skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would a computer endlessly churning out music on par with Beethoven, Chopin, and the Beatles make us happier as humans?
There’s a Reason for the Abstraction
My current company - Asana. They just have an awesome work-life balance that I never had to worry about work at home.
It works the other way too. I'm relatively tall and when I'm in a loud crowded place hanging around shorter people I have no idea what they are saying to each other.
That really puts things into perspective. I was shocked when my Russian coworker just casually mentioned growing up without running hot water.
In 2009 @ 24, I quit my job in Louisiana to move to San Diego and live with a girl I sort of knew. Had no other contacts or job prospects in SD. Ended up knocking her up my first month in town. (This was quite the wreckless time for me =p)

Spend 4 months looking for EE or Web Dev work (I had a Bachelors in EE but no experience), finally settled on a job at Radioshack just to have SOME income. I got to experience working Black Friday in my first two weeks.

Kept applying for less crap jobs and within another month got a position with a Xerox sales company as IT Helpdesk, starting at 36K salary. Did that the best I could, also started automating several of the company reports and ended up shifting myself to the only development position in the company. Pay rose quickly.

Stayed there for years, did well, and by 2012, somehow, I was able to mortgage a house in San Diego.

The house has surged in value, I now have a 6 figure job, and an amazing 7 year old son. I wake up super grateful for everything I have now and the experiences that developed my appreciation.

I hope to never relive the shame / guilt / fear that consumed me in 2009.
Can't help but laugh at anyone who would downvote this. Sorry I insulted someone on the Forbes wealthiest list. I know how that offends your capitalist sensibilities.

Meanwhile due to Gates we're stuck with "worse is better": https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Thank you! I don't want to publish it yet because I want to clean it up a lot first – ditch the dev server, clean up the build pipeline, add some actual CLI arguments, etc.

I'll check out that app on brew, it looks like a cool approach. Thanks!
> This concept predates Americans by a number of years; it certainly wasn't invented there.

That happens to also be true.
I've never heard "no glasses" being a required part of professionalism, maybe it's a thing in different countries?

Also, the point here I feel is for women that also includes (possibly) change hair colour, which is a much more serious, and expensive, undertaking.
The community has always decided the wealth distribution in society. It is not some "invisible hand" that controls it. The wealth distribution, as it exists today, is a result of purposeful decisions starting all the way at the Enclosure of the Commons. The tax code, legal system, concept of property(intellectual and otherwise) etc. are not the result of inevitable market forces ordained by a higher power, they are carefully designed.

If the "community" set up these systems(on which these companies are parasitic on), they can change them in a way that benefits the community at large.
Yep – I can't copy my code out of Atom and keep its highlighting in Keynote, unfortunately.
> They are also the best way to reduce the environmental impact of cars.

From an individual perspective, maybe. From a city-planner perspective, the best way to reduce the environmental impact of cars is to deploy public transit. (And the Chinese know that: https://twitter.com/yicaichina/status/867494851511672832 )
I would say "black market" is fair if any part of obtaining and reselling the device is illegal. For example, in the early 80s there were US tariffs on RAM chips from Japan, if I recall correctly (I might have the country wrong). But some companies found they could buy in Japan, move them to another country, and then import them into the US via this other country without the tariff. It was illegal because they were still manufactured in Japan. When the government found out, those importers got in trouble. I would count those as black market since they were being brought into the country illegally.

Is that the case we're talking about here? Buy in HK with no taxes, then sell in another country without paying the taxes? If so, that still sounds "black market" to me. I'd think you'd have to pay the taxes in the country of sale regardless of where you obtained the device. If that's not what we're talking about, then I agree it's probably not fair to label them "black market."
.. I'm guessing I'm not the only one who would be quite happy if someone would do a smaller, lighter, cheaper version of this:

http://smartflowersolar.com

Perhaps DIY is the way to go.
he was fired?
I am going to, just waiting for the DA to press charges (or not). If he pleads guilty, the civil case is much cheaper for me. The statute of limitations for fraud like this is six years.
Grew up in the hood. Shitty grades until high school.

Went to university, killed it.

Transferred to top tier university - 20 years old.

Story changes here:

Family history of depression; mine starts to surface

Academically competitive environment, I got by before just
winging it, now everyone was smart AND worked hard

Met girl at new university, was completely smitten. She broke up with me and moved away since she was a year older. This accelerated depression.

School got mad, took away financial aid, including loans. This coupled with the top was devastating.

While I was busy with gf and being shitty at school, never actually made new friends, was terribly lonelly. Exacerbated depression.

School kicked me out. Depressed, broke af, heartbroken, no friends, and felt like I was stupid because I couldn't compete at school.

---

Got a job as a server at a restaurant, made friends with people my age. Started getting money and feeling better.

Got a 2nd job at an analytics company, after my interview turns out I wasn't a complete idiot. Got good experience and more money.

Started taking classes, this time with a chip on my shoulder due to being poor and not groomed to be a good student. Killed it.

Came back to Uni, killed it.

Applied to over 100 jobs, got an offer as a contractor at a tech company for 15/hr, while they charged 50/hr. More chips on my shoulder.

6 months later spoke to director and got FTE status with an 80k salary.

*Kept doing my best, 3 years later I'm a PM at a top company making >170k a year.

---

Left out lots of highlights but that's more or less my story.
Can we stop putting huge pointless pictures at the top of blog posts? I had to scroll with my finger 6 times before I even got to any content. If you're going to inconvenience me that much it might as well be with ads.
I disagree that 12-step programs are the best or only way to establish an emotional support network. They are a fine interim solution, but the end goal should be to establish genuine and diverse friendships that are not based upon that which you see as a shared weakness.

They may do some good things, but I don't think they have the evidence to back up all their claims and practices, and they are fundamentally religious in nature.
This is an A+ study which seems to confirm that banning subreddits can be an effective way to silence their inhabitants. "Fat hatred" as an epidemic has largely disappeared since 2015, for example.

It's nice to get some hard data to counter the theory that if you ban a subreddit consisting of undesirables, they'll simply invade other parts of reddit and continue. In reality, the other parts of reddit aren't nearly so tolerant.

So what's the implication? Well, ban judiciously. Getting rid of places that fester hatred is like putting out a fire. But it's obviously very tricky to do this.

See /r/physicalremoval for an example of a sub that was just banned for inciting violence.
Bitcoin Owes Success to Three Different Waves of Innovators
That's not safe to say either. I've read that EVs take more energy to manufacture as well.
It appears that your f is:

def f(x, y):
return sorted(x+y)

However, it could also be the more memory efficient in-place version:

def f(x, y):
x.extend(y)
x.sort()
return x

It could even be:

def f(x, y):
return list(set(x).union(y))

... and it turns out I was wrong. It's:

import heapq
def f(x, y):
return list(heapq.merge(x, y))

I only figured that out when I read the name "mergeSortedLists". It's the text description which clued me in to what it was supposed to be, not the test cases.

I'm saying that test cases only verify specific data points. They don't define what happens across the entire range of inputs. I'm sure you can't guess what the following tests verify:

assertEquals(f(1), 1)
assertEquals(f(2), 2)
assertEquals(f(3), 3)
assertEquals(f(4), 4)
assertEquals(f(5), 5)
assertEquals(f(6), 6)
assertEquals(f(7), 7)
assertEquals(f(8), 8)
assertEquals(f(9), 9)
assertEquals(f(10), 10)
assertEquals(f(11), 11)
assertEquals(f(12), 12)
assertEquals(f(13), 14)

Now replace this exemplar-based specification with "f(i) returns the i^th 11-smooth number: numbers whose prime divisors are all <= 11; i>= 1".

What test suite gives a better definition of what f is supposed to do than the one-line text-based specification?

(The OEIS says those tests could also be the divisors of 27720, the "Paradigm Shift Sequence for a (-4,5) production scheme with replacement", "Numbers all of whose prime factors are palindromes", or even the positive "Numbers in decimal representation, such that in German their digits are in alphabetic order", and more.)
Indexes don't really require data to be sorted, sorting is a consequence of adding data to many different types of index.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree
That's helpful, thanks. I usually picture a squirrel cage fan with a big AC motor that has a big current draw at startup when I hear "swamp cooler".

I was under the impression swamp coolers needed big air flow to work well. Seems maybe not?
Where did you get "P85" from? My Model S is an 85, no P, with a published 0-60 of about 5.6 seconds. "Similar price" refers to the Model 3, not any Model S. The Model 3 starts at $35,000, the CLA250 starts at $32,700, that's pretty similar to me.

Would it trouble you to read the comment you're replying to, or at least drop the attitude if you won't?
Jesus was dead, all right. But after death he did not decay, thus allowing him to be resurrected. The Church of the Better Resurrection website has posted considerable evidence showing that the only ones to be resurrected at the second coming will be the cryonicists, who will stave off post-death decay via liquid nitrogen, which also allows preservation of the word of god inside the brain.

See here:

Berean Literal Bible Corinthians 15 50 Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor does decay inherit immortality.

Acts 2 27 (World English Bible) “because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.”

Acts 2 31 (World English Bible) explains how Jesus fought against decay and thus was able to be resurrected:
“he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.”

Acts 13 35 (World English Bible): “Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’”
Go Diagnostics
Oceanic shipping is a big emitter of pollutants that cause acid rain, mostly because its limits on sulfur in fuel are incredibly lax compared to those for cars/trucks. It's not a big CO2 emitter relative to land transportation.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-15-biggest-ships-i...
" Furthermore, the Intel copyright notices were removed and were replaced by GitHub copyright notice in Electron when pieces of code was copied and derivative work was made from some code of node-webkit " ....

" I wouldn't like to spend time on this, but as the previous co-maintainer of node-webkit project, keeps spreading misinformation about his internship work in the node-webkit project on his blog post" ...

Why are you misrepresenting your work..
Agreed most problems can be solved by CSS only. My argument would not be we're solving something in CSS, we're simply removing the friction by having the HTML and CSS separate.

I was one of the skeptics and felt CSS, SASS, or Less.js was good enough for me until one I day I was tired of setting up my loader in Webpack and I just dropped in styled-components.

And then my JSX was more beautiful because my tags now had its purpose in the name. And I didn't need to worry about class names anymore. And adding variations (modifiers in BEM) was a breeze. And I didn't need to go back a forth between the CSS and the component to style it. It was just so much better that now I'm a convert. I still can work with CSS only but the convenience that styled-components brings to my components is invaluable.

I hope this sheds some light as to why we prefer to write CSS in JS than writing good old CSS.
I'm really sick and tired of going to a site on my phone, and getting inundated with popups and banners and crap telling me to install the app (Reddit, I'm looking at you).

I just want to view the same fricking website that I view on my desktop, but on my phone. You'd think that would be a simple and obvious way of working that would be supported by every single website in existence without any special effort on the part of web developers. And you'd be right, except web developers these days GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MAKE IT NOT WORK THAT WAY.

You'd think the simple and obvious fact, that phones these days generally have web browsers just as capable as desktop browsers, would have penetrated people's thick skulls by now. But for some reason everyone wants their own app, I darkly suspect so they can use the email, contacts, camera, microphone etc. for God knows what creepy spying and data harvesting purposes.

So if this guy's figured out that the way to convince The Powers That Be, who've already been convinced by someone else that You Need To Have An App Even If The App Is Literally The Same As Your Website, that it's actually okay to Not Have An App And Just Have People On Your Phones Go To Your Website, by simply re-naming your website from "a website" to "a Progressive Web Application," more power to him.

Me, I just want to look at websites, and occasionally look at them on my phone, and I'd like a web that allows me to have the experience I'm used to from my desktop, on my phone.
> That is 3.5kwh charging

Nitpick: Either "3.5 kW" or "3.5 kWh per hour".
Solar panels are incredibly cheap, now. If you buy them by the dozen, you can get them for just 49 cents per Watt nowadays from places like renvu.com (no affiliation).

Spot market for PV modules is as low as 28 cents per Watt. Just the cells are as low as 20 cents per Watt. pvinsights.com (These are before tariffs, I think.)

We're in a very different world from when dollar-a-watt (at the cell level) seemed like the holy grail.
I think it was this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXlUQHhgcUk
If you're going to be grid free you're going to need some kind of power storage.

So unless you can build a flywheel for $100 you're kind of stuck with batteries.
This is my favorite story so far. Well done, and congratulations.
FYI, I've seen prices for the Anker Powerhouse in the $300's on Slickdeals: https://slickdeals.net/newsearch.php?src=SearchBarV2&q=%22An...
This reminds me of a parable:

An employee at a big company makes a mistake that costs the company $500,000. The client is livid, and demands he be fired. The owner's response? "Why would I fire him? I just spent half a million dollars on training!"
Ah yes, simplicity. That easily quantifiable value of a singular dimension, whose definition we all agree upon.
big power hungry fan motor

Fans don't use much power. 50W would be fine for a swamp cooler for a tent. Are you thinking of on air conditioning compressor?
You might want to check sharp to remove the imagemagick dependency, I'm pretty sure sharp supports edge trimming in one way or another. Great project!
Could it be comparable to going to college for a major in one field that was projected to stay lucrative but went downhill right before you were going to graduate?
Elm CSS looks interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Xnas3exk0
It's really depressing that we've largely abandoned the art of decentralized radio communication. I think Amateur radio has seen a minor resurgence in recent years, but it seems like more and more traffic that traditionally would have been passed by decentralized amateur operators now relies on centralized networks.

Obviously Zello and its ilk bring significant benefits with them, but I worry about the impact they have on proliferation of radio skills.
And on the other hand shouldn't be fully charged. Only going to 90% capacity does wonders for their lifetime.
I think everyone is going to have a different definition of 'rock bottom'. Unemployed and broke is rock bottom for some people. You'd have to add on homeless for others. And then there are yet others who also have no family and friends for support. And still others who came also pile addictions on top of it all. And some of that group don't have tech skills to pull themselves back up.

For me, the worst I've ever hit is unemployed and broke. So I got a job. And then was wealthy, but unhealthy. So I'm working back towards unemployed and broke. I haven't figured out the comeback part yet, but hopefully will get there before I figure out the rock bottom bit.
Source? License? Pricing? ... No? close tab
You can use source-highlight to go to docbook or latex(color), and from either of those, can directly go to PDF.
Even if you personally believe building large buildings permanently disfigures it, the fact that people are willing to pay for and live in such buildings shows that people still value such "permanently disfigured" cities.

Why should people who own buildings/land, and purchased them under laws allowing them to do as they please with the property now be disallowed from building large buildings on their plots of land and sell/rent them to willing buyers?

Why should the current renters, who don't own the property, receive superior rights to those who own the property and those who would willingly pay more than them?
I'm reading the book Sapiens right now, which I highly recommend. Lots of interesting facts. But also a broad explanation of the theory of human development.

Most interesting fact I learned:
At one point there were as many as 6 human species (Homo sapiens, homo errectus, etc) on earth at the same time!
I hadn't heard that either, but here's one survey: https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/docume...
My two cents: I liked those two subreddits. They were fun, and I'm pretty sure only a very small subset of the regular users did ACTUALLY hate black people or fat people (I'm fat myself!). But evidently if those subs get banned, there's no point on spewing hate against black or fat people in other subs because 1) most of us weren't actually racist/...antifatist? and were just trying to have fun, making jokes around some common subject and 2) nobody cares about your political views if you're not in a political sub, so you keep it there.
Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
It's a decades-old system originally built on the assumption of trusted participants. It still uses nightly batch jobs to process transfers. Various hacks have been applied to improve it (banks require you to demonstrate some level of trustworthiness before they give you access to make ACH transfers) but that can only do so much.
Fortunately (?) I have more than one. The first one I wrote about in my book, "Social Media is Bullshit." So if you want to hear about that one, I'll send you (or anyone reading this) a free .pdf copy and you can get that story: Bj@bjmendelson.com

Here's the other one: I almost died. It was July of 2013 and I was laid up in a NYC hospital for over a week after a near fatal heart attack almost took me out. All of my work, writing, consulting, speaking, all ground to a halt. (I even missed doing a Tedx talk. I know it's not the same thing as a TED talk, but still. It sucked.)

I wouldn't be able to work again for months while I recovered. By the time I got back up to speed, I had no money in my bank account and most of the places I was getting work from had dried up. The good thing about working in marketing is that there is plenty of work. The bad thing is that you're easily replaceable.

So, I started a new project involving building a hand built wire service for a tech company (because places like CISION are overpriced), and then I started advising tech companies exclusively when it came to doing PR without spending a ton of money. The work and word of mouth spread, and I was back at it almost a year later.

So, it's possible to start (or restart) with virtually nothing. The trick is getting to know as many people as you can and making sure you're regularly VISIBLE to those people. So even if you do go away for a while, you can easily remind them that you exist.
Here Be Sermons
Nice work, I certainly think this is a nice pet project where the author learned a ton, however this looks too convoluted for my personal taste.

In my case, I use an Alfred workflow that formats the code snippet and then I can just paste the formatted code into Keynote/Powerpoint. It supports several color themes and it's super fast https://github.com/importre/alfred-hl
AMA: Justin Jackson on Marketing for Developers
Inside Juicero’s Demise
Cloud vs. Blockchain for Application Databases?
TL;DR - Do you think a database for DApps powered by the blockchain has value to you, or DApp developers? If not, why?

So, we’ve built a database for DApps that is powered by blockchain. It’s designed to replace traditional noSQL databases. It’s fast, secure, and reliable and I think this could be something big.

We started off building blockchain applications for big banks and insurers. We needed a database layer and quickly discovered that a traditional cloud-based database wasn’t going to cut it. So, the idea came to build a new database system from scratch that uses blockchain technologies.

We have a white paper which explains it all, which we’re going to release soon (if you want, you can join our slack channel for early access to that). I can tell you that the product is actually damn good. Your database is split up into ‘shards’, then stored on ‘swarms’ (clusters) of computers (nodes) which simultaneously earn participants money whilst being used as access points.

This solves so many of the problems with cloud-based databases. There’s no single point of failure, the swarms are dynamically located for optimal speed, and being powered by blockchain, it’s naturally very secure.

We’re looking for early feedback so we can build a great product. My question to the community is: do you think this has value to you, or DApp developers? If not, why?

Thank you in advance.

Pavel Bains, CEO at Bluzelle (bluzelle.com)
A strangely inspiring story. Well done.
Android's answer to this guy's "app for this right now" thing:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/01/25/google_testing_...
Good! Can we not have a near perfect crop of complete losers next time? No one wants Zuck anymore than Hillary. Seems like a good way to lock in 4 more years of regret.
Some of us, yes, some of us, no?
The box is mostly to prevent dust ingress which is arguably a bigger problem than heat or condensation on the playa.
I work at a small business, and our customers are constantly asking that we make an app. We have a fully functional website that is completely responsive, and we do more mobile sales than desktop. But they keep asking for an app. I have no idea why- I guess it feels more "legitimate" than a website. I try to politely explain that I'm our sole developer, and I'd have to support the website, AND an iphone app, AND an android app, and they pretend to understand, and say "yeah, but an app would be nice...".

I mean, do you want the app so you can have an app, or do you want the app so you can make a purchase? I don't understand.