skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the problems here that from my perspective, there seems to be a fair deal of crossover between the "hipster" demographic and the "well off" demographic. The problem with the "hipster" pejorative is that it covers all sorts of stereotypes, but the "best definition" I can think of at the moment basically incorporates fashion trends of young whites in urban gentrification areas. By very definition, these people are going to often be better off. I've never heard hipsters thought of as much of a "working class" stereotype (maybe the starving-artists-that-are-hipsters stereotype you see sometimes, perhaps. But again "hipster" as a pejorative covers so much ground; it seems you also can be a "hipster" and vacation in the Hamptons).

I've been around the "microbrew"->"craft beer" scene since the 1990s. "Craft beer" is now seen as hipster. Funny, I think some of what the original angles of the microbrewery movement were about applies to some of the core of the hipster stuff. The original motivation of American microbreweries was basically brewers and drinkers who were tired of an American beer monoculture, where you could have any beer you like as long as it was a pilsner. (There is, of course, a tie-in to the article's theme: some of this, perhaps, is indeed driven by the "enriching experiences" in the article: people who traveled to, say, Britain or Belgium, liked what they had there, and wanted to drink and/or replicate it.) From the beginning, too, there was a tie-in to the "local" angle, in that a local brewery would have a better chance of adding a "unique culinary stamp" to the area, compared to a large corporation with products tailored for national audiences.

So as far as that "longing for authenticity" goes, I guess it's more the localism angle I more think of. It's less about being better / worse made, and more about the possibly unique aspects of community oriented products. In practice, is a lot of the products marketed to this group bogus? Sure. Are there a lot of me-too fads that kind of make the "unique" desire seem hypocritical? Of course. On the other hand, local flavor and custom has been known for eons; people are often genuinely proud of what their town / state / nation is famous for, way before "hipsters" was a thing. So at least this angle, I can see.
Golang + Facebook's C flexbox yoga? Not sure it covers all the bases but it's a new option!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14928177
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on ANTIFA?
Necessary evil or dangerous overreaction?
Local, one device Mario Kart is great. It's kind of unfortunate a friend can't bring their Switch over to have an 8 player session. With two Switches, locally, you're limited to 2 players per device.
How I made a Progressive Web App out of my Blog
You are barking up the wrong tree here. The home owners aren't being screwed by some technicality.

All of this was triggered by some super-mega-rich people not paying taxes for ~30 years, which after all this time amounted to a grand total of $900. After ample warning, the street was put up for auction and was bought by someone.

This whole situation could've been headed off at the pass several times: by paying the owed taxes at any point or by outbidding everyone at the auction as a last resort. But they took the "do nothing" route - maybe because they thought they could get away with it? - and got punished for it.

No sympathy from me. We all have obligations, and I get no shred of sympathy from my government when I fail to meet them (they slapped a €20 administrative fee on top of an unpaid €0,20 fine when they mailed the notification to me, just so you can get an idea... that 100x the cost of the fine in "administrative fees").

Why should they get anything more or less than what the average citizen gets?
Unlike most EU countries, in Poland there is no legal abortion (except for rape and women's life in danger).

I added "(illegal)" as an indication that all of such abortions are illegal in Poland.
>IPA, is a continuing supporter of the PATRIOT Act and SOPA, FISA, warrantless searches,

Except this describes at least 80% of Congress and 95% of the GOP congress. Not sure what you're expecting here, she isn't exceptionally liberal if that's your criticism. Replacing her with a GOP politician will only make the things you complain about worse and it'll add ending Net Neutrality, questionable anti-Immigration policies, gutting the EPA, Muslim bans, and Climate Denial to the mix.

Also the warrant-less search criticism is a little unfair, perhaps not terribly so, but she's one of the few that has called out the CIA for this:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/dianne-feinstein-...

That said, she's too old to run for re-election and this is her last term. Hopefully, you'll get the unicorn politician you want, but I think we're destined for a Californian Republican that'll just make matters worse.
Shantideva, and commentaries on his work.

Yes, anything would be great.
If you want to try this out check out my Facebook group, The Third Party:

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You can send us a message to receive a randomly selected event near you. People from all over are attending the events and posting about their experiences in the group.
Dijkstra was right – recursion should not be difficult
Taking a proofs based Euclidean geometry course was the single most useful class I've ever taken. It totally changes the way you think about mathematics, and even made me a better writer. The way it teaches you to begin with a premise and reach logical conclusions through concrete, connected steps is applicable to all fields of thought. Anyone unfamiliar with Euclid should remedy that immediately.
For people trying to understand quaternions, the faster way to intuition is understanding axis-angle first. I think axis-angle is totally intuitive. First pick a direction (some 3d unit vector) and then rotate around that direction by some amount (so some scalar). Then convert those four numbers to quaternions

qx = ax * sin(angle/2)
qy = ay * sin(angle/2)
qz = az * sin(angle/2)
qw = cos(angle/2)

where (ax, ay, az) is the unit direction (ax^2 + ay^ + az^2 = 1) and angle is the amount you want to rotate.

http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/geometry/rotations/conve...

http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/geometry/rotations/conve...
Those reviews are paywalled, so I can't really see what criterion they are using to rate a product high/low. I agree though that Dyson's are pricey, but they last long and are a joy to use. Not saying there aren't other models that do the same.
You might like Lauren McCarthy's work: http://lauren-mccarthy.com/Social-Turkers
Sure it is. Lots of people get outraged and offended by any number of things.

For instance, I'm outraged that anything related to Affirmative Action exists period -- as I believe codified, race-based laws are disgusting and an anathema to the construct of equality and equal-treatment under the law.
It's standard procedure to quote the ticker price when a news article discusses a public company.
Artificial Intelligence Helps to Keep Tired Drivers Awake
How does this compare to 2-gram Markov chains? The results look pretty similar (though perhaps a bit more grammatical...)
Yes, but not to the same degree. Numerai uses structure-preserving encryption / neural encryption. This allows people to use any existing machine learning algorithm on the data. For fully homomorphic encryption you would need specialized algorithms. These are way more difficult to design. They also run slower.
According to http://plugable.com/2017/04/26/plugable-products-unofficiall... they are using a standard, just they are using the uncommon MyDP standard instead of the more common HDMI alt modes.

But there are alternative docks available - Nyko makes a much smaller, more portable dock, for example.

Charging, input, and network adapters are all common, standard USB-C & Bluetooth, so that's progress at least.
As I drove the landscape, I was looking at the spacing between turbine rows and thinking about dirty air and laminar flow (why Texas is a good place for wind farms). Probably because the previous week I'd watched a bit of Americas Cup on TV with a friend who sails.

In the long run, it might be possible to achieve higher energy density with kites due to dynamic repositioning. The economics of increased complexity for higher density might work out, but I suspect that the density would need to be significantly higher while maintaining similar consistency of output. Feathering a fixed turbine offline in high wind and spinning it up again as conditions become favorable looks quicker than cabling in and cabling out kites in similar conditions.
Seven useful programming habits
It's interesting to note that the only reason this is a news story is because "a Google engineer" wrote it. If the essay had been published entirely anonymously, then it would have attracted no attention at all, like a dozen similar essays.

The story is the source, not the content.
Why would it take 50 years to install signalling across the system ?

Caltrain is on year 5 of their "3 year" project to modernize their signaling system... and that's a relatively simple 75 mile system with 30 stations and it's almost all above-ground.
Shouldn't the (1997) in the submission title read (300 BC)?
For those who want more on this, there's a recent book on this subject: "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women" by Kate Moore [1]. I don't know much about it (just happened to notice it a couple days ago while looking for something else at Barnes and Noble), but it has good reviews at Amazon.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Radium-Girls-Story-Americas-Shining/d...
The post ends right before the step I was more interested to read more about: The AMO submission process.

When I ported my extension, I spent a couple of days fixing the frontend Chrome code to work on Firefox, but then spent about a full month waiting for the AMO review process and going back and forth with the reviewer through various confusions and miscommunications.
Looking forward to the ThinkPad Retro (http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-its-alive/)
I think there's potential for cryptocurrencies to find homes in the modern financial landscape. But your counterpoint (a) is based on network effects. Distinguishing between short-term bubble behavior and long-term resilience can only be done after knocking the system with crises. Is there hope? Sure. Is it demonstrated? Absolutely not.

There is one feature gold has over Bitcoin that cryptocurrencies cannot replicate: resilience across technological domains. Gold holds value without computers or electricity. Bitcoin does not. Gold, on the other hand, cannot travel at the speed of light. TL; DR each solves different systems of trade-offs.
IIRC, the original Vita included a special port intended to connect to the TV... and then Sony never released the cables to do it.

Instead they released the PlayStation TV, which was incompatible with literally half of the Vita's library for controller and licensing reasons.
Sure!

Especially when it's so rare that it's a big kerfuffle every single time it happens in this industry.
Not bad, any SMLEs?
Two best explanations:

1. Screen brightness can be dimmed in full screen mode without a perceivable difference.

2. App nap. It's a macOS feature that dials down the power consumption of apps when their windows aren't visible.
That's awful. Has much changed? Or does London's legal system still allow this?
Mazda has no hybrid technology. The recent deal to badge-engineer the Mazda 2 as the Toyota iA in the states is in exchange for Toyota's hybrid technology for some future model.

Mazda has traditionally been extremely negative on electric or other non-ICE powerplants.
Depends where you are at I suppose.
In Ontario, Canada, owning a condo usually explicitly means you have partial owner of the land it is on. Yes, you have a "condo corporation", which hires a management company, to do admin work, assessment, maintenance, etc, but it too is a "not-for-profit" (in practical, if not in legal sense) organization owned by and responsible to the condo owners.

May be different for townhouses, but in my area, someone other than owner of condo owning the land would be unusual.
Depends on what your modeling. A risk vs inflation vs ROI curve should be maintained by the market rather than destroyed by it.
The story is not "a Google engineer wrote it". The story is "a large fraction of Google circulated and endorsed it". That's what makes this news.
To some, the mere expression of an outrageous opinion is a form of violence in and of itself.

Following this logic, any who express such ideas to others should be sanctioned as if they committed physical violence.
How Futura Nearly Became the Nazi Font of Choice
The headline should add "end-to-end encrypted", which is key here.
Yes but not all landlords are the same. Some put time and effort into maintaining the property and making improvements. I would consider that adding value.

Like everything else, there's a spectrum, and I find the couple described in the article to be on the extreme "slumlord" end, except even more obnoxious because they are masquerading as nice gentle good samaritans.
> aren't all of those mitigations for after the shit hits the fan?

Not necessarily. Raising minimum wages or cutting certain taxes are examples of pre-emptive steps political systems can take to increase households' incomes. Making debt harder or easier to discharge, or raising or lowering policy rates, can be similarly prophylactic.
> If you don't support the practice when it targets the poor, presumably you shouldn't with the rich either.

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." -- Anatole France (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France)

I can't say I see a huge issue with treating the rich worse than the poor in this instance.

'Fair' is just an ideal; at any given moment there's tons of unfairness around, big and small. If SF had a bug tracker, issues of the poor being preyed upon would be P1 bugs. This issue should be a P3 (which means nobody will ever get around to it).
hardly. i'm not condoning hatred based solely on the color of someone's skin.
You can see our catalog here right now: https://dropleaf.io/Catalog

We're actually adding a couple more games today including one I'm super excited about, Redout: https://34bigthings.com/portfolio/redout/

Our goal is to have a wide range of games, so that there's something for everyone to fall in love with, but we absolutely plan to be quite selective with what we allow in. If we have a game, it's because it's either great, incredibly compelling in some other way, or very interesting to the gaming nerds out there
What happens when the lone voice is in the right, and the mass of people are in the wrong, and all of the preponderance of current science and wisdom is against the lone voice?

It's no great stretch to find examples through history of this in different social contexts.
Any middle class family can get raise 90k. Most owe more than that on their house. If they are financially careful and have lived in their house for a few years they probably can do a cash-our refinance and get 90k to spend on this. Also as a business venture it isn't high risk so there is a good chance their banker was happy to give them the loan on their person credit for 20k down - their yearly bonus might be that much. Again, this requires financial responsibility to pull off, many middle class are not responsible enough, but some are and that is enough.

Of course we don't know (or at least I don't - I didn't read the article) the background of the owners. They might well be rich.
Just because you don't use it doesn't mean it's not a public good.

If tax money built the parking spot and tax money maintains the parking spot, then why should the government get extra income from the parking spot? Is my tax burden alleviated when I pay to use this parking spot?
I'm not saying you're a bad person, only that the conversation is important to people who don't have the option of ignoring it. No, you can't change the world but that doesn't mean we should give up and not even talk about the problem.

Also, having spent a fair amount of time in academia, describing it as liberal utopia is simplistic to the point of being wrong. Right-wing media loves to describe it that way but it's not example hard to find examples of universities fighting against fair wages, unionization, etc. — just watch what happens if someone suggests grad students or adjuncts should have financial security — and there are no shortage of examples of men who might even make a pretense of being feminist while ignoring or even stymieing support for working mothers, fair hiring or promotional practices, etc.

The only thing I've seen make any of this improve is sunlight.
Have there been any articles / pieces about it from women working at Google? I'd be interested in hearing that perspective.
"Technology reveals the best way to stop using Rust" won for me.
Are you sure?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/1...

Justin Keller was a nobody.
The thing is, the guy wrote what many people think - outside of tech. It just so happens that techies happen to be very open oftentimes.

I mean, what this person wrote, I heard it on various occasions in different formulations from various people. Even a woman (a Psychologist student at that time) once told me she'd rather have a male dentist and a male president.

I imagine tech industry to be brutal for woman, but so are probably a lot of other areas like construction works, virtually anything with hand-labour involved, not to speak about the military.

Anyways, it's great that people in the tech industry speak what they think. Maybe things change faster this way.
> but the odds are on the German and Japanese incumbents in the long run

I'm not so sure. Toyota and Volkswagen are huge multinational organisations with extreme beurocracy and institutional inertia. The history of large incumbents facing small nimble upstarts doesn't bode well for them: consider Walmart vs Amazon: Sony Pictures vs Netflix; Nokia vs iPhone; Toyota vs General Motors

Last year Tesla produced 84,000 vehicles. Next year they aim to produce 500,000. For reference, Mazda produces about 1.5 million and Toyota 10 million cars per year. Traditional car companies are standing on a burning platform and have only a few years to act.
I don't work for Apple.
Me too!

Unfortunately it was confirmed it's not 4:3, and I think it's very unlikely to be 16:10 instead of 16:9, but I still hope it will be good.
How to write a VS Code color theme from scratch
Elegit is a GUI designed to make it easier for people (students, normally) to learn how git works. The idea being that you'd start off with Elegit, figure out what the common commands are actually doing, then switch to the command line.
http://elegit.org/
Getting started with Nodebots and Johnny-Five
App nap is amazing.

Mac OS X reached an astounding level of technical goodness in Snow Leopard. Downhill since then. When my Macbook died I bought a refurbished, shitty Chromebook. Living off Azure Notebooks for any kind of computing...
Non-existent currently. But a Linux client and games is on our radar.
Several of them have tweeted about it.
It sounds like it wasn't intentional. The property was so badly managed that they failed to pay their taxes by accident. They missed the notices because they didn't keep their address up to date with the city.

Still, I don't have much sympathy. You'd think someone at some point in the 30 years they weren't paying taxes would have said, hey, you know, we haven't paid property taxes for the street in quite a while, maybe we should see what's going on with that.

If I had some problem stemming from failing to pay taxes for three decades, I doubt I'd be treated nicely either.
My manager threatened one of my co-workers with termination if they didn't take a more proactive approach towards making the code he wrote more robust. He took out specific examples of shit code he wrote, and had us criticize it and the mindset that created it. It changed how he programmed for the better and his outlook towards his job.
I think that's a good motivation why we would study quaternions, but it's kinda hiding the big difference between 2D and 3D under the rug. In 2D, we have a nice, global coordinate system for the space of all rotations: what we call the angle. (Actually, it's a coordinate system for the "universal cover" of the space of rotations since angle X and angle X + 2pi give the same rotation, which mostly doesn't really matter.) Meanwhile, in 3D, there is no global coordinate system for the space of rotations! Euler examples uniquely specify a rotation, but the problem of Gimbal lock [1] means that they break down as coordinates at some point (i.e. there's no inverse to go from rotation in 3D to its corresponding Euler angles, which there is in 2D, with the caveat already mentioned).

This is analogous to the problem of finding a coordinate system for the globe: specifying latitude and longitude tells you were you are, but there's a degeneracy at the poles. And no possible coordinate system can solve this problem entirely. Contrast this to the situation of giving a coordinate system for the circle, which we do with it's angle. This isn't quite a coordinate system, due to the problem we already encountered that X and X + 2pi are the same, but that's OK because the these two points are separated from each other. On the sphere, the latitude/longitude pair (pi/2, x) gives the north pole for any value of x, even ones that are arbitrarily close together. That maps not even locally invertible!

You suggest we think of points on the circle as point in 2D space that happen to lie on the circle (i.e. cos and sin of the angle corresponding to that point). Analogously, we can think of points on the sphere as points in 3D space that happen to lie on the sphere (like some point (x,y,z) with x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 1). And analogously, we can think of rotations of 3D space as a point in 4D space (that happens to satisfy some conditions), and the quaternions give that 4D point. This is fantastic and convenient in both 2D and 3D! But in 2D we didn't need to do this, but could if we wanted to. For 3D rotations, we do need to, or else we have this terrible degeneracy that never rears its head in 2D. In that sense, 2D and 3D are very different!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock
Library encourages shitty JS; activate by misspelling JavaScript in script tag
my thumbs are still on the inside of my hands so unfortunately I still cannot deal with trackpad buttons above the scrolling surface.

I have an older thinkpad from my job which is a great machine but unusuable trackpad-wise due to this design. I use a cheap asus zenbook daily. Would love to have a trackpad-buttons-where-my-thumbs-are lenovo again.
Haha, yep, that's the one.

I love the suggestion of ripping out the concrete and selling bits of it as souvenirs to fund the pouring of fresh concrete. I'd personally extend it into a monthly farming operation.
I would support a law that specifically tried to take this into account, as presumably it would also make it easier for the poor to deal with this situation. I'm less for the poor and the rich must have the exact same penalty as much as I am against the outcome and penalty being based on market prices, which means it's dependent on your income level. I want all groups to have the same ability to solve the problem, even if the cost to do so may scale in some way.