skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but really just in it for the lulz

I am really not convinced of that. I believe they have been marginalized by society and this is their way to regain their relevance. The fact that that conveniently plays into the agenda of those that would like to see the world change in that way as well but who do not have sufficient agency to do it themselves doesn't help at all.

Anyway, we've seen this movie before and it did not end well back then, I wonder how many people saw the trainwreck happening in slow motion and realize they were powerless to stop it. It's like an explosion or an avalanche. Once sufficient activation energy has been added the end result is inevitable, even if you as an observer of the first act feel the need to warn of the impending disaster it will happen anyway and you're going to be along for the ride until a new stable configuration has been reached at a lower energy level.
Scientists discover a new flower of Shetland
Why I moved from Python to Go
This entire ordeal has had many other hidden consequences, for me personally for example I've made the decision to never ever voice my political opinion ever again, whether offline or online. It is simply too dangerous, I do not consider my political opinions to be anywhere near as important as my livelihood or internet access. Take that as an overreaction if you want, but that's a real consequence that I've drawn for my life. I cannot risk accidentially running afoul somebody's idea of 'unacceptable opinion to hold'.
Senator Isakson gave a townhall Monday. One of the questions was a rambling explainer that could be best summarized is "Net neutrality is about not censoring the internet so do you support it?" to which of course responded "I do not support censorship so we have to deregulate to ensure it."

The guy practiacally showed Isakson the door.
And even when Android phone manufacturers bring updates, you have no idea when it's going to be. At a minimum, months after the reference version comes out (excluding Google's line of course).
I doubt he's in it for the units. He's probably in it for another sale of the tech to another large behemoth company that needs a smartphone play.
The Moto Z Play has amazing battery life, and the Z2 play reduced the battery less than 20%.

While not as good, the Z2 play still has amazing battery life.
...and then you deliver those tens of thousands of lines of JS to a browser running uBlock Origin and 80% of it gets ignored, restoring speed and lowering memory requirements at the tiny cost of not seeing your ads or being tracked by ad networks.
Suggestion: The first paragraph of every newsletter should have a brief one-or-two-line description of what WebRenderer is.

I clicked on the Quantum Flow and Photon newsletters and those don't describe what they are at all. I have a general idea of what Quantum Flow is already, but I have no idea what Photon is.
When that group exists to undermine the rule of law and carries out illegal acts it actually is against to law to belong to them. It's falls under conspiracy and aiding and abetting laws. This is why you can't be a member of ISIS.
This used to be the case, but I'd argue not as much anymore. I had the 3gs for ~4 years and by the end it was nearly unusable due to updates (noticeably worse every time). I'm now nearly at the 5 year mark on my 5s and on the latest ios, no problems. It's not as snappy as my wife's new phone but completely usable.
Probably right. I was talking more mid-eighties timeframe. (Which Wikipedia confirms is when it became widely-used though IBM first demonstrated in 1960 or so.)
I think the boom in sales of home computers could be an explanation.

See: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/articles/culture/total-share.med...

Prior to anyone having a computer, your suitability for getting in CS would be the math classes you took, which had some "equality of access".

Once the sales boom happened, anyone with a computer probably had a large advantage to anyone that did not.

If that was the driver, though, it would imply some pattern where these computers were less available, or less appealing, to young women.
Marketing vs. Growth vs. Growth Hacking
What I realize growth is

Marketing is introducing your product to the user.

Growth is connecting users to the value of a product.

Growth hacking is a non-traditional approach to quickly connecting users to the value of product with minimal resources

For Example:
Marketing: Onboard users to the app by using traditional marketing channel like paid marketing, SEO, PR etc.
Growth: Onboard users and help them quickly arrive at the value from the product itself by using marketing, Coding/engineering and most importantly, data.
Growth Hacking: This is similar to the Growth but Growth hacking is much more relevant for startups with resource constraints. This does not take into account, how it will effect the long term metrics. In the Scale stage of a Company, 'growth hacking' becomes 'Growth' with resources and a long term strategy.

Let me know how you define.
Are you actually complaining that the higher house price wouldn't be good for you, because you'd have to pay tax when selling? I'm still not sure this isn't all sarcastic.
Completely agree. Nonetheless, I stand by my position that the SFBA housing situation is NOT an example. In the case of the pistachio farmers there was a common resource (the aquifer) that was available on a first-come-first-served basis, so deep drillers were rewarded. I don't see any analogous mechanism at work here.
I also come from Clojure and Erlang and, tbh, couldn't get into Elixir for various reasons (I've followed the development closely since its inception):

* Most of the Elixir community comes from the Rails world, so most of the libraries focus on the web.

* Coming from the Ruby world, a lot of these new developers tend to be ignorant of the underlying Erlang machinery, believing that Elixir is the magic that makes Erlang a "modern" and usable language, which is simply not true.

* The tendency to favor frameworks over libraries.

* I'm probably alone in this one, but I find the syntax off-putting. It adds lots of sigils and complexity to Erlang's very succinct syntax.

* In the end, I think Elixir adds very little besides the excellent tooling to the Erlang ecosystem.
oh of course a pre NeWS postscript capable WM .. was it the first ?

funny http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/piemenu/uwm1/call-ema... ;)

ps: I couldn't locate the actual exec_string that interpret Forth
Some Apple employees may quit over new 'open' office floor plan
I think the crux of his point is really between constantly having to update state in a mutable way (with a decent probability of starvation and possibly deadlock) vs. pure functions, immutability and the async FP architecture he talked about. The advantage of the later is it brings maintainable code, and this stays true throughout the life of the code.

Off course, you'll have to hire or train FPers as he mentions.
The constitution allows the federal government to regulate interstate commerce because local interests don't line up with national interests. Saying, group X voted for it thus it's OK stops working when group X impacts group Y.

Because of this, I don't think local governments should have control over zoning. The impacts are at least state wide so they should be regulated at the state or national level.
Like having black people in Marin county?
That's $12000 extra on rent per year, which is a lot to someone making $80k a year.
When Object-Oriented Programming Isn’t
It may be that because of diet or other factors, this just wouldn't be as useful in the US.
Mostly existing homeowners. More houses mean decrease in their rent income. Also the influential people in city politics probably already own homes.
New feature in iOS 11 quickly and temporarily disables Touch ID
Because that's how much iPhones and Pixels cost.
How to Reset Windows 10 / 8 / 7 Password the Easy Way
> In fact, you're benefiting through increasing home values (for which you are not taxed due to Prop. 13)

This is completely untrue. I have a house in 94087 where I live about 7 months/year (the other 5 months are in Tel Aviv, where it's also very expensive!) I own the house, bought in in 1989. I don't benefit at all from increased house prices. It just makes everything more expensive.

And even under Prop 13, my property tax goes up 2% a year. That's more than inflation.

I don't benefit at all from the "increased value" in my house. If I could, I'd tear down the house and build a 2-family house on the property. But even if zoning laws allowed it, the house would be reassessed at current market value, and it wouldn't be worth it to pay $32,000/year in property taxes alone. (I've looked into this to the extent of hiring a real-estate lawyer to see if it's feasible).

If there were no prop 13, people would be forced out of their homes because specu-vesters would drive the prices up making just the taxes affordable.

The solution is to BUILD MORE HOUSES. Build apartment buildings. Close by so people can walk or take existing mass transit to work. And allow people with single family homes to tear them down and build 2-family homes without being reassessed.
My commute is 55 - 65 minutes each way, and 70% of that is spent underground.

That's more than enough for me, don't think I could stomach any longer than that!
Review offers flexiblity that other forms of contracting don't - there's no project management, client negotiation, etc.
There's a huge difference between "successful" enough to keep the company going and "successful" in the Apple/Samsung way of sales dominance in the market.
When governments ban printing presses, which I think actually has happened in the past in Europe, would you consider that preventing people's right to free speech? I would. The difference here is it isn't necessarily governments, but rather corporations that control access to the internet (printing press).

I think in the printing press example, people ended up stealing them to print. I'm not sure you can steal the internet.
The HN title matches the content and not necessarily the article's title verbatim.

> According to 1010data, this group of products pulled in over $200 million in sales during the first half of 2017.

Source:

https://www.1010data.com/company/blog/market-insights-series...

> Not only do 94% of online battery purchases happen on Amazon sites, but Amazon’s brand, AmazonBasics, accounts for almost one-third of online battery sales amongst the top 10 brands. In fact, AmazonBasics’ 48-Pack of AA Alkaline batteries is the most popular item in the category. AmazonBasics shows no signs of slowing down in this category with 93% year over year growth and a conversion rate that is 1.5 times greater than the category average.
I think in order to compete with Electron and the developers who use it you will need to support the web technologies and APIs it has.
They already paved it over with subdivisions. That's why the Greenbelt alliance supports more housing.
I feel like the bad experiences probably stand out more than the average. My wife got her masters around 2012, and one of her teachers would discuss political topics then participate in heckling anyone with stances that weren't completely left leaning. Even defending people with these views made you a target.

But all of the other teachers were pretty standard.
I think ben_jones is trying to imply that the black box would BE your email server, etc. He did say "Knock out dependencies on a dozen third party services in one fell swoop.", which seems to strongly imply not relying on an email provider, social network provider, etc.
Releated Work[1]

[1] https://github.com/twitter/reasonable-scala/blob/master/rela...
PonzICO – Let's Just Cut to the Chase
Always a synchronicity of late. I've been thinking in the last few days about how often things that are "morally neutral" can often be confused as moral goods. Technological progress is a morally neutral thing, it must be evaluated whether the progress is a good one or not (e.g. chemical/biological weapons, etc). It hit me when someone wrote about diversity being a morally neutral thing. They gave a bizarre example of adding a deranged person or some other outlier to a crowd of folks an recognizing its more diverse, but certainly not for the better. Something to that effect.
I've often wondered why it's so difficult to make a standardized OS distribution for ARM processors. You would think it should be as simple as

Google provides core OS -> manufacturers add drivers -> done

(Of course this skips the "manufacturers add shitware" step).

But I've been told ARM just doesn't work that way and for whatever reason that I don't completely understand, hardware can't be abstracted this way on ARM.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15037499
Go Workers and Docker Compose
An interesting thought, however I would argue that the vast majority of programming jobs at the time were not with game companies but at a bank or insurance company maintaining some LOB app.
Unfortunately there is no real standard hardware architecture for Android devices. Some pieces are the same, but every device has different incompatible components. So the device vendors have to re-apply a unique set of patches every time.
Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban
yes but that is from general use, not tied to specific websites.

If total traffic increases those costs go up, not if a higher percentage of users access specific sites.

That would be like charging trucks more to cross a certain bridge because there are more cars on the freeway two towns over.
It baffles me how this rebuttal is convincing to anyone. Damore argued group differences are in part responsible for the relatively fewer women in tech. I can't see how that over-arching point has been refuted here, no matter how snarky the response.
I do wonder about how many kids that think they have peanut allergies (or otherwise) have actually lost or outgrown them.

My anecdote: our daughter was diagnosed with a peanut allergy at ~7 months of age. She developed hives after eating some peanut butter and we confirmed the allergy at our allergist's office with a skin test. We were told to give it another shot in ~5 years, but to avoid all nuts and carry an epi-pen in the meantime.

But just about a year later after an insurance change, our new pediatrician encouraged us to do another test with our new allergist. A blood test came back negative, and the ultimate test - eating increasing amounts of peanut butter in the allergist's office over a couple of hours - was fine.
A New Approach to Touch-Based Mobile Interaction
Win32 is a pleasure to program for, when compared with X/Athena/Motif.
What's wrong with high pay?
I'm not trying to be snarky, I swear, but iOS checks all your boxes except "be android" along with dual sim and removable battery. And iOS hardware is still top of the pack when it comes to raw power in the majority of real use cases.
Paywall bypass?
Nonsense, Internet is run by Google and Facebook. Thats clusterfuck!

Google and Facebook playing moral police and disabling peoples accounts if they opimions are not aligned with they sick and twisted ones.

Avoid these: google and facebook. They spy, steal your data, read your emails, track you and sell your private information to highest bidder.
Do you still have ChromeOS on it?
Everything About Disney and ABC's 'Pink Slime' Settlement Should Scare You
Well it has a headphone jack

EDIT: Er, did you mean pixel 1 or 2?

EDIT: Oh my god, it doesn't have a headphone jack! lol look at me eat my own words holy shit
As phones become more and more powerful, the EOL dates should be longer and longer. Why restrict it to 3 years? Apple supports iPhones for about 5(?).
Seems like it is saying the following:

We can find the watermark in images and subtract it from the image. If we distort the original watermark, but subtract the average watermark, then you will not recover the original image.

duh?
I feel like counter protestors illegally toppling Confederate statues in mobs in other cities isn't a great direction to be going.

Breaking the law for moral reasons still lessens its protections when you find yourself on the other side of someone oppressing you.

Such was Gandi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr's realization.
If a motorcycle owner install's an ashtray on his/her motorcycle, is it the ashtray's fault?
This is kind of part of the problem. Housing developers are enabling large hub cities to offload the cost of housing to smaller outlying towns. Of course, the developers aren't doing this willingly.

The other problem is that housing developers in California have a tendency to build huge, sprawling suburban communities. This just increases sprawl.

Imagine a 1 sq. mile tract of land. Assuming a housing developer builds a ton of two story, single family homes here, each on a 1/4 acre of land, we can calculate that they can build 2560 homes +/- 500 based on topography and landscaping etc. There are no reliable numbers as to the average of units in an apartment building. Therefore, we will have to make some assumptions. Let's go ahead and say that that the developer decides to build apartments instead of tract-homes. Each apartment building will be 2 acres in area. Even if the apartments are huge: 1500 sq ft +, we can calculate that a 2 acre apartment building can have about 20 units per floor. Lets say that these apartment buildings are a modest 2 stories tall. 20 * 2 = 40. That means, covering the same 1 sq. mile of land with modest apartment buildings could create 12800 residences. That's a 500% increase in residences.

In urban centers, zoning laws allow for much taller structures. Structures can be hybridized to allow for both commercial and residential tenants.

Building large, hybrid-use, multi-tenant structures will alleviate some of the pressure on the housing market and lead to shorter commutes for most people. This is because you can fit more people into a smaller land area. It's common sense I'm sure. So, why aren't developers building these structures? The short answer is that they can't. City zoning laws, angry property owners, and the lack of open land in desirable areas all get in the way.
> You only benefit from this if you sell

Home equity is a benefit. You can borrow against it or otherwise use it as an asset on paper.

> if you sell two bad things happen if housing prices are up. First, you take a big hit on capital gains

Wait, what? You're arguing that it's a "bad thing" if you have to pay a percentage of additional profits? Most primary residences aren't subject to capital gains if you hold them for > 2 years, assuming the gain is less than $0.5million (married, co-owning).
Yes, and every man, woman, and child in an abusive relationship should just leave and find something better, or shut up and stop complaining. It's their choice, after all.

Yes, I had no right protesting my own abusive childhood because I could have given myself up to the state and been put in foster care. I was in the wrong for ever standing up for myself and deserved the consequences I had to suffer.

I mean seriously, listen to how vitriolic and unempathetic you sound. You come across as someone who has no compassion for the unjust authoritarian rule some are forced to endure, someone so sheltered from the extremities of human emotion that you can still perceive the world and the choices people make in stark black and white.

You speak of the usefulness in understanding law, of acting with respect for the system that governs you. So I leave you with this:

"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Middle ground sounds a lot like median. Once you factor in concurrency I would suspect Elixir/Phoenix is much closer to those three than to Ruby/Rails in terms of realized performance for the resources. This is assuming a pretty vanilla MRI based solution on the beaten path.

Also yeah, the sexy; I get the sense that Phoenix may be a better platform straight up..
You can be compelled to give up passwords.
Why I am moving to Cleveland
I believe that is what sandstorm.io is trying to do: https://sandstorm.io/

Though I haven't used it, and I don't think they sell a "hassle-free" box yet.
They miniaturize people and put them in the box like on Willy Wonka.. Duh..
I just tried this. On iOS 11 on my iPad, putting the wrong finger three times in a row prompts for a passcode, but, you can hit cancel and then use a correct finger and it will still unlock. So I don’t know if that helps you because it doesn’t require a password after three incorrect tries, just prompts you for one.
This is just another example of consumer hostile planned obsolescence. Rechargeable batteries are consumables. Most cell phones used to have removable batteries so when it wouldn't hold a charge any more you could easily replace. Now most phones have integrated batteries which can only be replaced with an expensive and inconvenient visit to a repair center.
Generic unlocked Android smartphones, which this is, run $200-$400.
There is only limited differentiation on the mobile services side thus the service providers are primarily in a price competition in most markets. In addition some are still merging although that has slowed a lot. As a result the network operators are not so eager to invest. I suspect 5G build out will be a lot slower and it seems Ericsson sees it the same way.
This is what happens when you let office space be built without building extra housing.
This sounds like a terrible business with a minuscule market. The cost of designing, manufacturing and shipping something as complex as a phone is huge. By making the battery user-serviceable, and the software updates free and indefinite, you would eliminate any possibility for recurring revenue.
The A.C.L.U. Needs to Rethink Free Speech [opinion]
I fear though that "Peaceful Racists" will spread to all conservatives. That > 60 million people could legitimately vote for a racist, xenophobic and sexist bigot seem to point out that these people are OK with racism, even if they're not active participants. Which is extremely disturbing.

From what I've read, anti-semitism, while it existed, wasn't mainstream in Germany as well. But the Nazis were "Peaceful Racists" at first (they changed pretty quickly) and seized power. I genuinely fear the same might happen in the US ...
Newbiee here. How to write the lines in a OO mode?
Right. Because the ease of political influence is evenly distributed between people making 150k+ and people that have to have multiple jobs to stay above water. Even leaving the influence of money in politics aside, sheer availability of time is a significant factor.
Well, I don't think they want a piece of that market. I think they want a piece of the high-end market.
I'm sure it's a nice phone, but I cannot unsee that stubby chubby.

Probably a really nice camera though. Other than the look of the camera I would consider this phone.

Edit: Oh, it's an add-on. So it's like we're going back to the old Danger Sidekick days when they had that little camera dongle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil
Even if computers are getting better, faster, and coming with more memory, battery technology isn't improving by leaps and bounds.

Apps that are a battery hog aren't an option.
It isn't crowded. SF is less dense then Brooklyn. The "city" of Palo Alto could easily use a few more stories.
The cost of providing the updates should be priced into the MSRP. There is no excuse for not providing them if you care about your customers at all.