skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the things you mentioned can be achieved with server side rendering and embedded javascript.

The only pro SPA argument that has made any sense to me is performance. The idea is that you do not need to store any state information. This reduces server load and give the possibility to do caching, etc.

So I guess my answer to your question would be any time rendering the app server side will cause issues.
I remember reading that, it was a great post, but it predates this announcement. So it only compared to the tango hardware which doesn't have very many users compared to something in iOS 11.

I'd love to see an updated one that compared the two directly.
It sounds good in theory, but since Google's ranking algorithm ranks pages, how is Google supposed to apply it to widgets?

Most widgets do have associated pages, such as shopping search result pages, but they're not the same. They have different interfaces and contain different information, and often they have low PageRank because there's little point in linking to them. If I search "My name is Daniel in Spanish", I would probably like to see a Google Translate widget (or at least some kind of widget), even though the associated page https://translate.google.com/#en/es/My%20name%20is%20Daniel isn't ranked highly.

And some widgets have no associated pages -- if a user searches "96 tablespoons in cups", Google simply shows the answer (6), with no associated page. Should that not be allowed? It would be unfortunate if Google was forced to send users to some conversion website for that.
I've been using rebass lately and finding it quite nice - not sure how it compares with anything angular/sails based though.

http://jxnblk.com/rebass/
> The article was arguing about 24bit/192kHz digital audio, not about what codecs do or don't do with it.

That's the problem with the article. The audible improvement of 24/192 is noticeable AFTER compression not BEFORE. The article argues the latter point which is completely irrelevant.
<we all salty

Methinks us that are out tend to be salty, those still in, seems like drawdown has bled a lot of salty knowledge out.
This is not true. You can assume a uniform prior and run your model through bayes law and come up with an estimate.
Could this explain why Lithium is sometimes an effective treatment?
Is such a task meant to be impossible? I don't even... I can assure you that it is, in fact, physically possible for a glass of milk to contain exactly 1/7 a gallon of milk.

I assume your "cleverness" is in the assertion that I cannot "prove" 1/7 of a gallon using existent tools because such tools would report the result in a base-10 decimal, which would be necessity have to be approximated because 1/7 is non-terminating in base-10.

Of course, I could instead prove it by weight. Or by combining 7 such equal portions and resulting in a single gallon. The latter being an example of exactly why fractional representation of rational numbers is useful.

EDIT: As an aside, by any chance are you one of the set of people who argue that .99999999... repeating infinitely is not the same value as 1?

EDIT2: This just reminded me a lot of the barometer question, as I think of various ways I could demonstrate 1/7 a gallon. Of course, some things are off the table due to being a heterogeneous substance at the molecular level. Some additional options would be on the table if it were homogeneous, like water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer_question
Is this the controller bug where you have to drop the joystick polling rate while writing to the memory card or all goes to hell?
Porn, alcohol, cannabis, do you want to prohibit all that too?
It's hard to imagine dads didn't always say that to their sons. I wonder how many people spent the turn of the 20th century trying to become the next Andrew Carnegie.
So what if it's only purpose is to get high?

What moral high ground do you have to say others can't get high?
Hopefully someone will make a good write up.

From seeing ARKit examples that people have posted to Twitter the thing that has impressed me the most is the ability of ARKit to track your position even if you turn around and walk around, even all around in the office. I hope Google's version can do that as well because it seems like it would enable some really fun activities.
starting?

MDMA was orignally used heavily in psychological experimentation in the 70s and then later became popular recreationally in the 80s
I find this a little confusing, because one can also purchase life insurance, and mors certa, hora incerta.
Why do people always trot out the SQL relational databases?

If I had to do it all over again, I'd use a graph database. They work better and are faster for most web apps and social stuff. Including reports and joins.

And in my experience, I have avoided joins and used the database mostly as a key value store. Which makes it perfect for when we need to scale. We just make a CockroachDB adapter and that's it!
There are very serious costs to excessive safety regulation. When it makes drug development more expensive, marginal drugs don't get put through trials, and those drugs then never reach patients. Rational analysis means weighing the cost of each additional safety rule against the benefit. In many cases, there's a lot of evidence that the benefits of the current IRB process are trivial or nonexistent, and the costs are large.
There's no such thing as lossless 16/44.1 because it's practically impossible to make an artefact-free antialiasing/reconstruction filter pair clocked at 44.1k.

The point of higher sample rates isn't to capture bat squeaks, but to relax the engineering constraints on pre-post filtering.

Nyquist is fine in theory, and if you've never actually tried to implement a clean filter you'll likely watch the xiph video and think "Well that makes sense."

If actually know something about practical DSP and the constraints and challenges of real filter design you're not going to be quite so easily impressed.

Likewise with higher bit depths. "Common sense" suggests that no one should be able to hear a noise signal at -90dB.

Common sense is dead wrong, because the effects of a single bit of dither are absolutely audible.

And if you can hear the effects of noise added at -90dB, you can certainly hear the effects of quantisation noise artefacts on reverb tails and long decaying notes at -30 to -40dB, added by recording at 16 bits instead of 24 bits.

Whether or not that level of detail is present in a typical pop or classical recording is a different issue. Realistically most music is heavily compressed and limited, so the answer is usually "no."

And not all sources have 24-bits of detail [1]. (Recordings made on the typical digital multitrack machines used in the 80s and 90s certainly don't.)

That doesn't mean that a clean unprocessed recording of music with a wide dynamic range made on no-compromise equipment won't show the difference clearly.

Speaking from experience, it certainly does.

[1] Technically no sources have 24-bits of detail. The best you'll get from a real world converter is around 22-bits.
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Utopia Lost: The Case for Radical Technological Optimism
Or just any humans in the area. Since our forces are all robots every human remaining must be in support of the enemy. Civilians should have fled as refugees. (Refugees will be denied entry to the US, on the assumption that they're terrorists.)

I'd say that's sarcastic, but I sadly expect such reasoning from much of the US military leadership these days.
I take the possibility of serious ethical violations...well, seriously.

I'm not sure whether the global cost of IRBs outweighs the benefits. But I'm pretty sure that the sort of regulatory changes OHRP proposed (mentioned in the linked NYT article), where studies like mine with minimal possible risk are exempted from IRB requirements, seem good and important.

I also wonder whether it's possible to monitor even the scary studies with lots of potential risks - like the herpes vaccine trial you link to - with a little more common sense and a little bit less insistence on everything being signed in pen.
Extending rules that are a good idea for some projects to make them apply to all projects is the basis of crappy bureaucracy. It replaces sound human judgement with a set of inflexible rules that must be followed just because they are rules.
That reasoning fails in the face of there existing earthquake insurance in the Bay Area.
I can't tell how much of this is exaggerated and how much really happened. Sometimes I have a hard time parsing the difference.

They demand that you reveal what the study is on and sign in pen? Because the Nazis didn't disclose that stuff and get signatures?
TLDR: Copying WeChat.
If they repossessed the car or he chose not to buy the car after the lease was up they would have left the immobilizer in the car for the next person to lease it, or removed it and installed it in a different car. I bet if we had a copy of the contract he says he didn't really ask about there is a clause saying that the immobilizer was their property, and not included in the sale.

The issue here is more about how the dealership attempted to recover their property and the fee that he claims wasn't mentioned in the contract, not whether or not they actually owned the immobilizer.
Gigster raises $20M from investors including Marc Benioff and Michael Jordan
> Mushrooms seem to be even safer than pot

Physically perhaps..
Psychologically I'm not so sure..

They've usually been a more middle class bourgeois sort of drug -
start making them one of the choices for a 'quick high' at the corner drugstore and I could see this not ending up so well - esp considering there are a lot of mentally unstable people on the streets with hampered intellect/self-control issues..
This is fabulous
In live demos yes, but you would totally want to show it in a pre-recorded demo like this one.
Consuming misidentified mushrooms can result in death, so I'm not sure it's safer than smoking pot. Almost certainly less addictive though.
Without even reading the article I already know that it's extremely hard that hearing the difference between 16/44.1 and 24/192 indeed is really hard if not impossible.

I only use higher bitrates when creating music so when I mix or record I don't need to make the levels go almost into red to get a hot enough signal, I can do all kinds of changes like slowing down or up, distortion, EQ, compression without losing any perceived detail in the end. If I record on 16 / 44.1 then start manipulating the sound I start losing detail immediately.

But in the end more than 20 / 88.1 won't do much for you. 16 / 44.1 might be a bit less than ideal for music with a lot of dynamics but it's absolutely fine for most purposes.
> when moving beyond the complexity of "select this user record") I ran into issues with yesql's lack of power.

This is definitely true, however, I'd like to point out that static queries (either Yesql-style, or even stored procedures) can go a lot further than you'd initially expect. Unless you have a pressing application need for dynamic queries, you may consider static queries as they are more predictable with respect to performance and debugging.

Here's the main trick: Most of the time, you want dynamic filters, not dynamic selections. When this happens, you can just include the total set of filters and provide default parameters that are always true.

For example:

SELECT id, name, created_at, score
FROM players
WHERE created_at BETWEEN '-infinity'::timestamp AND 'infinity'::timestamp
ORDER BY score * -1

This will return all players, regardless of when they joined and will sort by score descending. You can parameterize the time range as well as the sort direction between +1 and -1. You can use EXPLAIN to prove to yourself that Postgresql is smart enough to make proper use of indexes.
Don't forget the .001% of VC funds that are fraudulent.

As an entrepreneur, you should vet your investor as much as they vet you.

I've seen someone claim to be a General Partner in a VC Fund that had $50M in capital. They ran around offering to sign investment deals with companies that had terrible ideas.

Only later did it surface that the person was GP in a fund with no money. The agreements signed weren't worth the paper they were printed on.

Entrepreneurs taken by this person invested in things like legal fees to negotiate terms and lost all that cash.

Couple that with the fact that most Venture Funds don't give their LP's a return and venture funding is a terrible business to be in if you are smart.

More and more people are waking up to this.

I've seen people go from thinking they want to start a VC Fund to starting a business like a Venture Studio.

A Venture Studio typically forgoes the 2% management fee's for managing the fund and deploying capital.

However, the Venture Studio will usually own a dev shop or marketing agency that they do all the work through.

They make their money on the professional services side.

Not sure if this will be more successful but it's something I see increasingly common.
Try reading Dr. Seuss's "Fox in socks" for a chore.
This.

"The right people are too busy working to be chasing down investors 24/7."

Over the years, we have done a lot on less money than most successful startups raise. We have revenues and now may not need to raise more. Not by choice - but because many investors look for things that honestly are just showy, and then wind up backing companies that fail.
I wish the Overton Window was more open to some kind of middle ground: "this isn't legal in general, but we have these tightly monitored, zero-advertising, well-trained centers where you can use the drugs". Apparently our only options are "legal for all adults" or "legal for no one".
> I can't imagine any connection between identifying plants and having the introspection and self-criticality to know if, when and how much of a psychoactive substance to use.

So the precedent I'd cite is with Hindu ashrams, where they're not going to impart any sort of esoteric spiritual training unless you're already brushing your teeth every day, keeping your room tidy, can hold a job, etc. The connection is that a lot of the higher-level practices can be profoundly destabilizing, so ensuring that people are continually performing the baseline tasks necessary to be a semi-functional adult is a good way to reduce the likelihood of people completely losing their shit.

With mushroom identification you need to join a community of likeminded people, put in the time needed to learn, scout the correct terrain, go to the right place during the right weather conditions, etc. It's not super complicated, but it's a good baseline to weed out the sort of people who become statistics after eating a handful of random drugs without knowing what they are, the dosage, the expected effects, etc.

Whether it's making people pass a driver's license type test, making them identify the plants or fungi in the wild, making them extract or synthesize the substances themselves, etc., I think the best drug policy is policy that allows anyone to consume any substance but which discourages people from impulsively swallowing handfuls of random stuff.
Tell me again how Climate Change isn't real.
Completely agree, I only mentioned Android because of the 'screen size hell' myth.

Another argument is that you want to future proof your app.

Flexible layouts all the way.
Someone call Neal Stephenson.
Nobody is suggesting prescribing mushrooms for any pain greater than a pulled muscle and covering it under insurance like we do with opioids. If I wanted an opioid recreationally, I'm pretty sure I'd have a hell of a time finding it. The opioid "epidemic" is _not in any way_ an issue of unrestrained access or availability.
The look-and-feel lawsuit happened 7 years before the iPod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros...)

Apple tried to ban other companies from using GUI, claiming ownership of the concept. Of course, they themselves got the idea from Xerox, which got the idea from SRI/Englebart, which got the idea from Sketchpad (Ian Sutherland), which got the idea from Memex/Vannevar Bush all the way back from 1945. There's a continuous lineage of which Apple was a part of and clearly pushed the field further from military and corporate R&D to consumer, but did they deserve to own a monopoly on it?
Not if it was glitchy enough that you couldn't reliably get a good take.

Either “doesn’t have that feature” or “feature is currently in poor state to demonstrate” are reasons to avoid demoing it.
I've heard (and it passes the smell test) that even if your ears can't resonate at frequencies higher than human hearing, the space you are in can, and your ears are sensitive to the differences in arrival time that are smaller than the pitches we can't hear. So at least in high sample rate music the imaging could potentially be cleaner. Assuming super great everything else.
If you want streaming ANSI standard SQL support for both ingest and egress to and from a vast number of systems including (1) open source databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB; (2) enterprise relational databases Oracle, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Actian Vectorwise, Ingres, and ParAccel; (3) message buses including Kafka, AWS Kinesis, ActiveMQ/AMQP, IBM WebSphere MQ, and Teradata Listener; (4) natural streaming data including HTTP, web sockets, network sockets, and files; and (5) cloud data warehouses including Amazon Redshift and Snowflake, you can download and use SQLstream Blaze (http://www.sqlstream.com/download) today. You can even JOIN streams from AWS Kinesis against streams in Kafka to combine cloud and on-premise data via a single query.
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that no such distinction exists in Canada. In the US, criminal law falls under jurisdiction of both state and federal governments. Thus something can be legal in a state and illegal in another. And crossing state lines makes it a federal matter and prosecutable in federal courts. And so many other complicated things.

In Canada, criminal law is under jurisdiction of federal government. Thus it is the same across the country, and crossing provincial borders does not change anything about the laws applying to the crime or how they are prosecuted.
That is opposite of the Portuguese experience
That's pretty amazing.. why wouldnt he set up his own sound to eliminate more of that signal generator fan noise though. So distracting.
I disagree, but I upvoted you. In the short term (probably 3-6 months, but actually until the novelty wears off), you are correct that more people will use it. However, once the novelty wears off and people realize both the hazards and that said something will remain legal, people will lose interest. From my anecdotal experience, the temptation/desire of "forbidden fruit" has a strong correlation with the strength of the force maintaining the forbidden-ness all other things equal (e.g. equally addictive): the more forbidden something is, the more tempting/attractive it becomes. You could almost colloquially call it a "bad boy factor".
The problem is, many people know how much they're being monitored each day, and simply don't care.
Probably none, but it's not a matter of what city could survive unscathed, it's a matter of what city has minimized the consequences. Houston has allowed for basically unfettered growth constraining their bayou's and preventing flooding infrastructure to be built. Hopefully Houston uses this disaster to rezone and allow for appropriate land management.
The author doesn't seem to take the history of medical research ethics (e.g. the Tuskegee syphilis experiments [1]) seriously. Having a sophisticated understanding of the ethical risks of research is a huge part of doing good science, and this post certainly doesn't communicate a high level of sophistication. If the author thinks that ethics review is "Blindly trusting authority to make our ethical decisions for us", then he clearly doesn't understand what ethics review is or how it works.

IRBs have well-documented flaws (for a more comprehensive look, read Laura Stark's book on IRBs [2]) but "IRBs are bad because they say I can't do whatever I want even though it's obviously the right way to do it" is not one of them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

[2]: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo1218257...
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From what I understand, people have been growing meat in laboratories for decades, but it's always been extremely expensive.

Does Memphis Meats have some special technology such that investors think it can produce meat at a reasonable price? Anybody know what it is?
> The right people are too busy working to be chasing down investors 24/7.

Speaking from experience, I feel like there are a great many smaller-companies with successful, profitable products that are just fine with a 40hr/week team of 7 people clearing around a million USD/year in income. It's not too hard to find them but what incentive could possibly make it work out for at least more than the key stakeholders, say 2 or 3 in this company? I would never stay put in an aqui-hire and 6 weeks severance or whatever is a shit deal IMO.

Maybe we've reach peak cynicism and investors just can't find the smartest people to invest in because the smartest know better are shying away?

As an aside,
It's funny how this phenomena seems to be observable in becoming President of the USA, I think. Too much of becoming president in the past ~60 years (I think back to Kennedy/Nixon debate) is based on a candidates EQ, persona, and even fundraising abilities, which effectively eliminates tons of highly-qualified potential candidates who may outright suck at those sort of things, but "count the beans" really nicely. I believe it was John Dickerson who went at length on this very topic somewhere in a his Whistlestop podcast.
We're using this book for a "book club" at work. Doing 1 chapter every 2 weeks. Chapter 1 covers Jupyter, 2 covers numpy, 3 pandas, 4 matplotlib, and 5 machine learning. We just made it through the first 4 chapters and it lays a good foundation for those libraries. I suspect chapter 5 is the meatiest and most interesting chapter, which covers scikit-learn and machine learning techniques. It is a long chapter so we will spend a month on it.

I recommend combining this book with McKinney's Pandas book[1] and the author's excellent YouTube presentations at PyCon and PyData. Start with "Statistics for Hackers"[2] by Jake VanderPlas and then look for his others.

[1]: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920050896.do

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9DzN6mvYA
or if paint was, like hemp, regulated to the point of de facto unavailability, leading to the use of environmentally inferior alternatives like solid wood and cotton.
I'm at a medium/large company, but without access to real numbers i'd say off the top of my head its probably >500 users across 100+ projects and 10s of thousands of issues.
For things like renaming files, I use a similar utility called "qmv", from renameutils.[1] It is super useful, and one of my most-used commands in the terminal.

For many other file-related operations in my terminal I use Midnight Commander.[2]

I've tried emacs' dired-mode, but I didn't see it being particularly useful compared to Midnight Commander without a ton of time spent on configuring it to work the way I like. I might do that sometime, but until then, Midnight Commander already has so many useful features without any of the time commitment or pain of virtually rewriting much of the same functionality in emacs.

[1] - http://www.nongnu.org/renameutils/

[2] - https://www.midnight-commander.org
I hope the city will require houses to be elevated when rebuilt.
I came here looking for comments on the lines of "F# had this before microsoft realized having F#". I came early