skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at something like the Super 73 Scout:
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/12/15958836/s...

When I first saw this I thought "hell yeah I am buying on of those right this second". I bike every day in SF and there are tons of hills, I'd love one of these for when I am feeling lazy and want to have some fun.

But then I thought about what I'd be like in the bike lane. If someone went by me on one of those I'd be pretty grumpy. They take up more space, they don't have the right acceleration patterns, and the rider is not nearly as engaged with the ride.

I think the e-bike is the perfect city vehicle, but not sure where they will fit in between bikes and motorcycles as they evolve.
Ari Paul[0] helped run a 75B fund. This isn't particularly new. The clumpy writer should probably sit down & figure out what's going on before shouting from the rooftop.

[0] https://twitter.com/aridavidpaul?lang=en

Edit:

Here are 15 more hedge funds for the klutz. Please old media: keep up! Would quite like NEWs.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/07/12/crypto-boo...

Edit2: dpflan, I think I'm being throttled b/c of my VPN. Here's how I see it;

Personally, I think bitcoins will still increase, but the bet is more symmetrical. There are other crypto assets which are asymmetrical bets (lose 1x, gain 100x). I focus on the latter.
> the technique of allowing customers to make online purchases with a single click, with the payment information needed to complete the purchase having been entered by the user previously

I remember reading about this in the Bezos bio - One click - and thinking I must have missed something because of how ridiculous such a patent is. I'm still convinced I'm missing something.

I'm all about copyright protection but come-the-fuck-on! Isn't this alottle too trivial. People get paid to work on this (patent) and they're happy with themselves?
Yes - exactly. And with a specified amount so I am safeguarded from anu surprises.

I have never seen a service like that - so (I think) it is mainly on your side of the pond.
If it even lightly pisses off the sheltered sniveling types from uptown Manhattan, I approve of it.
"concern mom" mentality. All ebike sold in the us have to have a speed limiter, I am limited to 20 miles an hour on a flat road and daily get bypassed by a few mph easy.
> If I had more money to defend one back in 2000 I would own mesh networks...

Then no one would use mesh networks instead of almost no one!
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Or maybe because some non-taxable US-based investors only invest in offshore vehicles.
I was raised Catholic, in a Catholic country and I don't every recall being taught environment stewardship as being a biblical mandate. All that came from my parents, from common sense, from a love of nature and from 80s kids TV.

I don't want to get caught up in a religious argument, but I think its far more likely that people attribute a particular view to their religious beliefs as a way of validating them than they believe the environment is precious solely because the bible told them.
whistled language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero
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I mean, I'm talking about Twitter's politics, not their bans.

They get away with hosting hate speech because they're on the left. Meanwhile, another platform that's on the right is banned by Apple and Google with that excuse.
> I mean I've got lots of books on OTP. But if i'm building a daemon which reads off a queue and talks to some databases - where are some patterns I can follow?

This is a fair point, even in Erlang land. There are a zillion things encouraging you to "let it crash" and far fewer going beyond that.

One thing that doesn't get mentioned often enough is a circuit-breaker like fuse: https://github.com/jlouis/fuse

This also has some more advanced topics:

https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
OCaml has great support for concurrency (check out Lwt or Async libraries). Do you mean parallelism, perhaps?
If a function takes an argument of type pointer-to-int, you can simply pass a reference to an int variable on the stack with "&myInt". The code in question seems to be using heap allocation just to get a pointer-to-int, which makes one suspect that the author doesn't know about the & operator.
Yep, just set it up a couple days ago. Supports Google Authenticator/Authy/etc.
Because you can always "undo" the purchase by canceling it.
Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors
I'm a longtime outliner software user from the DOS days. One of the last outliner software packages I used was Grandview 2.0 by Symantec [1].

Amazingly, just a few months ago I discovered that it has been resurrected to run in Windows using vDOS; there is a package that automates the entire deployment process[2]. I've started using Grandview 2.0 again on Win 7 using this package (which BTW includes a OCR'd scan of the very extensive User manual). It works flawlessly. Unfortunately, data exchange into "modern" formats is challenging (and you're left with a screen no larger than 80x50), so I've not been able to use it as much as I would like. I wish there were a modern incarnation of this or similar software, but it seems DOS software is largely viewed as a dead-end not worth emulating in this era of GUI's.

P.S. I've tried MS Word's outline mode and find it wholly unsatisfactory.

P.P.S. my favorite outliner software was Borland's Sidekick Plus (for DOS).

[1] https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/grandview...

[2] http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/6291
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Ask HN: Should I use Contentful or WordPress API for building a static site?
I'm thinking about freelancing my skills and designing websites for local groups in my area. I don't want to have them come to me to update their website everytime they need the content changed though. I was going to use a CMS like Siteleaf until I found out about Contentful and headless WordPress (not designing a site with WP but just using their API to pass data to a site). Right now, I'm leaning towards WP because it's a bigger name, but I glanced at Contentful's website and it looks interesting. I'm not sure which one to use, so what are the benefits of each? Also, are there any other interesting alternatives?
Agreed, years of research and brilliant ideas should be protected. However one click shopping is a bit obvious.
There is nothing wrong with the syntax itself. Its simply that it's usually preferable to allocate variables on the stack. To do this, you would do:

int var_a = 5;

and use &var_a when you want to acess that variable as a pointer within that scope. Not only is this more efficient, it is much easier to read.
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If you had read past the first paragraph you might've noticed that the article is primarily about the author acknowledging the illegitimacy of his bias and concluding that ebikes are 'a force for good'.

Fucking hipsters.
You can definitely write a tool to do it for JavaScript.

Sublime text has something similar that gives you the usages of a function when you hover over its name. Its not as 100 percent accurate as strict static code analysis, but it works pretty well for function names that are not duplicated everywhere.
"incite hate"

That is a scary, clever manipulation of language. Inciting violence is an exception to free speech because it is directly linked to a specific violent result.

"Hate" is non-specific, and not an action at all. It often means nothing more than offending someone or violating some political correctness. Hate speech is and should be protected speech.
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According to a comment by Yoric, they're seeing a 5% improvement in size over minified+gzip.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15046750
This made me wonder: What does it take to become a protected/victim group?

Ugly and socially-unskilled people are not protected/victim groups even though their lives are harder.

My current hypothesis is that the main reason that a group gets that status is that they have an emotionally compelling victim-story (although I think there's some randomness due to political movements).

Under this hypothesis, the struggles of the ugly and socially-unskilled may be less emotionally compelling because they are less likable and so we have less empathy for them.

Disclaimer: All of this is just descriptive speculation. I don't very well understand the relative struggles of different groups and don't endorse poor treatment of anyone. And I'd love for anyone to show flaws in my hypothesis or present a better one.
New York City lowered their speed limit to 25mph. Electric bikes generally don't go over 20mph. The trick is they can consistently travel at 20mphs - a fast pace for an average human pedaling a bike. That is, they perform like a fast cyclist. I doubt electric bikes will be incompatible with NYC bike and car traffic.
It's important to remember employed people normally have a lower suicide rate than average. So Foxcon's rate is similar to the national average, but higher than the national average of employed people.
Yes, it matters whether you are owning your words.

This discussion is about how we structure society to serve its members. It has a long history of bigots cloaking their bigotry in a zillion ways. It is rife with people putting on masks -- from white hoods to anime avatars -- as a way of manipulating the discourse and avoiding social accountability for their attempts at social change.

If you want to be taken seriously -- certainly by me, probably by anybody -- then step up. Otherwise you're indistinguishable to me from the thousand other people I've dealt with who are happy to support self-serving sexism and racism from the shadows.
It's not just the physical labor to get up to that particular speed at that moment it's the countless accumulated hours of training and commuting and general bike riding to develop the capacity to produce the power to go that fast.

Along with that time spent in the saddle the non e biker also develops the bike handling and traffic skills, the innate almost unconscious understanding of how the bicycles and cars will move at different speeds, how to calculate multiple vectors, how to process the traffic patterns for safe and fast transit.

My biggest gripe with most e bikers is that they don't have the skills to handle the speed.
That only makes it slightly better. It is still stored at payment provider. Hopefully they are better at safeguarding my data.

But if I only supplied a token. with a value I determined I would not have to worry.
Fads, or steadfast pursuit of balancing tradeoffs and finding clever ways to improve tools?

Compilation and interpretation both have distinct advantages. It's hard to do both (read: it took a while) and each has tradeoffs.

I'm impressed and grateful that I can get compile time errors for interpreted languages, and I'd feel the same about being able to use a compiled lang in a repl.

Regarding the actual topic at hand, this isn't compiled JavaScript, just parsed JavaScript. They're shipping an AST, not bytecode/machine code.
"Protected classes" as currently defined is an insult to freedom of speech. Once "protected classes" collide, we got oppression olympics.

Christians have enough of hard time for their believes in quite a few places. Why are they less protected than gays? Why is their freedom of speech is worth less than gays?

One could argue that gay cake is not biologically defined marker. For example, by christian believe, marriage is to make babies. Gays can't make babies. Thus gay marriage is not biologically even possible.

Then we step into another issue. Frequently "protected class" is taken as free pass to do anything rather than being protected for their specific attribute. For example, people being called racists for rightfully calling out black person for his bad behaviour.
Why is language required to ask why?

> Dogs and animals can't ask "why?" "Why?" is beyond their limit of expression because they do not possess language
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I have a petal assist I go up 200ft eagerly day and I still sweat. Anyone trying to equate effort with morality to legislate away an effective and convenient way of transportation needs to be burned alive.
I'm well aware of Cayman Islands taxes.

> Capital is very mobile and not there's usually not a strong reason to keep it in high tax jurisdictions if it's possible to move it out.

They are exploiting a loop hole.
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Thanks! We've updated the link from http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/17/technology/business/chicago-..., which points to this.
Sure you can, it just won't be "right." It depends on your use case and target audience if you care about "right" vs "functional." I'd say anyone who wants to really understand how programming works, should write at least one toy compiler/interpreter. It's interesting the kinds of insights you can pickup trying to pull that off.
Amazon just launched a service to help scan, categorize, and protect data https://aws.amazon.com/macie/
True, HN can't tolerate unpopular or controversial opinions. Agree with the echo chamber or be silenced.

Source: Currently rate-limited on my main account for pointing out HN's abusive, opaque moderation tactics.

How ironic...
> Probably because of the favourable taxation jurisdiction.

He already wrote that (that's why the sarcasm).
how weird is it that we came here to read about a new phone and ended up discussing climate change and religion.
They are a requirement if you were wanting to fraudulently open a bank account in someone else's name.
What is your product so that I know in advance to completely avoid it?
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It's much easier to just trust the fab. TSMC do not care about backdooring your hobby project.

If you really want to carry on down this route, I would say the most effective approach would be to regard fab interference as a strange form of "single event upset", and borrow high-availability techniques such as lock-step mode across duplicated processors or subsystems.
Honestly, that's just intractable. That can't be solved for the same reason that changes to the makefile itself can't be tracked. Changes to the structure of the build system aren't "dependencies" as commonly understood.

Almost all other systems have this flaw in some way as well. You can fool everything, because a system capable of not being fooled would literally have to reparse and rebuild everything from scratch.
Exactly. How is the profiling experience?
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Response status codes. And dogs (2011)
One former colleague of mine would explain to clients that "Hard thinking is hard work, and hard problems need hard thinking before we put pen to paper" when explaining our pre-drafting billing.
I'm kind of the same. I would definitely kill to be able to buy DRM-free epub books from someone else other than Amazon and have it 1-click integrate with my kindle.

Maybe some epub sellers could email it to your kindle with 1-click purchasing now?
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What makes tup amazing is it traces which files a program touches, so assuming your programs obey the rule "I need to rerun if I have different command line arguments or something I read has changed", you get perfect dependencies for any program. I use it for running experiments with custom programs and scripts all the time, and it just refund the parts I need.
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> Take a look at something like the Super 73 Scout: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/12/15958836/s....

> I think the e-bike is the perfect city vehicle, but not sure where they will fit in between bikes and motorcycles as they evolve.

It seems to me that Pedelec (assist-only, low-power, low maximum assist speed) are bicycles, other e-bikes are electric mopeds and motorcycles.

The Super73 is a moped: it has functioning pedals but can move solely off of the engine (and the official website calls it a motorbike).
Even if one were to assume that most politicians were corrupt, then still you vote for those who corruptly favor the policies you prefer. While I wish there were less money in politics, I do not agree with the premise that a moneyed cause is necessarily a bad cause.
For the developer side of you I'd say go with contentful or similar but for your clients I'd say go with wordpress. It's ubiquitous and easily extendable with whatever plugin they need.

> I don't want to have them come to me to update their website everytime they need the content changed though.

No matter what site you set them up with, or how easy you make it for them, they'll still come to you. The 'trick' is to agree some service model up front so they know they have to pay you and you won't do it for free.
Retarded, fuck patents
I'd like to see a Scala compiler that works more like a proof assistant like Coq. I want the compiler's job to be to help me quickly write correct code. That should be first-class functionality. Batch-compiling the same source files over and over again should be just a neat trick that the compiler can do on the side.
Ask HN: What to do when Slack gets too disruptive?
We started using Slack a year+ ago when our team was smaller. Since then we've added other departments, groups and lots more users. The amount of noise and interruptions is becoming extremely distracting as a developer. I'm at the point of turning it off for 3/4 of the day. Check-in during the morning and near end of day then turn it off.

Is anyone else feeling like this?
How do you keep the noise and distractions down? It seems like Slack is ideal for smaller groups but since we've brought more people in, added more channels, folks started doing group chats you're always "On-Call".
That's true, but the importance of Play Store distribution has risen from "makes you more discoverable" to "makes you more trust-able" now that Play Store uploads are scanned for malware and have to adhere to Google policies.

I have no desire to run Gab, but the effect of this decision is not only a stand against racists, it also exposes Gab users to a high chance of loading malware.
This is a gem: https://twitter.com/GlobeSvcs/status/897666132705988609

What do others think about Bitcoin's value changes and BTC as an investment? (Or the missed opportunity of investing in fidget spinners :)!)
That and it sounds like groups of workers regularly use the threat of suicide pacts to gain leverage over management-- not to improve conditions, or anything drastic-- just to get paid what they are owed.
Because I would need to detect the fraud first. And fraudsters tend to be clever!

I hardly ever use cash anymore so my bank statements have a lot of action going on.

How closely do you monitor those?
> The speed of delivery, prime benefits, brand recognition, and willingness to lose money on many if not most items are absolutely brutal to compete against.

What I'm hopeful of is that (barring evil patents or monopolies) all of those things should be able to be outsourced a third party vendor or service. Hopefully in the future you will be able to simply contract out alternative delivery service, or drone delivery, or "prime"-like membership programs with the click of a button or an API call.
How many pedestrians and bikers have been injured and/or killed by electric bikers? How does that compare to cars and trucks? Wouldn't that information be helpful in thinking through whether there is any problem at all here?
null == undefined in js.
(a) Insisted on having a dumbphone after college; and it helps immensely in this regard - still get text and calls without the notification spam.

(b) Recently settled on a plan of spending ~30 minutes after work explicitly checking social media/net stuff, but removing the firefox icon from my sidebar/dock after that. Not having that icon there gives just enough friction that I'll end up in a calmer loop of doing digital artwork (my second job) or wandering off to read. Any important emails gets taken care of during dead time at the day-job, or pre-written in textedit.
Do you know if this is being used in iOS Safari for Touch ID in the browser too? Or is that something non-standard?
PragProg has (or had at least) email delivery to Kindle after order, so maybe they'll do it?
Is this better or worse than the apps stores? Or similar?

For the app store, developers write code without being paid and compete with each other. The corporate entity behind the competition doesn't pay the losers and takes a cut from the winners and the winners rarely make $100k/year and have no job security because the corporate entity can change the rules arbitrarily.

Or to put it another way, a tournament of 100 developers competing for five $100k/year jobs provides each developer with an expected value of $5k/year/eight_hours. That's an expected value of $612.50/hour. In terms of the App store that's like writing another FlappyBird.

Like I said, the main difference here is the lack of PR polish and the nakedness of the value proposition.
You don't really have to mainline your drivers. You just have to open source them. I guarantee if the chipset drivers and GPU drivers for most Samsung S phones were open sourced the phones would see community merged drivers or a popular third party repo supporting their continued maintenance.

Of course, it would be preferable that companies support their hardware in (open) software themselves (like Intel and AMD do for their GPUs / wifi / ethernet / ASM extensions), but we don't have anything close to that right now in mobile.
That's inane. PE and VC have raised more funds last year than since the GFC. There's plenty of cash, more than enough, cash to go around without these illegal securities ICOs getting in the mix.

And when I say plenty of cash, I am talking in the aggregate. I don't make any statements about whether or not it's being correctly distributed.
Haha. Single-click. 1-click-buy. The things you can claim rights to...utterly absurd.
Its a conundrum right now, for sure, but I am all for getting more people on bikes, electric or not.

The main issue with e-bikes in the bike lane is obviously the speed and pacing are not going to match your average bicycle commuter. The same effect would result from a professional cyclist carving through the streets at speeds no one could match.

I think the issue would solve itself as they become more popular. If they can hit speeds of 20-40MPH, then they should be using a full car lane, and can benefit from each other's presence. Professional and highly trained amateur cyclists do this already.
What is going on? Are people really afraid that neo-Nazism is gonna make a comeback?

Can't we just acknowledge the situation as a bunch of angry kids saying hurtful things for attention ("I wish you were DEAD!")?
You don't have to involve these kinds of morals do to prefer a practical solution that exists now to a science-fiction concept that doesn't.
I disagree, a good office culture extends beyond meatspace. I've worked at plenty of companies where the general atmosphere was... not good. These are places where the "hallway conversation" was either nonexistent or didn't extend beyond small talk about TV or the weather. If your employees aren't comfortable sending instant messages to each other, they definitely aren't going to be comfortable being in the same room together.
One of my LLCs is named "Null Ventures LLC". I sometimes get things via snail mail that are addressed in interesting ways. The most common is simply "<space>Ventures LLC". Unlike the author, I've never had issues (AFAIK, anyways) receiving e-mail to the domain.