skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I see something like this, I sigh and wonder, "Why should it be so hard for the average internet user to create a live 'grid of thumbnails' for 'a list of links to webpages'? Why should it take a whole developer to code and deploy an entire website, just for this one use-case?"

Software today is not as "soft" as one would've hoped, fifty years ago. It's not malleable. It's not composable. It's barely reactive.

This is not how it was meant to be.
The famine part in case of humans isn't so savage. In most functioning economies its slow painful negotiation with reality.
This is the basic issue. Liberal capitalism made a de facto deal in 80s. Lower taxes for business, create more jobs but with less benefits, resulting in lower intake for governments but the losses will be made up through income taxes through higher wages. Except that deal has turned out to be rubbish, businesses continued to find ways to lower taxes (Ireland, BVI, Netherlands, transfer pricing etc). At the same time wages were held down. The gains of course were largely grabbed by the top 1 percent.

I'm a capitalist but I know that this is no longer sustainable. Fundamentally there comes a point were failure to raise wages means your customers can longer afford to buy your stuff. So your biting the hand that feeds you. Then you end up with the customers creating a credit bubble to try and replace what they have lost through low wages, resulting in sub prime crash, US student debt etc etc
Don't pick stocks. Buy the entire index. Also, don't take such advise from banks.
Bollocks: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/the-real-story...
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There arbitrary decision that 1 reroll is worth 1 score, is not even explored. That is a big decision, as it places a cap on rerolls at around 35. It's not obvious at all.
Is there some more information on that? I believed so far (or the industry made me believe) that capacitive screens were much faster than the resistive ones.
> There is. Go simply has structural subtyping [1] rather than nominal subtyping.

No there is not, period.

interface {
foo() int
}

is not sub typing. but it's interesting how you move the goal post on each comment. You go from inheritance to sub typing to "structural subtyping". You're not interested in a serious discussion.
Absolutely. I was trying to say that silencing someone just because they have an opinion which you disagree with is not they way to approach things.
EFLA – The Extremely Fast Line Algorithm (2005)
Sorry to interrupt your revenge phantasy

I think you are projecting your own fantasies onto what I wrote, such as everyone you disagree with is "a nazi". I am talking about indiscretions of youth coming back to bite people, and online spats that we used to call flamewars spilling over into the real world.

For me, the line is crossed when an act of physical violence is performed, and we already have laws to deal with it. We don't need online mob justice too.
Just notice some thumbnails are showing pop up dialog instead of the site itself.

If Puppeteer[1] is used to screenshot the site, probably need to use the page.click API to close it.

But, one problem with that is you need to know the exact selector name which maybe is not a generic one.

[1] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer
Top comment on slashdot for the article "Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder":

US jury system does it again

by QuantumG ( 50515 ) * <qg@biodome.org> on Monday April 28, 2008 @07:34PM (#23231238)

No evidence? No body? No murder weapon? Who cares! The
prosecutor used Power Point in his closing.. The
defendant is "weird".

Oh well, maybe Hans will confess and reveal where he
stashed the body now."

(https://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/04/28/2243232/hans-reiser-...)

Edit: even sorted by "insightful", this thread is a nightmare:

by garcia ( 6573 )

While I could definitely see why he would kill that
thieving bitch of a ex-wife of his, I don't think they
proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he definitely
killed her.

by dgatwood ( 11270 )

typical jury is a group of 12 people hand-picked by the
lawyers to be the most easily emotionally manipulated
people possible. You were expecting them to come to a
conclusion based on logic?

Let's throw in some completely random racism:

by OMNIpotusCOM

I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous.
Last I knew you had to prove that he planned to kill
someone with a first degree murder charge. If you can't
prove she's dead, and nobody saw her die, and there's no
evidence that she's anywhere other than where he says,
you can't convict a person of first degree murder.

Can you imagine what would happen if this guy was black?

by MBCook ( 132727 ) <foobarsoft@foobarsoft.com>:

No kidding. I would really like to see a poll of the
jury members, and if they would change their votes if
they had been told that Hans's ex-friend (the wife's new
dude) had confessed to killing 8 people.

Some facts are prejudicial.

Some facts are prejudicial for a very good reason.

I'd like to see numbers on how that would have changed things.
Electrons flowing like liquid in graphene start a new wave of physics
A good thing to learn is gnu ed. You can navigate around, replace text, append, prepend and delete lines on a 1GB file using a few KB of memory.
These kinds of comparisons always seemed a bit silly to me.

It's like complaining that opening a 6MB file in windows took over 3GB on my system! (ignoring that most of that is the OS getting ready to do other things, and enabling the OS to do things other than opening and reading a 6MB file).

Yes, Atom isn't the most resource friendly editor out there, and nobody is claiming it is. But it is one of the more capable editors out there. That 1GB allows for things like easy theming, inline image viewing, styling/theming via CSS, plugins/extensions written in a web language (which many of it's target demographic use), complete freedom for plugins to do almost anything and everything, a full web browser for easily rendering markdown/websites-in-progress/documentation/etc, code linting, compiling, debugging, decompiling, etc...

Not to mention that a 6MB file is pretty fucking big for something like atom. Yes, I know, 6MB isn't "big", but for an editor which is designed to only work on source files which are AT MOST a MB, it's big.

If all you are going to do is open a 6MB file with none of that, then stop using it, and stop acting like it's bad software because it doesn't cater to your needs. Vim won't show me 4 panes with ES2016 in one, the compiled version in scrolling-lockstep with the ES2016 pane in the next, and a visual preview of the page as it currently is in the 3rd, and the documentation to a function i'm working on in the 4th. That still doesn't mean it's bad software, just that it's not a good fit when compared to the alternatives for me.

Stop complaining that the hammer is better than the screwdriver because it can hammer in nails better.
It's actually pretty easy to explain.

YC has global reach and is now very well known. That increases the applicant pool and that in turn means there are more quality applications as well. Having a larger pool of quality applications means that it becomes easier to select companies before a batch is considered 'full', lower quality applications will therefore have a much smaller chance of getting selected in a given batch.

So even if YC's first priority hasn't changed at all there is still a very plausible explanation for the effect you are seeing.
Makes me wonder how many of these companies are actually offered the "standard deal" of 120k for 7%. Would love for YC to release some stats on this.
a web os, basically a browser will be something like android but without needing to download an app first.
This is the exact reason why pure democracies do not exist. What we have instead is a representative democracy.
I gave up on Atom when I found MS Visual Code, for this very reason.
That's the first point of the article. Well before the titular 6MB file.
And don't forget TeamLeader.
Back in 1999, some of us implemented Bresenham's algorithm in an FPGA directly connected via a VGA connector to a monitor, and had it do the mystify screensaver in hardware. Didn't we, pjc50? Fun times.
Nothing new, right? A lot of Electron based apps use lots of memory.
Plus this will make these cars safer. There are thousands of people who drive cars that should not be on the roads.
I don't have bootable backups at the moment but it does sound like a good idea. I'll look into that, thanks.
The other takeaway from this is that if (like me) you prefer a GUI / X style editor, sublime text is a pretty good contender.

Personally, I really like Sublime, it was one of the best returns on investment for me (even buying it twice).
About 85% of new cars 'sold' in the UK are either PCP or Hired Purchase[0].

Anecdotally, it's really apparent amongst my peers; many are driving new (less than two years old) BMW, Audi and Mercedes that would probably cost a whole years wage or more outright.

Luckily, for people like me who buy almost new for cash, this is a good thing.

[0] http://uk.businessinsider.com/statistics-uk-bank-exposure-pc...
Please link the pg post.
Or use sublime text. Seems to fare well.
> They took something which existed and was awkward to use

This is the key difference: people already love their cars, more than they love their home and more than they love their iPhone. The enjoyable smartphone was an unsolved problem, the enjoyable car has been comically over-solved for decades.

Everything unpleasant about cars is happening to the outside. Not just to pedestrians, cyclists and residents, but also to other drivers: just imagine how much nicer your commute would be without all the other commuters. A Lada on an open road would be more enjoyable than a Rolls Royce in a traffic jam. It's a commons problem, one that cannot be designed away with cute UI and expensive surface finishing. Even self-driving won't really solve that, as anyone who has been a passenger in gridlock should know. The only way to significantly improve transport is by making it more space-efficient by cooperation. Public transit with the Apple doover? Could be amazing, but it's just not in the Apple DNA. Autonomous cars with extreme platooning? Massive potential, but just like with public transit, the biggest benefit goes to those who refuse to cooperate and stick to individualistic reaping of the benefits of lower congestion.
Not to nitpick, but no, SS is essentially an immediate redistribution of funds from workers to some non workers. If SS was cancelled tomorrow, there would be no funds available to redistrubite to those who paid in.
What I take from this is to continue using Sublime...
> I’ve primarily stuck with [vim] because it’s an extensible editor that doesn’t hog all the resources and kill my machines.

Exactly, BUT ... Vim has a non-mainstream shortcut interface, which I've always thought is an unfortunate caveat. So over the years I've actually managed to massage Vim into behaving like a 'normal' editor. It fits into a plugin if you're interested: https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode
It is, but the corollary to that is that nobody knew ahead of time which companies where going to be the $1B and up companies and which were duds, also-rans or simply solid small to mid sized businesses.

No investor ever invested in a billion dollar start-up to be knowing that start-up was going to be a billion dollar company one day.

So those stats are based on one thing only: survivor bias and each and every investor will have to be satisfied with investing in what they believe to be solid performers with potential upside.
CrashPlan for Home being discontinued, refers customers to Carbonite
Is Facebook.com down?
I am not able to reach https://www.facebook.com/ (from The Netherlands). Anyone else having the same issue? Quite interesting..
>which many of it's target demographic use

So true, I almost posted a joke as a comment, only to delete it before actually commmiting a crime.

>Vim won't show me 4 panes with ES2016 in one...

I'm pretty sure most of this is doable though (not a Vim user)
Except that sublime does all of that, supports plugins written in python, and doesn't screen tear, and leaves me some RAM for other things
We use to live in fear of tyranny of the majority. The internet is so large that it can magnify extreme views of the minority, such that these views can rapidly have such large impact on people.

This happens on twitter where someone says something and then it gets signal boosted such that an online mob harasses, threatens and in some cases ruins livelihoods (the prototypical case is Justine Sacco)[1]

[1] http://www.salon.com/2013/12/23/justine_saccos_aftermath_the...
I actually care more about power usage than anything else these days. If it takes 1GB of memory to do that then so be it; that's cool (literally)

/EDIT this comment refers to the general case not Atom in particular
In the future perhaps, not just now https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/08/02/ferrari-race-secon...

Though I expect in the future some people will still want fancy cars
Which usually is what leads to feature expressions spaghetti.

Also, it means that a Lisp newbie won't be aware of what are the best libraries that are portable across Lisps for such features.

EDIT: typo correction (missing are)
Candy Machine that accepts cryptocurrency. Arduino
> Oh well, maybe Hans will confess and reveal where he stashed the body now.

He eventually did. It would have saved a lot of time and grief if he had done it earlier.

Way too many parallels with this case.
Best+Tricksplit,+Feeding and double split and popsplit
I can hate my job and feel lucky to have it at the same time. They're orthogonal concerns.
That'd be a fair comment if atom was using 12Mb, but 3GB???
5 years? Maybe in 20 years.
I've tried Atom - quickly went back to Sublime from my speed tests. I had a similar speed issues with https://hyper.is vs iTerm. These new tools look pretty but performance matters, especially for your most-used tools.
Remote imports in Python2/3 feature
The key thing here is that he claims to dropped her off at this location[1] at 22:30.
The article mentions cameras around but no info about is she was seen there or not. At that time, the area is probably busy with people wants to chill, so there could be eye witnesses seeing her.

It's still not proof that he's innocent, but that would raise lots of doubts.

https://www.google.hu/maps/@55.6958462,12.609141,3a,75y,197....
Same issue in France
Sublime has frustratingly bad CJK support which someone from those countries would have fixed by now if it were open source.

I got a plugin to get the IME working on Ubuntu but it could be so, so much easier.
On a whim, and looking for a middle ground in native GUI editors, I fired up Textastic on my Mac (it's the most lightweight editor I have that does syntax highlighting and simple autocomplete), downloaded that text.xml file and opened it. Activity Monitor reported 29MB upon startup and 146MB RAM use with the file loaded, and moving to and from the end of the file is instantaneous (on a 7-year-old 2010 Mac Mini).

Startup time is 1 seconds without a file (from typing "tt" in a terminal) and 2 when doing "tt test.xml".

Search and replace for "thing" on every line was brutal, though. 5m32s, although I can't blame the editor - sampling the process, I see it doing a loop featuring CFStringCheckAndReplace, which is part of Core Foundation and likely not used to be subject to this kind of abuse - i.e., Textastic does not seem to use a custom internal buffer optimised for editing operations - it leverages what the OS already has.

vim on this Mac is about as fast as described in the article, which is also why I generally stick to it. :)

(edit: typos)
"Just out of curiosity, what's preventing the US from implementing changes to Social Security that are sustainable?"

Politics, in particular the "tax is theft" brigade.
Up in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Indeed. I had a look at all the brouhaha on the node.js github yesterday (I love me some open-source soap-opera drama, especially when it involves non or barely-coding SJW's - it's my guilty pleasure) and had a quick look at the commit histories of the most vocal "This guy has to go!!!1!" proponents - the code-to-noise ratio is unsurprisingly low.
This is amazing. In terms of the ICOs that people on HN talk about. Is that a company creating a coin and then selling the first coin offering to create capital?
Index funds, mostly.
No, he has changed his explanation and told police she died aboard the submarine in an accident and that he buried her at sea.
Care to share the strap you used?

I've been looking for a while and it seems straps are all over the place in terms of being easily accessed without proprietary adapters
From the article:

"He initially said he had dropped her off safely near Copenhagen, but has since said she died in an accident and that he had "buried" her at sea."
But then what's... the point? That vim has a rich and expressive language for text navigation and manipulation is the only thing that sets it apart from more modern competitors.
> When millions of Americans live in rural or suburban areas, what do you think is easier? Extending rail and bus routes to within walking distance of every house, or convincing everyone to move to a city? The answer is neither, and that's why cars exist.

My generation is moving into the cities where we can live without cars, no convincing needed.

> Here's one that isn't a trick question: is it more efficient to build a rail line to my office and have a train run there or to have individual cars drive there? I don't know the answer for sure, but considering you may possibly need 15 trains filled mainly with people who don't work there converging on one location or 15 cars with one person each who does work there converging on one location, I'm almost willing to bet 15 electric cars would be more efficient than 15 trains.

If your office is in the middle of nowhere, sure, but that's a "don't do that then" problem. If you turn over all the space that's currently spent on roads, road verges, and parking lots to more productive uses, you can cluster a bunch of places within easy walking distance of a train station - offices, restaurants, entertainment, and housing - and then people can live near where they work and enjoy.

Of course people who want to live in the middle of nowhere will probably always need something like cars, but they shouldn't be allowed to spoil it for the rest of us. Charge them a fair market price for the land they use for parking, and a road toll that covers the rent the road could earn if built on, rather than having everyone else subsidise those things.
On the state and expectations of chatbots (survey)
ooh, are you saying that random people don't have a right to feel safe when voluntarily interacting with others online? Get ready for the angry hordes....
Neural correlates of consciousness
You're giving us humans superhuman abilities. How many people are prepared for tire blowout? Have you ever had your wife calling you asking what is this red light on the instrument panel? Heck I myself questioned myself when ABS light turned on in a middle of my trip.. Should I continue? Pull over? Will my breaks work? When the autonomous vehicle gets that signal it will most likely play it on a safe side, pull over and call service, all automatically. Me? I just kept driving...

And yes, we can deduct light color from other clues, but we can also go through a red light because we were preoccupied with our cellphones. AV will on the other hand have access to multiple cameras, looking at the light from multiple angles, possibly with some polarizing filters that will make this non-issue.
Here's a link to the relevant HHGTTG quote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...
It can do all but the third. Vim's understandably limited to displaying fixed size characters and so can't render webpages.

Hoover projects like Oni, Nyaovim or gonvim (All built on neovim) have the potential to change this (If they haven't already).
If only materials existed with the power to block electromagnetic waves and sounds waves from propagating... one day perhaps.
So the management "fix" is, "hey everybody, let's focus on bugs, that make us slower compared to chrome!"

... I expected a bit more, to be honest
Lots of startups are basically existing ideas, just for India. Looks like YC is doubling down on that particular economy.
But Sublime doesn't do all of that. It does some things better, and others worse (and still others not at all).

I couldn't write a plugin for Sublime to embed a web browser. I couldn't write a plugin for Sublime to display images inline by fetching their URL if found in the source.

Those kinds of features might not be important to you, and that's fine, but they are indispensable for me.
Children's play and culture
Aren't Electron apps such as Atom known to have a significant impact on battery life/power usage?
98% of American drivers are above average
Are dickbars the things that break me reading medium by popping up every time I highlight text? (Which I do frequently while reading).
Yeah that makes me also not want to run it. But still, there are a few options even if neither is very good. I will probably just start running Edge or something since I already use Windows.

But I much rather just continue to use Firefox.
This startup is bringing Alipay-style QR code payments to Indonesia
Only the very rich or very poor have lots of children now.
If she was murdered investigating Russian Mafia, how does it suggest that the investigator is the real problem? That would suggest that Russian Mafia is the problem, wouldn't it?
It wasn't. It's illegal for starters.
Unfortunately, people lie - even to themselves. The only way to see if such a service is viable is to actually offer it.

[And for the record - yes, definitely.]
Installing Vapor on MacOS Without Needing Homebrew
I've been divorced, it's not included, if I die, it's my estate, and it survived 2007's crash
Show HN: First Employees
This really depends on your income and where you live. I sacrifice nothing as half of my income is enough to cover lifestyle I want.
Most flight schools have much older aircraft-- think 70s and 80s-- that have carbs. Newer aircraft are fuel injected, but often more expensive per hour.
San Diego has them at 1/3rd of list price once you take into account state, federal and utility incentives:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/bmw-nissa...
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Deadlift won't particularly help here. Humans weren't designed to just stand still for an hour. Most people can go for a leisurely walk for an hour and end up feeling better than just standing still for an hour.
Also https://hnews.xyz/new
I wrote cl-launch so you can use #!/usr/bin/cl with lots of options and write scripts that are either portable or implementation-specific (and trivially switch from one implementation to the other).
It's ~850MB, and it's only at that level when using it outside it's intended purpose.

Atom was not designed to open 6MB XML files. If that makes it worthless for you, that's okay, but for some of us it doesn't matter. I'm never going to open a 6MB XML file, I might open a 1MB JS file, but that is extremely rare.

Earlier in the article, it shows that opening a 60 byte file only used 250MB, and that's more than reasonable to me.