skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cogent and fascinating analysis of what it is like taking modafinil by Eric Raymond. Worth reading even if you are luck enough to not have congenital spastic palsy.
The blog post doesn’t provide concrete evidence... but I did checkout some videos and in some of the non-scripted dialog her Ad-lib English skills (grammar) definitely don’t match the writing. That being said you do have much more time to correct writing and people can edit it for you...
Oh come on. I said it was good. It's just... not exactly the planar transistor or a CRISPR-CAS editing therapy, or even Android or iOS. It's a good company doing important but fundamentally simple stuff really well.
China aims to build a supersonic “flying train”
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http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Forbes-Te...

There are 50 billionaires in Texas, thus far the Houston Texans owner promised $10 million and Dell $36 million.
Your view is that the Node community finally "saw the light", but the other interpretation is that they buckled under pressure.

I love callbacks. The best thing about them is that you always know precisely what will happen when a line of code runs. Not so with promises.

Another nice thing is that you always know which line of code will run next. Not so with async.

I see async in the language spec (and class too) as a concession made to people who couldn't be bothered to learn how to use JavaScript the way it was intended. Like burgers on the menu at a Mexican restaurant.

And no judgement against them: I'm happy for them that they got the ruby-like JavaScript they always dreamed of.

But I wish those people would be a tad less boastful and understand that they turned people like me into exiles in our own language community. I used to have a language that promoted small single purpose modules with functional interfaces. That's gone. It's mostly synchronish OO interfaces now. And bigger and bigger frameworks. My folk are going to have to basically move out. I don't see an alternative at this point but to fork NPM.
I offer a middle path , a bhudist interpertation of the problem. A project can be both fun/innovative and productive. You iterate on the fun , then you iterate on the productive. Youll never acheive completeness in both. Youll always suffer from needing to improve on aspect. Life is suffering , learn to accept and not let that reality stop you from creating.

But some projects are more innovative or productive than others. Maybe you should abstract those projects away from eachother? You could put them in seperate classes. You could have the productive project use the innovative project.
That doesn't mean they are going to require you to ship the machine back to them.

(I'm assuming there's tons of people who are going to miss that deadline anyway)
I see your point but think it's worth a couple comments. First, blocking javascript globally is a bit different, in my mind, from blocking it by default (i.e. whitelisting).

Second my wording wasn't great, I more meant "try blocking javascript by default and see how you like it". I agree it's not for everyone, but in my A/B tests it's my clear favorite.

Some benefits of a whitelist approach: You can set preferences to allow javascript for pages you regularly visit and trust. Meanwhile, if you're visiting an unfamiliar or unusual site, you're completely protected by default and still only one click from full functionality.
What surprised me most about this article is that as far as I'm aware, Russia is so far behind the forefront on machine learning research that hearing Putin speak on this subject is like hearing the president of Portugal say it.

I'd bet a rent check on China having strong AI before Russia any day.
Oh BS. Bots don't cast votes.
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I'm not really sure about this metaphor, but I love what Schoenberg had to say in Harmonielehre about choosing voice registers in the parts you write. It never occurred to me how much art went into something seemingly subtle until I read this from him in a section about four-part vocal writing.

"Obviously the range of solo voices, yes, even of choral voices, is in reality larger than, perhaps different from, that indicated here, which only aims at a fairly correct average. The middle register, which should be the one chiefly used, lies a fourth or a fifth from the highest and lowest tones, so that we have:"

<image of vocal ranges>

"Of course the pupil cannot get along with just the tones of the middle register and will have to use some from the higher or lower registers- naturally, at first only the adjacent tones, but then also on occasion the highest or lowest, if there is no other way. In general, however, he should seldom overstep to any significant degree the bounds of an octave whoever wants to write parts comfortable for the voice will avoid, even in actual composition, extended passages exclusively in one of the outer registers. The pupil should therefore enter these registers only for a short time and leave them as soon as possible. Whenever the treatment of solo or choral voices in practice indicates otherwise, it is because the composer sought some compositional or acoustical effects irrelevant to our present aims."

"The characteristics of the voices indicate the requirements, supported by experience for their combination in choral writing. If no voice is to stand out, then all voices will seek out registers whose acoustical potential is approximately the same. For, were a voice to sing in a more brilliant register, while the others move in a duller register, that voice would naturally be quite noticeable. If this voice is intended to stand out (for example, when an inner voice has the melody), then it is well that it sing in a more expressive register. But if it is inadvertently conspicuous, then the director would have to rely on shading, he would have to create equilibrium by subduing the prominent voice or by strengthening the weaker ones."
Authorship attribution is the main application discussed in the paper, and there is some thought given to the possibility of detecting ghost writers (i.e. detecting
if you let someone else write your code)

I think it's promising, but to evaluate it against existing solutions and make it production ready is probably still a good chunk of work.

For simple code similarity there are Moss, JPlag and Sherlock (linked in the paper )
As the other poster pointed out, Trump's charitable foundation takes donations from other people and re-donates the money.

Sometimes he uses it to buy portraits of himself for $20,000.[0]

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11...
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Nine years on, another Lehman Brothers bankruptcy
>The problem with Juicero is that their user experience laid bare how futile and ridiculous their product was by having consumers manufacture the product themselves.

Blue Apron and every other meal kit delivery business sits on the other end of the same road, yet they seem to be doing okay and without the same level of ridicule.

I wonder whether Juicero could have avoided this outcome had they mailed their customers whole fruits and asked them to peel and fill their own juice bags, that way people will not be able to put two and two together to realise that it is just another beverage maker with DRM.

P.S. I remember Juicero being rather well received by the resturant industry as it is fully automated and requires minimal cleanup, so perhaps they marketed to the wrong crowd after all.
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While I agree, I don't think it's the case every VC desires to appeal to the average consumer. Companies ranging from Gucci to Rolls Royce to Tesla have made a good business for themselves knowing what the above average consumers they want to cater to like. Thus VCs, like any company, should be judged as to how well they know their target audience. At their price point, Juicero clearly wasn't wanting to appeal to the average consumer. But they instead missed the mark in appealing to their target market--the wealthier than average.
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Ask HN: Any Cheap Vertical Bluetooth Mouse for New Macbook Pro?
I am using 15 inc MacBook pro with 4 USB-c.

I am developing over 20 years. I really need to use a Vertical mouse otherwise I have pain :(

I am looking for a cheap vertical mouse with Bluetooth.

Evoluent Vertical Bluetooth is expensive
also Anker Vertical is cheap but needs usb. I want to save myself from AUKEY hub.( no hub or dongles)

I am waiting for this for months. I finally have a solution. Long live Aliexpress. I would love to share.

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My current system:

I have amazing Anker Vertical Bluetooth (but it has USB wireless dongles)

I am using:
* 1 port for charging
* 1 port for USB-c to DP for my Dell 4k monitor
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* 1 port of the AUKEY
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072Q1SKZR/
I connect the dongle of Anker Vertical Bluetooth to AUKEY hub which I want to save myself from.

Keyboard:
I am also using Bluetooth mac keyboard in the office and at home new Microsoft Surface ergonomic ( with Karabiner)

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I want to save my self from the Aukey hub and Anker Vertical. (I love it used it for few years)

I searched for a solution in google and Amazon for a long time and I wasn't able to find a cheap Bluetooth vertical mouse.

Finally, I bought this and it is amazing.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wireless-Bluetooth-Mouse-Vertical-Computer-Mouse-6D-Optical-Mice/32821669374.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.zaclfl

Any other Bluetooth vertical mouse suggestions?
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Juicero, Startup with a $700 Juicer and Top Investors, Shuts Down
Lots of people getting whooshed in the comments there.
Heat levels are indeed something these cards must ensure. I use the Samsung Evos in Blackvue dash cameras which will get up to 80-90c in the sun in the summer.
"Potentially Unwanted Program"? That's a polite way of putting it.

> PUP.Optional.Booking

> This is the detection for a family of potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) that show advertisements hailing from the booking.com domain. This PUP predominantly uses scheduled tasks to trigger the advertisements.

Wouldn't mind seeing that looks like. Regardless, "scheduled tasks" definitely sounds like unsolicited EXE execution, which is firmly on the "no thanks" side of shady.
To I JavaScript objects?
Most companies get hard press. This report went viral and shut down the company because it exposed the product as being ridiculous.
I don't think it's entirely a matter of Half.com becoming obsolete because of changes to eBay; I suspect they lost out to Amazon Marketplace, which provides basically the same service with (I'd assume) a larger reach. I would often check both sites and see the same listings by the same sellers.
Just so everyone is aware, the argument that blog post makes is extremely tenuous at best, and blatant disinformation at its worst. The argument is, basically, 'someone on reddit was doing stuff in China, then stopped a few years ago. A few years ago, Naomi Wu a.k.a SexyCyborg started using reddit.'

Here's that same argument again: Isaac Asimov wrote a lot of stuff, then he stopped. Around the same time he stopped, I started writing a lot of stuff. Therefore...

To the more pointed criticisms given by 'Brianna Wu' or Timaz or whoever, I'm just going to disclose I'm an editor for Hackaday, I know Naomi, and all that entails. So:

"The grammar and formatting are well beyond a lot of even native English speakers" -- Yes, because we edit her posts (top link to this submission and [0]). Additionally, Naomi has said she has a team (maybe of expats?) that edit her work for grammar and idioms. Also, if you follow her twitter, she's really locked in on Internet culture, which would give her a leg up on the memes and idioms.

"While we are talking about China. The Chinese government blocks sites like YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram." -- Yes, and the Chinese government also blocks Hackaday. Luckily, our readers in China are the type who know how to get around that. Which gets into the next point...

"Strange that she doesn't have the same online presence in her home country as she does in the West. " -- I'd keep a low profile in my home country if I were her.

"How much do you think this stuff cost? RE: her lab" -- it's actually pretty cheap. Her lab is in Shenzhen, so I'm assuming the price for tools would be even cheaper than what Harbor Freight is selling them for. Additionally, it's not that much gear. It's a 3D printer, and I think a miter saw. Not expensive equipment, even in the US. And especially attainable if you're working remote, which Naomi is.

I'm just going to tell you, OP, and everyone who agrees with you right now: fuck off. There's nothing inexplicable about a woman being able to use tools. The fact that your comment was voted up to the top in this Hacker News submission says a lot about Hacker News itself. Go feel shame, because you deserve it.

[0]:https://hackaday.com/2017/03/28/source-parts-on-taobao-an-in...
HACHERS
They froze my dell laptop yesterday. With an alarm to call a 1 (855) number.. I had a family member had them google that number.. Scam. So called dell... Transferred 6 times to talk to the right department and still no answer! Hacker say1 they will freeze your computer...Didn't happen, and request $500.00 for a month untivirus or 1400 for 6 months anti-virus protection. They will ask to log into your computer.. Just a heads up! They were going after laptops bougth at best buy according to the jerk I spoke with.
Yes, Markdown is used for organising feeds: grouping them under headers which later appear as navigation in the main feed.

Linen is now retro 8-)
>>I mean, slavery could also be described as "not a perfect system".

Medallion system is nothing like slavery. False equivalence.

>>it had since been perverted into a self-perpetuating machine that prints money for a couple of lazy fat cats, to the detriment of everyone else.

The medallion system benefits citizens because it ensures that taxis don't dominate city streets at the expense of regular car owners.
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It is probably because I can go to the store right now and buy pretty great Odwalla stuff that tastes good and is healthy. However, pre-brewed coffee from a bottle isn’t at the same level as fresh coffee. The point is that there are reasonable substitutes for a Juicero, but coffee at home is something people already make but most people don’t care about making their own juice — and if they were aficionados, they would have a real juicer. Juicero just didn’t make much sense. It wasn’t solving a problem most people had.

Many people make coffee each day and they might even drink juice, but most people drink juice from bottles, so Juicero was solving a problem that didn’t really need solving for the average consumer.
arbitrarily? No.

reasonably? Probably.
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Why is whole better than blended? Assuming you blend everything that you'd otherwise eat, that is.
Thanks for the candid transparency, it's very appreciated. Someone with much more hubris might claim to have recorded it in one shot, first attempt, as some ridiculous technical interviewers seem to expect you to do.

I think it really speaks to how software development happens. The premeditated thinking takes up most of the time, and typing it out is often the easiest part when the architecture is crystal clear in the mind. Combining that with succinct explanations might be like putting both hands together while playing piano.

I am not downplaying the difficulty of what you're doing at all, just appreciating the process. Thanks for the material!
> It's not hard for investors. Use Tor when trading our ERC20 token-shares, or pay with Monero - very hard to trace.

What recourse does an investor have against you to force you to pay their share of the profits, or recover their investment when you have an exit if the relationship is under the table? I'm sure you make it easy for an investor to give you money in a grey fashion, but what enforceable guarantees do they have that they own part of your business?

Or are you taking money from organizations/entities that aren't worried, because they have more "direct" ways of enforcing their claim over you? Every measure you take to protect yourself from law enforcement also protects you from any attempt from investors to sue you or reclaim their money.
this guy is hilarious, well i am in the same country where he is from. Turkey obviously.
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> Nope

I don't know about you, but that cleanly fits my definition of "shredded".

> edit: also this... enthusiastic gentleman, who is pretty enthusiastic about the contents of the bag[3]

Yeah, discountjuicers.com guy is a real hoot. Good info too.
Will try it out now, thanks!
That isn't the problem. It's more likely that if they are anonymous that they simply take the money from investors and run.

Any measure they take to protect themselves from the law also protects them from their investors, since a lawsuit necessarily relies on the law to enforce an agreement.
So, you're going to recruit girls, "try them out", take their pictures, get test STD results, provide physical security for them, verify the identities of their clients, collect payment, provide insurance, and publish an Android app to promote this? And you're going to do it all through Tor because, of course, you need to be anonymous? That is very convenient considering that you're doing a token sale!

I have to say, if I were totally anonymous and my ICO went well I'd probably renege on the whole thing. After all, why would I put myself in serious legal jeopardy by running a form of darknet market when I could just pocket the investors money secure in the knowledge that nobody will feel sorry for them?
Hey, my 2003 iMac still works as a great dns resolver.

Of course so does a $5 raspberry pi.
I love the idea of sharing economy and, since I moved to a rural area, participate in it. Someone, somewhere, has this thing I need currently and they have in excess. Chainsaw, trailer, tractor, scaffolding, baby formula, really long stepladder, time, capable hands, knowledge. I also let people borrow my tools and offer advice/services. Most of the connections I made here were due to a random need and someone who has connected us knowing what the other party had on their disposal. I'm in constant awe experiencing how well it works without apps or platforms. But the crucial part is: no money changes hands in all this. You get something, you give something back to the community.

I have the feeling that the large-scale implementations of sharing use this social interaction as a ground to grow small businesses which offer services to strangers. I'm okay with that, it makes everything more efficient and straightforward, but there's little left of the sharing part of the deal: Hey, why not use your car that would sit in the garage while you waste time to make extra few bucks -> lease a new car and work as not-taxi-driver. Have an empty apartment or go for vacation, let someone occupy it -> get a mortgage for 3 condos and run a totally-not-a-hotel. Tools collecting dust in the shed -> buy a few sets of commonly used powertools and lease it for $xx/day. Etc. "Sharing economy" now means that you cover all the expenses of running a business and share the revenue with the platform that brought you customers. There's very little actual sharing, but the economy works as usual.

I guess my point is: sharing works without intermediaries and there may be no money exchange to take a cut, "sharing" with the intent to make a profit inevitably leads to professionalization and requires the "sharer" to operate a regular business.
For a relatively near-term non-rocket launch system I like Hans Moravec's rotating skyhooks. Similar to a space elevator but less of a leap. If you can get one going around each of the earth and the moon then you could power operations from then on by dropping moon rocks down to earth.
Cool. See impostor syndrome mentioned elsewhere in this thread. No need to feel like a fraud. Even if you know just somewhat more than some others, there can be value in what you can talk about to those others (not everyone) - this applies to any subject. The obvious caveat is that one should try to do a good job of the talk by preparing, trying to make it interesting (some), giving good examples, etc.
Good God that pie chart.

edit: Should've probably elaborated. Not only is a pie chart usually ineffective at conveying information, but these percentages are totally arbitrary. There's not really a specific explanation for why linear algebra is weighted more than multivariate calculus and algorithms & complexity combined, not to mention the fact that linear algebra and multivariate calculus in machine learning overlap to a large degree, and they both feed into algorithms & complexity as well.

And then on top of that, the 3D and shading seem totally unnecessary, but that's just me.
There are lots but who knows which of them are actually sustainable. Check again in 5 years.