terms, and assume we must work until the "retirement age" of 65. In most developed countries, wages are high enough for this to be completely optional. By being slightly less materialistic, a ~10 year career is possible for above average salaries, and a < 20 year career is possible for most salaries.

Doing something that's not your passion for 40 hours a week for 10-20 years is a heck of a lot more tolerable than doing it for 45 years.
Security Startup PerimeterX Raises $23M to Battle Bots – Fortune.com
Does PG have an iPhone yet?
I'm pretty sure noone on planet Earth has a good understanding of AI yet. I stopped reading about "what AI is, what AI isn't" completely.
What an amazing release! I've never been as excited about a language and its ongoings as I am with Elixir. Thank you Elixir team for creating such a great language and making all of your work so accessable, transparent, and friendly.

Well done!
Having text in the comment section does not seem very useful as most online services will resize the image and very likely strip comments (as mentioned in the readme).

A suggestion: would svg not be better ? That is a lossless format in xml format. An image could have lots of details in a very small section, actually composed of readable text that is (in some way) turned into xml. The svg in total has to be valid though.
ah, thank you. I should have checked the docs! It is nice to know that you are writing the script and multi/exec semantics into the AOF log (at least in the default config) and that my guess is wrong.

I still wonder what the details are around the "almost" in "almost always" and stand by the conclusion that "almost atomic" is not the same as "atomic".
Was Intel ever seriously in the maker market? As a maker, I feel that it was kind of an afterthought for them. The Edison looked great on paper, but the price was wrong, the tooling was inadequate, and the whole attempt felt like an enterprise was just trying to cargo-cult its way into some marketshare.
He has a weird antifeminist essay on that site, with a jab at transgender identity at the end: http://www.alenspage.net/Man.Woman.htm
Some UK cities, such as Edinburgh, have private shared gardens where you pay an annual subscription to get keys and the gardens are managed and provide services and maintain play areas for different ages of kids, puts lights in the trees at Xmas, provide barbecue areas etc.

The annual subscriptions generally aren't that high although they do tend to be linked to living in nearby properties (with some degree of flexibility).
I am not well-schooled in this area, but I find it very surprising that webP is not supported on Firefox yet. Am I wrong in being surprised?
On that note: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unpleasant-design-host...
Heroku is fine for development. However, it does not work with hot code swapping. There are ways around it, and some people don't believe it's a gain.

There is also https://github.com/hashrocket/gatling that promises the Git push workflow but with hot upgrading capability.
Because no one looks at an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi and says, "I would pay top dollar for a version of this thing that has x86 instructions."