skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally: "Those who have done really great things generally report, privately, that it is better than wine, the opposite sex, and song put together."
This is strongly contradicted by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's evidence. Nearly everyone he talked to (many Nobel Laureates among them) said their greatest achievement was raising a family or something in personal life.

Strictly speaking, these two claims don't contradict each other. Talking to a book writer/researcher in an interview doesn't count as talking privately.
WWI. Right. I knew it was seized by the government but I didn't realize it was given to someone else.

Interesting.
> Consider the following paraphrase:

> "If society wants traditional family values, and people being gay lead to erosion of these values, then society can change it by forbidding homosexuality. Society can create environment where every sensible parent will want their kids not to be gay or lesbian."

> This is often argued from conservative side, under assumption that homosexuality is all nurture. You argue the same way against women's preference against computer science, again, under assumption of nurture (which is quite likely to be wrong according to science).

Um... It is just a little more complex.

Of course, it would be nice, if we was able to start with moral judgement, select terminal goal, and only then start to search for ways to reach that goal. But we are not omnipotent, and therefore while finding solutions for social problem we need to take into consideration possible ways to implement those solutions. It would be not very bright to select unrealistic goals. For example, if homosexuality is all nature, than it would be difficult to get rid of it, it would be either impossible or would need some kind of eugenics with artifically guided evolution, which is morally bad and no-no.

I didn't touch question "is equality good or bad". It is some kind of ethical question. I assume that equality between men and women is good and important fight now because it is the current consensus in society.

So, equality is the terminal goal. Equality is ought to be, right? Then we must find the best way to it. And for it we should know nature it or nurture, because if it nature than the terminal goal can be unreachable. For finding the best way to archieve equality we need to investigate causes of inequality, we need to know is this causes are nature or nurture ones, because without this knowledge we probably would try to do stupid things which will not work. And probably our investigations reveal that there are no acceptable way to archieve perfect equality, than we would need to find some compromise, to solve some kind of optimizational problem dealing with tradeoffs.

> To be fair, I don't have a big problem if that "society decision" is a democratic vote (that is one person one vote) on the matter. But it's important to realize that this goes against moral preferences of many people, which are more liberal (including mine).

Of couse such a facts we all should know, but there are historical examples when opinion of some big groups of democratic society didn't matter. For example, ~50 years ago there was a lot of white supremacist, but society decided that their views is their problem and shouldn't be considered while changing society.

Accepting or rejecting views of some group is moral judgement somewhere on the level of finding terminal goals for society. I'm not ready for such a judgements, moreover I'm not USA citizen and it is just not my problem. All my speculations based on assumption that equality is good and society is ready to do something about it.
When people compare phone prices, they don't count extended warranties in the listed price.

iPhones have a warranty at list price; AppleCare extends it and increases the scope of service.

I do agree that anyone who plans on purchasing an extended warranty for any product research it ahead of time so the total purchase price fits into their budget, though, and the same goes for sales taxes.
Or possibly strapped to another part of your body. You'd still get the benefit of not having a cord pulling on your head or tripping you.
Dillon, I had always thought was a hack when he forked FreeBSD at 4.x but he’s proven to have some novel ideas when it comes to these things and I’m looking forward to trying out the production ready Hammer2 FS
Much like Apple and many of its app review terms I wish some of these companies would actually enforce their EULA.
> Not only have they until recently not been political territory ...

Sure they have. Many domains have been revoked for association with "piracy". For example, a famous hip-hop fan site, whose name I forget now. It took them years to get unblocked. But I do agree that the Culture Wars aspect is troubling.
Yes, his name was Robert Tinney:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tinney
I don't recall reading any of that in the Hacker Manifesto...
pls.. don't strawman me, i did not say it's ok to harass unpleasant people. If you can't form an argument don't bother commenting.
There's no real clear cut line where you can say that a model had no 'use for' a certain field.

If your point of view is that a model is meant for more than just doing the view, then yes, adding view only fields may pollute it for others (e.g., analytics).

But if your model is meant to drive the view of the app, then the story is very different. And some times you can't even tell if the model is just there to drive the view our not, since requirements change often.
"Auto-connects you to high quality open WiFi and secures your connection with a VPN back to Google."

Hmmmm. So Google can have even more of your data.
I can't encourage people enough to actually set up their zsh manually instead of running a configuration framework.

I spent a few hours on this about a year back and went from over 2s to about 0.15s for a full run of an interactive login shell (`time zsh -l -i -c 'echo "test"'`). No functionality lost, at least none that I actually used and cared about.

Definitely one of the best quality of life improvements I've made to my setup in recent years.
> The high-end, PC-based consumer Vive that is in market today, and will be for the foreseeable future, will now be available for $599.

They don't actually say that there won't be a new generation of hardware. If you read it carefully they just say that they're going to keep selling the current one.
If they allowed trading, then there's nothing to stop the lucky winners of spots at popular schools from selling their spots, or for losers of spots to offer bounties for their top choice. As an argument for, "Win-win swaps" comes up a little thin when you consider the sort of economic shenanigans that folks can engage in.
I suspect they meant "eponymous river".
It seems people have made their choice they don't care. If they cared about updates they wouldn't be buying Android.
They're not out of touch with what their customers want. Many of them didn't like them because of the whole "Android is cheap" dilemma (which is BS). The users asked and they got. The people who did like them are a very small, specific, yet vocal group of people.
A friend of mine is a Ph.D. philosopher, playwright, director, actor, singer-songwriter, and retired [due to training injury] undefeated (3-0) professional boxer. Do they qualify?
>how quickly dissenting opinion can effectively be purged from the Internet

I'm not sure it can be purged from the internet at all. It can be purged from some US companies but will pop up elsewhere.

To illustrate - ISIS site http://jihadology.net/

Buy illegal drugs online https://www.reddit.com/r/Dream_Market/comments/6v5ghq/whos_b...

etc. The internet is very hard to censor.
>I'd rather have the government bulk buying my meds, and lighten my overall footprint on the planet, rather than harking back to ancient times when there was little or no government, and family was everything

That's a perfectly respectable opinion. And you and I probably are in agreement on the government's role on many of these kinds of social issues. However, it's completely possible to both support those programs and simultaneously understand their impact on social fabric.
:) It is not about me liking it, but data just doesn't back it up. Here's data from US Census for San Mateo County

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanmateocountyc...

Key facts: Median Household income is $93,000
and Poverty Rate is 8.4%

Based on this, I would say your observation should be reversed. Extreme wealth surrounding pockets of poverty (which is rapidly being gentrified, eg. EPA)
FX/CFD Platform Provider “Airsoft” Is Going to Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency
If the term is generic then Alphabet loses a right to prevent others from using it in the marketplace. "Kleenex" is not a legally genericized trademark in the US -- though it certainly has potential to become one.

Actual genericized trademarks in the US include: Aspirin, Dry Ice, Flip Phone, Kerosene, Thermos, Trampoline, Videotape. You absolutely can sell your own off-brand of the above product using these terms in the US. Entirely legit.

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
How San Francisco's bike-share scheme became a symbol of gentrification
“Airsoft” is aiming high with their goal to produce the online trading industry’s first and #1 native cryptocurrency
Web Assembly seems closer: there's less undefined behavior, as I understand it. (I've read much of the wasm spec but not LLVM docs.) https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Rationale....
Very exciting to see implementation progress on HAMMER2. Some basics about the design:

- This is DragonflyBSD's next-gen filesystem.

- copy-on-write, implying snapshots and such, like ZFS, but snapshots are writable.

- compression and de-duplication, like ZFS

- a clustering system

- extra care to reduce RAM needs, in contrast to ZFS

- extra care to allow pre-allocation of files by writing zeros, something that will make SQL databases easier to run performantly on HAMMER2 than on ZFS

And much more. The design doc is an interesting read, take a look:

https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEA...
I'd hope just the dramatic improvement in appearance would be enough. Seeing any scientific content in Word makes me ill.
Ethereum's Biggest Hacking Problem Is Human Greed
While it's more effort than I'd be prepared to go to, there is nothing stopping you storing the encrypted backup of your iPhone on the server/service of your choice, then pulling from said server location to restore via iTunes upon arrival.

You don't need to keep the encrypted backup stored locally on the laptop you take with you through customs.
Would you have baked goods delivered to your door?
I think hours per week "in the zone" is a nice proxy for measuring how happy I am in a job
Advice to Medical Experts Interested in AI
This is why I have been religiously adding my first-name@outlook.com and mail@my-personal-domain as recovery emails or primary email wherever possible on the Internet. Effort is to try and keep email on my own domain as primary and hopefully move off Google ecosystem completely.

I recently moved to iPhone. Now I am not an iFan or so (and I am an Android developer at my day job) but what I like about it that there are couple of service centres in my city and I can actually go and talk to a person directly employed by Apple. Their reps are a phone call away and in fact I can just get a call from them in a few click, or send an email and a human being will respond to me.

I don't like robo bans. I think nobody does. I had really bad experience when Uber banned my account based on some false alarm and it took almost a week to get it revived. Just imagine a robo ban where there's possibly no remedy or in most cases no hopes to contact with an actual human being.

There are also very good paid hosts like https://mailbox.org/en (I moved to them as my third non-throwaway email address after I realised sdf.org can't be anything more than a site for hobby, chitchat, and nostalgia).

I hardly use Hangout now so there's little incentive in sticking with Gmail anyway. Office moved almost entirely to Slack (but it's still GApps mail and GDocs sadly) and friends and family to WhatsApp and Fb Messenger long ago. But this is risky too - Fb owns both. My effort to move them to something like https://signal.org has failed spectacularly (any tips on this? Or alternate services?). Some of them are on Telegram though, and some still on Viber.
I certainly have no sympathy for Nazis. But the prospect of an authoritarian Internet is indeed chilling. And that's why we need uncensorable overlay networks and such.
What do you mean by "base" here? From what I've read on this avg square footage per employee has been declining for some time, but from low 200s to high 100s. That includes hallways and conference rooms, but those are generally a necessity for supporting open offices I would assume.
For anyone who hasn't written a JIT I'd recommend writing a Brainfuck runtime one day. It's a tractable and strait forward project that will teach you how to do all of this. Start with implementing a direct interpreter and think of ways to make it faster.
'IDE powered by Neovim + React + Electron'

Electron, yes Electron
Choosing to make a muddy distinction worse because "everyone does it" is not really deserving of applause, is it? I mean--words mean things. (And, to that end, I do think that the word "engineer" should be federally protected to distinguish us idiots from professional engineers.)

And, yes, the tire fire that is interviewing is a large part of this.
doughbies?
> If you want total control over what the recipient sees, send an image.

Is this for real? You rather people have to stop using emojis and send images in their stead, than the different platforms give them the same meaning?
This has been answered, but I want to add something: Right now, the resolution is so low that the real benefit is the immersion in terms of tracking and responsiveness. You basically tolerate the low resolution (even though it's passable) because of how good (at least the Vive's, as that's what I've tried) tracking is. You really feel as if you're touching things in front of you, and everything feels amazingly responsive and with no lag.

That means that it's mostly geared towards games where you touch stuff, pick stuff up, look at stuff up close, etc. For things like a movie theater, where you're just staring at a screen, my $20 cheapo Chinese phone-holder-goggle-thingy is better (it has better resolution).
There are no cheap windows 95 computers where everything works on the market. Android 4.4 does do everything people need (like running whatsapp), and the devices are out there to buy.

Security vulnerabilities? Nobody was ever affected by those (at least in the social circles of the people buying the devices), so why should they care?
$72M high school football stadium in Katy, Texas
The Vive and Oculus are the same (I've expounded on a comment above). They aren't really suitable for watching movies yet.
Hey, I was called "dumb" like that and everything is ok, but asking why my question was dumb is discouraged like that? I was asking it sincerely.
About that visual latency nausea...
https://youtu.be/S8MAV9jhf04?t=59s
The Fall of “The Simpsons”: How It Happened
The regulatory uncertainty is built in.

There's no amount of clarity on regulation that can save coal in its current form.

These projects have a 50 year outlook. Even if we impose a carbon tax right now there will be tremendous uncertainty whrther that wkll be raised significantly higher 10 years from now. And the best bet is it will be raised until coal isn't viable anymore because if the price is low enough that coal burning is not dropping we will continue to be screwed.

The only thing that can save coal is technology. Unfortunately new coal is already as if not more expensive than new renewable. New technologies wkll only make it more expensive.

The other part is that the natural gas industry suffers from the same uncertainties. Yet it's destroying coal. The uncertainty is likely a very small factor at best.
classic hacker news thread on new tech: i only learned negative things.
Building a Serverless E-Commerce App with AWS Lambda, Stripe and React
If you're just getting started with LaTeX, you can do so without needing to install anything by using a cloud-based service such as Overleaf [1] or ShareLaTeX [2] (who've recently joined our team [3]).

ShareLaTeX also provide a very useful LaTeX learn wiki [4], and my co-founder at Overleaf created this three part introductory course [5].

Hope this helps anyone getting started, and feedback on Overleaf/ShareLaTeX is always appreciated if you've used it previously.

[1] https://www.overleaf.com

[2] https://www.sharelatex.com

[3] https://www.overleaf.com/blog/518-exciting-news-sharelatex-i...

[4] https://www.sharelatex.com/learn

[5] https://www.overleaf.com/latex/learn/free-online-introductio...
Or cupcakes?!
NYPD Conspired to Destroy Black and Brown Lives
Open-Source SAT/ACT Prep Project
Agreed, this isn't that annoying; i largely have no issues with fish at all.

However, I particularly found it difficult to get working with nix, unfortunately.
> It's true about the US

...except the 10k part.

Every time I've went on unemployment, it was waaaay less than 10k - if I managed to get 1000 bucks a month it was a miracle. Last time I did it (years ago) I let the money sit in the bank at Chase because I had lost track of the debit card they (unemployment) sent me. Until at a certain point they had to close out the account. This was years later, and I had (mostly) forgotten all about it. I had to go down to the bank and prove who I was to withdraw it.

So - why did I let it sit? Didn't I need it? Well - no, not really. I applied because I could; I was laid off my previous job, so I thought "hey, why not, I earned it, right?". So I applied. Kept my notes and log and such. But before I got the confirmation and debit card, I had a new job. Before that, I just used my savings (actually, I don't even think I had to dip into that - I had more than enough to cover things in my checking, after the severance pay).

When I finally did withdraw the money, it was something like $400 or so for a couple of weeks.

10k over 6 months? Right...
Maybe it's because the thing that they could strive for greatness in is not something that really interests them except in passing and do it because it helps them maintain a reasonable quality of life with their other needs met elsewhere?
Underrepresented might not mean underpresented in YC, but underpresented in the industry. In which case there is more to consider than just the applicant set.
I think your point concerns the 'value' and not so much the 'definition'. As for 'concept', I think that's just the wrong word here.

Great contribution to the conversation if it were worded with the specificity those interested in the topic will probably be looking for.

Ultimately, this article is mostly clickbait; nothing novel or conceptual.
There's the EmojiCompat library that can be used now by apps to support the full set in previous versions of the OS: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/...

So it looks like it's not a "ploy", but an actual technical reason. Baffles me.
I agree. There are two parts to the Android update problem. I'd wager OEMs having no motivation to release updates is bigger than them having no ability.
> LabVIEW

Oh god, when I was an undergrad we had to spend a semester of junior/senior year doing an applied stint in a physics lab on campus, and I still have nightmares about the decade old Frankenstein's monster of a LabVIEW document that was thrown in my lap... trying to debug thousands of nodes in this flat data flow nightmare while interfacing with shaky equipment held together with scotch tape was horrific.

I immediately noped out to applied math.
Most of that doesn't happen in Brave, fwiw.
It happened with a phone and he had to create another Gmail account. He was locked out iirc. But his online life mostly revolves around Fb so he didn't care much I think.
> Let's assume that you're correct in that anti-women practices were in place in medicine and law, but were subsequently dismantled (which I don't agree with).

Nor do I. I just gave two citations demonstrating that sexism has not been dismantled in medicine and law. You merely repeated your implication that no sexism exists today. You also failed to explain by what mechanism these fields changed from being "massively male-dominated" (your words). Did men suddenly lose their enhanced interest in "career paths with prestige and high earnings"?

I also very explicitly referred to "high-paying careers" in my original reply, which is the only sensible way to look at sexism, since delegating the more menial, lower-paying work to women is not equal representation.
Because a tax is more efficient than wild, emotional guess-work.
Yes, but in this case it would have to be applied to the Dart language syntax rather than the formatter. At this point it's too late for the formatter to be simple.
Not just morals, just because it is good for business.
If you're new here, ignore hateful comments about @kataras and his very well written article, there is a certain community part (small around 5-10 people) in Go world which is jealous about everything @kataras had accomplish so far and they are putting the same comments with different accounts everywhere, just to know.

@kataras if you ever see my comment: please do never stop Iris, hear us the 99% of the Go Community and ignore people like @dlsniper and his fake accounts, the majority of the Go community and with a proof of your article's 234 medium likes at just 2 days are awesome results of your hard work. Who cares about a jealous minority?

Edit:
There is a new article from the same author about Kestrel performance: https://medium.com/@kataras/iris-go-vs-net-core-kestrel-in-t...
Literate code examples for common UI patterns
Are you also against the terms 'hypocrite' and 'cheap talk'?
This looks like a very useful service.

The landing page could be more readable, but at least it's very clear what it does.

I would prefer, however, that it didn't depend on Google Analytics, but that make the setup a lot more complex, so it's probably better to stick to GA and be useful for who uses GA.
Mobile OS's aren't just for grumpy old people.
> No one would pay for a $15-20 burger.

Why not? There are places in the world where burgers cost this much and people still buy them.
This is great to hear! Having tried both The Vive and Oculus I always found the HTC Vive lightyears ahead of Oculus. Now because of the huge Oculus price cut I was seriously considering buying the Oculus instead. It's a weird decision but not having a PC, I have to factor that in the overall cost :/

By the way. Is there a page that list configs or already built setups for the Vive?
Its a great start. I'd love to have an alternative to VScode's shoddy vim mode. (tends to be buggy for me).

Already the vim mode in this is pretty nice since its powered by an actual vim.
New hardware is coming -- the next iteration is going to be wireless, inside-out tracked headsets and hand tracking, and it's going to be here in 2018. It's not on the shelves yet, but the prototypes work.
Sounds a bit biased for Vive, I own an Oculus, but I have used a Vive many times. I would consider them to be general equals, with the Oculus having a slight visual advantage.

The factor that Facebook owns oculus and is willing to cut YOUR costs to buy market share works towards your advantage. Take it when you can get it.
> there is a reason almost no-body uses Microsoft Edge while the majority prefers Chrome.

I think #1 reason is aggressive marketing.

I’ve been using MS Edge for a couple of years. Works OK, the only minor issue was annoying popups on e.g. youtube advertising Chrome. Fortunately, adblock worked.
Individuals have even more trouble scaling.
I'm thinking about groups like AFA/Antifa, BLM/Black Power/Black Pride/other racially-oriented supremacy organisations

Where on the BLM website do they promote "racially-oriented supremacy?