skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still a little confused why the story posted the other day fell off the front page so quickly, there was some good discussion and a link to a youtube meta-review that gave a pretty interesting view in to the last few days of the company:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15095861
I'm against any violence. Protest does not at all require violence.
Do the cells have the protection circuits on them?
We have recently implemented Angular4 in our project, and have started to pick it up. Recently picked up a story that was adding a simple confirmation modal to a page: "Alert" text in the top, body with some warning text, and a yes/no button.

This was my first experience with modern JavaScript frameworks and TypeScript. I wanted to do it right, so worked closely with team members who were more versed in this stuff, and followed the various recommended best practices.

By the time all was said and done the PR for this thing had 27 files in it.

For a modal.

This seems ludicrous to me. The frustration, somewhat humorous, expresses by TFA is completely understandable, though. While I came to appreciate TS, I'm still skeptical about this JS framework stuff. They seem overly complicated to me. (While I have only read casually about React, it seems similar in this regard.)
This is what we've wanted since USB first existed: a universal port—it's literally in the name. It's been 20 years in the making and now we finally have it.

The power issue is a minor temporary inconvenience. I did the same as OP and just got a bunch of cables from Cable Matters that cover basically everything. And the USB-C to USB 3.1 Type B on my hub means I don't have to change any desktop accessories. I just changed a single cable and it was compatible with my home setup.

The ability to "upgrade" an accessory just by switching from a 5Gbps cable to a 40Gbps cable is incredible.

Other manufacturers are already following. A year from now the fact that this was ever an issue will seem silly.

I just wish they would scrap Lightning and the 3.5mm and just go 100% USB-C.
If you intended this as a snarky swipe, please don't.

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Helpful post! Glad to see actual instructive examples rather than a thinly veiled "I hate js" piece.
Ah, the origin is: I'm self-taught ;) So you hit it on the nail.
Yes they stick to everything, and we have no clear idea on a mechanism. As drug candidates few in pharmaceutical development would want to work with them.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/06/18/how...
Maybe this (noise added to data going to advertisers) should be required on phones, it's basically an enforced form of data privacy.
But then you have to use windows... :< :< :<
Where can people who live in California sign the ballot proposal?
Why don't we compare Bitcoin's energy footprint with that of all the banks, remittance shops and associated infrastructure instead?

The PoW is quite expensive, but remember that mining is a subsidised activity amounting to billions of dollars worth of rewards for the miners, many of whom make extensive use of hydro-electric and solar power.

There's the question of wether we need all this hashing power to protect the billions of dollars worth of bitcoin market cap.
The truth is that ASICs mining was not anticipated and neither was the "arms race" that made mining into a profession. With Proof of Stake consensus algorithms taking front stage in Ethereum, EOS and other blockchain projects, PoW is bound to be abandoned or significantly changed.
I don't have an answer for you but I do know that if there is one it needs to include:

- Murders due to the existence of a black market (people don't tend to get killed in such high volumes in an open market)

- Deaths due to enforcement of the laws. Both "criminals" and law enforcement.

- Deaths due to people failing to seek medical help because they don't want to go to jail

- Deaths in prison of people who are only there because of prohibition

- Suicides due to the consequences of prohibition

- May or may not count people whose lives were generally ruined because they are felons now and the trickle down punishment of those people's families as well.

I have no doubt that number will pail in comparison to a "real" war. But that doesn't mean those lives are not worth saving.

It is a bad precedence to say that because one thing (real war) is worse than another (drug war) that we shouldn't try to end both.
A Muslim PhD student gets targeted as a security risk; now he wants to know why
That, I suspect, was true when I replaced my iPhone under AppleCare and the replacement has been really wonky. Various flimsiness with the body of the phone, GPS is spotty and sometimes completely fails. Disappointing.
Show HN: PaleoCodex, a prehistoric species catalog (using wikipedia data)
Thanks! I have heard that Austin is becoming a gateway from Silicon Valley, do you think prices for apartments/houses are still reasonable?
Couldn't have happened to a nicer industry. :)

Just imagine for a second the total human time lost due to ads and all the productivity that could've been done in that time.
And yet some people, like me, use Bitcoin to buy products and services. Your articles merely explain that Bitcoin legally is not money. But in practice it is used as money, it is seen as money, so it is money. Practice trumps theory.

Also these articles fail to mention that volatility is quickly decreasing, thanks to increasing market depths: https://mobile.twitter.com/lsukernik/status/8649208737189519...
That assumes that the only purpose of college is job skills, a recent phenomenon. College is to teach people about the world and how to reason - the ability that separates humans from beasts, civilization from barbarism, the Enlightenment from the Medieval, fact from fiction (a skill desperately needed these days) - by studying the great reason and 'reasoners' of the world, current and past, in all different fields from science to literature to math to political science. If you think you can reason as well without that, with only coding school, I think you're kidding yourself.

Also, the lifetime wages of college degree holders shows demand is pretty high for them.

Finally, when people say college isn't necessary, they meant 'not necessary for lower class kids'. I assure you that every Senator who proposes cutting education funding is sending their own kids to college, as is almost everyone reading this on HN.
What does ICO stand for?
Yeah something's not right. A modal is a line of code, not 27 files. The most extensible modal could be a single file component.

Just starting fresh, what is a modal? It's a widget (we could use a div) which when activated is moved to the front of the z axis and steals focus. CSS can do that. Now all you need it do is keep attributes regarding the text of the modal and state representing whether it's activated (we can juse a regular JS object for both), and you've got a working modal.

Some of the frameworks are needlessly complex, which is frustrating, because it's hiding something very basic.
I only got burned on one, which was the NinjaSphere. Unfortunately it was one of the most expensive ones I backed because I went for the developer kit ($500+). Though I did actually receive the developer kit.. became next to useless very quickly.

Other than that I seem to have chosen my kickstarters pretty well and very happy with most of them.
I built PaleoCodex as an online interactive encyclopedia for Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals for my six year old using wikipedia data.

He is a big dinosaur buff and wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up. His project brief was "Build a pokedex... but for dinosaurs"

Still kind of a WIP (Search is very basic and Text to speech / Listen feature may not work on iPhones, works on iPad/Nexus and Desktop using Chrome and Safari) and very much a weekend hack.

Built using python, tornado, wikipedia data and the skeleton html5 boilerplate. Uses ResponsiveSpeech for text to speech.

Enjoy! (and do send in your comments and suggestions)
1. Network as usual and treat people well.

2. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

3. See #2. You gotta win this manager over. Dinner, sports tickets, figure it out. Just don't make it obvious.

4. Study during your off time.
I feel sorry for the generation who didn't experienced the "drop file on ftp client, it's on the internet" experience. No setup, no build tools ...
I'd spend time trying to fix the environment where deadlines are so silly that you can't do proper code reviews.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We're trying for higher quality than that and I'm afraid you've been setting a bad example.

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Simply from the weight they carry, the energy required for this. Supplying a large city is neither cheap nor easy, and requires dozens or hundreds of daily shipments from dozens or hundreds of logistics companies. The majority of these happen during off-peak hours, to reduce load on the highway network.

Lithium batteries still can't approach 10% of gasoline's energy density, so gasoline is mandatory for trucks, and will be until yet another new battery technology is not only discovered and brought to market, but mass-produced to the point that we have a battery-pollution problem.

> the low standards for pollution controls

Why don't they increase the standards? If people are dying there must be public outrage. Does Universal Healthcare cover pollution injuries?

> European governments being willing to ignore automakers who break the rules.

Are people protesting or working to change their governmental leadership? Or are they content to see their loved ones perish? If diesel cars are such a problem, why not outlaw these? Then only outlaws will drive them.

Do you have a source for particulates killing children in cities?
Nope, OP of the Hackernoon post here – GK is by us and is the new home of the project. Thanks for policing though :P
Exactly this. Expanded the SSD in my late 2014 MBP recently. At least that's still possible. Just praying now that it won't break down.
As well as the physical and mental benefits of being clean I find it also gives one a chance to get some much-needed isolation away from one's fellow travelers for even a few minutes. I quite enjoy flying - am about go from Tallinn -> Frankfurt -> Singapore -> Adelaide - but interacting with people I don't know I find very tiring. It's one reason I much prefer travelling with my wife; our shared 'personal space bubble' when seated together is much bigger.

Am really looking forward to the shower in Singapore after a 12.5hr flight!
With more cases like this popping up, it seems the safer route is: Back product on Kickstarter and set reminders for 2 weeks before chargeback deadline for credit card used. If product is undelivered by that date, then cancel order with maker AND initiate chargeback too, to be on safe side.
initial coin offering
Question: isn't it easier to use one of those fancy arc detector breakers instead of visually inspecting the whole equipment?
Taking a swipe at someone's parenting is crossing into personal attack, which we ban accounts for. Would you please err on the side of civility when commenting here? That's basically what we all need to do in order to have a community that's worth anything; the forces of internet degradation are too strong otherwise.

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I really can't imagine that these types of scams are the norm, and not the exception. I've backed 33 campaigns, and I've never been burned (yet). Two turned out to be pretty shitty executions, though - not sure if I should count that, since I did still receive my rewards.

The key is to ask yourself some common sense questions like:
* Is this product possible in our current reality?
* Does the business exist only for the purposes of this campaign?
* Can the product realistically be made with the money raised so far?

The first is obviously a deal breaker, and the second can be a red flag. The third might be hard to gauge, but is probably the best filter. For example, raising $6MM to make 6 million milled titanium wallets obviously isn't going to work, even though it's a lot of money. OTOH, $6MM for pretty much any kind of software product is going to scale fine as long as it's not an ongoing service.

Note that that third point also means you basically can't back any electronics hardware project unless the answer to the question "Will this company make this product anyway, regardless of this Kickstarter?" is an unequivocal 'yes', since hardware development is so damn hard.

Just my 2 cents.
no you don't!

https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/
I was some of the human time and productivity lost due to ads.

Getting them to admit any wrong, from a technical issue, to anything, is like pulling teeth from a live dinosaur.

Good. Hopefully they take their refund and invest it in something useful. But knowing the industry, the refund was in the form of an account credit, and that money is already lost to the system regardless.
The number of designers learning to code seem to be increasing so it behooves programmers to be familiar with the design part too.
No flamebait on HN, please.

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Not in a radio station. Those typically trigger from RF.
Yep, look up carbon sequestration.
Ask HN: Experienced JavaScript programmers, what are your recommendations?
Recommendations (not exclusive) can fall into:

- Libraries
- Frameworks
- Tools
- Books
- Videos
- Posts
You may enjoy this old thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690893
In related news, certain subreddits have been promoting the use of https://adnauseam.io/, a fork of uBlock origin that automatically clicks all the ads encountered. The same redditors also encourage searching for high-CPC terms (e.g. insurance or rare medical conditions) to maximize the impact.
Personal attacks and name-calling are two things we ban accounts for, so please don't comment like this here.

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I really do want to ask the author that question, given that he focuses so much on the "weird" idea that everything turns out to be just numbers moving around over time.

"What do you suppose the input to the human brain looks like ?"

Since I have kids I have come to realize that the same thing you see in neural nets you see in human beings. Understanding exists, but it is mostly not how human beings respond to the world around them. Mostly we are a minimally generalized dictionary, we know a long long very damn long list of "tricks". If A happens, B will follow. There's very little along the lines of "objects fall along a parabolic trajectory".

This leads to generalization errors, and the surprising thing is you see those in humans ! Kids having learned to open one type of door do not know how to deal with an (even very slightly) jammed doorknob, they don't recognize differently shaped doorknobs as doorknobs, etc. First few days they don't even realize that if pushing won't work, pulling might. So the understanding of opening doors really does start out on the level of "move the free end of the small cylindrical object in the middle of the door that's parallel to the floor down, and then push", and if any of those conditions fails, well, door's going to stay shut.

And this is exactly the very hard problem you encounter with neural nets : finding the right balance between specificity and generalization. But one saving grace is that if you specialize in enough special cases, you can get around without having a general understanding, and that's exactly what's happening with kids.
A solo unsupported ride from Kashghar to Lhasa [2007]
I find these direct links to PDFs infuriating. Html is perfectly fine for documents like this.
What I meant to say is that it's infeasible to grow all meat free-range from an environmental perspective. Factory farmed meat has a smaller impact on the environment.
I'm almost $1K deep as well. :)

I'll stop buying when a programmable ortholinear with trackpoint mouse is on the market.
A big chunk of "google's ad traffic" is fake and always has been. It's hard to quantify though, it's up to each business to evaluate whether paying for ads on google makes sense.

http://adland.tv/adnews/googles-ad-traffic-news-fake/2940245...

Personally I don't think it does.
Accusations of astroturfing or shilling are against the HN guidelines, so please don't comment like this here.

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Teechain: Scalable Blockchain Payments Using Trusted Execution Environments
The account credit probably goes to the agency, and the actual customer is none the wiser. Or it gets credited to some kind of covering-our-asses fund that can be used by the agency to make the click-through cost look a little less bad at the end of the next quarter.
This could be a coordinated 4chan attack https://files.catbox.moe/6ueduv.png
Sprites: Payment Channels That Go Faster Than Lightning
I agree with the GP with regard to Angular4. But have you really tried to create a modal in HTML/CSS/JS without any framework?

It's surely not one line of code!
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Aye, I'm mostly in the same boat as you as far as kickstarter and literally backed this one on a lark. Live and learn.
I don't put expectations on coloring books.
Yeah, that's the plan. Animals aren't ours, and we should not interfere with their natural selection.
When you're on the inside the fake traffic is not so hard to quantify. Problem is that if you've taken the time to quantify it then your staff might start feeling obligated to do something about it. Like talking to customers. Ignorance, as they say, is bliss.
The OP chose to talk about bloodshed. We are now characterizing how bloody the 'war on drugs' has been. We are not characterizing how bad it might be in any other sense. This is a focused argument intended to examine something precisely. I asked about bloodshed in response to a claim about bloodshed. I don't want to hear about 'trickle down punishment' in response. Do you understand how inadequate that is?
> This seems ludicrous to me.

Why?

UI is hard dude. UI on the web is especially hard because the technology has been growing progressively for over two decades.
OK, so it's a dozen.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25920941/how-do-i-overla...

Didn't say not to use a framework. Use it and some CSS and that's a basic task, not to mention there are other libraries which do it for you already.
The former would be theft, and the later would be fraud. So, let's hope not...
Yes, and if it's fraud then it's also malpractice by the directors and the company structure doesn't protect the them from being sued personally for the missing funds. Someone should really start an action against the directors.
The Largest Ever Virtual Universe Inside a Supercomputer -Game and Cosmology
Imagine if I actually linked to cartel machete execution videos right here on HN just to give you some real examples.
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I really hope this helps drive privacy laws in the US to favor the consumer. Please share these articles with everyone you know.
Caps lock is already taken for ctrl
Interim OS: steals conceptually from Lisp machines and Plan 9
See Pexon PC's in the UK for pioneers of this.

(No link, go Google if you want... Not affiliated)
I think it's more a matter of being lucky enough to enjoy doing something which is valuable to others. It's easy to love what you do if your hobby is in demand.
For a different perspective, I had a business software product for a particular targeted use case that could ONLY find customers through targeted ads, particularly on Google. The company could have not existed without Google ads and the customers would have not solved their problem without Google ads.
That's a personal attack and we've banned the account.

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> The mining algorithm cares not one bit about number of transactions

Actually it does to some extent because the transaction hashes are used to calculate the block header hash.
This one for one ratio that you mention of blocking the sun out would not logically follow. Any plant life losing sunlight that does any significant amount of carbon absorption would die. Where are they planning to throw some shade Antarctica?
> "...with the quick turn of events, we are emotionally overwhelmed"

I didn't preorder and have no skin in this.

But, it really irritates me when companies share their feels after screwing people over. I dont care that you're super sad! We're not compadres, and I'm not going to sympathize on a personal level when your professional failure cost me.

Same with touchy-feely status updates when hosted services go down and paying customers are losing money. Github used to do that back in the day. Extended outages and their status log was smiley and cutesy as if we're buddies through all this. We are not.
The premise is flawed. It assumes humans required those species to continue (such that "humans die off" actually occurs). We very clearly did not require the ones that are already gone, and we clearly don't require these unknowns to continue forward either (if we did, we wouldn't exist, much less be thriving as we are).

In fact, it's almost guaranteed at this point that humanity has reached an instigation of self-controlled evolution take-over that can no longer be stopped or turned back, short of an extremely near-term (within a century or so) self-destruction event.

Within this century, humans will no longer exist as we think of the species today. There's no amount of extinction that is likely to occur in that time frame to prevent humanity from pushing radically forward in governing its own evolution. Where we're going, these 'natural medicinal opportunities' will not matter. The hyper evolutionary leap that has already begun with robotics, CRISPR, AI, etc., will make most of this discussion hilariously trivial very soon. There's nothing that likely can stop what's coming at this point (unless someone wants to load up an asteroid event soon).
I wouldn't dare call such a thermally-compromised[1] computer "super-powerful"

1. http://www.anandtech.com/show/11245/apple-to-redesign-mac-pr...
> If a single bitcoin transaction uses enough energy to power 5 households for a day,

Care to share a source for this claim? I think you might have gotten transaction and new block generation mixed there, but I may be wrong, of course.
Agree. More importantly, I see this nasty trend where people bag on jQuery code just because it's jQuery code.

I've seen devs complain about how coupled some small jQuery one-liner is and then replace it with some muli-hundred line monstrosity of a module that's buggy, incredibly hard to understand and impossible to actually reuse...then when you call them out on it, they just say "fuck you, we're writing ES6 now".

The code they replaced was simple, just worked and didn't have side-effects. And they're still using jQuery elsewhere in their project anyway...
UI is hard dude.

It's been a solved (and re-solved) problem for decades.
It will be good for society when there is more automation.
Yes. Cloudflare does allow ALIAS style records. But in the case of Cloudflare you're actually changing your DNS over to their system. The original submission was about just making two changes to whatever the existing DNS server was you had.