skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before trolling a bit, I remember the main costs don't come from hardware (though it definitely costs something) - rather for r&d, patents, and most of all proper certification, since, in the end, it's a matter of life and death.
That being said, this experiment is mostly a dev kit to help curious tinkerers explore the topic :)
Not to mention a decent path to Electron (mac, windows, linux native-ish) and Cordova (android, ios native-ish). React-native is conceptually better than UWP at this point.
The more refined the source the faster it enters your bloodstream. That said, You should eat the fruit rather than consuming a juice.

At any rate the glucose uptake is generally lower with fruits, even if juiced (but whole fruits with fiber still intact are best). The rate at which simple sugars enter the blood is considered one of the primary problems, as this leads to a number of metabolic problems and higher generalized oxidation of body tissue.

Unlike added sugars fruits also have antioxidants and a number of other compounds and nutrients that do a swell job at negating these effects and even providing benefits (i suppose because a lot of fruit has surplus of Anti-Oxidant to Sugar Burn.
Ok. Just saying that you have a crazy culture.

None of that would fly around here.

So you are right: the things you mention are deeply unprofessional.
>Well then this "study" is just an observation.

Yes. Many studies are.

> So it probably doesn't warrant the amount of attention it is getting, to say nothing of people using this "study" as evidence.

It seems like you lack an understanding of how science works? Because the fact that this is an observation doesn't mean that it isn't evidence. Observation is like one of they key kinds of evidence.

>but now they need to perform a scientific experiment in order to make this newsworthy

No they don't. That's not how this works, at all. It's still valid meaningful evidence. I mean, do you ever read stories about stellar discoveries? Do you think they aren't worth reading because they didn't do an experiment to re-create the black hole they discovered in a lab?
Silicon Valley exec denies making sexual harassment claim
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11207626
You're looking for an argument that you're not going to get.

I'm all about holding people accountable - but in order to do that you have to be specific about who is causing the issue & what they're doing.

Have a good day.
I'm seeing lots of people around me just giving up on Slack and switching to Telegram. It's not a shining example of good engineering, but it's still noticeably leaner and faster.
Yeah, I know that. I'm just trying to add to the history of rope/earth/cat interview questions here. This was ~15 years ago by the way and to be clear we're talking about cats being able to pass anywhere, not the line of sight problem, which I agree makes it a little more interesting..,
Thanks - that was a heart-warming read.
Would be interested in the reason. Haven't seen a good Electron program yet. Slack is just painfully slow.
Both dB and the magnitude system have nothing to do with difficulty, and everything with practicality. The dB scale is defined in terms of air pressure, which runs on a linear scale.
Low interest rates explain a lot of the P/E changes. Same reason houses get more valuable when interest rates are low.
Its not even the RAM that annoys me the most about Electron - its the hit to the battery life.
It depends.

Lets say you have two people.

1 who went to an ivy league and gets a great job at an investment bank and another who went to a community college, but spent most of their free time self studying and building a startup that ends up being valued at, say, 10 million dollars.

Which of these two people is smarter, more successful, and/or a harder worker?

My answer is "I don't know". Both people have their strengths and weaknesses.

The school that you went to, no matter if it is an ivy league or a community college, is just a single aspect about you.

There are many paths to success and aspects about you as a person, and I would not say that what college degree someone got is even close to the most important or predictive factor about a person's life or how successful they are going to be.
>The primary problem to solve is discrimination against non-engineered people.

You can't be naive enough to think that this problem wouldn't occur. On the contrary, if genetic engineering on such a level was realized (which would require a shift in our current biomedical ethics to begin with), discrimination against the less-optimized would be a foregone conclusion.

In such a scenario, we could only hope that everyone would be optimized equally and the suboptimal humans wouldn't be born into a world where they are second class citizens.
If a coworker says "Our app is huge, like my dick", I'd say that gives his implicit consent for others to use his dick for comparisons, at least for a while:

"The bug was just a small one, like <coworker>'s dick".

"We missed processing the event because it came too soon, like <coworker>'s dick".

"Dammit...I need to reset this router and don't have a pin to poke the reset hole. <Coworker>, can you use your dick to do it for me?"

Being the butt of dick jokes for a week (especially if some of these making them are women) will probably strongly discourage <coworker> from making future comparisons to his own dick.
How about Rust? The safety features for threads are really neat and make the workflow of designing systems without deadlocks or race conditions simpler.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch16-00-concur...
Saw this on Reddit last night, poked around on a few pages. It's great! Love the movie list example on this page: https://github.com/bpesquet/thejsway/blob/master/manuscript/.... Going from "for" loops into map/filter/reduce concepts is an excellent way to teach!
I haven't used Telegram in a professional setting but seems like a good solution. I'm hoping Matrix/Riot takes off and the open protocol enables a native experience.
Maybe so but for a lot of people they want information but dont want to stare at a screen to get it.
I think I'll try to talk about two sub-classes of distopian fiction across any media of presentation (texts, art, AV works, interactive media (games)).

* A happy ending: Things were going wrong, but there's at least one 'right' ending, where things go the way most would agree is positive.

* Only 'bad' endings: There might be a fight, you might even win the battle, but ultimately the war is lost.

I think that the popularity of each of these depends on how hopeful society in general (and the people consuming the works in specific) are about the future.

If we feel like there's no control or only bad routes left then the works with only 'less bad' endings will probably win.
> Within certain ranges, of course.

Citation needed. I've never heard of human senses being anything else than logarithmic.
> So in other words we need to buy substantially more expensive computers to get a usable experience with Windows vs. Linux.

Well, "Linux" is much broader than a specific version of windows (Windows 10). But yes, for most kinds of linux setup (distro, window managers etc) I'd say the bare OS definitely needs less resources on Linux than on Windows.

I do find that apart from the storage issues, Win10 actually runs about as lean (on cpu and mem) as Win7. The problem with consumer hardware such as cheap or midrange laptops is usually that it's infested with crapware from the start, something I also blame microsoft for, not manufacturers.

The OEM agreeements microsoft do with laptop manufacturers should explicitly ban them from installing any crapware such as antivirus trial versions, poorly written hardware apps and similar. I realize the $400 price of a cheap laptop sometimes includes a big rebate due to the software bundles - but ms ought to put a stop to it. Has to be damaging to their brand.
> I would imagine the FreeBSD groups might object because it gives their project an edge over Linux.

Or, they might object because this hypothetical new license is incompatible with FreeBSD for various reasons, legal or otherwise, and they would not be able to get new contributions back into FreeBSD.
Ask HN: What are the 5 websites you visit almost daily?
The alternative is to treat the simulation as a series of immutable instants. Every step of the simulation is encapsulated and represented as a data structure. So the core loop would look something like nextState = advanceFrame(currentState) , where currentState is immutable and contains every piece of information needed to calculate nextState.

Then you can do whatever you want with that series of immutable instants. You might pass that data structure to a function for rendering, or for storing history, or whatever else. You might even do something clever like pass two consecutive steps into your rendering function, so you can calculate motion blur between them.

Treating each simulation step as an instance of a data structure means you decouple the simulation state and time from your program state and time. Novice programmers often use global variables to hold the state of a simulation or game, but there's a smarter way to do it. You insert a layer of abstraction between your program's control flow and the simulation's time flow.
Why the downvotes on this? I appreciate the thoughts. I think it's a real shame that Google's assistant isn't available in a desktop client, that can use either text or voice input.
> Dystopian pessimism is more sinister than that, I'm afraid. The spirit of pessimism is the idea that what ever you do, things go wrong, because we're bad. So there's no point trying to implement things.

If authors really believed this, why would they even bother writing?
You can get that with weechat + screen + glowingbear.
I assume you meant to say "NFL careers"?

For a second there, I thought you were talking about the average height of NFL running backs, and I was very confused...
The Master and Margarita also has a lot of details from biblical history that help making sense of it... I read it when I was taking a class from a Dead Sea Scroll archaeologist about how the bible was written and modern interpretations of it. So we read some of Gilgamesh, Old Testament, Dead Sea scrolls, Paradise Lost, and The Master and Margarita, among others (here's some version of the syllabus: http://web-app.usc.edu/soc/syllabus/20111/60056.doc)
I'd be willing to help with a Spanish translation as well.
Wink Acquired by i.am+
(No press release or blog posts on this yet. Here's the text from the e-mail)

Today marks an exciting new chapter for Wink and we wanted you to be the first to hear about it.

Wink has been acquired by lifestyle technology company i.am+ [1].

If you’re not familiar, i.am+ was founded by innovator and music artist will.i.am and has already shaken up the wearables industry with BUTTONS [2] - premium wireless Bluetooth headphones.

Our teams are in the process of coming together to shape our future roadmap and we can’t wait to share what we’re working on.

In the meantime, please know that your Wink app and Wink Hub will continue to operate just as they have. The acquisition doesn’t change anything with regards to the Wink user experience.

We know you depend on Wink to stay connected to your home and are as committed as ever to delivering the best-in-class smart home experience you expect.

We’ll be introducing a number of new in-app features and partner integrations in the coming months. Keep an eye out on our blog for more information (and for updates throughout this transition). If you have any questions, give us a call at 844-WINK-APP.

The Wink Team

[1] http://www.iamplus.com/

[2] https://iamplus.com/buttons
Really nice work. Are you familiar with Notion? I would love to hear your pitch why I might want to use Nuclino instead of something like Notion.
You can use XMPP or IRC clients if you enable the gateways in Slack. It is your best hope for a decent client.
Amazon Hub
You're saying all industries are equally meritocratic? That seems hard to believe.
Ctrl and Alt and Del. Conservatives must reboot capitalism
This is very true in SF. It's hard to think of a recent optimistic SF book. If you exclude all the paranormal stuff (werewolves/vampires/zombies/etc), it's even harder.

One of the biggest problems we have today is that there's no shared vision of an achievable better world. As a society, we don't know where to go.

Most of the promising ideas from the 1940-1960s have been tried, and most achieved in the US. See the original General Motors Futurama from 1940, which was supposed to be a vision of 1960.[1] This optimism was during the depths of the Great Depression, the next 20 years contained a big war, and yet it all happened. Freeways - did that. Spreading out cities - did that. Tall buildings spaced far apart in open space - tried that, didn't work out well. Most of those goals were achieved at scale.

The 1964 GM Futurama [2] tries to be optimistic, but it totally missed as prediction. Moon bases. Arctic bases. Undersea bases. Roads through jungles built by giant mobile machines. Desalinization plants irrigating the desert. Extreme urban sprawl. "Neither terrain nor distance a deterrent to where men of the city build their homes." None of that got beyond the prototype stage. Nobody quite knew where to go from there.

In the 1970s, SF had an enthusiasm for big space habitats. That went nowhere; lift cost to orbit is just too high.

Today, nobody is even trying very hard to define a better future. (Well, Musk talks about colonizing Mars, but, face it, as real estate, Mars sucks. If you could get to Mars for free right now, it wouldn't be worth developing. Few deserts are, even ones with air.)

[1] https://youtu.be/tAz4R6F0aaY?t=462
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5aK0H05jk
Things are getting out of control. Some of my non-technical friends are already moving into 16 GB of RAM on their new laptop purchases. For surfing the web and watching movies...

The worst thing is not just memory consumption, but sluggish UIs. Everything is turtle slow. I notice a significant lag when typing on their machines no matter how much RAM or CPU you have.

I run a WM (XMonad), Firefox (vimperator), a terminal (urxvt) and Emacs, with no actual desktop environment (but all services, including firejailed applications). Without opening Firefox, I'm comfortably below 200 MB of RAM. And Firefox is not a memory hog either, if setup and used with care.

Even more, before starting X, I'm around 128 MB of RAM, yet I can do most stuff inside a text-mode Emacs.

An additional benefit is robustness. With fewer components things hardly break, and when they do you can easily fix them. Especially if you use a Nix-style package manager and system configuration.

Not a setup for everyone, I know, but an average HN reader will have no problem putting it together. If friendlier GUIs are still your preference, I believe some lightweight Linux desktops are worth a shot. Last time I tried Xfce, it was simple and lightweight. Even my old dad was able to adjust to it quickly.
Are all these projects some sort of libraries? Is that why you need to support both Python 2 and Python 3?

All the projects I've worked on moved to Python 3 and never looked back.
Yeah, that's why Ember is so great - any developer who is familiar to the stack can contribute as there are standards and patterns which are consistent across platforms, Ember is also the perfect fit for a large and long term project which is constantly evolving because of the backwards compatibility.

The other consideration is that Ember is a community driven project and isn't beholden to some large corporate monolith.
> Think about your coworkers-- you've got some weird ones. Dyed hair? Check. Burlesque dancing? Check. Gender non-conforming? Check. Goes to Burning Man? Check, check, self-check. Any of these things could get you fired from teaching kindergarten.

I worked in a startup developing enterprise security software and have been to defcon a few times. I've worked on wall street on trading software. I've never worked with a gay, gender non-conforming, burning man, burlesque dancing, etc.

We were all fairly conservative ( though we didn't care what you did in your private life ) males with software engineering backgrounds. Not a single female. We wouldn't care if someone is gay, female, dyed hair, etc, but that certainly wouldn't fit in with any developers I've worked with.

What you seem to be describing is "web development" or perhaps silicon valley "app development". The fringe developers who are lured in by the new tech bubble.

Though I do agree that there was meritocracy in the tech industry, the new wave of "diversity" is destroying as semblance of meritocracy.

What you are describing isn't real tech. It's hipster "tech". It's a laughable stereotype that has nothing to do with reality?

Think about it. Bill Gates, Zuckerburg, Larry Page, Bezos, Ellison, Moore, Huang, etc are nothing you described.

You seem like you watched the movie "hackers" or "swordfish" got your idea of the tech industry from it.
I'm not trying to argue that it is the BEST user experience. I'm trying to say that it is hurting small dev shops and startups because they are being forced to learn a completely new tech stack in order to play ball. I could have spent that time implementing new features that users would actually use and in turn improve their business, or in this case, reach and help more people with valuable medical advice.

In the end, Apple got what they wanted. I needed a feature that PWA's can give me - but Apple hasn't added support for them in mobile safari, so I paid the $100 to get access to the app store, and was forced to learn a completely different language.

Yes, the end product has an arguably better and 'native-like' experience, but it took me longer to do and it is lacking some of the features that I could have rolled out if I was able to use PWA's. And it would have worked on Android out of the box as well.

I don't regret learning React Native. It was actually really, really fun. The community is great, and being able to write native apps now feels really good.

But its the principal of the matter. Holding back innovation for your company's own selfish reasons is a shitty thing to do.
I've been using Bitwarden a couple months now and can only speak highly. We'll see how it's security audits & stands the test of time, but so far so good for me.
Great initiative, great technique.
Well shucks I'm not sure, I clicked on this article hoping to get some insight on that exact question.

But my hypothesis would be social services and hospitality because both those industries have a high percentage of women advancing from entry level to management roles and I think a track record of career progression is probably a decent proxy for it being a good industry for a demographic.

But I'm definitely not going to write a blog post saying "Social services it the best industry for women" until I did a lot more research into it.
When your fear is my opportunity
One wonders why you would say divisive things aloud in an otherwise lonely forest. Saying something hurtful, offensive, divisive, unnecessary... is problematic regardless of the size of the audience. You can see that the original "divisive" comment [1] on this thread sparked a large response.

It's true that a HackerNews thread has a lower global-political impact than, say, a presidential tweet or a Supreme Court ruling. But that shouldn't prevent anyone from thinking through their HN comments. Words matter.

The comment we're both responding to [1] was unnecessarily divisive -- which partially obscured the commenter's otherwise good points (that team-thinking can obscure rational thinking). And that's particularly important on a website like HackerNews.

Original divisive comment: "[Has football joined the list of] values that separate members of the Red Tribe from the Blue Tribe? Football is a red-state pastime." [1]

The comment you responded to: "You're creating [divisive] discourse [by posing divisive questions]." [2]

I think your response, pointing out that a comment on HN usually won't "create" a nationally divisive discourse [3], is missing the point. If you look at the rest of the thread you can see that it created a divisive debate within HackerNews. I think the point you're missing is that divisive language creates divisions wherever it is used and it's worthwhile to point that out -- even if you think you're only talking to yourself.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14867048

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14867414

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14867450
PostgreSQL, without hesitation.
Yeah but the authors of the Slack app didn't have to learn anything but Javascript and HTML. What else could be more important than that?
> There needs to be a specialist who is dedicated to catching those errors,

I think "needs" might be too strong here. We (the field of CS) get by without it just fine -- the standard practice is to include copy-editing "nits" at the end of one's review. A shepherd, assigned during the final phase, does a final pass on the paper before approving it.

Yup. Typos slip through. There are papers with poor English.
Oh well. For the most part, it works out pretty well.

(And as a reviewer, I have little objection to also noting writing fixes while I'm reading your paper. I'm going to spend anywhere from 30 minutes to 5 hours reading the thing -- the writing fixes are a small additional cost. If you've done a decent job on the writing in the first place. If it's totally botched, I'll reject your paper and tell you to fix it before submitting it again. :-)

Now, would I prefer that the authors of submitted papers had to pay $50 for someone to do a copy-editing pass before I reviewed it? Heck yes. But perhaps we'll get DNNs to fix this for us one of these days. :)
The funding would not go towards those things. If you understand anything about universities, it would go towards expanding the bureaucratic workforce.
Which is a shame really... Blackberry could have been much larger if they'd released a paid app tethered to their services on the backend for Android and iOS, provided the app was at least as good as the BBM experience to their users.
What does 'connectivity' entail? The way you put it sounds potentially highly intrusive.
And meritocracy should mean none of that matters. Tech has a long traditional preference for leftist, anarchist and liberal politics and "non-conformist" behavior, but those are more about tribalism and value signaling and, ironically, conformity than merit. You can be a hoodie wearing, blue-haired transgendered commie and still write terrible code.
Ex-meia do Vasco está livre no mercado
It's what came to mind as "sports that are likely to have injuries". Although I did plenty of skiing growing up a blue collar worker's kid. :-) I do hear you though, adult ski tickets are beaucoup bucks, it's why I don't do it anymore.

I wouldn't be bothered if my kid did baseball or cricket. Bored, perhaps, but not bothered.

Let's see, espn.com. Hockey can be super violent, but I'm probably ok with it, gotta check the numbers. Golf, boring, whatever. Fighting games - wrestling, MMA, etc, I'm probably ok with after a reasonable age. Certainly I would have no issues taking kiddo to Krava Maga.

(Personally I will go to Sounders (MLS) and Reign (NWSL) games, and I'm curious to see men's gymnastics at U of Washington this fall. It might be just a little Seattle)

e: The "red state" crew are, I think, more comfortable with idea of casual violence (and thus football). It's not as much of a Big Deal to them, often life is more rough and tumble IMO. I grew up in Idaho, so I do have some Life Experience in what I'm saying.
> Similarly, one could argue that the function prologs and epilogs that gcc generates fall under the GPL.

Can you really not compile code with gcc and have the result not be GPL licensed? This seems a bit dubious to me, although I honestly don't know enough to know if it's true or not