skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature:

>In the ancient empire of the Incas, sex was a heavily regulated industry. The sun-king Atahualpa kept fifteen hundred women in each of many “houses of virgins” throughout his kingdom. They were selected for their beauty and were rarely chosen after the age of eight—to ensure their virginity. But they did not all remain virgins for long: They were the emperor’s concubines. Beneath him, each rank of society afforded a harem of a particular legal size. Great lords had harems of more than seven hundred women. “Principal persons” were allowed fifty women; leaders of vassal nations, thirty; heads of provinces of 100,000 people, twenty; leaders of 1,000 people, fifteen; administrators of 500 people, twelve; governors of 100 people, eight; petty chiefs over 50 men, seven; chiefs of 10 men, five; chiefs of 5 men, three. That left precious few for the average male Indian whose enforced near-celibacy must have driven him to desperate acts, a fact attested to by the severity of the penalties that followed any cuckolding of his seniors. If a man violated one of Atahualpa’s women, he, his wife, his children, his relatives, his servants, his fellow villagers, and all his lamas would be put to death, the village would be destroyed, and the site strewn with stones.

>As a result, Atahualpa and his nobles had, shall we say, a majority holding in the paternity of the next generation. They systematically dispossessed less privileged men of their genetic share of posterity. Many of the Inca people were the children of powerful men.

>In the kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa, all women were at the pleasure of the king. Thousands of them were kept in the royal harem for his use, and the remainder he suffered to “marry” the more favored of his subjects. The result was that Dahomean kings were very fecund, while ordinary Dahomean men were often celibate and barren. In the city of Abomey, according to one nineteenth-century visitor, “it would be difficult to find Dahomeans who were not descended from royalty.” The connection between sex and power is a long one.
> How is this shit legal?

From the article...

> One recurring feature of the Trump Presidency has been an acute collective sensation, shared by a substantial portion of the electorate, of helpless witness. Dismayed Americans wait, like spectators at a game that has turned suddenly dangerous, for a referee to step in and cry foul...What this means in practice is a serious deficit of accountability. Whom can you call when the authorities are the ones breaking the rules?

This, for me, is the troubling part of the Trump administration. It's not whether the crap he's pulling is legal or not. It's whether there is anyone with the power to do so who will hold him and his fellow law-breakers to account. And when he can just fire the people that are investigating him, you seriously have to question whether our system really does have the legendary checks and balances we're taught in school or whether we've just never before elected the wrong cohort of leaders who were willing to abdicate the responsibilities of their offices.

And with Trump's FEC appointees blocking efforts to plug the holes that Russia may have used to influence the outcome of the last election, we may not even have the opportunity to exercise the ultimate check on corruption during the upcoming elections.
Although with Standard Notes you're free to setup your own server too and can backup to dropbox.
I understand what you're trying to say, but on the other hand I've completed around 10 boards in the last year using only KiCAD and have loved the experience. I don't think I left anything on the table which would have been there had I used commercial software. But good point, i'm only doing basic boards.

GCC didn't used to be as good as GCC is now ;)
Maybe it's a tangent, but Overleaf is hands down one of my favorite services.

It follows UX designer, Bret Victor's suggestion that creators need to be able to see what they're creating. It also has a ton of convenient features like forking, auto-saves, and inviting people to edit through private links without requiring that your collaborators sign up for an account on Overleaf.

LaTex creates beautiful documents, but it was too difficult for me to use before Overleaf. Also, I only use the free version of Overleaf.

Thank you for creating Overleaf!
I tried to do this, but I missed a lot of the convenient features and flexibility of OneNote too much and made my way back to it.

OneNote is proprietary, with a proprietary file format, but at least it's "self hosted" (your notes live in concrete files you control, not in a service), and it's got a lot of nice features that make it a joy to use.
Input Field <-> Controller/ViewModel field two way data bindings are fine when they are kept simple, as I said in my comment. Two way binding is great for simple web form apps. If all you're doing is pairing a Name input field with a name variable on your controller or viewmodel, you're golden.

But having worked on complex dynamic form generators and enterprise apps at scale, I've seen the mess that KO observables and Angular $scope watchers create in practice.

Neither KO nor AngularJS actively encourage great patterns for data flow in their architecture design. It becomes all too easy, in some deeply nested directive or KO observable, to reference external/parent context or scope. React was specifically opinionated about this because Facebook hit real problems in production with two way binding.

Another benefit of one-way flow is that it becomes trivial to refactor your UI into modular components. Because the data flows in a top down manner passed in as props, it's easy to break up a complex component into several sub components.

React encourages you to fall into the "pit of success" by its design and there's very few traps.
Nation of spectators, not citizens. And I find in tech, they prefer not to even watch. It seems people think ethics and law are on autopilot. And they think aristocrats are from a bygone age rather than alive and well and want more classism and money, not less of either.

Of course, it's not quite so simple. Richard Painter, former ethics lawyer to Bush 2 has said about this specific instance that DoJ should investigate on the basis that this was clearly an official role and title.

I would add, that this administration insists everyone watching is a moron, and will thus just let them get away with it. They might be right, we'll just have to see how it plays out in a future episode of President Celebrity Chaos Clown.

In any case, a huge amount of the way things works in government is based on norms including etiquette and ethics, not laws or regulations. When you get people who don't care about norms, things start to fall apart quickly because there's no law or regulation to fall back on.
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Whenever I see a game on a candidate's profile, I like to spend at least a few minutes trying to play the game or get it working, review its code, and then ask some pointed questions about it during our interview. I love seeing hobby game dev stuff. So many opportunities for creativity, problem solving, an open endedness
Presumably if you just designed your note app to work with any generic Git, you could interchangably use GitHub or something selfhosted.
org-mode's format sucks, is only partially supported outside of Emacs, and is on its way out. org-mode is only any good if you're using the full power of it (tasks, agenda, etc), which is buying into a system that's soon going away.
Ideological?

There's no disputing power bills.
There's two mainstream options for state management right now: Redux and MobX. But even the creator of Redux says "You might not need redux" https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...
Proof of Stake was part of the original plan for Ethereum. Everyone knew going in that it would transition to it. The entire development team, not just Vitalik, has agreed to use ice ages to encourage the entire community to hard fork, to prevent orphan chains from emerging every time one of these planned changes is implemented.

It's unfair and inaccurate to describe the execution of a long-established plan that has been part of Ethereum since the beginning as some sort of nefarious plot being pushed through using manipulation.
While it's true that networking device drivers on Windows defer all meaningful work to post-ISR, it only moves the goal posts a little bit. On Windows, a lot of network traffic processing (e.g. tcp/ip acknowledgment, virtual switch packet forwarding) is performed in a DPC[1] queued in response to the device's interrupt. A DPC generally runs at dispatch level, which gives it more-or-less exclusive access to the CPU until completion. This preempts the thread scheduler and can result in user-visible stutters in audio and video when the network load outpaces the CPU's ability to quickly service the network traffic.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ke...
I work in one of the data-related verticals that has a fair number of startups selling to companies like ours.
This came up on Product Hunt today as well
>> Turtl lets you take notes, bookmark websites, and store documents for sensitive projects. From sharing passwords with your coworkers to tracking research on an article you're writing, Turtl keeps it all safe from everyone but you and those you share with. <
https://turtlapp.com/download/
Something has happened to me. I'm 28.

I used to have a shit tonne of ideas, ready to execute. Now that I'm approaching 3 years since graduation at a job that continually seems to demotivate me, all of them have gone. I wanted to be something special, now I have nothing to show.

Don't ever take a job which you don't consider to have a meaningful impact on society.
Started reading last night. No technical expert but I came of age after the widespread use of the Internet. Many people, my age and older, can care a less about the philosophy of decentralized platforms.

However could you combine usability of centralized platforms with a decentralized platform focus on privacy, lack of ads, etc?

(of course how to pay for it...)
RedPill men already know this.

A woman would rather share an Alpha than be stuck with a beta.

Do a test and ask you girlfriend/system/random woman:

Would you rather spend 5 minutes with Brad Pitt/Clooney/Her fav sexy Alpha or 50 years with her dream beta.

The answer is always laughter and blushing because you both know what the answer is.

The same question, asked to a man, does not give back the same type of answer.
“laverna.app” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gzmd36qe58h0wnw/Screenshot%202017-...
I'm curious Vue.js has always had this comparison guide. Why re-post it now?
DDoS'ing mining power would be more effective. You don't need to outcompete miners, just ensure they are slowed in their ability to push blocks to the network.
Members of the US Congress can't even make a healthcare plan what makes you think this will go anywhere?
Delegated proof-of-stake suffers from the same problem that all consensus algorithms suffer from: people will always be willing to spend, at most, n coins on producing n coins. The only way to avoid it is by giving particular nodes the special privilege of producing coins, otherwise the free market will push up the price until there is no profit left[1].

[1] http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
It doesn't do web clippings though.

Incidentally, I am building https://pagedash.com to clip web pages more accurately, exactly as you saw it (via a browser extension)! Hope this helps someone.
How do you mean “on its way out”? Do you just mean that people searching for new organizational software nowadays are decreasingly likely to choose it?
Dumb contacts and smart scripts
Closer server means lower rtt. All things equal, this translates to a faster transmission.
Right-click and select Open.
I agree also I keep seeing so many articles, tutorials, guides, etc on how to do machine learning, neural nets, a.i., etc. It's like so... which one is the right one, or which one can actually get me from A to Z the easiest.
I really fail to see that. With Microsoft, Apple, Salesforce, Yahoo, Amazon, and many other big names using React in production...Chances are the acquiring company is already using React in some form. Furthermore, the value of your company is not in which front end framework you choose, it's in your distribution and product value to end users. If you really needed to rewrite your front-end in Preact (a drop-in replacement for React) or Vue, in order to satisfy a buyer, you could easily do so.
After ten years
Good luck creating a distributed search engine that produces results that come even close in quality to Google's. Search engines are hard. There is a reason Google dominates, and its not just inertia.
> Another member of the research team, a biological anthropologist, hypothesizes that somehow, only a few men accumulated lots of wealth and power, leaving nothing for others.

The other hypothesis that I read was that men were seen as more disposable and used for riskier work (e.g. hunting, war), leading to higher death rates amongst males. There's this article that gets submitted on HN once in a while which elaborates on this but I can't find the link right now :( (edit: here it is http://www.denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm)
It isn't the best, but it is also very simple. I like the actual hierarchy vs Markdown. I can navigate a lot of notes fast in org. Emacs packages last a long time. Emacs API is stable. I am confident it will still work in ten years.
I'm not sure exactly how to quantify it. I think you'd have to look only at public discussions of IT-related topics on other sites, since that's all that's in scope for Hacker News. Facebook suffers with a clunky forum system that doesn't do threading particularly well, so you end up with a "flat" discussion with a lot of duplicate comments. I don't have a lot of confidence in the "like" moderation system either. I hope that's not gratuitous negativity. Example: https://www.facebook.com/arstechnica/posts/10154966971473753
This isn't /r/incels
I see you've read Matt Levine's newsletter:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-09/yogurt-li...

They're virtual-reality companies.
That was a bad example indeed. If isImmortal was accepting any params though, you wouldn't be able to make it a getter.

And sure, Object.freeze exists, but almost none of the JS code I've seen uses it. And what's the point really when assignments to frozen fields don't even throw an exception, just fail silently. Same for getters. None of those tricks are gonna make JS into a good language in the eyes of people who don't for whatever reason consider it good already.
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Overleaf is an amazing service that needs more exposure. Right off the bat it takes away the steep learning curve of setting up a local LaTex creator. The real time generation is actually a lot faster now too.
> I don't know who would judge a child for seeing lolicon, since no one would know about it but the child.

Children usually want to tell everyone about what they saw. If they keep it to themselves, it's often because they understand that someone else would judge them, punish them, get angry at them, feel disappointed at them, etc. for seeing it. Their friends might have told them that it's taboo. Their parents might have acted really awkwardly around similar content in the past. Or a predator might have said that what happened in the shed is a cute little secret between them.

Whatever reasons they have for trying to hide it, it's a symptom of a society that discourages talking frankly and objectively about certain kinds of things.
I like it a lot, just the getPassName should include "Protector" instead of "Instructions"
I am constantly looking for a good notes app. I have been a paying Evernote user for years and I really like it. The only problem is the formatting. I take a lot of pride in formatting my notes and like it to look a certain way depending on the content. Markdown is definitely the way I want to go which Evernote has promised in the past but still hasn't delivered. That said note of the buttons on Laverna seem to work on my Mac. Can't sign into DropBox and can't create a notebook. Oh well.
> I grew up with a cartoon idea of a very successful businessman (in the cartoon it was always a man): a rapacious, cigar-smoking, table-thumping guy in his fifties who wins by exercising power, and isn't too fussy about how.

I think when something new comes about it can't _look_ like something old if it wants to succeed. Basically it's hard to build a successful startup by looking like a cartoon businessman from the 80's, wearing a tie, being overtly and openly aggressive etc.

If you're building something new and "cool" you had to be playful, dress informally, wear hoodie or t-shirt, on the surface appear to be super nice and friendly. Of course business is business and at the end of the day someone is getting stabbed in the back. But before that day comes it is all hugs, smiles and pats on the back.

Anyone remember Google, how they succeeded not just by providing a better search experience, by also by building a "cool" company image -- playful bright colors, the whole "don't be evil" shtick, we'll feed you with gourmet food, etc. They were positioning themselves to be as different as possible from a traditional company.

Now the funny thing is, the image of the startup has also become cartoonish with the shows like the "Silicon Valley" running for a few years. So CEOs wearing hoodies, being all informal and superficially nice, open office spaces and so on is getting a bit stale.

I wonder what's next. Back to wearing ties and smoking cigars? Probably not. But I have heard people say they'd rather get back to having the previously derided and hated cubicles than doing the "cool" open office plan.

Maybe working remotely is the new thing? But some companies have been doing that for a while as well. I hope that's the next revolution, when large giants as Google and Facebook, who sell digital connectivity as their primary product embrace the digital connectivity themselves and don't require workers to be in a physical location to get work done.
How a Toronto hospital uses virtual reality to grant dying patients a last wish
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Apologies for the poor Imgur formatting, but like this: https://imgur.com/a/nGplj

I use a Mosh client for iOS called Blink to connect to a tmux session on my personal server. I do the same thing to edit on desktop, just from a larger screen.
Using the online editor on Android with Firefox is essentially unusable. It feels almost like Laverna is trying to do autocorrect at the same time as my keyboard. Characters appear and disappear as I type which makes for a really confusing UX.
I'm still using paper over here, nothing seems to do it for me on the computer. Paper is great, and paper is king.
I think most in the software community abhor patents for software, so it's probably a good thing that this "mutually assured destruction" environment exists.
Yes and for a piece of software that heavily relies on its ecosystem, you want the ecosystem to be vibrant in 10 years from now.
You're being unfairly hard on yourself. Too harsh. :-) here is what is mostly likely the scenario:

1. You've executed many "crazy ideas" but the projects haven't really mattered much.

2. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, every idea is tempered with merciless cost-benefit evaluation before you get started. You do this subconsciously. Many times you instantly conclude that the payoff for investing in new creative projects is not worth your time. This energy saving subconscious filter is a good thing most times. As you grow older your social responsibilities increase so you cannot be too frivolous with your time.

But ... you keep imagining, you keep dabbling and when the balance for benefit vs cost tips differently you'll most likely go in with the same gusto and energy.

The best part is all those years of dead end projects become a treasure trove of experience and components for your new project!

Keep dabbling!
> PoW is obviously wasteful and it would be nice to improve on that.

PoW is only wasteful if either a) you consider distributed consensus worthless or b) there’s a cheaper way to achieve the same result. I think we all agree that distributed consensus is not worthless, and you spend the rest of your post arguing that there is currently no known way to achieve the same result while consuming fewer resources. So how can we say it’s wasteful?

In many areas of work, human beings spend time and energy to produce valuable information, which they later sell (that’s what consultants do, basically). A proof of work spent is also valuable information, because it can be used to prevent double spending, and miners sell these proofs in exchange for bitcoins.

If consultants spend a month on producing information that is later sold at a price that exceeds what they spent on producing it, we say they have provided value. I would argue that, likewise, when a miner spends a day to produce information that is later sold at a profit (in bitcoins), it has provided value to the market — otherwise there’d be no one willing to pay for this information.
Emacs and plain org-mode may work, but will that be how you want to edit files in the future?

It's been a decade and they still haven't figured out mobile.
Sure, I agree for a greenfield social/mobile/local mobile app, RN makes a lot of sense.

> both a desktop (Linux/MacOS/Windows) and mobile (tablet and phone, android and IOS) application from same codebase... word-processing oriented in nature with some interactive graphing and drawing, some displaying, creating and drawing on top of PDFs

... definitely doesn't fit that description. At that point, your choices are JS with RN, React and Electron or C++. For custom graphics rendering and editing, JS would be a very odd choice.
Congressional Republicans are what what's been neutered quite a lot. Their approval is lower than Trump's, banks, and TV news. That's pretty bad. Their ability to find their tongues, let alone any useful policy making, is impressively bad.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.aspx

If we are real lucky, the president will have resigned two weeks ago, so obviously we are already not lucky. What we have ahead of us is more of the forest fire in progress, damaging trust. That's what is being neutered, public trust in all of government. And that is risky.

http://www.people-press.org/2017/05/03/public-trust-in-gover...
That particular sub-area of static analysis is called (change) impact analysis. If you google that you'll find several tools, but many of those results are a couple of years old, or framework-specific. Take a look and good luck.
>it would be one of the first instances that scientists have found of culture affecting human evolution

In that case, scientists must have been very much not looking indeed. Someone give me a coherent explanation, please, of how cultural patterns could possibly ever avoid affecting the composition of the next generation.
while the demo worked well, under the hood looks like a somewhat aging codebase
Most jobs don't have a particularly meaningful impact on society - but they keep people busy and food on the table.

It's a sad situation to work a job that demotivates, but it beats being destitute.
Have you tried Bear Notes? I switched from Evernote last year and made my life easier.
small example: mobile client for ios is kinda bunk