skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The point is that the desire to climb the status ladder by purchasing conspicuously expensive, useless commodities is generated by a pretty deformed set of social relations. It is a product of a very shallow capitalist culture

I disagree. People liked rare and expensive things in all cultures since forever -- from ancient Egypt and Greece, to African tribes to Polynesian island nations.

What's unique in modern capitalist culture is the commercialization of everything and anything and the constant consumption -- not the appreciation of finely crafted / expensive stuff. In some ways a Lamborghini is a great achievement of engineering and art, for example.

I also don't think people buying those pens are doing so because of a "desire to climb the status ladder". That might be true for those buying a $1000 suit or $300 shoes, but those paying $3000 for a fountain pen have already climbed it.
Yes, changing the encoding can change the complexity, but I was taking issue with "because it is #P it cannot be NP,' which is what I got out of

> Counting solutions is not a decision problem, so it can't be in NP.

Is this just a statement that it is a category error to compare the set of function problems with the set of decision problems? Sure, that's true, but you can still ask questions like "does this #P problem have a polynomial reduction to an NP problem."

> Nevertheless, counting solutions is hard

Do you have a citation for counting n-queens solutions (not completions like in the featured paper) being #P-hard? (or NP-hard?)
Domain/Project Giveaway: zestdocs.org
There's this little documentation browser project there which I've started almost 2 years ago and abandoned shortly afterwards.

If anyone would have any use of the domain name (expires in January), GitHub organization (https://github.com/zestdocs/), or Twitter account (https://twitter.com/zestdocs), please let me know here or at hn@zestdocs.org.
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The web design is indeed ugly, but at least it is functional.

Here are some easy to implement design suggestions: You should change the title of the first heading so it's not the same as the banner. I think "What is Tarsnap?" is a good choice. Speaking of the banner, vectorize it. Finally, please remove the bars from the asides.

Your product is good, so transferring a little attention to its web presence is worth the effort.
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Anytime I go onto a company's website and I either can't figure out what they do, or pricing information isn't available, I think "Right, their business model is to overcharge folks who have more money than sense" and I promptly leave.
Not the OP here, but why the downvotes? Is this person off-base, or is that a poor solution?
That does cover a little of how jellyfish glow. But why is never broached.

_

The title of the article is misleading.
Is the font rendering difficult to read for anyone else? Chrome/Windows 10.
That's a bit too simply put, unfortunately.
You could do that with an `e^{n/50}` solution. That wouldn't really be unexpected.
Sadly a lot of people have a hard time understanding nuance and middle-grounds. In programming or in anything else.

If your code is to be thrown away in one week, why make it perfect? If you have to maintain it for years, why make it a pile of shit? Funnily enough you can't often predict the lifetime of code.
I agree with your assessment of Tarsnap's website and had a quick look at my firm's website. Whilst we haven't sprouted web2arrhoea bootstrapped bollocks ... yet, I'll be having words with my marketing bods tomorrow.
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The big telecom companies in Mexico like Telcel also don't charge you for WhatsApp data usage which showstops any potential competitors.
KDB lets you do this.

q)-3!parse"select last id from t"
"(?;`t;();0b;(,`id)!,(last;`id))"

Indeed you can use this to modify a user-entered query easily:

p:parse"select last id from t";
@[p;2;'[1 rotate;,];enlist(=;`user;enlist u)]
Take a look at smalltalk where you edit the live in-memory objects directly.
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You sold that video short. I mean c'mon, they clearly state at the end that they are the first marketing cloud for blockchain. It doesn't get any clearer than that! /s
> The old desire of building your identity around what you own instead of what you do is not going anywhere.

And so is the old desire of looking down on people that see life differently from us.
There are people of there who don't think the market is in a good state, or who are saving for a house, or for whatever reason want to stay liquid. The banks will treat you a bit better with that much in an account (they will assign you a relationship manager at Hsbc if you are at premiere level), but not very much.

I personally accumulated savings in RMB and had no decent investment options until recently. I know I can't afford anyone more than the guy at the bank who wants to take you for a ride. Everyone's situation is different.
This is somewhat nonsensical. Part of what drives the urban expansion is the rise of two income families.

http://www.pewresearch.org/ft_dual-income-households-1960-20...

Short commutes to urban centered jobs are VERY attractive to such families. It might mean the urban core boom is over but cities are more than just fancy downtown neighborhoods.
It reminds me of Gavin Volure (Steve Martin) on 30 Rock. After getting busted as a fraud he says "It's not a real company. You watch our commercials, we never actually say what we did." and then it cuts to this beautiful corporate-speak ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlymNLAAzUM

I feel like I've hit that company 50-odd times in my life while searching for vendors.
I felt that way in my 20's too. I have since grown up and made a lot of money realizing I was wrong, but I still feel that way.
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>and the generation that came after it is smaller and will drive less demand

Actually the post-millennials are 69 million, over 66 millions for the millennials. And the baby-boomers were 76 million.
Find the box first, adapt the PCB to fit it.
That was amazingly vacuous.

Feels very scammy. Brought to you by Gurbaksh Chahal..
I've found Rollup easier to configure, fwiw. Ymmv.
What is 300% below? I'd say 50% below a figure is half that figure. So what is 100% below it? Zero presumably? And 300% below?
>It's happening, slowly

That's browser adoption. XHTML was also adopted by all browsers.

I'm talking about developer adoption.
Wait, they made you wait 2mo, using their account as your paycheck direct deposit, for a credit card with only $500 of approved credit, which you then have to use for another 2mo, just to have any decent credit with them? ..and you are praising them?!

on most banks the offer letter will already give you a $500 credit.
"... strips and normalizes the formatting for easy reading..."

While I applaud your comment, I think there is more to consider. Initially the text has no formatting. Someone had to insert the markup. And why did they add the markup? Why not just give us the text and let us add our own, if we want it?

If we have a program, e.g. a custom text-filter, that can strip html tags and other markup (formatting) from original text (content), then why do we need a browser?

As a matter of practice, I use a text-only browser in VGA textmode. All text looks the same, same VGA font, and the look of every website is much more consistent than with a graphical browser, not to mention other benefits such as text being larger, no bright white page backgrounds, less eyestrain, complete absence of web ads, no auto-loading of tracking elements, etc.

With a text-only browser and without javascript many website design choices become irrelevant. All websites more or less look the same. This makes reading much easier and faster. It allows me to focus on the content, i.e., the data, instead of potentially being distracted by web design i.e. the presentation of data.

Needless to say it would be easy to write html "targeting" a text-only browser. It is very forgiving and "normalizes" variation that might otherwise be a problem.

(Do not misinterpret this comment: I have great respect for talented web designers but there are sometimes situations where design can get in the way of consuming data, as in the case of the OP.)

"Reader View" appears to be solving a problem that graphical browsers themselves created. These browsers make web design relevant and thereby enable not only spectacular, creative web design, but also difficulties in reading for some users, among other problems.

Not knocking use of "Reader View" - it is very useful - but just providing a different perspective on why markup is being used to begin with and other ways to achieve easier reading with larger text (and easily adjustable column width).
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That’s probably why they have the government on their payroll.
I think they want to be able to pivot and add new services without having to retract how they previously labeled themselves.

For instance, Optimizely has a website A/B testing tool. They also support smartphone app A/B testing, and I think some backend/server-side testing. If smart watches or VR take off, they'll probably try to support those as well.

They also recently added automated content generation: I know they can generate product and page recommendations, and there may be other options as well.

They're a relatively young company and probably aren't ready to be typecast as "website A/B testing," in case another offering really takes off.
Performance to begin with: https://github.com/jarun/nnn#performance

You also have other goodies like a quick disk usage analyzer mode, navigate-as-you-type, superfast search-as-you-type filtering... extremely handy navigation shortcuts like `~` (tilda for HOME), `-` (last visited dir), `&` (startup dir), `cd .....` etc.

All of it in < 40 KB binary size (`ls` is around 126.5 KB), around 4 MB resident memory footprint.
I never claimed that 'owning a pen is vain'.

My comment referred to the GP's statement: Physical possessions like this pen is just so vain, shallow, and meaningless.

When I ask "Where is the cut-off", it's to prompt thought, to draw out an answer to the question: where is that cut-off?

"obviously buying a $4000 pen…is utterly grotesque"

So where should the cut-off be? Is it $3500? $350? Where does the price of a pen become grotesque? If $4000 is obviously grotesque, where does that value statement become less obvious? Isn't that worth thinking about?

Another aspect to that debate are those who didn't buy the pen. For example, those gifted it in a will, or who win it as a prize. Or even of those who do buy it, perhaps an aspiring writer, who spends the entirety of their advance on this pen - not to signify or demonstrate their wealth - but as relief that they've finally been signed, as proof to themselves that they're not an imposter. Sure, it might not be the most practical use of their money, but does it justify the ad hominem of "grotesque"?

Yes, there is vast inequality in the world, and $4000 would be an enormous amount of money to a vast number of people. But if that's the argument, it doesn't matter whether it's a pen, a car, a house, a painting, an antiquity, a rare MtG card; the argument simply becomes: is it grotesque to spend $X when there's a cheaper alternative?
Contrast that with a site like this:

https://gotools.org

It tells you exactly what it does in one sentence, and that sentence is the only one on the page. Despite that, it's probably not as popular as the vague sites being complained about here.
I don't think it's meant to be ironic. Understanding that line would have protected many people from MtGox.
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The earliest substantial work done in the field of AI was by Alan Turing to decode a large proportion of the radio communications in the 2nd World War. AI has come a long way from there and the progress has been rocky and unpredictable. As of the 21st century, AI empowers a host of technologies that impact our everyday lives. From voice assistants to video games, self-driving cars to web searches, AI has become inevitable.
I don't know how practical they are but I've seen that inflatable flying windmill wind turbine thing that is meant to be 500-1000ft or higher? So doesn't that make the 100-200m a bit low on what altitude we can extract from?
Do "we" really push companies to capture market share? I mean sure, stockholders do, but "we" as the general public don't really care about a companies size until they become too big.
It's actually written as several files and the "amalgamation" you download from the website represents those files concatenated together.

See this explanation: http://sqlite.org/amalgamation.html
I doubt you can find any city with "effective public transport systems" that meet or exceed Houston in any 4 of the categories you name. Of course Houston doesn't get a break in any of those categories (age, perhaps, excluded).

We'll have to haggle on a definition of effective public transport but it would be fun to pursue the details a bit.
I have a Mont Blanc fountain pen, which I want to use as my main pen but cannot due to the ink spreading and bleeding through cheap notebook paper. Thank you for the ink suggestion.
There's a good reason for this, and it's not (directly) to get you on the phone & up-sell you.

These landing pages are optimised for conversion, which means they're targeted at the niche who are most likely to convert already - and for bigger, specialist firms, that niche quite likely already knows the essence of what the company does.

Because these users are also likely evaluating competitors at the same time, the pressure is on the company to differentiate - and one way to do that is to tout your high level values.

"We're not just an X, we are an X which gets your need for Y unlike $competitor"

All of this isn't to say that incomprehensible websites are good, of course. There are ways to express how you're way up maslow's heirarchy without being completely confusing.
The Rhine valley is crazy with nuclear plants. A few kilometers upstream from Biblis is Philippsburg and then there's Fessenheim on the French side and Leibstadt in Switzerland. That makes 4 nuclear plants on 350km of Europes largest river valley.
You said "I fail to see how most US suburbs are different than slums" and then when challenged on it, you say "no no, I'm not talking about that". So what exactly are you talking about?

Or are you just making the claim that the upper middle class don't go to college, don't have jobs, and don't make any money? Because that's even more ridiculous.
A lot of thought was put into it, including input from designs ten years older. Whether it is a good design I'll leave to others as I haven't used it much.
3-4 News and Hype Cycle completed since 1960s
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Looks like some far more competent folks have pretty thoroughly looked into it. I'll sleep better knowing I'm not the wind's sole protector
They've got the money in the account. They can do whatever they want with it, included lending it many times. They don't need fees.
> A diet is not a state of caloric reduction

I'm pretty sure you know this is untrue. Your own definition references weight loss, which implies caloric restriction. In common use, "caloric restriction" is the most common intent of a diet. Outside select groups (e.g. bodybuilders), "dieting" is exclusively a weight loss exercise.

> A fast is not a description of the foods you're able to eat, it's a description of the act of eating zero foods and zero calories.

If you're going to refer to the dictionary to support your claims, you should do so consistently: "abstain from all or some kinds of food or drink, especially as a religious observance."

Keyword there is "some kinds". A fast needn't be total to be a "fast".
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I ignored your warning and tried to watch it. After about a minute and a half of non-sequitur platitudes, I couldn't take it anymore!

Edit: It's fascinating like a train wreck. Imagine using this as the script for a scene where someone is on the phone with their dad, who is in a room with a bomb that will detonate exactly 3 minutes and 6 seconds from now (but we compress it to 2 minutes because the actor will be saying the lines very fast) and the dad hurriedly and tearfully tries to deliver all the advice he can cram in. As he remembers things to say in pretty much random order, he blurts them out.
Oh gotcha. A single city is representative of the entire country. Like how all American cities are bombed-out gangland because that's how Detroit is, or maybe how all American cities are rich economic powerhouses because that's how NYC is, or maybe how all American cities regularly get to temperatures over 100F because Miami does.

One city represents the entire country, after all.
What you buy says a lot about your decision-making and your aspirations.
Linear Digressions is a great podcast to add to your list. It is not as regular as some of the others but the subjects are great. The hosts are also good.
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Yep! We technically had our own layer on top of XMLHTTPRequest to use a centralized slice point instead, but AFAIK wrapping it directly would be great too.
Never went to the site, never plan to.

But it was just the one article that the CEO said was the reason for the kill order.
To add to this, try meditation too. It can be done while sitting and with the noise around you on a train, and you don't have to look odd by closing your eyes (though you could pretend you are sleeping). However I find it is most comfortable in a private place. I usually listen to music or try to read if it does not make me nauseous, but nothing to do with my studies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubt_Is_Their_Product

The goal of articles like these (in my opinion) is to cast doubt in your mind about eating or not eating certain foods. The article might be "sponsored" by a large food industry who wants you to think there is no right answer, so you might as well a bit of eat anything (meat, sugar, oils, fast food).

As a rule of thumb: the higher up the food chain you eat, the more likely you are eating pollutants. Fish have been found to have like levels of heavy metals and even plastics. Also avoid eating anything processed with ingredients you can't pronounce
I'm not sure Google is good at surfacing quality recommendations as HN users.
And I assume that the two systems (upper and lower atmosphere) aren't so isolated from one another that they don't interact
why does it feel like every time bitcoin goes up, the chinese government has some sort of announcement to bring it back down? see: last time when they prohibited banks from buying/selling cryptocurrencies. does someone there hope to earn some quick $$$ from shorting bitcoin (profit motive), or are they doing it to cool down a bubble (protect chinese investors motive)?
A heads up for these, the ATtiny is a different family than the ATmega's in the Arduino Uno. They are not 100% compatible, and if you are a beginner that can be problematic. Also the Tiny85 in particular that these modules use expose very few pins (5 usable).

That said, I use the Tiny85 all the time as they require minimal external components, so they are good to drop into a design for taking care of functions like interfacing peripherals or simple logic. For people just starting out though I'd recommend a Nano clone, they can be had for about the same price.
> It seems a bit much that we ask for companies to constantly grow

Its often brought up, that corporations and the economy have to keep growing ... but is it really necessary? Why can't both achieve some steady state equilibrium within a system of finite resources?
It seems as if you are a bit misguided about Polymer. I recommend that you take a look at a Polymer 2 element instead of a Polymer 1 element:

https://www.polymer-project.org/2.0/start/first-element/step...

The reason you have to define what an element 'is' is for backwards-compat reasons. Additionally, the properties definition block is there simply for attribute -> property serialization so that you can set properties declaratively in the HTML as attributes. The property declaration is also used for tooling schema enforcement just as you suggested it should really be there for. You do not need a properties block at all since Polymer uses webcomponents, and as you said, elements can handle arbitrary attributes (and attributes set in JS with the exception of the data- attributes [1]).

In Polymer 2, you simply set the function hook just like you wanted. Polymer 3 which is essentially just a refactoring of Polymer 2 introduces JS Modules. An example would be:

import {Polymer} from 'pathToPolymer';

export class IconToggle extends Polymer.Element {
static get is() { return 'icon-toggle' }
observedAttributes() { return ['toggleIcon'] }
attributeChangedCallback(name, old, new) { if(name === 'toggleIcon') {...} }
connectedCallback() { super.connectedCallback(); this.addEventListener('pressed', this.onPressed.bind(this)); }
onPressed(evt) { this.pressed = !this.pressed; }
}

customElements.define(IconToggle.is, IconToggle);

This example, does not use the properties but the native attributeChangedCallback [2], it does not explicitly define properties and it can still set this.pressed, and you can easily add a 'cats' attribute if you want which can then be accessed via this.getAttribute('cats') like any other native element. Polymer is written so that all the code is executable in the browser even with the JSX-like template syntax [3]. But with the move to JS modules, a webpack configuration can easily add extra functionality like not even having to define the event listeners or the observed attributes.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruql541T7gc
Bitcoin price goes from 1000 to 5000 in 6 months, but now it's tumbling just because it went back to 4200?
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Yeah, it must blow to get there, but it by definition has less "blow" on the other side. I think I'm getting that the scale of this is negligible, but it is certainly less
I love buying cheap bitcoin. Can it fall a bit more, please?
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> In Houston, I ate lunch, walked out of the restaurant and into the polluted air and basically promptly threw up in reaction to it. I decided I was done and leaving.

Strange, I've never seen or heard of anyone losing their cookies over Houston pollution before. I lived there for 11 years, was an endurance athlete there, and have lived in Austin for 22. I wonder what the circumstances were.

> It may not be worse in your eyes, but it is the worst air quality I have personally experienced.

I think you haven't seen real air pollution then. I've choked in Los Angeles in the '70s, had to take a bath after being outside in Pittsburg in the 60's, and seen the choking effluent that cities like Gary, IN and Erie, PA had before the EPA got geared up. That's not to mention places that I haven't been, like Beijing, or Shanghai, or Sao Paolo, or even Tokyo at times. I think it is an exaggeration to claim Houston is any more polluted than most major cities.
source routing. it's part of the ip standard. it's also rife with issues and security concerns, which is why no one uses it.